History blog archive

Category: Networks

  • Interview with Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada on Othered Histories of Race

    Interview with Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada on Othered Histories of Race

    “Mexican and Japanese relations demonstrate the existence of an open, decentred world characterised by multiple overlapping structures.” By Jessica A. Fernandez de Lara Harada Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz: Firstly, for those who might be unfamiliar with the topic, can you give us a brief overview of the history of race and power in Mexican-Japanese Relations?  …

  • Will Africa be included in a global history of Covid-19?

    Will Africa be included in a global history of Covid-19?

    ANNA ADIMA Over a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, one would be hard-pressed to deny that future history books will record this as a global milestone in the 21st century. Every individual around the world has in some way been affected by the virus; however, mainstream – Western – media remains guilty of underreporting the pandemic…

  • Communications and Complaints: Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Germany

    Communications and Complaints: Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Germany

    JEAN-MICHEL JOHNSTON We’ve all been there: a patchy Zoom connection, an interrupted online transaction, a YouTube video that just won’t load. We all recognise the everyday frustrations that come with the malfunctioning of the Internet, even as we celebrate ever faster broadband or cheaper mobile data allowances. Communications networks don’t always fulfil their promises, but…

  • Heritage or Highway: York’s city walls as tourist and civil infrastructure

    Heritage or Highway: York’s city walls as tourist and civil infrastructure

    Louisa Hood This blog explores two very particular histories of York’s city walls. Although known generally as Roman or medieval defences, the social, material, economic, and other histories of the walls are layered, obscured, or unknown. York’s extant walls are a key aspect of its historic environment and identity as a tourist destination, but they…

  • 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

    …or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the book… James Michael Yeoman This is the second of a two-part discussion, which explores the creation and contents of my book, Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915, which was published last autumn. In part I, discussed my relationship with…

  • 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

    …or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the book… James Michael Yeoman This is the first of a two-part discussion which explores the creation and contents of my book, Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, which was published last autumn. While the second part of the discussion will…