Will Kingston-Cox
To what extent can Stalin’s policy of industrialisation be considered a success?
The implementation of Stalinist industrialisation, between 1928 and 1941, transformed the Soviet economy into a modern economic...
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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
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,...
Will Kingston-Cox
- Apr 15, 2023
To what extent did Stalin’s nationality policy in the South Caucasus differ by ethnic group?
Upon the collapse of the Tsarist regime in Russia in 1917, the Bolsheviks were tasked with confronting the ‘national question’ - that is,...
Social History
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...
Scarlett Croft
- Dec 24, 2023
A Rare Case: Black Women and Hysteria
This essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...
Sandra Liwanowska
- Dec 24, 2023
Cultivating Insanity: The Role of Culture in Understanding Mental Illness in Nigeria, Kenya and China during the 19th and 20th Centuries
To what extent are mental illnesses the product of human culture? Western practices have ensured that psychiatrists are now able to...
Gender History
Rebecca Colter
- 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...
Eliott Rose
- Jun 6, 2022
Bodies, Confused: Doing Transgender History
November 2019. I’m sitting distracted in a lecture on late medieval London: half paying attention, half thinking about what I needed to...
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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