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 readingPádraig Nolan continues his Colonel Barker series, focusing on his trials and how they allow us to understand 20th-century gender constructs.
Continue readingDaniel Morgan discusses the 1901 Ford Lecture at Oxford, and what it reveals about how current events can sway our opinions of history.
Continue readingPádraig Nolan examines Colonel Barker’s fraudulent involvement with British fascism and the conflict of trans- and hyper-masculinity.
Continue readingPádraig Nolan examines the legendary figure of Colonel Barker, transmasculine con-artist, fascist and performer.
Continue readingCharles West discusses labels and their role in studying LGBTQ+ history in the latest instalment of his column.
Continue readingSeán Gibbons discusses the work of Barbara Pym in his column Middlebrow Highs.
Continue readingSophia Maisashvili introduces her column ‘Soviet Stories’ by examining the impact of dachas, particularly in soviet satellite states.
Continue readingTW: racism, racial slurs Marshall Street was an unassuming, unexceptional street in Smethwick, West Midlands. Its terraced houses were not particularly striking or notable. The declining industrial town resembled many others across the country, facing …
Continue readingIsaac Hawcock reviews The Nest to explore how it dissects Thatcherite neoliberalism from a twenty-first century perspective.
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