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Holiday Souvenirs – and History
I guess we all bring something back with us as souvenirs of our summer holidays in the sun – I know I do! Additions to a collection of Americana, or a memento of some seaside resort in Italy. All those…
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Edward Augustus Freeman: The Life and Times of a Victorian Intellectual
On the 21-23 June I attended a three-day residential conference on Edward Augustus Freeman: The Life and Times of a Victorian Intellectual. Held at the beautiful Gladstone Library in Hawarden, the conference explored various aspects of the life of Freeman…
Melanie Ilic in Finland
Melanie has been on some very productive European visits this summer! Here is her account of her time in Finland: On the day after my arrival, Elena Osokina, a well-known Russian historian, gave a seminar at Helsinki’s Aleksanteri Institute about…
“One vast and fearful struggle”: Thomas Arnold and the Social Progress of Nations.
I am currently working on a research project on the life and work of Thomas Arnold (1795-1842). A central figure in early nineteenth-century British life, Arnold was a leading Liberal Anglican theologian, headmaster of Rugby School (1828-41), and Regius Professor…
Jubilee Celebrations
The celebrations for the Queen’s Jubilee may not seem to have much relevance to an American historian, but actually the very word “jubilee” strikes a chord particularly for those who study African American History. The Civil War song, “Marching Through…
New Publication! Heritage from Below….
Finallym Below published! In fact he was so excited by this that he then spent virtually the whole of his 20 minute slot at the recent Critical Heritage Studies conference in Gothenburg self-promoting it. The way we use the past…
Beautiful Weather and Local Knowledge = Fieldwalk!
In the enviably warm sunshine of March, this year’s fieldwalks exploring the environmental history of Gloucestershire and Cheltenham were a great success. Our level-4 (first-year) module, ‘Themes in Local and Environmental History‘, explored the intersection of processes such as enclosure, landscape gardening and…
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