It could be said that a war rages on the streets of Britain between cyclists and drivers. The myth of the ‘Road Tax’, which is in fact an emissions duty, and cars’ dominance on increasingly congested streets has caused a rivalry between the motorised and the pedal-powered. It is striking that this is a predominantly […]
Fresh from their outstanding 22-8 win against PGCE, History Netball are training hard for the remainder of their pre-Christmas matches. Currently third in the league, captain Charlotte Peacock is leading the team to victory after victory with only one loss so far in the season. She tells the Manchester Historian: “Being netball captain this year […]
Films are a highly impactful form of media, transporting the viewer into a new world and returning us to our rightful place in time minutely altered. Films inspire and provoke emotions and dreams in the audience through their complex themes and real-world understanding. This is even more true when films are based on true stories […]
Magdalene asylums, also known as ‘Magdalene laundries’, emerged in the late 18th century to house “fallen women”. Originally this meant women who worked in prostitution, but this term gradually expanded to include women classed as sexually promiscuous, unmarried mothers, women considered too tempting to men, and women who were considered a family burden. They were […]
We have retold the stories of the Second World War without pause since it drew to a close in 1945. Films are an increasingly important way in which we remember the Second World War. But yet, these films, while engrossing in character and wildly popular, do not always reflect how the Second World War actually […]
There are a number of unwritten rules that surface during an American Presidential Election with alarming alacrity. A small town in New Hampshire will be the first to declare its results after the 34 voters have cast their ballots, no Republican wins without taking Ohio’s 18 Electoral College votes, and the calamitous inevitability of something […]
Issue 41 – Gender and Identity In Britain, the women’s liberation movement brought women’s history from the margins into the mainstream of historical thinking, seeking to trace both inequality and oppression through the past and to rediscover female experiences left out by traditional historiography. As the field developed, a gendered approach to history has provided […]
1st May 1963: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his visit to the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/ Tass) 4th May 1963: A civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Photo/ Bill Hudson) 11th June 1963: The Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, burns himself in Saigon […]
Professor Paul Fouracre’s book Frankish History: Studies in the Construction of Power has recently been published in Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies Series. Dr Yangwen Zheng edited The Chinese Chameleon Revisited: From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou which was also published recently. Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto wrote a chapter entitled ‘Why Inequalities Matter’ published in Reducing […]
The story of the Battle of Agincourt follows the age-old narrative of the beloved underdog rising against the odds. A legacy of victory and glory would become synonymous with Henry V after this epic episode in medieval history. An idyllic tale of knights, courage and king; it is recounted even in modern memory, but how […]
The fruits of the Yugoslavia’s relationship with socialism once yielded 91% literacy rates, free health care, and for 8 years, the fastest rate of economic growth in the world. However, like many romances, external meddlers fostered internal conflict and eventual break-up. What followed tore the region apart. From 1992-93 the Bosnian war raged between rival […]
It is hard to imagine what Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector from Austria who was executed for his refusal to pledge his allegiance to Hitler during The Second World War, had to go through. Bearing in mind that he had to sacrifice his large family’s (Jägerstätter had a wife and three daughters) interests and give […]
The Age of Enlightenment was a movement towards reason and rationality in the 18th century in Europe. This movement primarily altered perceptions of politics, philosophy, science, and communications. The Enlightenment advanced ideals of liberty, freedom and equality. This was an extremely progressive movement. Ideas of enlightenment spread through Salons where discussions and debates took place […]
Although the most common use of torture throughout history has been as an interrogation technique of law enforcement, the practice has been used in many different ways over the years, with other purposes of torture found in inducing public terror, a means of reform, and most uncommonly, as satisfying sadistic pleasure. During the period of […]