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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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‘Even if we Go Without Bread…’: The Bunker-isation of Communist Albania
Socialist Albania was made by modernisation, and a political pursuit of its aesthetic and sociological derivatives. Enver Hoxha sought to transform Albania into a self-conscious nation-state via the transformation of the physical landscape. This was done according to contemporary discourses connecting modernity and architecture and informed by the acute sense of vulnerability that defined Hoxha’s…
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Vernacular material, opinion polling or social survey? Approaching popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive
by Rebecca Goldsmith @relgoldsmith The field of modern British history has experienced a new ‘turn’ in recent years. Historians like Jon Lawrence, David Cowan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite have pioneered the re-use of archived interview field-notes from post-war social science.[1] By and large, this trend has been motivated by an interest in the subjects of social…
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Historian Highlight: Benjamin Farrington (1891-1974)
by Sam Phoenix Clarke, @samjphoenix ‘Recent advances in physics hold out the prospect that human civilisation may be destroyed. Recent advances in history, revealing to us with a startlingly clearer insight what the nature of civilisation is, might, if they were more widely understood, give us the little bit of extra wisdom which would induce…
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