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Vicky Morrisroe: Article Published in Modern Intellectual History
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)…
HISTORY SEMINAR: 20 May 2013, 4.30-6.30, FCH QU122
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…
BASEES 2013
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…
Inaugural Lecture: Professor Melanie Ilic
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 most joyful funeral I ever saw”: Cromwell & Thatcher
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…
Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union
Hearty congratulations to Rob Hornsby for the publication of his book Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Rob was an AHRC-funded PhD student attached to a three-year project on ‘Policy and Governance in the…
New approaches to the history of popular protest and resistance in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1900, Workshop 3
This is a report from our third year History student, Micky Gibbard, based on his experiences at the recent Protest History workshop, hosted on 2nd March at the University of Gloucestershire. — The weekend of the 2nd of March saw…
International Women’s Day
8 March 2013 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day celebrations in Russia. International Women’s Day has its origins at the women’s conference of the Second International in Copenhagen in 1910 with the aim of furthering the cause of women’s…