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British History

Making the Census Count: Edinburgh 1760-1900

posted by Teri Williams November 23, 20205 min read144 Views

By Richard Rodger You might think that with a commitment to Open Data and Open Access from the Scottish Government…

British History

A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

posted by Teri Williams November 12, 202010 min read700 Views

By Louise Chapman In 2012, I uncovered an array of boxes containing 177 items of dress in the School of…

British History

Inventing London on Blackfriars Bridge, 1896: Part One

posted by Teri Williams November 9, 202012 min read129 Views

By Sean Cubitt Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema and Television: Given the current state of culture…

Cultural History

Children’s lives disrupted: in French history and today

posted by Teri Williams July 27, 20204 min read134 Views

By Siân Reynolds When  we were preparing this special issue of Nottingham French Studies (59: 2) which I have guest-edited,…

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History

Queering Freud Differently: On the new special issue of Psychoanalysis and History

posted by Teri Williams May 14, 202010 min read416 Views

By Andrew DJ Shield, University of Leiden Queer Freud Today At an all-gay dinner last month, a friend – trained…

Declaration of Human Fraternity 2019
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Christians and Muslims: Friends or Foes?

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA March 27, 20207 min read492 Views

Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…

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British History

“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square

posted by Teri Williams February 24, 20209 min read690 Views

Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…

British History

Doing History in the Age of Downton Abbey

posted by Teri Williams February 8, 20195 min read1196 Views

Julie Anne Taddeo As the most watched period drama in television history, Downton Abbey has met with popular success but…

Photograph of a British Challenger battle tank during Operation Desert Storm
British History

Does the British government learn from the history of military interventions?

posted by Naomi Farmer January 9, 20197 min read1186 Views

From Iraq to Libya, Louise Kettles asks whether the UK has learned to learn from its past mistakes in Middle-Eastern military interventions.

Nineteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Ninteenth-Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria

posted by Emma at EUP July 9, 20185 min read1219 Views

An account of how bureaucratic procedures created the space for political conflict and slander in nineteenth-century Ottoman Bulgaria and what…

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