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Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2018
Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) looks back at the events of 2018 and how DHP covered them. 2018 was another turbulent year in global politics. In March, Vladimir Putin was, unsurprisingly, re-elected as Russia’s President. Mobeen Hussain reflected in this blog post on how Putin’s popular appeal stemmed in part from rebranding the long-held idea of Russian…
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The lost coin collection of the Stuart monarchs
By Christopher Whittell (@ChrisWhittell) This post is related to my research for a recent conference paper on the influence of ancient coins on the portrayal of early modern British monarchs.[1] It also highlights the possibilities of catalogues of coins collections as useful sources for early modern historians including insights into a monarch’s thinking and influences.…
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Uncomfortable History: Modern Skull Collecting
By Jeremiah J. Garsha (@jjgarsha) It is comforting to think of the collecting of human heads as existing in the distant past. When visitors to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford marvel at the shrunken heads display, they do so under a combination of alterity and distancing. The process of shrinking the heads renders them distinguishable…
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Fad or philosophy? The old debate over the consumption of animals
By Zoe Farrell (@zoeffarrell) Veganism seems to be the word of the moment. As we come to the end of ‘Veganuary’, it is estimated that a record-breaking number of individuals signed up to ditch meat and dairy for the month, with 14,000 people signing the pledge on 30th December 2018 alone.[1] As scientists are urging us to…
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Collecting for Good Causes in Seventeenth-Century England
By Jacob F. Field (@jakeishistory) Charitable giving is an intrinsic part of contemporary British society. In 2017 the total amount given to charity in the United Kingdom was £10.3 billion, with the most popular causes being medical research, animal welfare, children or young people, hospitals and hospices, and overseas aid and disaster relief.[i] Early modern…
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