Historical Association
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Posts by Historical Association:
- Remembering English Saints in 2020: A Pilgrimage in Print
- Deep Mapping Migrant Settlerhood: Unfolding histories of Finns in Canada
- Role Theory and Protestant Spirituality in Early Modern Scotland
- A Global History of Sex and Gender
- Heritage or Highway: York’s city walls as tourist and civil infrastructure
- John Stearne’s Confirmation and discovery of witchcraft
- Reading Russian Sources
- Britain First: The official history of the United Kingdom according to the Home Office – a critical review
- Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
- Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915
About Us
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 history, and aims to make high quality cutting-edge research accessible to the general public.
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Stitches of Resistance: Reclaiming the Narratives of the Enslaved Seamstresses in Martha Washington’s Purple Silk Gown
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Our PODCAST is here!
On our blog this week, we hear from MA Public History student Aaron Shulman who considers digitisation and the archive through the lens of anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s “crucial moments” of historical silence.
New on our blog! Sasha Rasmussen introduces her research on the sensory experience of women in early-twentieth century Paris.
This week’s #blog post comes from Tim Thornton and addresses one of the English history’s most infamous whodunnits... what happened to 12-year old Edward V and his younger brother, Richard, in 1483? Did Sir Thomas More know the answer?
What do you collect?
Our blog post this week comes from PhD student Kerry Love, who writes on 'Material Culture and Identities: The Case of the eighteenth century Toby Jug'. Follow the link in our bio to read all about Kerry's research and the use of material objects to study the past.⠀
'State of the Field: The History of Collecting' by W. G. Burgess⠀
New on our blog this week. Rachel Pistol and Melissa Strauss trace the story of Melissa's own grandfather, Steven Strauss, who was one of 2,546 men deported to Australia on the HMT Dunera eighty years ago. ⠀
Our current free access article is 'An Experiment in Extremity: The Portrayal of Violence in Robert the Monk's Narrative of the First Crusade' by Dr Thomas Ashbridge (Queen Mary University). ⠀
This month we launched a new special issue of History, which gathered new scholarship on medieval English Saints. Follow the link in our bio to read one of its guest editors, Dr Paul Webster, reflect on how Covid-19 led to this 'Pilgrimage in Print'. ⠀
Earlier this month, we shared a short piece by Dr Monica O'Brien who used their research on sixteenth-century Germany to write on 'Feeling Sickness: Emotional Responses to Pandemic Disease'⠀
#blog: @louisamaryhood discusses the duality of York's city walls from 1800 to the present - public infrastructure and heritage site entwined. ⠀
This week on our blog, Dr George Gilbert reflects on their work editing a new collection of primary sources - and sets out the case for more people to do the same!⠀
Part 2 of James Michael Yeoman's reflections on his monograph! In this piece, James explains the book's themes - the flourishing of print culture among anarchists in Spain and its role in the proliferation of the movement - and why images like this did not represent the activities of most anarchists in Spain. Read on to find out why! Link in bio #historyblog #history #newblog #anarchists #anarchism #radicalism #newspapers #история #histoire #historia
