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Historian Highlight – C. L. R. James (1901-1989)
by Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke ‘I was tired of reading and hearing about Africans being persecuted and oppressed in Africa, in the Middle Passage, in the USA and all over the Caribbean. I made up my mind that I would write a book in which Africans or people of African descent instead of constantly being the…
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Historian Highlight: Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023)
by Chris Campbell Running to a mere 127 pages, The Return of Martin Guerre was perhaps never intended to be a career-defining book.[1] For its author, the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, it was less a labour of profound historical scholarship than a personal work of unfinished business. Nevertheless, it bears close investigation as it was…
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Historian Highlight – Herodotus and Thucydides
by Chris Campbell All of the historians discussed so far in this series have belonged to academic institutions, but who nevertheless sought to take their work into the public domain and use their research to shape broader understandings of history. This has meant, though, that all of the historians have been modern; history departments in…
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