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Sometimes it feels uncomfortable being white (I can hear black reader/friends/students laughing at this – “you should try black” they might say.) Viewing Steve McQueen’s great movie 12 Years a Slave provided just one of those moments for the largely…
African American History and Shakespeare? A strange mixture, but one that British director Mark Rylance brought together in the recent production of Much Ado about Nothing starring Vanessa Redgrave and the American actor, James Earl Jones at the Old Vic…
Last Thursday the UoG History team (alongside colleagues from across Humanities and the University) celebrated graduation day 2013! It was a great day and a good opportunity to catch-up with students who finished their exams over the summer (and to…
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…
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…
The graduation ceremony last week was the usual great event – seeing last year’s students graduate is always enjoyable, and meeting proud parents makes you realize how important degrees are to individuals and families. It is good to catch up…
Neil Wynn Talks about African American History and Culture Neil Wynn has been interviewed by Paul Moss for a radio programme on BBC Radio Gloucestershire, which was broadcast on Sunday 25th November at 2pm (you can catch it on the I-play!). Neil was…
Coincidental with the period of national remembrance, we can happily report that Robert Taylor’s MA thesis on “A Study of the Origins and Development of Great War Memorials in the County of Gloucestershire (1917-1933) has been accepted by the University…