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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 Aidan Norrie On 17 November 1558, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, succeeded to the throne of England and Ireland upon the death of her half-sister Mary I. She was England’s fourth monarch in eleven years (or fifth, if Jane Grey… Continue Reading “Celebrating the Accession Day of Elizabeth I of England, 1558 and Beyond”
Category: Britain, Early Modern, England, Essays, Gender, Political History, Religion, UncategorizedTags: Ceremonies, Early Modern, Featured, Gender, History, Political History, Politics, Religion, Tudors
Hannah Parker On the final research trip for my PhD, I found some small portrait photographs of letter-writers in a file of between some hundred and a thousand 1925 letters to the editor of Krest’ianka – a series of biographies with enclosed photographs from… Continue Reading “Face to Face Encounters: Letter-Writers and Portrait Photographs in the Russian State Archive”
Category: Essays, Gender, Media and Culture, Modernity, Primary Sources, Print Culture, Public History, Russia, Soviet Union, UncategorizedTags: Featured, Gender, History, Letters, modern, Narrative, Photography, Soviet Union
DR HANNAH YOKEN I’m a Finnish historian who lived in the UK for nearly a decade. When I tell my British friends and colleagues where I’m from, they often respond with an air of admiration, complimenting the relatively egalitarian principles upon which Nordic social democracy… Continue Reading “Men and Feminism: Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries, 1960s to Present”
Category: Essays, Families, Feminism, Finland, Gender, History of Childhood, Masculinity, UncategorizedTags: Eva Moberg, Fatherhood, Featured, Feminism, Feminist Movement, Finland, Hannah Yoken, Masculinity, Men, Nordic, parental leave, Sex roles, Sweden, The Adam Group, The Conditional Liberation of Women, Women's liberation, Yhdistys 9
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
Why depictions of status and disability in the Early Middle Ages still matter JUTTA LAMMINAHO ‘A lame man crawling along on his hands led a blind man to the paupers’ hostel at St Gall, where both of them stayed the night, and were both… Continue Reading “Saints, Beggars and Scapegoats”
Category: Church history, Disability History, Essays, France, Germany, Hospitals, Low Countries, Medieval, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual Culture, Visual history, Western EuropeTags: begging, disability, Disability History, early middle ages, Einhard, Featured, healing, health, Medieval, pandemic, relics, Saints, social history, undergraduate research, work
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… Continue Reading “Communications and Complaints: Revisiting Nineteenth-Century Germany”
Category: Central Europe, Communications, Companies, Consumerism, Essays, Germany, Media and Culture, Modernity, Nation, Networks, Publishing, Statehood, Uncategorized, Western EuropeTags: Communications, Featured, Germany, Modernity, New Books, publication, technology, telegraph