Tag: History
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“It Ain’t Half Racist Mum”: Reflexive Wit and Migration in Modern British Voices and Television
Harry Fry explores what race and migration mean to Britain today as represented through sitcoms.
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Whitewashing the Moors: How Casting Choices Reveal Our Discomfort With Literary Otherness
Kayla Greer examines the controversial casting of Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and how this prioritises marketability over Emily Brontë’s original portrayal of the character as racially ambiguous.
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Collaboration, Productivity, Resistance: Differing Reactions of Jewish Councils under occupation
Connie Greatrix explores the moral complexity of Jewish leadership under Nazi rule. From secret child rescues in France to the “productive ghetto” of Lodz, the article reveals how councils balanced survival, welfare, and resistance, challenging simplistic views of collaboration during the Holocaust.
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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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