Tag: Travel
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The Undisputable Magic of Lighthouses and Lighthouse Keepers
Darcy Gresham reflects on childhood dreams of becoming a lighthouse keeper, exploring lighthouses’ historical significance and evolution, despite modern automation making the role obsolete.
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The Dividing Road: How the M8 Motorway Destroyed Glasgow’s Communities
The construction of the M8 motorway in Glasgow divested communities, disrupting urban connectivity and sacrificing historical architecture for modernity. Logan McKinnon outlines the resultant social isolation and economic decline, creating enduring scars that negatively impact the city’s character and growth.
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What Do We Truly Know About the Vikings: Helmets, Masculinity, and Violence
Vikings are instantly recognizable for their horned helments and battle-born attitudes, but how much of that is accurate to history. Michaela Hamman discusses how popular perceptions of vikings do not match the archaeological realities of Scandinavia.
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Shattering Idols: The Timeless Nature of Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm, historically linked to religious and political changes, shapes cultural identities and evokes societal tensions today. Ami John explores how this practice has destroyed – and shaped- history.
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V. S. Naipul’s A Bend in the River: The Necessity of the Attempt
History can be used as tool for modernization and for tradition. Kate Phillips analyzes V.S. Naipul’s A Bend in the River to illustrate this dichotomy in a newly independent African country following decolonization.
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Sacagawea: The Key to Success
Written by Amy Hendrie. How do you tell the story of someone entirely from external sources? Amy Hendrie engages with this troubling historiographical problem in relation to the Indigenous American figure of Sacagawea, an extraordinary woman who played the biggest part in the exploration of the territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
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My Year Abroad: Studying History in France
Written by Martin Greenacre. In Britain, we have an absurd fixation with university league tables. In the absence of a similar system in France, I knew little of what to expect when I arrived in Dijon for my year abroad studying history at the Université de Bourgogne. The titles of the courses were not even…
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