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The Politics of the Archive: reflections, observations and challenges
By Tamara Fernando (@TamaraFernando3) One rainy winter day in 2016, I was navigating the cavernous halls and corridors of the British Museum, looking for the Department of Prints and Drawings. I had arrived to examine two seventeenth-century engraved frontispieces depicting Saint Augustine, the early Church Father, for an MPhil project on the reception of Augustine’s…
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How to abuse and misuse history: a guide from twentieth-century politics
By Spike Lister The utilisation of history in political discourse has itself a long history. For as long as there has been a public space and a shared experience, communities have looked to the past as a lens through which to understand their issues. History offers us a guiding light by which to move forwards…
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Reconsidering the History of Domestic Medicine
By Jennifer W. Reiss The history of American medicine often follows a declension/ascension narrative: it’s a teleology of medical progress dominated by professionalised and scientifically-minded male physicians of the nineteenth century bringing the light of modernity to backward-looking, female-dominated folk practice of earlier periods. Even comparable British scholarship on early modern medical history follows a…
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Film archives: using moving images as historical sources
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Thinking about Sleep Across History
By Albert Kohn In a certain sense, sleeping is the great unifying experience across time and place. Regardless of time period, almost every person spends one-third to one-half of their life asleep thus a good portion of our modern lives are identical to those of medieval people! Yet, sleeping is not just the experience of…
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