Category: Pedagogy
By Jeff Berry In 2010, I was at conference organised by the Columbia University Medieval Guild (now the Medieval Colloquium) when one of the invited speakers threw up a slide of the Ft. Tryon Medieval Festival, held annually in pre-covid times at the top end of… Continue Reading “Reaching out to Re-enactors and Vice-Versa”
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
By Andrew Struan Writing in 1808 when in office as President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson told his grandson: ‘I never yet saw an instance of one of two disputants convincing the other by argument’. Continuing this line of thought in his letter,… Continue Reading “A History of Argument: Teaching Students Critical Analysis”
Category: American History, Collaborative eduction, Essays, Higher Education, Pedagogy, Practice-based, TeachingTags: America, Argument, Europe, History, Italy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, USA
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
DANIEL ADAMSON I was recently intrigued to find a repeat of the 1973 documentary The World at War buried in the depths of Freeview television. Across 26 hour-long episodes, this series chronicled the course of the Second World War and charted the key experiences of the… Continue Reading “Reflections on ‘The World At War’”
Category: Britain, Cinema, Commemoration, Digital History, Essays, France, Germany, Media and Culture, Memory, Military, Modernity, Netherlands, Political History, Public History, Uncategorized, Visual Culture, War, Western Europe, World WarsTags: Auschwitz, documentary, education, Featured, holocaust, Laurence Olivier, Memory, methodology, public conscious, Public History, The World at War, TV, World War 2
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
Posted on February 17, 2021
by Historical Association
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AARON SHUMAN Last semester, one of my professors assigned a chapter of anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past as a jumping off point for considering how silences can work their way into the historical narrative. During our weekly Zoom-based class, conversation homed in on the ‘four… Continue Reading “Trouillot in the Digital Age: A Fifth Crucial Moment for Public Historians?”
Category: Archiving, Archiving, Collecting, Contemporary, Digital Archiving, Digital History, Essays, Media and Culture, Memory, Methodologies, Modernity, Public History, UncategorizedTags: Archiving, Covid-19, digitisation, fake news, Featured, misinformation, Trouillot
Posted on November 24, 2020
by Historical Association
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DR SAMIRA SARAMO At the turn of the twentieth century, Finnish migrants, drawn by the familiar landscape of lakes, forests, and rocky outcrop, settled in the rugged wilderness of Northern Ontario in Canada and overcame the harsh conditions of the early years through their… Continue Reading “Deep Mapping Migrant Settlerhood: Unfolding histories of Finns in Canada”
Category: Colonialism, Colonisation, Decolonisation, Digital Humanities, Essays, Memory, Migration, Settler Colonialism, SpacesTags: canada, deep mapping, Featured, Finland, Historical GIS, migration history, place, social history, space