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Reformation parallels: the case of Gottschalk of Orbais
By Robert Evans @R_AH_Evans Five hundred years ago this October, the German monk, Martin Luther (probably) nailed his famous 95 theses to Wittenberg’s cathedral door. This sparked a lengthy and complex process of religious transformation across Europe. Luther’s views continue to have consequences for the modern world and as this anniversary approaches, there are many questions…
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Should we learn from history?
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Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in British Prison Museums
By Dan Johnson, University of York (@Dan_Johnson19) Prison museums are becoming a popular form of dark tourism around the world. In the last few decades, infamous prisons that have been in use since the beginning of incarceration as a form of punishment in the nineteenth century have begun to close their doors to make room…
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Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation: ‘The Vietnam War’
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) The recent success of The Vietnam War, a television documentary co-directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, shows the enduring legacy of the conflict in popular memory. Broadcast as a ten-hour series in the UK on BBC Four and originally aired with an even longer running time on PBS, the series…
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Experiencing the law in sixteenth-century England
By Laura Flannigan (@LFlannigan17) ‘To London once my stepps I bent, Where trouth in no wyse should be faint, To westmynster-ward I forthwith went, To a man of law to make complaint. I sayd, “for marys love, that holy saynt / Pyty the poore that wold proceede.” But, for lack of mony, I cold not spede.…
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