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
Posted on January 13, 2021
by Historical Association
1 Comment
KERRY LOVE A main principle of material culture theory (the study of objects and their relationships to people) is that they can reflect or shape the people who lived alongside them in any given time. I have always enjoyed studying objects more than any… Continue Reading “Material Culture and Identities: The Case of Eighteenth Century Toby Jugs”
Category: Britain, Collecting, Essays, Gender, Material Culture, Materiality, Methodologies, Primary Sources, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: British identity, Featured, Fillpot, Gender, John Bull, Material Culture, methodology, pubs, Toby Jugs
CIARAN JONES I recently submitted my PhD thesis on Protestant spirituality in early modern Scotland. Focussing on witchcraft trials, my thesis was mainly concerned with how your average seventeenth-century peasant articulated certain spiritual ideas. Using mostly manuscript records of witchcraft trial confessions as my source base,… Continue Reading “Role Theory and Protestant Spirituality in Early Modern Scotland”
Category: Britain, Early Modern, Emotional Practices, Essays, Memory, Methodologies, Primary Sources, Women's HistoryTags: Featured, methodology, pre-modern, protestant spirituality, role theory, scotland, sociology