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Adding nuance to Tucker Carlson’s Interview with Vladimir Putin
by Noam Bizan, @NoamBzn On 6th February, former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian president Vladimir Putin in an intricately decorated room in the Kremlin.[1] Much has been written analysing this interview and Carlson’s trip to Moscow, largely focusing on the interview’s implications for current US-Russian relations and the war in Ukraine, which just marked…
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Epistolary Empire: Letter-writing and the British Empire at Home in the Nineteenth Century
By Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke Agnes Acland was nineteen years old in 1870, when her brothers left Britain to travel overseas. Her eldest brother Charlie, heir to the family fortune and baronetcy, departed on a world tour, travelling as far as Australia and New Zealand. Gib, the brother she was closest to, had a successful military…
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Reflections on an Unstitched Coif
by Zara Kesterton, @ZaraKesterton Toni Bucky came across T.844–1974 in the Victoria and Albert Museum during her PhD research into blackwork embroidery. She was hunting for evidence of the geometric stitching, usually completed in black thread on linen, which became popular in England during the sixteenth century. In the V&A collections, Toni found an unstitched…
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Historian Highlight: Edward Hallett Carr (1892-1982)
by Chris Campbell, @Chris__Campbell E. H. Carr must surely be one of the most seasonal names in British historical education. It emerges towards the end of summer in suggested reading lists, multiplies throughout the autumn in sixth form history classrooms, and returns to hibernation shortly after the personal statement deadline passes. How many times throughout…
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A Distortion of History?: The Treaty of Versailles Revisited
By Shamsher Bhangal The 1919 Treaty of Versailles is arguably the single most significant document of the twentieth century. It was the peace treaty which marked the conclusion of the First World War and cemented a series of ultimately contentious territorial and political changes in Europe. The Treaty of Versailles has become a staple of…
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