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Daniel Smail’s On Deep History and the Brain
By Julia Bourke Every history has a beginning. But if you were attempting to write a complete history of human beings, where would you choose to start? Daniel Smail attempts to answer this question in his book On Deep History and the Brain, which looks at history from a completely different perspective than a historian…
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What papers won’t tell you: “The battle of Algiers”
By Marta Musso I would like to inaugurate film reviewing on DHP with “The battles of Algiers” by Gillo Pontecorvo, perhaps the most important film on terrorism and counter insurgency ever made. It tells the story of the Algerian war by focussing on the years 1956-1957, the period of guerrilla warfare in the capital.
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Thomas Cromwell on stage
By Joan Redmond Next month sees the London opening of the theatrical productions of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the two hugely successful novels by Hilary Mantel that focus on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell rose to become Henry VIII’s chief minister during the tumultuous 1530s, which witnessed the rise and fall…
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The Media in History and History in the Media Conference, 20th-21st March 2014 (Part 1)
by Alex Campsie Alex Campsie is a PhD student in modern British political and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. Last month saw Cambridge host an inaugural ‘European Graduate Conference’ on the broad theme of ‘History and the Media’. Like its sister event (entitled ‘History and the Law’), the project was generously funded by…
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The Media in History and History in the Media, 20th-21st March 2014 (Part 2)
by Alex Campsie Alex Campsie is a PhD student in modern British political and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge. The first half of the conference (read Part 1 here), stylishly opened by Professor David Reynolds and the able presenters of panel one, raised a number of important questions for further discussion. What are…
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