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        • Volume 9: Decolonising the curriculum
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    • 2018-19
      • Volume 8
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        • From Krkur to Crookes – A Brief History of the 1,000-Year-Old Village
        • Lady Godiva: The Woman, The Myth, The Legend
        • Gracchus Babeuf – the would-be communist dictator of France?
        • The medieval beverage of choice: alcohol or water?
        • How fear of conspiracy shapes US politics
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    • 2015-16
      • Volume 7
        • Issue 1
          • A Marxist Interpretation of the American Revolution
          • Britain's Warrior Queen
          • The Upper Canada Rising of 1837
          • Japan's revolutionary nationalism and the February 26 Incident
          • The Hungarian Revolution 1956
          • Slave revolt in Antebellum America
          • Class identity during the 1917 Russian Revolution
          • The Fall of Rome: Rebellion or Evolution?
          • The Peasant's Revolt and Socialist Memory
        • Volume 7 - Issue 1
          • The 9th Century Papacy and the divorce of Lothar II
          • Nichiren in Medieval Japan and his Legacy
          • The 1979 Iranian Revolution: Islamic Revolution or Failed Liberal Revolutio
          • The United States First Amendment and Religious Freedom
    • 2014-15
      • Volume 6
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        • Issue 1 - War and Peace
          • The Seven Years War: the First World War In 1754
          • Caesar, Pompey and the Birth of the Roman Empire
          • Interwar Germany and Italy
          • Terrorist attacks on 9/11, the war against terror.. and baseball: Sport’s r
          • Corps and Columns – The Battle Tactics of Napoleon Bonaparte and Why They F
          • Remembering Lost Lives
          • War as Voter-Bait: Labour & the 1918 General Election
        • Issue 2 - Genocide, Persecution and Liberation
          • The Cambodian Genocide in the light of the Cold War
          • The Teutonic Order and Genocide in the Baltic
          • The Lingering Wound of Institutional Racism in America
          • The History of the EU
          • From Slavery to Freedom? The Liberation of America’s Slaves
          • Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion and the Death of a People
    • 2013-14
      • Volume 5
        • Issue 1 - Media
          • Keep Calm and Carry On: The Pre-eminence of the Propaganda Model in Blair's
          • Tintin and the Telephone
          • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
          • Hicky's Bengal Gazzette
          • Something The Media Forgot
          • Visual Propaganda during the Hellenistic Period
          • 'Brown Envelopes and a Tub of Lard'
          • Bonfire Night: the Celebration of Propaganda
          • The Invisible Government: Edward Bernays, Public Relations and Propaganda
          • Forgiving the Unforgivable - Nationalist China under a New Light
          • The Power of Propaganda
          • 'I Am Ashamed. But I Am Proud' - My Lai, the Printed Press, and Morality
        • Issue 2 - Local Histories
          • Sheffield's Royal Guest
          • The Evolution of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill
          • Sunny Southport's 127 year-long commemoration
          • From Chicago to Detroit: The Story of Barrow-in-Furness
          • The Flood of 1953, Canvey Island and the Dutch
          • From Cotton to Council Houses: Manchester after the Industrial Revolution
          • Charlotte, North Carolina and the 'Neck Dec'
          • The Show Must Go On
          • 'Coal not Dole': Mansfield in the Miners Strike
        • Issue 3 - Historical Fiction
          • "A Game of Historical Hopscotch": Examining the Tudors Series as Historical
          • Antidote to Reality: The West Wing and the Clinton Administration
          • The Motorcycle Diaries
          • Historical truth or fiction?
          • Is History Fiction?
          • Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Eagle of the Ninth: An Example
          • HHhH and the Postmodern Historical Novel
          • The historical imagination and the search for 'truth': is history about
          • Historical Fiction - And When I Mean Fiction, I Mean Fiction. Zombies and
        • Issue 4 - Speeches & Speakers
          • "The People's Princess"
          • Pope Urban II and Clermont
          • A Tudor Execution Speech
          • You Can Never Trust a Politician - But is this a Bad Thing?
          • 'Big Jim' Irish Trade Union Orator
          • 'Two Minutes of Genius'
          • Pizarro's 'Line in the Sand', and our own line to cross
        • Issue 5 - Open Theme
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          • George Orwell's '1984'
          • Prince Henry Fredrick: the Prince who never was King
          • 'Generation War' and German War Guilt
          • "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?" The Timeless Appeal of Dad's
          • Gangster's Paradise: Chicago under Prohibition
          • The Origins of Japanese Nationalism
          • The Medieval Marvels of the East
          • The Development of Heraldry
    • 2012-13
      • Volume 4
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        • Issue 1 - Glorious Britain
          • From Glorious Britain to Ascendant America: How Uncle Sam filled John Bull’
          • Media and the Olympics
          • An Olympic Legacy. Fact or Fiction?
          • Britain: Atlantic, or Imperial power?
          • The Real Robin Hood
          • The Festival of Britain 1951
          • The Lion and the Unicorn- Orwell’s Wartime Vision
          • Multiculturalism – Britain’s Most Glorious Asset?
          • The Glorious National Health Service
          • The Myth of Broken Britain
          • 'One egg, two eggs, three eggs no more'- The Truly Glorious Side of British
          • The 2012 Olympics and the Irony of Immigration Control
          • ‘To fight like a Man’- The Rise and Demise of the Female Prizefighter in Ei
          • What Role Did Ordinary Brits Play in the Abolition of Slavery?
          • Glorious Britain? Revisiting the politics of the 1970s
          • Britain in 2012: A Declined Power, And All The Better For It
        • Issue 2 - Days That Shook the World
          • Shaken faiths? How 1492 affected belief in the Americas
          • 'Shot Heard Around The World'
          • The Enduring Legacy of the RMS Titanic
          • ‘Trinity’: Prospects for Annihilation
          • Days That Shook The World - 23rd October 1984
          • 'Rockin' All Over The World - Live Aid And Its Legacy
          • The Wall Street Crash
          • The Portuguese Miracle of the Sun: A Modern Miracle?
          • Plots and Conspiracies: The Creation of Russia as We Know It
          • People's Temple
          • Luis Carrero Blanco's Assassination
          • First Man On The Moon
          • The Last Day in the Life: The Assassination of John Lennon
          • Franz Ferdinand's Assassination
          • The Sputnik Launch
          • The Hillsborough and Munich Disasters
        • Issue 3 - History in the Public Eye
          • The Truth and Reconciliation Committee
          • ‘Please sir? Can I Have some more...?’ - The public preoccupation with peri
          • Ancient Aliens and Public History
          • Educational History?
          • A walk through History in the Porter Valley
          • History in the Media – Pearl Harbour
          • Climbing the Colosseum in Rome: the Immersion of History in the Assassin’s
          • A 'War To End All Wars'? The Bittersweet Success of the Imperial War Museum
          • The Big Lebowski
          • ‘It sounds absolute balls’: Crusaders, History writing and the nature of
          • Making History Accessible: the Personal Touch
          • ‘It’s... The Beatles!’ A Cultural reflection of the 1960s through the music
          • History and the Novel
          • The National Curriculum: The Dangers of Nationalism and ‘Muscular Liberalis
          • The Role of Cinema Within History
          • The Many Faces of Catherine de Medici: La Madame Serpent or Misunderstood?
        • Issue 4 - Forgotten People
          • Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (MD): Physician, Social Reformer, Woman Pioneer.
          • Vaclav Havel
          • Laos and America: The Secret War, and the Forgotten Hmong People
          • Clement Attlee
          • “My Chains Fell Off, My Heart Was Free”: The Unsung and Underrated Contribu
          • Fred Hampton
          • ‘There is no freedom without dwarfs’- Waldemar ‘Major’ Fydrych
          • Muhammad Ali Pasha – The Father of Modern Egypt
          • Professionally Forgetful? Defining the parameters of historical professiona
          • La Chatté: The lost tale of a double agent….
          • Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Northern Ocean.
          • Mods….that’s hardly really history!
          • The Slovak-Hungarian Flying Dutchman
          • Who cares about Gregory the Goat Herder?
          • Slightly Out of Focus
          • Oh! Ken Tynan!
        • Issue 5 - Non-Western Perspective
          • Wuhan, China
          • Westernisation and Japanese ‘Exceptionalism’: the Oddities of National Hist
          • Cultural Revolution
          • Germany’s Forgotten Genocide: The Lasting Effects of the German Colonial pr
          • Using History in North Africa and the Levant
        • Issue 6 - Open Theme
          • Cowboys of the South: Patagonia imagined in Argentine popular culture
          • The Changing Nature of the Historiography of the Mfecane:
          • Anne Boleyn: Guilty as Charged?
          • Politics of Difference: The Delusion of Liberality in Post-War Britain
    • 2011-12
      • Volume 3
        • Copy of [post template vol. 3]
        • Issue 1 - Film
          • 'Johnny has Gone for a Soldier' The Civil War by Ken Burns
          • Review: Mugabe and the White African
          • History vs. Hollywood
          • Birth of a Nation: The Depiction of War in American Cinema, from D.W. Griff
          • Forget the Blockbusters, Let's Talk About the Dam Busters
          • 7 Historical Events That Should Be Made Into Films
          • The Defence of Rorke's Drift: Redcoats and Zulus
          • The New Histories Guide to... Athens
          • 'A Totally Useless and Even Harmful Form of Entertainment'
          • 'Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cab
        • Issue 2 - Youth
          • RENAMO and the LRA: The History and Futures of African Child Soldiers
          • Abbie Hoffman and American Youth Culture
          • The Paidomazoma: Tough Times for the Children of Greece
          • Fear the Youth: Eighteenth Century Parallels.
          • The ‘Powder Monkeys’ of the Napoleonic Royal Navy
          • ‘If a small boy...’: Sex, morality and boyhood in the Anglo-Saxon Penitenti
          • The New Histories Guide to... Berlin
          • When they were young...
          • Doing it When You're Young....
          • The Question of the Two Thomas’: To Whom did the Henrician Reformation Belo
        • Issue 3 - Health & Medicine
          • The Lazarian Stigma: Leprosy through the Ages
          • America’s Long Battle Over Healthcare
          • The Rise of the Asylum
          • The 1992 Election, the NHS and the ‘War of Jennifer’s Ear’
          • Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Apocalypse
          • Keeping it in the Family: Families and Dynasties in Greek Politics
          • Denying Aids: How South Africa Deepened Its Own Epidemic
          • Digital Humanities: The Future of History?
          • ‘What is it tonight....morphine or cocaine?’: Some observations on late-Vic
          • Eating at the Table of the Cross: Holy Anorexia, Medieval Spirituality and
          • More Than Just Nurses: Women in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
        • Issue 4 - Landmarks
          • Morbid, Grand, Supreme: The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior's Place in History
          • Chimurenga Day
          • That ever-so-glorious Revolution
          • 'Chartist Demonstration!! Peace and Order is our motto! Monday next, April
          • US Presidential Elections: Landmark Moments
          • The Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World?
          • How a Small Museum Deals with a Titanic Problem
          • Chasing the White Horse: Local Landmarks and Local Identities in the Thames
          • The People's Budget
          • Lost Idealism: The Strange Legacy of Modernism
          • North Korea: The Landmark Nation
          • Creating Nations in South Sudan and Post-Colonial Africa
        • Issue 5 - Crime & Punishment
          • From Salem to the Old Bailey: Gender in Crime and Punishment
          • The Metropolitan Police in Nineteenth-Century London: A Brief Introduction
          • Civil Rights in Court
          • Trial by Water: Two Examples From Early Modern Netherlands
          • Infanticide in the Early Modern Period: The 1624 Statute
          • Guilty until proven innocent: The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
          • Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period
          • Mary ‘Moll Cutpurse’ Frith: The Outrageous Outcast
          • The Government’s Game of Cat and Mouse: Women Suffragettes in Prison
          • The Militant Suffragette Campaign
          • Egyptian History: Maintaining a Tight Grasp on Capital Punishment
          • ‘A Free and Easy Life?’ Transportation of British convicts to Australia dur
          • E. P. Thompson and the Peterloo Massacre
          • Persecution in Early Modern Spain
          • Communist Persecution: The Attack on Hollywood
          • Alger Hiss and American Anti-communism
          • I Want to Hold Your Hand: Gay Rights in Uganda
          • Red Rocks of the Aegean: Greece's Prison Islands
          • The Stasi: German Struggles with the Past
          • The Last Hangman in Britain
          • ‘An utterly illegal proceeding’? The Liberal Party and the General Strike
          • Capital Punishment: A History
        • Issue 6 - War & Peace
          • The Bullied Child? Greece and the League of Nations
          • World War II: Africa’s War of Independence
          • The Politics of the Peace Ballot
          • The 20th Century: Conflict and ‘Paradoxical Progression’.
          • A desperate plea for recognition of the Armenian genocide
          • From Warriors to Protestors: A Potted History of Vietnam Veterans Against t
          • The Spanish Civil War
          • ‘Tell me that I have led a good life’: memory of war and film
          • 'Over the Sea to Skye': The Jacobite Movement
          • Fiction or Reality? Total War in Literary Fiction.
          • Blurring the lines: World War One and the dismantling of the Victorian gend
          • ‘Nancy boys and reluctant warriors’: War, Defeatism and Challenging Masculi
          • Occults and Mystics: Rise of Bolshevism and the Downfall of Rasputin
          • The Falklands War: 30 years on
          • Sport as Propaganda: Dinamo and the 'Death Match.'
          • A land unfit for heroes? How Britain “lost” peace after the First world war
          • Walt Disney and the World
        • Issue 7 - Open Theme
          • A Forgotten Medieval Powerhouse: Furness Abbey
          • Uncertainty Dawns: A Very Recent History of Greek Party Politics
          • The Rumble in the Jungle: Mobutu’s Knockout Blow
          • The Long Road to Repeal: the Labour Party and Section 28
          • Magical Monarchies: Jubilees in the American Perspective
          • Drawn Without Voice: Belief and Identity through Iconoclasm
          • Oliver Cromwell: Regicidal Dictator or a Hero of Liberty?
          • Blood and Fangs: The Origins of Vampires revealed?
          • What can Joseph Noel Paton’s In Memoriam tell us about the Indian Mutiny?
          • Aboard the Zong: Remembering a Massacre
          • History: a dangerous weapon in political hands?
          • The Viking Conundrum
          • Spomeniki – remembering and forgetting in Tito’s Yugoslavia and the Former
          • The case of Captain William Kidd – a 300 year old miscarriage of justice?
          • Goodbye and Thank You
    • 2010-11
      • Volume 2
        • Issue 1 - Belief
          • The Origin of Human Rights
          • Haile Selassie: Iron Lion Zion
          • New Orleans - The American Paradox
          • Visualisations of Belief: The Hereford Mappa Mundi and the Ordnance Survey
          • Christianity and American Politics
          • The Boss, the Squire and the President
          • Nag Hammadi and the Gnostic Gospels
        • Issue 2 - Revolutions
          • ‘You are history, you are legend’ – British International Brigadiers and th
          • Dictators and the cult of personality
          • 'Smite me, oh mighty Smiter': Belief in Miracles in the Middle Ages
          • A Woman Down to Her Clothes?
          • Forgotten Men Of History- Marcus Garvey
          • Guilty man?
          • Squadron 92 – The Heroes and the Playboys
          • Dead Beliefs
          • Barbara Demick ‘Nothing to Envy’ Book Review
          • Queen Victoria’s Men And Diaries As Sources
          • Vietnam and its History with Hollywood
          • A New Perspective...
          • When Religious Belief Meets Social Movement: The Münster Rebellion
          • Ernst Kantorowicz' Rhetoric of the Sublime.
          • Guerrilla Warfare – The Tool of The Revolution
          • Revolutions that failed
          • Children of the Revolution: The Public Schoolboy Rebellion
          • 'Then Begins an Epoch of Social Revolution': Passages from Antiquity to Feu
          • The Mexican Revolution 1910 -1920
          • A Very Brief Insight into Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
          • Conspicuous Consumption, Social Emulation and the Consumer Revolution
          • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: An Unlikely Revolutionary?
          • Animal Farm and Stalin’s Russian Sty
          • Forgotten Men of History- Julius Martov
          • When Sorrows Learn to Swim: The Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
          • Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna: The Man who Gambled on Revolutions.
        • Issue 3 - Festivals and Celebration
          • Churches and Bears: Religious Tensions and Protests in Early Modern Lancash
          • “No more cakes and ale”: Attacks on Christmas in the British Civil War Peri
          • Thomas Nast: How the Americans Invented Santa
          • 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen... Goats?': Shakespeare, the Lupercalian Festi
          • A Very Democratic Christmas: Chartism and the Church
          • Οχι Day: A Celebration of Resistance
          • Festivals that History has Left Behind
          • How the Puritans Stole Christmas
          • Africa’s Napoleon: The Coronation of Jean Bedel Bokassa
          • ‘Night falls but no one sleeps’: Festivals and Cultural Theory
          • Has Christmas Changed in Line with Society Since the 1950s?
        • Issue 4 - Sport and Leisure
          • Veni, VD, Vici – The Cultural Legacy of Syphilis
          • Sports that Never (Quite) Made It
          • Oliver Cromwell: Future England Captain?
          • The Leisure Centre of Merovingian Regal Authority
          • More Than Just A Game: Football Behind the Iron Curtain
          • More Than A Game: Around the World in Football Derbies
          • Cockfighting in Louisiana
          • Not Quite Cricket? – Cricket's relationship with British Colonialism
          • Not Out? Cricket in America
          • National Teams the World Forgot: Association Football’s International Curio
          • His-Story, Her-Story, and all the Stories in Between: the Best Biopics
          • Men's Soccer in the United States
        • Issue 5 - Money
          • Why America’s Bankers Should be Feeling Pretty Damn Grateful
          • Thomas More: Saint or Villain?
          • ‘Stand and Deliver’: Highwaymen and Highway Robbery
          • Stupid and Funny uses of Money
          • The Glorious History of Coinage
          • The War in Iraq: Cynical Money-Making Scheme Disguised as Paternalism?
          • Mission Impossible: The Destruction of the Asopos Viaduct
          • Blood Money? Financial and Military Aid in Africa
          • ‘I fought the law, but the superior cultural force won’: Cultural Hegemony
          • ‘Do to others as I would they should do to me’: Who to Trade with in Sevent
          • Las Vegas - Gambling Heaven and the American Dream
        • Copy of [post template vol. 2]
        • Issue 6 - Travel
          • ‘Champagne Air, Rainfall Rare’. Clacton and the Changing Nature of the Twen
          • The Reality of Travelling the African Coast: Midshipman Binstead on chasing
          • Could the Real Abe Lincoln Please Stand Up?
          • The Assassination of Thomas Paine
          • The Tarnished Gold Mountain: Vice and Tourism in America’s Chinatowns
          • Wafted from Paradise: A History of Luton Airport
          • Early Modern England: A Mobile Society?
          • The Pioneering Travels of ‘That curious person, Madam Maria Sibylla Merian’
          • Religion? Where we’re going, we don’t need Religion: Non-Religious Travel i
          • The Holy Roamin' Empire: The Progress of the Pilgrim
          • 100 Years of the New Deal? The Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster
        • Issue 7 - Open Theme
        • Singing Hallelujah with the Fear in Your Heart – Crusader Belief in the Fir
        • Could there be a British Tea Party?
    • 2009-10
      • Volume 1
        • Copy of [post template vol. 1]
        • Issue 1 - Conflict
          • The disappearing water in the American desert's watering hole
          • The Ancient Greeks - Party Lovers?
          • History's "Gossip"
          • History in the Media and the History of Media
          • Goodrich Castle
          • Conflict
          • '300'
          • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
          • The Return of the Extreme Right?
          • No Man's Land
          • Religious Warfare and the Sack of Jerusalem
          • Ernst Rohm
          • A Review of the Films 'The Russian Revolution 1917' and 'The Paris and The
          • The Battle of Agincourt
          • History and Games
          • Otto Skorzeny
          • and all that ...
          • Siegfried Sassoon
          • Review: 'The Devil's Whore'
          • Do We Still Live in an "Enlightened" World?
          • The European Elections and the Far Right
          • History Holidays in Greece
          • Napoleon III and Italian Unification
          • Reflections on an Interview
        • Issue 2 - Women & Gender
          • Women's Role in the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
          • Why America's Founding Father's would not recognise the country they create
          • What's in a name?
          • The Witch Craze
          • The Talented Mrs. Beeton
          • The Opposite Sex
          • The Japanese Geisha
          • Schloss Neuschwanstein
          • Provocative and Prejudiced?
          • Lest We Forget?
          • Ellen Wilkinson MP
          • 'The Gendered Cross'
          • Conflict is Good
          • Female Suffrage in Britain
        • Issue 3 - Colonialism
          • For the Sake of Achievement
          • Empire Gone
          • Britain's Forgotten Colony?
          • American Saloons
          • 'Dr Livingstone, I Presume?'
          • 'Bastard Normans! Norman Bastards!"
          • Warwick Castle
          • The Legacy of Colonialism in Kenya
          • 'The Colonising Corporation'
          • Post-Colonial National Liberal Movements
          • Orientalism
          • Mad Dogs and Englishmen
          • Immingrants in Shanghai
        • Issue 4 - Leaders
          • Gustav I of Sweden
          • 'She was not following the struggle; she was one of the contestants'
          • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
          • Remember, Remember ... Robert Catesby?
          • Leadership
          • Introducing MEHG
          • Can a Text Lead?
          • American Presidents
          • The Wildest of Streaks
          • Salvador Allende
        • Issue 5 - Ideology
          • Apartheid
          • 'The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live ...'
          • How Neo-liberalism shocked Latin America
          • Voice of the Crusaders
          • The Utility of Identity
          • Euroscepticism
          • Objects and History: Why *things* matter
          • Empire of the seas
          • Republicanism
          • An Ideological Revolution?
          • St George's Day
          • Modern Britain is Still a Class Society
          • Economics, History, Theory, and Ideology
        • Issue 6 - Open Theme
          • US Intervention in Vietnam
          • The Legacy of the Holocaust...
          • What's Wrong with Africa?
          • Why authorship is important
          • Explaining the Rwandan Genocide
          • 'The Simpsons' and History
          • The German Empire
          • Can Public Opinion Change the Course of History?
          • Thomas Cranmer
          • The Ranters Routed
        • Issue 7 - Theory
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          • Objectivism is subjective
          • A Song for Europe
          • Myth and History
          • The Frankfurt School
          • Petrarch and Post-colonialism
          • History - what's the point?
          • Cross-dressing
          • Thomas Jefferson and Anti-American Bias
          • History from Below
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        • From Krkur to Crookes – A Brief History of the 1,000-Year-Old Village
        • Lady Godiva: The Woman, The Myth, The Legend
        • Gracchus Babeuf – the would-be communist dictator of France?
        • The medieval beverage of choice: alcohol or water?
        • How fear of conspiracy shapes US politics
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    • 2015-16
      • Volume 7
        • Issue 1
          • A Marxist Interpretation of the American Revolution
          • Britain's Warrior Queen
          • The Upper Canada Rising of 1837
          • Japan's revolutionary nationalism and the February 26 Incident
          • The Hungarian Revolution 1956
          • Slave revolt in Antebellum America
          • Class identity during the 1917 Russian Revolution
          • The Fall of Rome: Rebellion or Evolution?
          • The Peasant's Revolt and Socialist Memory
        • Volume 7 - Issue 1
          • The 9th Century Papacy and the divorce of Lothar II
          • Nichiren in Medieval Japan and his Legacy
          • The 1979 Iranian Revolution: Islamic Revolution or Failed Liberal Revolutio
          • The United States First Amendment and Religious Freedom
    • 2014-15
      • Volume 6
        • Copy of [post template vol. 6]
        • Issue 1 - War and Peace
          • The Seven Years War: the First World War In 1754
          • Caesar, Pompey and the Birth of the Roman Empire
          • Interwar Germany and Italy
          • Terrorist attacks on 9/11, the war against terror.. and baseball: Sport’s r
          • Corps and Columns – The Battle Tactics of Napoleon Bonaparte and Why They F
          • Remembering Lost Lives
          • War as Voter-Bait: Labour & the 1918 General Election
        • Issue 2 - Genocide, Persecution and Liberation
          • The Cambodian Genocide in the light of the Cold War
          • The Teutonic Order and Genocide in the Baltic
          • The Lingering Wound of Institutional Racism in America
          • The History of the EU
          • From Slavery to Freedom? The Liberation of America’s Slaves
          • Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion and the Death of a People
    • 2013-14
      • Volume 5
        • Issue 1 - Media
          • Keep Calm and Carry On: The Pre-eminence of the Propaganda Model in Blair's
          • Tintin and the Telephone
          • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
          • Hicky's Bengal Gazzette
          • Something The Media Forgot
          • Visual Propaganda during the Hellenistic Period
          • 'Brown Envelopes and a Tub of Lard'
          • Bonfire Night: the Celebration of Propaganda
          • The Invisible Government: Edward Bernays, Public Relations and Propaganda
          • Forgiving the Unforgivable - Nationalist China under a New Light
          • The Power of Propaganda
          • 'I Am Ashamed. But I Am Proud' - My Lai, the Printed Press, and Morality
        • Issue 2 - Local Histories
          • Sheffield's Royal Guest
          • The Evolution of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill
          • Sunny Southport's 127 year-long commemoration
          • From Chicago to Detroit: The Story of Barrow-in-Furness
          • The Flood of 1953, Canvey Island and the Dutch
          • From Cotton to Council Houses: Manchester after the Industrial Revolution
          • Charlotte, North Carolina and the 'Neck Dec'
          • The Show Must Go On
          • 'Coal not Dole': Mansfield in the Miners Strike
        • Issue 3 - Historical Fiction
          • "A Game of Historical Hopscotch": Examining the Tudors Series as Historical
          • Antidote to Reality: The West Wing and the Clinton Administration
          • The Motorcycle Diaries
          • Historical truth or fiction?
          • Is History Fiction?
          • Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Eagle of the Ninth: An Example
          • HHhH and the Postmodern Historical Novel
          • The historical imagination and the search for 'truth': is history about
          • Historical Fiction - And When I Mean Fiction, I Mean Fiction. Zombies and
        • Issue 4 - Speeches & Speakers
          • "The People's Princess"
          • Pope Urban II and Clermont
          • A Tudor Execution Speech
          • You Can Never Trust a Politician - But is this a Bad Thing?
          • 'Big Jim' Irish Trade Union Orator
          • 'Two Minutes of Genius'
          • Pizarro's 'Line in the Sand', and our own line to cross
        • Issue 5 - Open Theme
          • Copy of [post template vol. 5]
          • George Orwell's '1984'
          • Prince Henry Fredrick: the Prince who never was King
          • 'Generation War' and German War Guilt
          • "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?" The Timeless Appeal of Dad's
          • Gangster's Paradise: Chicago under Prohibition
          • The Origins of Japanese Nationalism
          • The Medieval Marvels of the East
          • The Development of Heraldry
    • 2012-13
      • Volume 4
        • Copy of [post template vol. 4]
        • Issue 1 - Glorious Britain
          • From Glorious Britain to Ascendant America: How Uncle Sam filled John Bull’
          • Media and the Olympics
          • An Olympic Legacy. Fact or Fiction?
          • Britain: Atlantic, or Imperial power?
          • The Real Robin Hood
          • The Festival of Britain 1951
          • The Lion and the Unicorn- Orwell’s Wartime Vision
          • Multiculturalism – Britain’s Most Glorious Asset?
          • The Glorious National Health Service
          • The Myth of Broken Britain
          • 'One egg, two eggs, three eggs no more'- The Truly Glorious Side of British
          • The 2012 Olympics and the Irony of Immigration Control
          • ‘To fight like a Man’- The Rise and Demise of the Female Prizefighter in Ei
          • What Role Did Ordinary Brits Play in the Abolition of Slavery?
          • Glorious Britain? Revisiting the politics of the 1970s
          • Britain in 2012: A Declined Power, And All The Better For It
        • Issue 2 - Days That Shook the World
          • Shaken faiths? How 1492 affected belief in the Americas
          • 'Shot Heard Around The World'
          • The Enduring Legacy of the RMS Titanic
          • ‘Trinity’: Prospects for Annihilation
          • Days That Shook The World - 23rd October 1984
          • 'Rockin' All Over The World - Live Aid And Its Legacy
          • The Wall Street Crash
          • The Portuguese Miracle of the Sun: A Modern Miracle?
          • Plots and Conspiracies: The Creation of Russia as We Know It
          • People's Temple
          • Luis Carrero Blanco's Assassination
          • First Man On The Moon
          • The Last Day in the Life: The Assassination of John Lennon
          • Franz Ferdinand's Assassination
          • The Sputnik Launch
          • The Hillsborough and Munich Disasters
        • Issue 3 - History in the Public Eye
          • The Truth and Reconciliation Committee
          • ‘Please sir? Can I Have some more...?’ - The public preoccupation with peri
          • Ancient Aliens and Public History
          • Educational History?
          • A walk through History in the Porter Valley
          • History in the Media – Pearl Harbour
          • Climbing the Colosseum in Rome: the Immersion of History in the Assassin’s
          • A 'War To End All Wars'? The Bittersweet Success of the Imperial War Museum
          • The Big Lebowski
          • ‘It sounds absolute balls’: Crusaders, History writing and the nature of
          • Making History Accessible: the Personal Touch
          • ‘It’s... The Beatles!’ A Cultural reflection of the 1960s through the music
          • History and the Novel
          • The National Curriculum: The Dangers of Nationalism and ‘Muscular Liberalis
          • The Role of Cinema Within History
          • The Many Faces of Catherine de Medici: La Madame Serpent or Misunderstood?
        • Issue 4 - Forgotten People
          • Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (MD): Physician, Social Reformer, Woman Pioneer.
          • Vaclav Havel
          • Laos and America: The Secret War, and the Forgotten Hmong People
          • Clement Attlee
          • “My Chains Fell Off, My Heart Was Free”: The Unsung and Underrated Contribu
          • Fred Hampton
          • ‘There is no freedom without dwarfs’- Waldemar ‘Major’ Fydrych
          • Muhammad Ali Pasha – The Father of Modern Egypt
          • Professionally Forgetful? Defining the parameters of historical professiona
          • La Chatté: The lost tale of a double agent….
          • Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Northern Ocean.
          • Mods….that’s hardly really history!
          • The Slovak-Hungarian Flying Dutchman
          • Who cares about Gregory the Goat Herder?
          • Slightly Out of Focus
          • Oh! Ken Tynan!
        • Issue 5 - Non-Western Perspective
          • Wuhan, China
          • Westernisation and Japanese ‘Exceptionalism’: the Oddities of National Hist
          • Cultural Revolution
          • Germany’s Forgotten Genocide: The Lasting Effects of the German Colonial pr
          • Using History in North Africa and the Levant
        • Issue 6 - Open Theme
          • Cowboys of the South: Patagonia imagined in Argentine popular culture
          • The Changing Nature of the Historiography of the Mfecane:
          • Anne Boleyn: Guilty as Charged?
          • Politics of Difference: The Delusion of Liberality in Post-War Britain
    • 2011-12
      • Volume 3
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        • Issue 1 - Film
          • 'Johnny has Gone for a Soldier' The Civil War by Ken Burns
          • Review: Mugabe and the White African
          • History vs. Hollywood
          • Birth of a Nation: The Depiction of War in American Cinema, from D.W. Griff
          • Forget the Blockbusters, Let's Talk About the Dam Busters
          • 7 Historical Events That Should Be Made Into Films
          • The Defence of Rorke's Drift: Redcoats and Zulus
          • The New Histories Guide to... Athens
          • 'A Totally Useless and Even Harmful Form of Entertainment'
          • 'Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cab
        • Issue 2 - Youth
          • RENAMO and the LRA: The History and Futures of African Child Soldiers
          • Abbie Hoffman and American Youth Culture
          • The Paidomazoma: Tough Times for the Children of Greece
          • Fear the Youth: Eighteenth Century Parallels.
          • The ‘Powder Monkeys’ of the Napoleonic Royal Navy
          • ‘If a small boy...’: Sex, morality and boyhood in the Anglo-Saxon Penitenti
          • The New Histories Guide to... Berlin
          • When they were young...
          • Doing it When You're Young....
          • The Question of the Two Thomas’: To Whom did the Henrician Reformation Belo
        • Issue 3 - Health & Medicine
          • The Lazarian Stigma: Leprosy through the Ages
          • America’s Long Battle Over Healthcare
          • The Rise of the Asylum
          • The 1992 Election, the NHS and the ‘War of Jennifer’s Ear’
          • Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Apocalypse
          • Keeping it in the Family: Families and Dynasties in Greek Politics
          • Denying Aids: How South Africa Deepened Its Own Epidemic
          • Digital Humanities: The Future of History?
          • ‘What is it tonight....morphine or cocaine?’: Some observations on late-Vic
          • Eating at the Table of the Cross: Holy Anorexia, Medieval Spirituality and
          • More Than Just Nurses: Women in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
        • Issue 4 - Landmarks
          • Morbid, Grand, Supreme: The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior's Place in History
          • Chimurenga Day
          • That ever-so-glorious Revolution
          • 'Chartist Demonstration!! Peace and Order is our motto! Monday next, April
          • US Presidential Elections: Landmark Moments
          • The Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World?
          • How a Small Museum Deals with a Titanic Problem
          • Chasing the White Horse: Local Landmarks and Local Identities in the Thames
          • The People's Budget
          • Lost Idealism: The Strange Legacy of Modernism
          • North Korea: The Landmark Nation
          • Creating Nations in South Sudan and Post-Colonial Africa
        • Issue 5 - Crime & Punishment
          • From Salem to the Old Bailey: Gender in Crime and Punishment
          • The Metropolitan Police in Nineteenth-Century London: A Brief Introduction
          • Civil Rights in Court
          • Trial by Water: Two Examples From Early Modern Netherlands
          • Infanticide in the Early Modern Period: The 1624 Statute
          • Guilty until proven innocent: The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
          • Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period
          • Mary ‘Moll Cutpurse’ Frith: The Outrageous Outcast
          • The Government’s Game of Cat and Mouse: Women Suffragettes in Prison
          • The Militant Suffragette Campaign
          • Egyptian History: Maintaining a Tight Grasp on Capital Punishment
          • ‘A Free and Easy Life?’ Transportation of British convicts to Australia dur
          • E. P. Thompson and the Peterloo Massacre
          • Persecution in Early Modern Spain
          • Communist Persecution: The Attack on Hollywood
          • Alger Hiss and American Anti-communism
          • I Want to Hold Your Hand: Gay Rights in Uganda
          • Red Rocks of the Aegean: Greece's Prison Islands
          • The Stasi: German Struggles with the Past
          • The Last Hangman in Britain
          • ‘An utterly illegal proceeding’? The Liberal Party and the General Strike
          • Capital Punishment: A History
        • Issue 6 - War & Peace
          • The Bullied Child? Greece and the League of Nations
          • World War II: Africa’s War of Independence
          • The Politics of the Peace Ballot
          • The 20th Century: Conflict and ‘Paradoxical Progression’.
          • A desperate plea for recognition of the Armenian genocide
          • From Warriors to Protestors: A Potted History of Vietnam Veterans Against t
          • The Spanish Civil War
          • ‘Tell me that I have led a good life’: memory of war and film
          • 'Over the Sea to Skye': The Jacobite Movement
          • Fiction or Reality? Total War in Literary Fiction.
          • Blurring the lines: World War One and the dismantling of the Victorian gend
          • ‘Nancy boys and reluctant warriors’: War, Defeatism and Challenging Masculi
          • Occults and Mystics: Rise of Bolshevism and the Downfall of Rasputin
          • The Falklands War: 30 years on
          • Sport as Propaganda: Dinamo and the 'Death Match.'
          • A land unfit for heroes? How Britain “lost” peace after the First world war
          • Walt Disney and the World
        • Issue 7 - Open Theme
          • A Forgotten Medieval Powerhouse: Furness Abbey
          • Uncertainty Dawns: A Very Recent History of Greek Party Politics
          • The Rumble in the Jungle: Mobutu’s Knockout Blow
          • The Long Road to Repeal: the Labour Party and Section 28
          • Magical Monarchies: Jubilees in the American Perspective
          • Drawn Without Voice: Belief and Identity through Iconoclasm
          • Oliver Cromwell: Regicidal Dictator or a Hero of Liberty?
          • Blood and Fangs: The Origins of Vampires revealed?
          • What can Joseph Noel Paton’s In Memoriam tell us about the Indian Mutiny?
          • Aboard the Zong: Remembering a Massacre
          • History: a dangerous weapon in political hands?
          • The Viking Conundrum
          • Spomeniki – remembering and forgetting in Tito’s Yugoslavia and the Former
          • The case of Captain William Kidd – a 300 year old miscarriage of justice?
          • Goodbye and Thank You
    • 2010-11
      • Volume 2
        • Issue 1 - Belief
          • The Origin of Human Rights
          • Haile Selassie: Iron Lion Zion
          • New Orleans - The American Paradox
          • Visualisations of Belief: The Hereford Mappa Mundi and the Ordnance Survey
          • Christianity and American Politics
          • The Boss, the Squire and the President
          • Nag Hammadi and the Gnostic Gospels
        • Issue 2 - Revolutions
          • ‘You are history, you are legend’ – British International Brigadiers and th
          • Dictators and the cult of personality
          • 'Smite me, oh mighty Smiter': Belief in Miracles in the Middle Ages
          • A Woman Down to Her Clothes?
          • Forgotten Men Of History- Marcus Garvey
          • Guilty man?
          • Squadron 92 – The Heroes and the Playboys
          • Dead Beliefs
          • Barbara Demick ‘Nothing to Envy’ Book Review
          • Queen Victoria’s Men And Diaries As Sources
          • Vietnam and its History with Hollywood
          • A New Perspective...
          • When Religious Belief Meets Social Movement: The Münster Rebellion
          • Ernst Kantorowicz' Rhetoric of the Sublime.
          • Guerrilla Warfare – The Tool of The Revolution
          • Revolutions that failed
          • Children of the Revolution: The Public Schoolboy Rebellion
          • 'Then Begins an Epoch of Social Revolution': Passages from Antiquity to Feu
          • The Mexican Revolution 1910 -1920
          • A Very Brief Insight into Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
          • Conspicuous Consumption, Social Emulation and the Consumer Revolution
          • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: An Unlikely Revolutionary?
          • Animal Farm and Stalin’s Russian Sty
          • Forgotten Men of History- Julius Martov
          • When Sorrows Learn to Swim: The Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
          • Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna: The Man who Gambled on Revolutions.
        • Issue 3 - Festivals and Celebration
          • Churches and Bears: Religious Tensions and Protests in Early Modern Lancash
          • “No more cakes and ale”: Attacks on Christmas in the British Civil War Peri
          • Thomas Nast: How the Americans Invented Santa
          • 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen... Goats?': Shakespeare, the Lupercalian Festi
          • A Very Democratic Christmas: Chartism and the Church
          • Οχι Day: A Celebration of Resistance
          • Festivals that History has Left Behind
          • How the Puritans Stole Christmas
          • Africa’s Napoleon: The Coronation of Jean Bedel Bokassa
          • ‘Night falls but no one sleeps’: Festivals and Cultural Theory
          • Has Christmas Changed in Line with Society Since the 1950s?
        • Issue 4 - Sport and Leisure
          • Veni, VD, Vici – The Cultural Legacy of Syphilis
          • Sports that Never (Quite) Made It
          • Oliver Cromwell: Future England Captain?
          • The Leisure Centre of Merovingian Regal Authority
          • More Than Just A Game: Football Behind the Iron Curtain
          • More Than A Game: Around the World in Football Derbies
          • Cockfighting in Louisiana
          • Not Quite Cricket? – Cricket's relationship with British Colonialism
          • Not Out? Cricket in America
          • National Teams the World Forgot: Association Football’s International Curio
          • His-Story, Her-Story, and all the Stories in Between: the Best Biopics
          • Men's Soccer in the United States
        • Issue 5 - Money
          • Why America’s Bankers Should be Feeling Pretty Damn Grateful
          • Thomas More: Saint or Villain?
          • ‘Stand and Deliver’: Highwaymen and Highway Robbery
          • Stupid and Funny uses of Money
          • The Glorious History of Coinage
          • The War in Iraq: Cynical Money-Making Scheme Disguised as Paternalism?
          • Mission Impossible: The Destruction of the Asopos Viaduct
          • Blood Money? Financial and Military Aid in Africa
          • ‘I fought the law, but the superior cultural force won’: Cultural Hegemony
          • ‘Do to others as I would they should do to me’: Who to Trade with in Sevent
          • Las Vegas - Gambling Heaven and the American Dream
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        • Issue 6 - Travel
          • ‘Champagne Air, Rainfall Rare’. Clacton and the Changing Nature of the Twen
          • The Reality of Travelling the African Coast: Midshipman Binstead on chasing
          • Could the Real Abe Lincoln Please Stand Up?
          • The Assassination of Thomas Paine
          • The Tarnished Gold Mountain: Vice and Tourism in America’s Chinatowns
          • Wafted from Paradise: A History of Luton Airport
          • Early Modern England: A Mobile Society?
          • The Pioneering Travels of ‘That curious person, Madam Maria Sibylla Merian’
          • Religion? Where we’re going, we don’t need Religion: Non-Religious Travel i
          • The Holy Roamin' Empire: The Progress of the Pilgrim
          • 100 Years of the New Deal? The Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster
        • Issue 7 - Open Theme
        • Singing Hallelujah with the Fear in Your Heart – Crusader Belief in the Fir
        • Could there be a British Tea Party?
    • 2009-10
      • Volume 1
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        • Issue 1 - Conflict
          • The disappearing water in the American desert's watering hole
          • The Ancient Greeks - Party Lovers?
          • History's "Gossip"
          • History in the Media and the History of Media
          • Goodrich Castle
          • Conflict
          • '300'
          • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
          • The Return of the Extreme Right?
          • No Man's Land
          • Religious Warfare and the Sack of Jerusalem
          • Ernst Rohm
          • A Review of the Films 'The Russian Revolution 1917' and 'The Paris and The
          • The Battle of Agincourt
          • History and Games
          • Otto Skorzeny
          • and all that ...
          • Siegfried Sassoon
          • Review: 'The Devil's Whore'
          • Do We Still Live in an "Enlightened" World?
          • The European Elections and the Far Right
          • History Holidays in Greece
          • Napoleon III and Italian Unification
          • Reflections on an Interview
        • Issue 2 - Women & Gender
          • Women's Role in the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
          • Why America's Founding Father's would not recognise the country they create
          • What's in a name?
          • The Witch Craze
          • The Talented Mrs. Beeton
          • The Opposite Sex
          • The Japanese Geisha
          • Schloss Neuschwanstein
          • Provocative and Prejudiced?
          • Lest We Forget?
          • Ellen Wilkinson MP
          • 'The Gendered Cross'
          • Conflict is Good
          • Female Suffrage in Britain
        • Issue 3 - Colonialism
          • For the Sake of Achievement
          • Empire Gone
          • Britain's Forgotten Colony?
          • American Saloons
          • 'Dr Livingstone, I Presume?'
          • 'Bastard Normans! Norman Bastards!"
          • Warwick Castle
          • The Legacy of Colonialism in Kenya
          • 'The Colonising Corporation'
          • Post-Colonial National Liberal Movements
          • Orientalism
          • Mad Dogs and Englishmen
          • Immingrants in Shanghai
        • Issue 4 - Leaders
          • Gustav I of Sweden
          • 'She was not following the struggle; she was one of the contestants'
          • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
          • Remember, Remember ... Robert Catesby?
          • Leadership
          • Introducing MEHG
          • Can a Text Lead?
          • American Presidents
          • The Wildest of Streaks
          • Salvador Allende
        • Issue 5 - Ideology
          • Apartheid
          • 'The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live ...'
          • How Neo-liberalism shocked Latin America
          • Voice of the Crusaders
          • The Utility of Identity
          • Euroscepticism
          • Objects and History: Why *things* matter
          • Empire of the seas
          • Republicanism
          • An Ideological Revolution?
          • St George's Day
          • Modern Britain is Still a Class Society
          • Economics, History, Theory, and Ideology
        • Issue 6 - Open Theme
          • US Intervention in Vietnam
          • The Legacy of the Holocaust...
          • What's Wrong with Africa?
          • Why authorship is important
          • Explaining the Rwandan Genocide
          • 'The Simpsons' and History
          • The German Empire
          • Can Public Opinion Change the Course of History?
          • Thomas Cranmer
          • The Ranters Routed
        • Issue 7 - Theory
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          • Objectivism is subjective
          • A Song for Europe
          • Myth and History
          • The Frankfurt School
          • Petrarch and Post-colonialism
          • History - what's the point?
          • Cross-dressing
          • Thomas Jefferson and Anti-American Bias
          • History from Below
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        • Volume 7
          • Issue 1
            • A Marxist Interpretation of the American Revolution
            • Britain's Warrior Queen
            • The Upper Canada Rising of 1837
            • Japan's revolutionary nationalism and the February 26 Incident
            • The Hungarian Revolution 1956
            • Slave revolt in Antebellum America
            • Class identity during the 1917 Russian Revolution
            • The Fall of Rome: Rebellion or Evolution?
            • The Peasant's Revolt and Socialist Memory
          • Volume 7 - Issue 1
            • The 9th Century Papacy and the divorce of Lothar II
            • Nichiren in Medieval Japan and his Legacy
            • The 1979 Iranian Revolution: Islamic Revolution or Failed Liberal Revolutio
            • The United States First Amendment and Religious Freedom
      • 2014-15
        • Volume 6
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          • Issue 1 - War and Peace
            • The Seven Years War: the First World War In 1754
            • Caesar, Pompey and the Birth of the Roman Empire
            • Interwar Germany and Italy
            • Terrorist attacks on 9/11, the war against terror.. and baseball: Sport’s r
            • Corps and Columns – The Battle Tactics of Napoleon Bonaparte and Why They F
            • Remembering Lost Lives
            • War as Voter-Bait: Labour & the 1918 General Election
          • Issue 2 - Genocide, Persecution and Liberation
            • The Cambodian Genocide in the light of the Cold War
            • The Teutonic Order and Genocide in the Baltic
            • The Lingering Wound of Institutional Racism in America
            • The History of the EU
            • From Slavery to Freedom? The Liberation of America’s Slaves
            • Manifest Destiny, Westward Expansion and the Death of a People
      • 2013-14
        • Volume 5
          • Issue 1 - Media
            • Keep Calm and Carry On: The Pre-eminence of the Propaganda Model in Blair's
            • Tintin and the Telephone
            • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
            • Hicky's Bengal Gazzette
            • Something The Media Forgot
            • Visual Propaganda during the Hellenistic Period
            • 'Brown Envelopes and a Tub of Lard'
            • Bonfire Night: the Celebration of Propaganda
            • The Invisible Government: Edward Bernays, Public Relations and Propaganda
            • Forgiving the Unforgivable - Nationalist China under a New Light
            • The Power of Propaganda
            • 'I Am Ashamed. But I Am Proud' - My Lai, the Printed Press, and Morality
          • Issue 2 - Local Histories
            • Sheffield's Royal Guest
            • The Evolution of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill
            • Sunny Southport's 127 year-long commemoration
            • From Chicago to Detroit: The Story of Barrow-in-Furness
            • The Flood of 1953, Canvey Island and the Dutch
            • From Cotton to Council Houses: Manchester after the Industrial Revolution
            • Charlotte, North Carolina and the 'Neck Dec'
            • The Show Must Go On
            • 'Coal not Dole': Mansfield in the Miners Strike
          • Issue 3 - Historical Fiction
            • "A Game of Historical Hopscotch": Examining the Tudors Series as Historical
            • Antidote to Reality: The West Wing and the Clinton Administration
            • The Motorcycle Diaries
            • Historical truth or fiction?
            • Is History Fiction?
            • Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Eagle of the Ninth: An Example
            • HHhH and the Postmodern Historical Novel
            • The historical imagination and the search for 'truth': is history about
            • Historical Fiction - And When I Mean Fiction, I Mean Fiction. Zombies and
          • Issue 4 - Speeches & Speakers
            • "The People's Princess"
            • Pope Urban II and Clermont
            • A Tudor Execution Speech
            • You Can Never Trust a Politician - But is this a Bad Thing?
            • 'Big Jim' Irish Trade Union Orator
            • 'Two Minutes of Genius'
            • Pizarro's 'Line in the Sand', and our own line to cross
          • Issue 5 - Open Theme
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            • George Orwell's '1984'
            • Prince Henry Fredrick: the Prince who never was King
            • 'Generation War' and German War Guilt
            • "Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?" The Timeless Appeal of Dad's
            • Gangster's Paradise: Chicago under Prohibition
            • The Origins of Japanese Nationalism
            • The Medieval Marvels of the East
            • The Development of Heraldry
      • 2012-13
        • Volume 4
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          • Issue 1 - Glorious Britain
            • From Glorious Britain to Ascendant America: How Uncle Sam filled John Bull’
            • Media and the Olympics
            • An Olympic Legacy. Fact or Fiction?
            • Britain: Atlantic, or Imperial power?
            • The Real Robin Hood
            • The Festival of Britain 1951
            • The Lion and the Unicorn- Orwell’s Wartime Vision
            • Multiculturalism – Britain’s Most Glorious Asset?
            • The Glorious National Health Service
            • The Myth of Broken Britain
            • 'One egg, two eggs, three eggs no more'- The Truly Glorious Side of British
            • The 2012 Olympics and the Irony of Immigration Control
            • ‘To fight like a Man’- The Rise and Demise of the Female Prizefighter in Ei
            • What Role Did Ordinary Brits Play in the Abolition of Slavery?
            • Glorious Britain? Revisiting the politics of the 1970s
            • Britain in 2012: A Declined Power, And All The Better For It
          • Issue 2 - Days That Shook the World
            • Shaken faiths? How 1492 affected belief in the Americas
            • 'Shot Heard Around The World'
            • The Enduring Legacy of the RMS Titanic
            • ‘Trinity’: Prospects for Annihilation
            • Days That Shook The World - 23rd October 1984
            • 'Rockin' All Over The World - Live Aid And Its Legacy
            • The Wall Street Crash
            • The Portuguese Miracle of the Sun: A Modern Miracle?
            • Plots and Conspiracies: The Creation of Russia as We Know It
            • People's Temple
            • Luis Carrero Blanco's Assassination
            • First Man On The Moon
            • The Last Day in the Life: The Assassination of John Lennon
            • Franz Ferdinand's Assassination
            • The Sputnik Launch
            • The Hillsborough and Munich Disasters
          • Issue 3 - History in the Public Eye
            • The Truth and Reconciliation Committee
            • ‘Please sir? Can I Have some more...?’ - The public preoccupation with peri
            • Ancient Aliens and Public History
            • Educational History?
            • A walk through History in the Porter Valley
            • History in the Media – Pearl Harbour
            • Climbing the Colosseum in Rome: the Immersion of History in the Assassin’s
            • A 'War To End All Wars'? The Bittersweet Success of the Imperial War Museum
            • The Big Lebowski
            • ‘It sounds absolute balls’: Crusaders, History writing and the nature of
            • Making History Accessible: the Personal Touch
            • ‘It’s... The Beatles!’ A Cultural reflection of the 1960s through the music
            • History and the Novel
            • The National Curriculum: The Dangers of Nationalism and ‘Muscular Liberalis
            • The Role of Cinema Within History
            • The Many Faces of Catherine de Medici: La Madame Serpent or Misunderstood?
          • Issue 4 - Forgotten People
            • Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (MD): Physician, Social Reformer, Woman Pioneer.
            • Vaclav Havel
            • Laos and America: The Secret War, and the Forgotten Hmong People
            • Clement Attlee
            • “My Chains Fell Off, My Heart Was Free”: The Unsung and Underrated Contribu
            • Fred Hampton
            • ‘There is no freedom without dwarfs’- Waldemar ‘Major’ Fydrych
            • Muhammad Ali Pasha – The Father of Modern Egypt
            • Professionally Forgetful? Defining the parameters of historical professiona
            • La Chatté: The lost tale of a double agent….
            • Forgotten Explorer: Samuel Hearne’s Journey to the Northern Ocean.
            • Mods….that’s hardly really history!
            • The Slovak-Hungarian Flying Dutchman
            • Who cares about Gregory the Goat Herder?
            • Slightly Out of Focus
            • Oh! Ken Tynan!
          • Issue 5 - Non-Western Perspective
            • Wuhan, China
            • Westernisation and Japanese ‘Exceptionalism’: the Oddities of National Hist
            • Cultural Revolution
            • Germany’s Forgotten Genocide: The Lasting Effects of the German Colonial pr
            • Using History in North Africa and the Levant
          • Issue 6 - Open Theme
            • Cowboys of the South: Patagonia imagined in Argentine popular culture
            • The Changing Nature of the Historiography of the Mfecane:
            • Anne Boleyn: Guilty as Charged?
            • Politics of Difference: The Delusion of Liberality in Post-War Britain
      • 2011-12
        • Volume 3
          • Copy of [post template vol. 3]
          • Issue 1 - Film
            • 'Johnny has Gone for a Soldier' The Civil War by Ken Burns
            • Review: Mugabe and the White African
            • History vs. Hollywood
            • Birth of a Nation: The Depiction of War in American Cinema, from D.W. Griff
            • Forget the Blockbusters, Let's Talk About the Dam Busters
            • 7 Historical Events That Should Be Made Into Films
            • The Defence of Rorke's Drift: Redcoats and Zulus
            • The New Histories Guide to... Athens
            • 'A Totally Useless and Even Harmful Form of Entertainment'
            • 'Haig is about to make yet another gargantuan effort to move his drinks cab
          • Issue 2 - Youth
            • RENAMO and the LRA: The History and Futures of African Child Soldiers
            • Abbie Hoffman and American Youth Culture
            • The Paidomazoma: Tough Times for the Children of Greece
            • Fear the Youth: Eighteenth Century Parallels.
            • The ‘Powder Monkeys’ of the Napoleonic Royal Navy
            • ‘If a small boy...’: Sex, morality and boyhood in the Anglo-Saxon Penitenti
            • The New Histories Guide to... Berlin
            • When they were young...
            • Doing it When You're Young....
            • The Question of the Two Thomas’: To Whom did the Henrician Reformation Belo
          • Issue 3 - Health & Medicine
            • The Lazarian Stigma: Leprosy through the Ages
            • America’s Long Battle Over Healthcare
            • The Rise of the Asylum
            • The 1992 Election, the NHS and the ‘War of Jennifer’s Ear’
            • Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Apocalypse
            • Keeping it in the Family: Families and Dynasties in Greek Politics
            • Denying Aids: How South Africa Deepened Its Own Epidemic
            • Digital Humanities: The Future of History?
            • ‘What is it tonight....morphine or cocaine?’: Some observations on late-Vic
            • Eating at the Table of the Cross: Holy Anorexia, Medieval Spirituality and
            • More Than Just Nurses: Women in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
          • Issue 4 - Landmarks
            • Morbid, Grand, Supreme: The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior's Place in History
            • Chimurenga Day
            • That ever-so-glorious Revolution
            • 'Chartist Demonstration!! Peace and Order is our motto! Monday next, April
            • US Presidential Elections: Landmark Moments
            • The Statue of Liberty: Liberty Enlightening the World?
            • How a Small Museum Deals with a Titanic Problem
            • Chasing the White Horse: Local Landmarks and Local Identities in the Thames
            • The People's Budget
            • Lost Idealism: The Strange Legacy of Modernism
            • North Korea: The Landmark Nation
            • Creating Nations in South Sudan and Post-Colonial Africa
          • Issue 5 - Crime & Punishment
            • From Salem to the Old Bailey: Gender in Crime and Punishment
            • The Metropolitan Police in Nineteenth-Century London: A Brief Introduction
            • Civil Rights in Court
            • Trial by Water: Two Examples From Early Modern Netherlands
            • Infanticide in the Early Modern Period: The 1624 Statute
            • Guilty until proven innocent: The Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1692
            • Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period
            • Mary ‘Moll Cutpurse’ Frith: The Outrageous Outcast
            • The Government’s Game of Cat and Mouse: Women Suffragettes in Prison
            • The Militant Suffragette Campaign
            • Egyptian History: Maintaining a Tight Grasp on Capital Punishment
            • ‘A Free and Easy Life?’ Transportation of British convicts to Australia dur
            • E. P. Thompson and the Peterloo Massacre
            • Persecution in Early Modern Spain
            • Communist Persecution: The Attack on Hollywood
            • Alger Hiss and American Anti-communism
            • I Want to Hold Your Hand: Gay Rights in Uganda
            • Red Rocks of the Aegean: Greece's Prison Islands
            • The Stasi: German Struggles with the Past
            • The Last Hangman in Britain
            • ‘An utterly illegal proceeding’? The Liberal Party and the General Strike
            • Capital Punishment: A History
          • Issue 6 - War & Peace
            • The Bullied Child? Greece and the League of Nations
            • World War II: Africa’s War of Independence
            • The Politics of the Peace Ballot
            • The 20th Century: Conflict and ‘Paradoxical Progression’.
            • A desperate plea for recognition of the Armenian genocide
            • From Warriors to Protestors: A Potted History of Vietnam Veterans Against t
            • The Spanish Civil War
            • ‘Tell me that I have led a good life’: memory of war and film
            • 'Over the Sea to Skye': The Jacobite Movement
            • Fiction or Reality? Total War in Literary Fiction.
            • Blurring the lines: World War One and the dismantling of the Victorian gend
            • ‘Nancy boys and reluctant warriors’: War, Defeatism and Challenging Masculi
            • Occults and Mystics: Rise of Bolshevism and the Downfall of Rasputin
            • The Falklands War: 30 years on
            • Sport as Propaganda: Dinamo and the 'Death Match.'
            • A land unfit for heroes? How Britain “lost” peace after the First world war
            • Walt Disney and the World
          • Issue 7 - Open Theme
            • A Forgotten Medieval Powerhouse: Furness Abbey
            • Uncertainty Dawns: A Very Recent History of Greek Party Politics
            • The Rumble in the Jungle: Mobutu’s Knockout Blow
            • The Long Road to Repeal: the Labour Party and Section 28
            • Magical Monarchies: Jubilees in the American Perspective
            • Drawn Without Voice: Belief and Identity through Iconoclasm
            • Oliver Cromwell: Regicidal Dictator or a Hero of Liberty?
            • Blood and Fangs: The Origins of Vampires revealed?
            • What can Joseph Noel Paton’s In Memoriam tell us about the Indian Mutiny?
            • Aboard the Zong: Remembering a Massacre
            • History: a dangerous weapon in political hands?
            • The Viking Conundrum
            • Spomeniki – remembering and forgetting in Tito’s Yugoslavia and the Former
            • The case of Captain William Kidd – a 300 year old miscarriage of justice?
            • Goodbye and Thank You
      • 2010-11
        • Volume 2
          • Issue 1 - Belief
            • The Origin of Human Rights
            • Haile Selassie: Iron Lion Zion
            • New Orleans - The American Paradox
            • Visualisations of Belief: The Hereford Mappa Mundi and the Ordnance Survey
            • Christianity and American Politics
            • The Boss, the Squire and the President
            • Nag Hammadi and the Gnostic Gospels
          • Issue 2 - Revolutions
            • ‘You are history, you are legend’ – British International Brigadiers and th
            • Dictators and the cult of personality
            • 'Smite me, oh mighty Smiter': Belief in Miracles in the Middle Ages
            • A Woman Down to Her Clothes?
            • Forgotten Men Of History- Marcus Garvey
            • Guilty man?
            • Squadron 92 – The Heroes and the Playboys
            • Dead Beliefs
            • Barbara Demick ‘Nothing to Envy’ Book Review
            • Queen Victoria’s Men And Diaries As Sources
            • Vietnam and its History with Hollywood
            • A New Perspective...
            • When Religious Belief Meets Social Movement: The Münster Rebellion
            • Ernst Kantorowicz' Rhetoric of the Sublime.
            • Guerrilla Warfare – The Tool of The Revolution
            • Revolutions that failed
            • Children of the Revolution: The Public Schoolboy Rebellion
            • 'Then Begins an Epoch of Social Revolution': Passages from Antiquity to Feu
            • The Mexican Revolution 1910 -1920
            • A Very Brief Insight into Victor Hugo's Les Miserables
            • Conspicuous Consumption, Social Emulation and the Consumer Revolution
            • The 1662 Book of Common Prayer: An Unlikely Revolutionary?
            • Animal Farm and Stalin’s Russian Sty
            • Forgotten Men of History- Julius Martov
            • When Sorrows Learn to Swim: The Life and Work of Frida Kahlo
            • Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna: The Man who Gambled on Revolutions.
          • Issue 3 - Festivals and Celebration
            • Churches and Bears: Religious Tensions and Protests in Early Modern Lancash
            • “No more cakes and ale”: Attacks on Christmas in the British Civil War Peri
            • Thomas Nast: How the Americans Invented Santa
            • 'Friends, Romans, Countrymen... Goats?': Shakespeare, the Lupercalian Festi
            • A Very Democratic Christmas: Chartism and the Church
            • Οχι Day: A Celebration of Resistance
            • Festivals that History has Left Behind
            • How the Puritans Stole Christmas
            • Africa’s Napoleon: The Coronation of Jean Bedel Bokassa
            • ‘Night falls but no one sleeps’: Festivals and Cultural Theory
            • Has Christmas Changed in Line with Society Since the 1950s?
          • Issue 4 - Sport and Leisure
            • Veni, VD, Vici – The Cultural Legacy of Syphilis
            • Sports that Never (Quite) Made It
            • Oliver Cromwell: Future England Captain?
            • The Leisure Centre of Merovingian Regal Authority
            • More Than Just A Game: Football Behind the Iron Curtain
            • More Than A Game: Around the World in Football Derbies
            • Cockfighting in Louisiana
            • Not Quite Cricket? – Cricket's relationship with British Colonialism
            • Not Out? Cricket in America
            • National Teams the World Forgot: Association Football’s International Curio
            • His-Story, Her-Story, and all the Stories in Between: the Best Biopics
            • Men's Soccer in the United States
          • Issue 5 - Money
            • Why America’s Bankers Should be Feeling Pretty Damn Grateful
            • Thomas More: Saint or Villain?
            • ‘Stand and Deliver’: Highwaymen and Highway Robbery
            • Stupid and Funny uses of Money
            • The Glorious History of Coinage
            • The War in Iraq: Cynical Money-Making Scheme Disguised as Paternalism?
            • Mission Impossible: The Destruction of the Asopos Viaduct
            • Blood Money? Financial and Military Aid in Africa
            • ‘I fought the law, but the superior cultural force won’: Cultural Hegemony
            • ‘Do to others as I would they should do to me’: Who to Trade with in Sevent
            • Las Vegas - Gambling Heaven and the American Dream
          • Copy of [post template vol. 2]
          • Issue 6 - Travel
            • ‘Champagne Air, Rainfall Rare’. Clacton and the Changing Nature of the Twen
            • The Reality of Travelling the African Coast: Midshipman Binstead on chasing
            • Could the Real Abe Lincoln Please Stand Up?
            • The Assassination of Thomas Paine
            • The Tarnished Gold Mountain: Vice and Tourism in America’s Chinatowns
            • Wafted from Paradise: A History of Luton Airport
            • Early Modern England: A Mobile Society?
            • The Pioneering Travels of ‘That curious person, Madam Maria Sibylla Merian’
            • Religion? Where we’re going, we don’t need Religion: Non-Religious Travel i
            • The Holy Roamin' Empire: The Progress of the Pilgrim
            • 100 Years of the New Deal? The Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster
          • Issue 7 - Open Theme
          • Singing Hallelujah with the Fear in Your Heart – Crusader Belief in the Fir
          • Could there be a British Tea Party?
      • 2009-10
        • Volume 1
          • Copy of [post template vol. 1]
          • Issue 1 - Conflict
            • The disappearing water in the American desert's watering hole
            • The Ancient Greeks - Party Lovers?
            • History's "Gossip"
            • History in the Media and the History of Media
            • Goodrich Castle
            • Conflict
            • '300'
            • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
            • The Return of the Extreme Right?
            • No Man's Land
            • Religious Warfare and the Sack of Jerusalem
            • Ernst Rohm
            • A Review of the Films 'The Russian Revolution 1917' and 'The Paris and The
            • The Battle of Agincourt
            • History and Games
            • Otto Skorzeny
            • and all that ...
            • Siegfried Sassoon
            • Review: 'The Devil's Whore'
            • Do We Still Live in an "Enlightened" World?
            • The European Elections and the Far Right
            • History Holidays in Greece
            • Napoleon III and Italian Unification
            • Reflections on an Interview
          • Issue 2 - Women & Gender
            • Women's Role in the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
            • Why America's Founding Father's would not recognise the country they create
            • What's in a name?
            • The Witch Craze
            • The Talented Mrs. Beeton
            • The Opposite Sex
            • The Japanese Geisha
            • Schloss Neuschwanstein
            • Provocative and Prejudiced?
            • Lest We Forget?
            • Ellen Wilkinson MP
            • 'The Gendered Cross'
            • Conflict is Good
            • Female Suffrage in Britain
          • Issue 3 - Colonialism
            • For the Sake of Achievement
            • Empire Gone
            • Britain's Forgotten Colony?
            • American Saloons
            • 'Dr Livingstone, I Presume?'
            • 'Bastard Normans! Norman Bastards!"
            • Warwick Castle
            • The Legacy of Colonialism in Kenya
            • 'The Colonising Corporation'
            • Post-Colonial National Liberal Movements
            • Orientalism
            • Mad Dogs and Englishmen
            • Immingrants in Shanghai
          • Issue 4 - Leaders
            • Gustav I of Sweden
            • 'She was not following the struggle; she was one of the contestants'
            • Why America's Founding Fathers would not recognise the country they created
            • Remember, Remember ... Robert Catesby?
            • Leadership
            • Introducing MEHG
            • Can a Text Lead?
            • American Presidents
            • The Wildest of Streaks
            • Salvador Allende
          • Issue 5 - Ideology
            • Apartheid
            • 'The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live ...'
            • How Neo-liberalism shocked Latin America
            • Voice of the Crusaders
            • The Utility of Identity
            • Euroscepticism
            • Objects and History: Why *things* matter
            • Empire of the seas
            • Republicanism
            • An Ideological Revolution?
            • St George's Day
            • Modern Britain is Still a Class Society
            • Economics, History, Theory, and Ideology
          • Issue 6 - Open Theme
            • US Intervention in Vietnam
            • The Legacy of the Holocaust...
            • What's Wrong with Africa?
            • Why authorship is important
            • Explaining the Rwandan Genocide
            • 'The Simpsons' and History
            • The German Empire
            • Can Public Opinion Change the Course of History?
            • Thomas Cranmer
            • The Ranters Routed
          • Issue 7 - Theory
            • [post template vol. 1]
            • Objectivism is subjective
            • A Song for Europe
            • Myth and History
            • The Frankfurt School
            • Petrarch and Post-colonialism
            • History - what's the point?
            • Cross-dressing
            • Thomas Jefferson and Anti-American Bias
            • History from Below
    • Resources for contributors
    • Bookshelf
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Volume 22

Volume 22: Women’s History Month

Updated 1 April 2022

Anna Komnene and The Alexiad: How We Remember the Only Secular Woman Historian of the European Middle Ages

Updated 1 April 2022