Category: Features
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The Jewels that Killed the Queen: The French Royal Necklace Affair
Kate Taylor explores the theft of a missing necklace which caused a scandal in eighteenth-century France, fuelling public distaste towards Marie Antoinette.
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Did a Woman Create Abstract Art? Notes on Hilma Af Klint
Helene Chaligne discusses the debate over who created the first Western abstract artwork. Although Kandinsky claimed primacy, Hilma af Klint’s influential spiritualist and botanical themes have only recently gained recognition.
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Why and in what ways did the Roman empire exploit its natural resources?
Emily Martin explores how the Roman Empire exploited its natural resources, especially through deforestation and excessive hunting, to support urbanisation and military needs.
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Roots of Revolution: The 1953 Anglo-American Coup as a Catalyst for US-Iranian Tensions
Edie Christian how the Anglo-American coup of 1953 overthrew the then-Prime Minister to protect oil interests and curb Soviet influence, eventually leading to anti-American sentiment and the 1979 revolution.
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Our Vernacular Ancestor: A Reconsideration of Chaucer’s Language Within the History of Dialect Poetry
Benjamin Freckelton unravels Geoffrey Chaucer’s role in the often overlooked genre of dialect poetry.
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“We Won a Battle But Lost the War”: The 1968 Ford Dagenham Strike
Lauren Hood zooms in on 1968’s Ford Dagenham women who struck for equal pay and job classification, influencing legislation but facing ongoing frustrations about their skilled labour recognition.
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Whipping up a Frenzy: President Truman and Cold War Hysteria
Eve Beere looks at the aftermath of FDR’s presidency and Truman’s adoption of an aggressive anti-Soviet approach to mark a shift from collaboration to confrontation.
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The Domestic Female Renaissance: Enacting Power Behind Closed Doors
Abby Hughes details how second wave feminism inspired a reexamination of the experience of women in the Renaissance.
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