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.
A Story I Never Thought I’d Hear: Working for Chemical Defence Establishment Nancekuke During the Cold War, My Great-Grandad’s Story
Harry Child interviews his Grandfather about his father’s time working at Chemical Defence Establishment, Nancekuke during the Cold War.
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.
‘Honey in the Wound’ by Jiyoung Han: The Brutal Fate of Women During the Japanese Occupation
Poppy Williams reviews Jiyoung Han’s ‘Honey in the Wound’ which explores the lives of Korean women during, and in the aftermath of, the Japanese occupation.
A Disastrous Elizabethan Marriage: The Marriage of Elizabeth Manners, 15th Baroness Roos, to William Cecil (1589-91)
Harry Child introduces readers to the doomed marriage of Elizabeth Manners, 15th Baroness Roos, to William Cecil, Chief advisor to Queen Elizabeth I.
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
How Did Chinese Indentured Labourers Exercise Agency Within a Structurally Coercive Contract System?
Yang Guo investigates the forgotten agency of indentured Chinese slave labourers
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
Constructing the North: Rhetoric and Intercultural Misrepresentation in Tacitus’ Germania
Aidan Stubbs investigates the misrepresentation of Fennoscandian and Baltic tribes in Tacitus’ Germania
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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