Category: Methodologies
By Elizabeth Biggs One hundred years ago, in the spring and early summer of 1922, the Public Record Office of Ireland in the Four Courts complex in Dublin was occupied by anti-Treaty forces, with Rory O’Connor as one of their leaders. They were opposed… Continue Reading “Replacing Ireland’s Lost Records: Doing Public History with the Beyond 2022 Project”
Category: Archiving, Essays, Ireland, Material History, Memory, Methodologies, Nation, Political History, Public HistoryTags: archives, Archiving, Featured, History, Ireland, Modern History, Records
By Esther Griffin van Orsouw For my PhD research at the University of Warsaw, I investigate the consumption of art by the Sobieski family and their contemporaries in the late 17th and early 18th century in relation to space. I consider what type of… Continue Reading “A Royal Bedroom: Gender, Class and Material Culture”
Category: Central Europe, Commemoration, Early Modern, Essays, Material History, Materiality, Methodologies, Pedagogy, Poland, Practice-based, Public History, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: Europe, Featured, History, Material Culture, Palaces, Poland, space
Posted on December 16, 2021
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By Julie Holder When I tell people that I research the nineteenth-century history of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a very specific idea of an ‘antiquary’ comes to mind: white, male, and middle or upper class. And to a great extent this view… Continue Reading “Women collectors, Lady Associates and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland”
Category: Collecting, Essays, Material Culture, Material History, Modernity, scotland, Uncategorized, Visual CultureTags: Antiquaries, Collectors, Featured, Gender, History, scotland
By Rachel Smith Whilst reading through the eighteenth-century Canning Family archive at the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Leeds, I came across a rather interesting letter from John Murray, a publisher, to a Mrs Butler. Dated 25th July 1912, he wrote that I gather… Continue Reading “‘”A celebrated correspondence between the charming Mrs C- formerly well-known in the fashionable World – & her Amiable Daughter”’: The Historical Importance of the letters of Hitty and Bess Canning.[1]“
Category: Early Modern, Emotional Practices, England, Essays, Families, Gender, History of Emotions, Life Writing, Memory, Primary SourcesTags: Early Modern, England, Featured, Gender, History, History of Emotions, Letters, women
ASHLEIGH WILSON The History of Emotions has become a vital field of historical research within contemporary academic discussions. Able to provide insight into the emotional history of a particular event, society and culture, this thematic approach has allowed for a nuanced understanding of the… Continue Reading “Why is the HIstory of Emotions So Important?”
Category: Britain, Emotional Practices, Essays, France, Germany, Higher Education, History of Emotions, Media and Culture, Methodologies, Pedagogy, Primary Sources, Teaching, Uncategorized, War, Western Europe, World WarsTags: enthusiasm, Featured, History, History of Emotions, Student, World War 1, World War 2
KATIE BARCLAY, with FRANÇOIS SOYER, is editor of Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914 (Routledge, 2020), a four volume sourcebook. Here she talks to History about the work. History: What was the inspiration behind this project? Katie: I’ve been teaching History of Emotions courses for several years now… Continue Reading “The History of Emotions: A Four Volume Sourcebook”
Category: Britain, Central Europe, Co-creation, Czechoslovakia, Early Modern, Emotional Practices, England, Essays, France, Germany, Higher Education, History of Emotions, Low Countries, Methodologies, Netherlands, Pedagogy, Primary Sources, scotland, Spain, UncategorizedTags: emotions, Europe, european history, Featured, Francois Soyer, History of Emotions, Katie Barclay, Pedagogy, Primary Sources, research, Routledge, Teaching
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,… Continue Reading “Will Africa be included in a global history of Covid-19?”
Category: African history, Archiving, Archiving, Decolonisation, Digital Archiving, Essays, global history, Healthcare, Hospitals, Inclusion, Media and Culture, Medical Missions, Medicine, Methodologies, Modernity, Networks, Postcolonial History, UncategorizedTags: Africa, African history, archives, Contemporary History, Covid-19, Cuba, Decolonisation, Eurocentricism, Featured, global history, health, Kenya, media, Medicine, methodology, modern, Morocco, pandemic, Senegal, South Africa
CHENG HE Look up the word ‘lacquer’ in an art dictionary, or on Google, and you usually find the word ‘varnish’; a sticky liquid applied to the surface of objects to form a shiny coating. The word can also refer to the objects coated… Continue Reading “Lacquer as Art and Medicinal Material in Early Modern England”
Category: China, Collecting, Colonisation, Early Modern, England, Essays, Healthcare, Material Culture, Material History, Materiality, Medicine, Postcolonial History, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: Asia, China, Craftsmanship, Definitions, Early Modern, England, Featured, Furniture, healing, health, Japan, lacquer, Language, Material Culture, Medicine, Objects, Science, Varnish
Analogous Analysis Paralysis: The Stultifying Weltschmerz of Jacobite Prisoner Lists DR DARREN SCOTT LAYNE Now nearly three centuries on from Jacobitism’s imminent threat to the British post-revolution state, the movement’s historical record is still a living entity with plenty of room for growth. To… Continue Reading “Analysing Jacobite Prisoner Lists with JDB45”
Category: Archiving, Britain, Digital Archiving, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Early Modern, Essays, Military, Political History, Primary Sources, Prosopography, scotland, Uncategorized, WarTags: 1745, british history, Culloden, data analysis, Digital History, Digital Humanities, Featured, Jacobites, open access research, Primary Sources, Prosopography, rebellion, rebels, scotland, Scottish History, Stuarts, Whigs
DR CYNTHIA E. CHIN A single object was the subject of my doctoral dissertation: a heavily faded purple silk gown owned and worn by Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (1731-1802), the wife of ‘His Excellency’, President George Washington. One of three surviving intact dresses belonging… Continue Reading “Stitches of Resistance: Reclaiming the Narratives of the Enslaved Seamstresses in Martha Washington’s Purple Silk Gown”
Category: American History, Collecting, Enslavement, Essays, Material Culture, Material History, Materiality, museums, UncategorizedTags: American Presidency, Anglo-America, Caroline Branham, Dress History, Early America, Enslavement, Experimental Archaeology, Featured, Identities, Marta Washington, Material Culture, Mount Vernon, Objects, Ona Judge, Slavery, Textiles, Washington, women