Category: Academic
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Subsurface Espionage, Cold War Sweden and Soviet Embarrassment: the Story of Whiskey on the Rocks
Ryan Henderson discusses Whiskey on the Rocks, a beached Soviet Submarine on the Swedish coast, and how it generated Soviet embarrassment due to international pressure.
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How Have Historians of Empire Found Gender to be a Useful Category of Historical Analysis?
Abi Fitzpatrick explores how historians of empire can use gender as a category of historical analysis to rethink the ways in which view the lives of those under colonial rule.
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Making a Little World: Mythopoesis as an Affective Strategy in Stella Benson’s Travel Writing
Yixiang Zhang delves into the escapism of inter-war travel writing in Britain
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How Did Chinese Indentured Labourers Exercise Agency Within a Structurally Coercive Contract System?
Yang Guo investigates the forgotten agency of indentured Chinese slave labourers
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Chain Migration and Cultural Persistence: The Qingtianese Diaspora as a Microregional Migration System
Zicheng Zhang explores the wider wider historiographical implications of the Qingtianese Diaspora
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Constructing the North: Rhetoric and Intercultural Misrepresentation in Tacitus’ Germania
Aidan Stubbs investigates the misrepresentation of Fennoscandian and Baltic tribes in Tacitus’ Germania
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The other Christians or the Christian ‘Other’ – Intercultural Communication between ‘Ethiopians’ and the Byzantine Empire
Moritz Raum explores Robert de Clair’s account of religious and cultural exchanges between the Byzantine Empire and ‘Ethiopians’
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‘An object of terror and hatred to all’: Re-evaluating the reputation of the Emperor Domitian.
Hannah Connolly reenters unsettled historiography surrounding the tyrannical discursivity of Roman Emperor, Domitian.
