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Dual Struggles and Divergent Pursuits: Retracing the Role of Social Movements in the Marginalization of Dalit Women in Colonial Maharashtra
Remembering Dalit Women In the early 19th century, the East India Company established British rule in Maharashtra, ushering in the...
Chantel Thora Chesney
Oct 3, 202427 min read


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...
Sandra Liwanowska
Sep 1, 202415 min read


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...

Joshua Redden
Aug 27, 202414 min read


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
Jul 1, 202412 min read


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...
Ally Addison
Jul 1, 202424 min read


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...

T. Alexander Puutio
Mar 18, 202411 min read


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...

Scarlett Croft
Dec 24, 202315 min read


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...
Sandra Liwanowska
Dec 24, 202312 min read


To What Extent is Ethnicity Important When Considering Englishness in the Twentieth Century?
During the twentieth century, England saw a dramatic increase in rates of immigration from parts of the Commonwealth, primarily due to...

Japneet Hayer
Nov 22, 202312 min read


Why Historians Should Study the Explosion of Vernacular Literature in the Late Middle Ages
Studying the explosion of vernacular literature is fundamentally important to historians of the Middle Ages because it informs them about...

Callum Tilley
Sep 9, 20239 min read


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...
Rebecca Colyer
Sep 2, 20239 min read


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...

Callum Tilley
Sep 1, 202317 min read


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...
Jessica Hoar
Jul 20, 20238 min read


Dreams of Empire: British travellers on the fringes of the Chinese world, 1688-1826
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries British merchants, diplomats and soldiers attempted to break into China by a number of...

Sean Paterson
May 24, 202319 min read


Relating Global and Local: Historical Perspective on Inequality
Introduction Leading scholars of inequality today, such as Branko Milanovic[1] or Frank Stilwell[2] amongst others, tend to structure...

Emilė Petravičiūtė
May 24, 202321 min read


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,...

Xenofon Kalogeropoulos
Apr 28, 202316 min read


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,...

Will Kingston-Cox
Apr 15, 202317 min read


'Shari'a and Kanun: A Study of the Ottoman Empire's Legal System
In the period between the conquest of Constantinople and the end of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire rapidly increased in...

Dorothy Greene
Apr 15, 202310 min read


The Effects of Mercantilism and Capitalism on the systemic violence imposed on Enslaved Africans
It is an undisputable fact that enslaved Africans were put through violent, horrific practices in all areas of enslavement. Some...

Japneet Hayer
Apr 15, 202311 min read


The Impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Russian Society
No one can deny that the Napoleonic Wars represented a turning point for the Russian Empire. Not only did the so-called Great Patriotic...
Ally Addison
Mar 26, 20239 min read
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