As a historian, the two areas of history that have always fascinated and intrigued me have been the Cold War and twentieth-century United States.
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As a historian, the two areas of history that have always fascinated and intrigued me have been the Cold War and twentieth-century United States.
Continue readingGlenn Armstrong reviews E.M. Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’, discussing what it reveals about British colonial attitudes and where it falls short.
Continue readingWilliam Kinsella discusses how Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire reshapes commonly-held opinions on Italian history.
Continue readingJohn Stewart sheds light on the reality of nurses in World War One, looking beyond the influences of Vera Brittain and Florence Nightingale.
Continue readingLuke Bateman reviews the EWF4 paper, or Global Middle Ages.
Continue reading“No matter what country you’re learning about, you’ll probably bump into Britain.” Nathan Land argues against compulsory British history papers.
Continue reading“The story of Tbilisi is one of constant adaptation and rebirth.”
Continue readingDaniel Morgan sets out the case for the continued relevance of the Historiography Prelims paper.
Continue readingYasmin Howells’ creative translation of Wulf and Eadwacer, an Old English Poem found in the Book of Exeter.
Continue readingDid Oxford University’s bowler hatted police force have any real power? And what does its existence say about the wider university?
Continue readingMaciej Nowakowski opens his ‘Cities of Hope’ series by looking at Warsaw, “the Paris of the North”.
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