Tag: History
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The Rise and Fall of Wilsonianism
Eva Beere explores the factors which shaped President Wilson’s policies, considering how this influenced America’a international relations.
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Beyond Consent: The Inconsistencies of Rape Laws in the antebellum South
The American legal system in the South before the Civil War was highly inconsistent, especially in term of rape and consent laws. Eva Beere explores these antebellum rape laws, and how Black women received less legal protection.
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“[T]he mute body speaks by its gesture and movement”: A Classical Corporeality in Catherine de Medici’s Tears
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Harry Fry contextualises Catherine de Medici’s tears upon the death of her husband within early modern thinking about, and historiographical frameworks on emotion.
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Heritage and Amnesia: The Overlooked Legacy of Slavery in Britain’s Country Houses
Olivia Norbury uncovers the untold history of slavery in British country houses.
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King Alfred’s Victorian Millenary
Fleur O’Reilly explores Alfred the Great’s legacy as a unifier and educational reformer and how his reign shaped England’s identity and history.
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Cleaning Up Auld Reekie: Dr Henry Littlejohn and the Public Health of Edinburgh
Edinburgh has historically been known as ‘Auld Reekie,’ owing to the fact that for most of its existence it smelled awful. Ailsa Fraser explores how Dr Henry Littlejohn, the city’s first Medical Officer, helped to clean up the city.
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‘We Are The Daughters of the Witches You Couldn’t Burn’; Modern Paganism and The Paradox of the Contemporary Witch
Daisy Gillam explores the historical and cultural transformation of what a witch is.
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Book Review: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
Angelina Castrucci explores Walter Rodney’s book ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’.
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