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Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2022
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) Last year’s editor-in-chief, Alex White, ended his 2021 Year in Review with the hopeful plea that we may ‘all live in less significant times’. 2022 has failed utterly to comply. The world is still reeling from the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is causing fresh problems for China as the country…
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Archives of the air: tracing the lives of East African radio broadcasters in Moscow and Beijing
By Alex White (@alex_j_white) In December 1959, the Zanzibari Rajab Saleh Salim arrived in the Soviet Union in search of work. For the 25-year-old Salim, this journey into the heart of the Cold War was only the latest example in a long line of radical and anti-colonial placemaking. Born to an African family in Zanzibar,…
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Folk Wisdom and Slovak Winter Sayings
By Vanesa Djibrilova Every culture has its own wisdom summed up in catchy short phrases that are easy to remember. Sayings and proverbs are a form of practical and moral guidance, as cultures present their own understanding of the human experience, crystallised into idioms and folk sayings. Over time, I have been confronted by the…
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An Anti-Monarchist Referendum Campaign Poster from 1926 Germany
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‘Marie Antoinette’: the true stories behind the BBC/Canal+ drama
By Zara Kesterton, @zarakesterton Warning: Contains spoilers! On 29 December 2022, the BBC released its new historical drama about the life of French queen Marie-Antoinette, which was produced in association with Canal+ and written by The Favourite’s Deborah Davis. I am currently writing my PhD on fashion during the reign of Marie-Antoinette, so I was intrigued to see…
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