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Following my urging people to read the review sections of newspapers such as The Guardian, Independent, Times, etc. I received re-enforcement of sorts in a review in last week’s Sunday Times (I know, it’s the Murdoch press … but the…
A couple of interesting “events” in relation to gender history have caught my attention in the last week or so. The first of these was the publication of Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men: And the Rise of Women (11…
This BBC report considers the poet Benjamin Zephaniah’s criticism of the type of history that it taught in Britain’s schools. Zephaniah was responding to the assertions of people in office that young British kids from ethnic minorities were “were…
of the Man Booker Prize to Hilary Mantel, her second in a row, for Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to her previous winner, Wolf Hall, has placed historical fiction firmly in the public eye. Sir Peter Stothard, chair of…
Dame Fiona Reynolds, the National Trust and the English Literature Festival Sophie and I were invited by Iain Robertson to attend a lecture by Dame Fiona Reynolds at the English Literature Festival. It is worth noting that Dame Fiona Reynolds…
Coinciding with the beginning of a new academic year, the History Society at the University of Gloucestershire is being re-launched. The History Society seeks to bring together students with an interest in history at all levels, for both academic and…
Fifty Years Ago Today …I was sitting on a bus going to school in Edinburgh and my pals Tumsh (a Scottish thing – Turnbull!) and Ginge were talking about this record they had heard by a group with the strange…
St Deniol’s Library This summer I visited Gladstone’s Library, St Deniol’s at Hawarden in Flintshire. Staying for a few nights for a conference, the experience was quite unique – I have never been to a residential library with accommodation before,…
Every year I try to persuade students to read newspapers to see the variety of ways in which History appears in the public domain. Usually I point them to reviews of history texts or of historical literature – see Max…