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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…
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…
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…
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…
The Tewkesbury Historical Society plays host to Dr Madge Dresser on March 21st. Dr Dresser, author of Slavery Obscured, will be delivering an illustrated talk on the topic of Britain’s slave trade at Tewkesbury Methodist Church from 7.45pm. Tewkesbury’s a…
New approaches to the history of popular protest and resistance in Britain and Ireland, 1500-1900 Workshop 3, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, Saturday 2 March, 2013 Landscapes of resistance: figuring the places and spaces of protest and politics past. In 1991…
Readers of earlier posts on the blog (and some of my students!) will know that I urge people to read the “quality” press in order to follow the news and also to get book (and other) reviews. Two reviews in…
It has been a bumper couple of weeks at the movies for students of American History: first Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained combining aspects of slave history with the style of a spaghetti western, then Steven Spielberg’s bio-pic Lincoln focussing on…
Hannah Grist – Introduction to Paper: “Dennis Potter Heritage Project: Autoethnography as Methodology” In this paper I will explore a part of the layered methodological approach I have adopted to study the heritage sector-led management of Dennis Potter’s legacy in…