By Subject

Below you will find an archive of posts organised by subject: the most recent three posts are featured on this page, with the full archive linked to underneath each heading.

Colonialism

• Do Mention the War: Discourses of Sacrifice and Obligation in White Rhodesian Society, 1964-1965
  David Kenrick. Contemporary political discourse in Britain is saturated by sepia-tinged memorialisation of the Second World War. Parties across the country’s growing political divide invoke slogans and imagery redolent of the ‘blitz spirit’ or ‘going it alone’. Far from being a recent development, politicians have long sought to use these … Read more
• Not a bit “English”: Architecture, Emotions and Empire in a “Muslim World”
  Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi. In 2011, I visited the Morsalin Hospital in Kerman (southern Iran) for the first time. I intended to work on the revitalisation plan of a historic hospital for my MA dissertation, and I was advised to focus on this hospital – I was told that the Morsalin … Read more

Criminality

• Prosecuting Procurement in the Russian EmpireNovember 14, 2019
  Siobhán Hearne. Panic over sex trafficking and the procurement of young women and girls for prostitution reached a crescendo in the early 1900s across Europe and the Americas. Government officials, … Read more
• Redefining the ‘Born’ Murderer: Lombrosian Legacies in Early Soviet Criminological Discourse.October 11, 2019
  Mark Vincent. The 1876 publication of Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s L’uomo delinquent (‘Criminal Man’) caused quite a stir amongst professionals in late Imperial Russia, in addition to the field of Western social … Read more

Decolonisation

• What Does ‘Inclusion’ Include?: Making Space for Students
  Erin Katherine Krafft Figure 1. Portrait of WEB Du Bois by Carl Van Vechten One of the courses that I teach most frequently is a social theory course for students in their second year of college. I teach no first-year courses, so the students are new to me, and I … Read more
• Do Mention the War: Discourses of Sacrifice and Obligation in White Rhodesian Society, 1964-1965
  David Kenrick. Contemporary political discourse in Britain is saturated by sepia-tinged memorialisation of the Second World War. Parties across the country’s growing political divide invoke slogans and imagery redolent of the ‘blitz spirit’ or ‘going it alone’. Far from being a recent development, politicians have long sought to use these … Read more

Economic History

• Running Tudor England’s Second City: The Accounts of the Chamberlains of Norwich, 1539-45
  All information cited in the body of this text are taken from Rawcliffe, C, The Norwich Chamberlains Accounts 1539-40 to 1544-45. vol. 83, Norfolk Records Society, (Norwich, 2019). Please consult this volume if you wish to follow up and reference anything below.  Carole Rawcliffe. Accounts are an important source of … Read more

History of Emotions

• Not a bit “English”: Architecture, Emotions and Empire in a “Muslim World”
  Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi. In 2011, I visited the Morsalin Hospital in Kerman (southern Iran) for the first time. I intended to work on the revitalisation plan of a historic hospital for my MA dissertation, and I was advised to focus on this hospital – I was told that the Morsalin … Read more

Gender

• Using Scrapbooks as Historical SourcesDecember 16, 2019
  Cherish Watton. Think of any topic, and someone, somewhere, has probably made a scrapbook on it. People scrapbooked on things which were important to them; family, friendships, professional activity, popular … Read more
• Mo Moulton's 'Mutual Admiration Society': How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for womenDecember 16, 2019
  Mo Moulton. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the ‘Mutual Admiration Society.’ Barred, initially, from receiving their … Read more
• Prosecuting Procurement in the Russian EmpireNovember 14, 2019
  Siobhán Hearne. Panic over sex trafficking and the procurement of young women and girls for prostitution reached a crescendo in the early 1900s across Europe and the Americas. Government officials, … Read more

Material Culture

• Using Scrapbooks as Historical Sources
  Cherish Watton. Think of any topic, and someone, somewhere, has probably made a scrapbook on it. People scrapbooked on things which were important to them; family, friendships, professional activity, popular culture, political, and associational activity. Scrapbooks didn’t just document family life. Politicians and diplomats turned to scrapbooks to record their … Read more
• Historiography in Action: Teaching and Learning Historiographical Approaches through Active Primary Source Analysis
  Liz Goodwin. This semester, my students discussed their memories of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the majority of them, this took place when they were around 11/12 years old, in the summer between primary and secondary school. They wrote a paragraph down in advance, which was anonymised and randomly … Read more

Methodologies

• Using Scrapbooks as Historical Sources
  Cherish Watton. Think of any topic, and someone, somewhere, has probably made a scrapbook on it. People scrapbooked on things which were important to them; family, friendships, professional activity, popular culture, political, and associational activity. Scrapbooks didn’t just document family life. Politicians and diplomats turned to scrapbooks to record their … Read more
• Historiography in Action: Teaching and Learning Historiographical Approaches through Active Primary Source Analysis
  Liz Goodwin. This semester, my students discussed their memories of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the majority of them, this took place when they were around 11/12 years old, in the summer between primary and secondary school. They wrote a paragraph down in advance, which was anonymised and randomly … Read more

Pedagogy

• What Does ‘Inclusion’ Include?: Making Space for Students
  Erin Katherine Krafft Figure 1. Portrait of WEB Du Bois by Carl Van Vechten One of the courses that I teach most frequently is a social theory course for students in their second year of college. I teach no first-year courses, so the students are new to me, and I … Read more
• Innovating Digital History in the Classroom: an interview with Drs James Baker and Sharon Webb
  Back in July, the Royal Historical Association awarded its 2019 Innovation in Teaching Award to Dr James Baker and Dr Sharon Webb at the University of Sussex. This week Stephanie Wright from History caught up with both prize winners to learn more about how they incorporate digital history into their … Read more
• Historiography in Action: Teaching and Learning Historiographical Approaches through Active Primary Source Analysis
  Liz Goodwin. This semester, my students discussed their memories of the London 2012 Olympic Games. For the majority of them, this took place when they were around 11/12 years old, in the summer between primary and secondary school. They wrote a paragraph down in advance, which was anonymised and randomly … Read more

Queer History

• Mo Moulton's 'Mutual Admiration Society': How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford circle remade the world for women
  Mo Moulton. In 1912, Dorothy L. Sayers and five friends founded a writing group at Somerville College, Oxford; they dubbed themselves the ‘Mutual Admiration Society.’ Barred, initially, from receiving their degrees despite taking classes and passing exams, the women battled for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity, … Read more

Women’s History

• Using Scrapbooks as Historical Sources
  Cherish Watton. Think of any topic, and someone, somewhere, has probably made a scrapbook on it. People scrapbooked on things which were important to them; family, friendships, professional activity, popular culture, political, and associational activity. Scrapbooks didn’t just document family life. Politicians and diplomats turned to scrapbooks to record their … Read more