From Ritual to Commodity: How Does the Study of Drugs Illuminate Early Modern Globalisation?
In a phenomenon historian David Courtwright termed the "psychoactive revolution," the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the...
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T. Alexander Puutio
Jul 112 min read
History is an Unreliable Source of Memory
In the intricate dance between memory and history, each partner influences and reshapes the other. This essay discusses the complexities...
T. Alexander Puutio
Mar 1711 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 9, 20239 min read
Why Historians Should Study the Explosion of Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages
Studying the explosion of vernacular literature is fundamentally important to historians of the Middle Ages because it informs them about...
Jessica Hoar
Jul 20, 20238 min read
How helpful is Foucault's history of sexuality for understanding homoeroticism in Classical Greece?
Foucault’s volumes on the history of sexuality have been immensely influential in modern understandings of sexuality in the ancient...
Sean Paterson
May 24, 202319 min read
Dreams of Empire: British travellers on the fringes of the Chinese world, 1688-1826
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...
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...
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...
Sean Paterson
Mar 26, 202313 min read
‘Yet doe the Chinoyse much exceede us’: images of China in an early modern English atlas
Early modern English perceptions of China, as expressed in surviving print materials, occupy a liminal intellectual zone, suspended...
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...
William Minter
Sep 29, 202225 min read
The 'Globalisation' of the Hellenistic Age
As with most cultural processes in the ancient world, whether they be ethnic identities or cultural exchange and interconnectivity, the...
Mark Connolly
Sep 29, 202212 min read
The Association of Sin with Filth and Stench in Later Medieval Christianity
Few things preoccupied the medieval Christian church more than the notion of sin: because of mankind’s propensity to corruption the...
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...
Duru Akin
Jul 23, 20228 min read
Science as a Tool for Creating ‘Others’ Within European Societies
During the period between late nineteenth century and the end of the Second World War, science became a tool for categorizing and...
Matthew Ainsby
Jul 4, 20228 min read
What did Early European Modern rebels aim to achieve?
The most common historiographical stance regarding early modern revolts is that rebels were motivated by ‘blind rage’ and their actions...
Charlotte Hocquet
Jun 6, 202220 min read
Consumption as an analytical category for understanding the Safavid state and its society
Legend has it that coffee beans were first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder who had noticed his goats become more energetic and...
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