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Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online
By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stephemmabrown.bsky.social) Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial accounts from London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 1913. A pioneer of digital humanities, Old Bailey Online also holds remarkable pedagogical value. In my teaching, I have found it to be an unparalleled resource…
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Historian Highlight – Eric Williams
By Molly Groarke (@mollygroarke) On 19th April 1944, Eric Williams (1911-1981) delivered a lecture at Trinidad Public Library on ‘The British West Indies in World History’. Williams later recalled in his memoir how the audience overflowed the space of the library. He created typed copies of the lecture to sell cheaply so his paper could reach…
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The Declaration of Independence and the American Constitutional Conversation, 1776-1861
By Joseph Opp Every year, more than one million visitors queue for over an hour to enter the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Under its imposing dome and two brilliant murals — flanked by columns, flags, and uniformed security — are the ‘Charters of Freedom’: The Declaration of Independence, the United States…
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Oddments of Imperium: St. Mark’s of Bangalore
By David Martin (Bluesky: @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Substack: @davidmartin8293 A cathedral, the seat of a bishop, is normally an august building. From the gargoyle-studded Notre Dame de Paris to the bird-woman-spotted St. Paul’s of London, monuments that bear this name are meant to represent an ancient genealogy of European Christendom. But what happens when said Christendom arrives…
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Friedrich Dahlmann: Germany’s Most Popular Historian before1850
By Yuetong Li (Twitter/X: @yuetongli_doris) Laeta viro gravitas et mentis amabile pondus. (A happy man has a gravity and a lovely weight of mind.) —— Anton Springer Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785–1860) was a staunch advocate of constitutional monarchy. During the turbulent years surrounding the Frankfurt Parliament, few figures maintained such unwavering commitment to a unified…
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