1 June 2018
by Christian O’Connell The way nations remember, commemorate, and celebrate their national heroes and historical figures is a subject on which I have reflected a lot recently. Ever since the clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia over the statue of…
24 November 2015
This week’s post comes from Briony Eddy, who is in her third-year studying English Literature and History at the University of Gloucestershire. “In light of the recent surge of global terrorism hitting every form of social media and…
28 July 2014
Last week, I participated in a wonderful conference hosted by Loughborough University. Entitled Early Modern Women, Religion, and the Body, the conference explored a very wide range of early modern lives and experiences from right across Europe and across confessional divides….
22 April 2014
In academic circles, particularly in realm of more traditional subjects such as History, the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter has always tended to divide opinion. On the one hand, the possibilities for communication between…