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History Journal is the official journal of the Historical Association. Hosting a range of accessible research-driven features written by academic researchers from all stages of career and study, archivists, and practitioners, our online offering is an extension of the Historical Association’s work in public…
Features
History posts feature original research on all themes, regions, and periods, as well as pedagogical and methodological innovations, from scholars from all relevant disciplines, students and practitioners. In addition, History currently features a special series: Critical Spaces, which brings together a range of historical…
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In addition to academic article submissions to our print journal, we welcome contributions to the website from a range of geographical, methodological or historical perspectives, and from all levels of study inside and outside ‘the academy’. Blogs or other features can be based on…
Lucy Jane Santos’ ‘Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium’
Lucy Jane Santos In the late 19th century that Wilhelm Röntgen discovered a previously unknown form of powerful radiation that was invisible to the human eye. This type of ray, which no one (including Röntgen) fully understood at the time, was so mysterious that…
James Forbes’ Mango and the Art of British Indian Empire
Apurba Chatterjee In 1765, James Forbes, a mere Scottish lad of less than sixteen years of age, set sail to India following his appointment as a Writer for the English East India Company (EIC) in Bombay. Forbes was to stay in India for eighteen…
Historians Call for a Review of Home Office Citizenship and Settlement Test
21 July 2020 Historians Call for a Review of Home Office Citizenship and Settlement Test We are historians of Britain and the British Empire and writing in protest at the on-going misrepresentation of slavery and Empire in the “Life in the UK Test”, which…
