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8 July 2013 saw the death of a Soviet heroine, Nadezhda Vasil’evna Popova, at the age of 91. Nadezhda Popova was just one of hundreds of Soviet airwomen who flew combat planes during the Second World War and have subsequently…
Sarah Dickinson is currently an MA candidate in early modern history. Here she reports on her first conference as a presenter! Last month I presented a paper at a two day postgraduate conference at the University of Birmingham. The conference…
On Saturday 8 June I attended the annual conference of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREES). CREES was established as a specialist interdisciplinary centre for research on the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries at the University…
To some extent we are all part of history – we interact with the past from the present, we are shaped by past experience, and so on, and in the future we will be a part of it as members…
I have just published an article in the journal Modern Intellectual History, entitled “Sanguinary Amusement”: E.A. Freeman, the Comparative Method and Victorian Theories of Race. This article seeks to revise the conventional portrait of the historian E. A. Freeman (1823–92)…
Two of our postgraduates are presenting papers this Monday, 20th May, at a public event. Please do attend, they are both undertaking some very interesting work! Sarah Dickinson, ‘Preparation and Performance: Puritan Experiences of Dying in Early Modern England’ This…
From 5 to 8 April I was at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, for the annual British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies conference, which this year also hosted the International Council for Central and East European Studies European Regional Congress…
Just an announcement to those who may not already know, on Wednesday April 24 Melanie Ilic’s inaugural lecture will take place on Park campus. Melanie has published widely on Soviet women’s history and became Professor of Soviet History in summer…
The life, death and now funeral of Margaret Thatcher is a proper subject of debate – both contemporary and historical. Historians have already begun to pick anew over the former PM’s legacy, but the early modern blog Parthenissa offers a…