By Philip Carter ‘Flash Histories’, a recent symposium at the University of Bristol, brought together historians, creative writers and heritage professionals to explore short-form history writing. Topics included history as poetry, museum labelling,...
By Sarah Knott For her new book, ‘Mother’, the feminist and historian Professor Sarah Knott chose the striking sub-title ‘An Unconventional History’. Here Sarah explains her choice, the boundaries between conventional and unconventional...
By Anna Hájková Queer victims rarely feature in the historiography of the Holocaust. One of the reasons for this neglect is that they complicate the dominant categories of analysis: we usually regard persecuted homosexuals as gentiles and Jewish victims as...
Digital History 20 March 2012 Melissa Terras (UCL); Adam Farquhar (British Library); and Torsten Reimer (JISC) The Future of the Past roundtable The first roundtable event of the Digital History seminar had some teething problems behind the scenes. One of the...
Dispensations and Conversations 11 November 2011 Biology, Brain Theory and History: What, if anything, can historians learn from biology? Speakers: Dr Lisa Blackman (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Hera Cook (University of Birmingham) and Professor Roger Cooter...
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