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Michaelmas
This blog post was written by IHR Associate Fellow Michael Carter. St Michael’s Day—Michaelmas—on 29 September is upon us. St Michael is one of the most interesting of all saints, or to go medieval ‘the holy company of heaven’ (ok, I might be biased, I’m named after...
Five things that I’ve learned writing my first trade history book
This blog post was written by IHR Fellow Edward Armston-Sheret. I’ve recently published my first trade history book, The Grip of the Ice: Scott, Shackleton and Survival on the Frozen Frontier. The book tells the story of the British National Antarctic Expedition –...
All the World’s a Stage: Performativity in the Life History Interview
This blog post was written by IHR Fellow Nilakshi Das. Life history interviews are rarely simple acts of narrating one’s life story. They unfold as a dynamic, relational interaction in which the interviewer and interviewee jointly shape how a life story is told and...
Elizabethan Witchcraft, Sorcery, and a Very Troubled Marriage
Ahead of their new book ‘Star Chamber Matters’, Professor K. J. Kesselring (Dalhousie) dives into some of Star Chamber’s most riveting cases including this article on, marriage, ‘male witches’ and a grieving house-wife. An extraordinary court that ruled...