How helpful is Foucault's history of sexuality for understanding homoeroticism in Classical Greece?
Foucault’s volumes on the history of sexuality have been immensely influential in modern understandings of sexuality in the ancient...
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Featured Articles
Eliott Rose
- Jun 20, 2022
Bad Gays: Issues with HIV activism in gay historiography
The dignified homosexual feels ashamed of every queer who flaunts his faggotry, making the dignified homosexual’s stigma more justifiable...
Anton Higgins
- May 22, 2022
History and Power: Did African History empower Africans in the 20th Century?
African history has reflected and shaped internal and external power relations, particularly between Western and African peoples. It has...
Political History
Ally Addison
- Jul 1
The Russian Civil War and the Evolution of Soviet Terror
Anyone who claims that an historical event was formative must necessarily assume that things would have turned out differently if that...
Callum Tilley
- Sep 1, 2023
Historiographical Debates About Nazi Repression and Ordinary Complicity in the Third Reich
Note: all underlines or italics within quotes are the authors’ own unless otherwise stated Nazi Germany is often thought of as the...
Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
- Apr 28, 2023
Enemy of my Enemy: King Mithradates VI of Pontos and his alternative model of Hellenistic kingship
Introduction In 168 BC, the Seleukid king, Antiokhos IV, stood victorious at the head of an army which had breached Ptolemaic defences,...
Social History
Sandra Liwanowska
- Sep 1
From Ritual to Commodity: How Does the Study of Drugs Illuminate Early Modern Globalisation?
In a phenomenon historian David Courtwright termed the "psychoactive revolution," the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the...
T. Alexander Puutio
- Jul 1
History is an Unreliable Source of Memory
In the intricate dance between memory and history, each partner influences and reshapes the other. This essay discusses the complexities...
T. Alexander Puutio
- Mar 18
Words That Bent Space: János Bolyai And His Failed Epistolary Exchange With Carl Friedrich Gauss
I cannot say more, only that from nothing I have created a new different world János Bolyai, letter to Farkas Bolyai describing his...
Gender History
Joshua Redden
- Aug 27
Popular Culture, Collective Memory & 'Great (Wo)man History?: Decoding a Nineteenth-Century Scottish Biograph of Joséphine de Beauharnais
The most recent major addition to the popular cultural canon of the Napoleonic period is, at the time of writing, Ridley Scott’s...
Rebecca Colyer
- Sep 2, 2023
The Influence of Gender Stereotypes on Crime in Early Modern Europe
During the early modern period, gender issues within society caused the criminal justice system and its authorities to target those who...
Matthew Ainsby
- Jun 20, 2022
The influence of gender relations in the South on the ideology of slavery between 1670 and 1865
The ideology of slavery, defined in this essay as the notion of complete ownership and mastery of African American slaves that centred...
Reviews
Ross Hardy
- Aug 2, 2022
Review: Elizabeth Kiddy's Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Since the initial establishment of the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary in Brazil as a means of unifying and recreating ethnic identities...
Harriet Solomon
- Jul 23, 2022
Review: Jalal Al-e Ahmad's 'Westoxification'
Introduction Since its initial publication in 1962, Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s ‘Westoxification’ has been adopted, co-opted, and distorted by...
Anton Higgins
- May 22, 2022
Review: E.P. Thompson's Customs in Common
Customs in Common consolidated E. P. Thompson’s renown as a brilliantly original historian, provocative and passionate though always...
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