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Chantel Thora Chesney
Oct 3, 202427 min read
Dual Struggles and Divergent Pursuits: Retracing the Role of Social Movements in the Marginalization of Dalit Women in Colonial Maharashtra
Remembering Dalit Women In the early 19th century, the East India Company established British rule in Maharashtra, ushering in the...
Joshua Redden
Aug 27, 202414 min read
Popular Culture, Collective Memory & 'Great (Wo)man History?: Decoding a Nineteenth-Century Scottish Biograph of Joséphine de Beauharnais
The most recent major addition to the popular cultural canon of the Napoleonic period is, at the time of writing, Ridley Scott’s...
Ally Addison
Jul 1, 202424 min read
The Russian Civil War and the Evolution of Soviet Terror
Anyone who claims that an historical event was formative must necessarily assume that things would have turned out differently if that...
T. Alexander Puutio
Mar 17, 202411 min read
Words That Bent Space: János Bolyai And His Failed Epistolary Exchange With Carl Friedrich Gauss
I cannot say more, only that from nothing I have created a new different world János Bolyai, letter to Farkas Bolyai describing his...
Scarlett Croft
Dec 24, 202315 min read
A Rare Case: Black Women and Hysteria
This essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...
Sandra Liwanowska
Dec 24, 202312 min read
Cultivating Insanity: The Role of Culture in Understanding Mental Illness in Nigeria, Kenya and China during the 19th and 20th Centuries
To what extent are mental illnesses the product of human culture? Western practices have ensured that psychiatrists are now able to...
Japneet Hayer
Nov 22, 202312 min read
To What Extent is Ethnicity Important When Considering Englishness in the Twentieth Century?
During the twentieth century, England saw a dramatic increase in rates of immigration from parts of the Commonwealth, primarily due to...
Callum Tilley
Sep 1, 202317 min read
Historiographical Debates About Nazi Repression and Ordinary Complicity in the Third Reich
Note: all underlines or italics within quotes are the authors’ own unless otherwise stated Nazi Germany is often thought of as the...
Emilė Petravičiūtė
May 24, 202321 min read
Relating Global and Local: Historical Perspective on Inequality
Introduction Leading scholars of inequality today, such as Branko Milanovic[1] or Frank Stilwell[2] amongst others, tend to structure...
Will Kingston-Cox
Apr 15, 202317 min read
To what extent did Stalin’s nationality policy in the South Caucasus differ by ethnic group?
Upon the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks were tasked with confronting the ‘national question’ - that is,...
Japneet Hayer
Apr 15, 202311 min read
The Effects of Mercantilism and Capitalism on the systemic violence imposed on Enslaved Africans
It is an undisputable fact that enslaved Africans were put through violent, horrific practices in all areas of enslavement. Some...
Ally Addison
Mar 26, 20239 min read
The Impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Russian Society
No one can deny that the Napoleonic Wars represented a turning point for the Russian Empire. Not only did the so-called Great Patriotic...
Will Kingston-Cox
Mar 25, 202311 min read
To what extent can Stalin’s policy of industrialisation be considered a success?
The implementation of Stalinist industrialisation, between 1928 and 1941, transformed the Soviet economy into a modern economic...
Molly Davies
Mar 25, 202310 min read
“Vice” and media sensationalism as a significant focus for public anxieties in 1950's London
1950s London, an increasingly cosmopolitan capital city, witnessed “vice” pushed to the forefront of public anxieties. Vice came in the...
Will Kingston-Cox
Dec 13, 20228 min read
Was the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964 determined by race or ideology?
The argument that the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964—the Zanzibar Revolution—was determined by a sole determinant, in a binary choice between...
Chantelle Lee
Nov 10, 20229 min read
Native Americans and the ‘Plan for Civilisation’, c.1783 - 1830
Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...
Harriet Solomon
Nov 10, 202212 min read
Arab Strategy in the 1948 War
On the 29th November 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Following decades of struggle between its Jewish and...
Sarah Brady
Sep 19, 202233 min read
Fanaticism, Sensationalism and Obsession during the Lunacy Panics of 19th Century England
Abstract Victorian society has often been thought of one of upstanding morals, rigid etiquette and sombre tones. Yet the lunacy panics...
Daisy Gant
Aug 11, 202210 min read
Khrushchev's new image of leadership post-Stalin
Introduction: In the wake of Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union witnessed a power struggle at the top of the Central Committee. This saw...
Ross Hardy
Aug 2, 20226 min read
Review: Elizabeth Kiddy's Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Since the initial establishment of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Brazil as a means of unifying and recreating ethnic identities...
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