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“Steel their Bodies and Minds” – How the Wandervogel reconciled nature with modernity
By Charlotte Alt Life in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century was an overwhelming experience. Modernity by then had arrived in full force: cities exploded with masses of people, and modern innovations like the telegraph and railway drastically changed the pace of everyday life. As urban spaces appeared increasingly overstimulating, people began to…
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19. A ‘Festive’ Anti-Divorce Pamphlet from 1980s Ireland
By Kate Collins The 1980s saw divorce, long prohibited in Ireland, become a topic of national debate. Article 41.3.2 of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the country’s 1937 Constitution, explicitly stated that ‘No law shall be enacted providing for the grant of a dissolution of marriage’, meaning that a national referendum was needed to provide for legalisation.[1]…
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Indian Independence 8,290 miles away: U.C. Berkeley and the Fight for Self-Rule
By Madhumitha Krishnan (@MadhumithaKris)[1] ‘…[India’s] teeming millions are dying of abject starvation, ever increasing famines and devastating epidemics. The present-day India needs readjustment and reconstruction socially, morally, and economically.’[2] So proclaimed Dr K. D. Shastri in his inaugural address at the 1915 International Hindustanee Student Convention in Chicago. Dr Shastri, a religious and social reformer, levied…
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9. Dizzy Gillespie Stops a Riot
By Chris Campbell Amidst the backdrops of the Cold War and the end of the British Empire, one of the world’s foremost jazz trumpeters was perhaps an unlikely candidate to unite a city divided by both major events. Despatched by the US State Department on a tour of Southern Europe and the Middle East in…
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Navigating Beyond the Naga Conflict: A Clash of Systems
by Vinolen John, @vinolenjohn Studies concerning histories of conflicts are always a thin line to tread. This is particularly true with regards to Naga History which revolves around facets of decolonisation, nation and identity construction, insurgency and conflict, inter alia. The Nagas are a group of disparate tribes in the highlands of India’s northeast and…
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