Tag: History
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Review: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (2021)
Written by Georgia Smith. What is history? The question retains its validity, evidenced by the recent release of a spiritual successor to E.H. Carr’s 1961 modern classic. As Georgia Smith’s review argues, the question is more what histories should be, rather than how they are constructed.
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The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Forgotten US Insurrection
Written by Sam Marks. Discussing the much neglected Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labour uprising in American history, Sam Marks argues that, despite being assigned to be forgotten in wider public consciousness, it remains an integral part of local memory.
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Michelangelo and the Temporality of Art
Written by Ruth Cullen. In this piece, Ruth Cullen reflects on art as a record of history, through the lens of Michelangelo. It is a treacherous terrain, a paradox that a considerable portion of our understanding of something comes from that understanding being non-definitive.
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Review: The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Written by Melissa Kane. Examining the recent work by acclaimed Renaissance scholar Catherine Fletcher, ‘The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance’, Melissa Kane questions. the extent to which it rightly can be called an alternative history.
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On Building a Nation: The Price of Utopia
Written by Megan Sickmueller, this piece discusses the thought of Martinican philosopher Franz Fanon in regards to the nation, race and colonial struggle, and relates it to the legacy and project of Steve Biko, a pre-eminent figure in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
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Anti-Communism and the Cinema of South Korea, 1953-79
Written by Jack Bennett. How did South Korean cinema relate to the official ideology of anticommunism between 1953 and 1979? Jack Bennett discusses this issue through its close and nuanced relationship with everyday life, as a site of adherence and resistance to these forces.
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Friend or Foe? The Rome-Berlin Axis from the perspective of necessity and ideology.
Written By Hela Gorecka. The development of the Rome-Berlin Axis saw many trial and tribulations, but what were the main motivations for its cooperation and to what extent was it an inevitable occurrence?
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Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part Three: ‘Handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses…’ – The Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts Part B
Written by Alex Smith. Continuing his enduring series on the history and critical assessment of the authenticity of the gospels, Alex Smith focuses on the complexities of how knowledge is passed on in a predominantly oral society, and the integrity of our assessment long after events have occurred.
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