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Translation and Digital Democracy in the Feminist Archive South
By Elissa O’Connell (@ElissaOConnell) As readers will surely be aware, 2018 has been a historically significant year for women’s history and archives. The centenary of some women gaining the vote has created many opportunities to celebrate women-led activism across the UK, as well as to reinforce the need to document and protect these herstories through…
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Constitutional history’s new public moment?
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) Over recent months I’ve watched more parliamentary debates than ever before. I imagine I’m not alone. This is perhaps a bold confession for a historian of political culture – admittedly, I’m more familiar with nineteenth-century Hansard than BBC Parliament. Numerous historical parallels have been drawn over Brexit, some more accurate than…
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Royal babies: a late-nineteenth-century perspective
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) Last week, the world’s media was fixed on the arrival of another royal baby. At less than a week old, pictures of Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, the first child of Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, and the Queen’s eighth great-grandchild, have been shared around the globe. Although the…
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Revisiting the Visitor’s Book
By Clemency Hinton (@clemencyhinton) Have you ever left an online review after dining at a café or staying in a hotel? What about after a visiting a museum or a local heritage site? You probably left your comment for the benefit of future visitors or to get the attention of management, but that review may have…
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A historian of youth politics stands with the school climate strikers
By Helen Sunderland (@hl_sunderland) We are halfway through the week-long Global Climate Strike. Last Friday, millions of school students and workers around the world took to the streets demanding that governments act now to address the climate and ecological crisis. Back in March 2018, in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, I blogged about…
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