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Remembering slavery: a personal guide
By Louise Moschetta | @LouiseMoschetta February 2015, Trinidad Sharing a ride back from the archives to the B&B with Paula, the owner, I quizzed my driver on an article I had recently read concerning women and business ownership in the Caribbean. The writer of this article compared the percentage of female business owners on a global…
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10 lesser-known medieval and early modern places in Greater London
By Spike Gibbs Spike is a first year PhD student in working on office-holding in late medieval and early modern England. London can appear to be an overwhelmingly modern city with its towering 20th century office blocks and grand Victorian architecture. Whilst there are some very famous medieval landmarks such as the Tower of London,…
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“In their reckless lust they forget their sex” – LGBT history in the Middle Ages
by Tim Wingard – @Physiololgus Tim is a graduate of the University of York’s Centre for Medieval Studies. His research interests include issues of historical sexuality, the latin bestiary, and medieval travel writing. There is a tendency in popular histories and in the teaching of the subject at school to assume that the Middle Ages were an inherently heterosexual…
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History from below: fashion, freedom, and the female form
By Carys Brown @HistoryCarys Attempts to shape the female form are nothing new, as current exhibitions at the V&A and York Castle Museum show. Neither is the particular concern with the posterior, demonstrated today by an increased demand for buttock implants. Such permanent “improvements” are beyond the financial reach of most people. The less wealthy (or less…
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‘Our story remains unwritten’: the ethics of writing histories across cultures
by Tom Smith What does it mean to write a history of a culture other than our own, and how do we do this sensitively? This is an issue upon which historians rarely reflect explicitly. My dual passions for American history and Pacific Ocean history have been fuelled not by any particular personal investment or…
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