By Anaïs Waag Until very recently medieval studies was dominated by the perception that women were actively kept away from political power – a notion we owe mainly to nineteenth-century historians. While there was undoubtedly a preference for male rulers throughout...
Sport and Leisure History Khaki Fever at the Finsbury Park Rink Cinema: Gender, Sexuality and Modernity, 1913-19 Alex Rock (De Montfort University) 5 March 2012 This is a guest post by Alison Gilbey, one of IHR Digital’s summer interns from the University of...
The Musketeers Male historical fiction takes a very different form than that intended for a female audience: adventure, warfare, murder mysteries. For the most part this form of historical fiction repeatedly tests the protagonist (usually male) before he is...
