Saint Balthild statue at Luxembourg Garden. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Twenty years ago along with an American colleague I published a translation of and commentary on various Merovingian sources from seventh century Francia (France). Amongst them was the Life of a Queen Balthild who turned out to be very unusual. She had been a…
Month: November 2016
Respectable Resistance in Occupied France: Dr James Connolly discusses his latest article!
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. James E. Connolly, ‘Notable Protests: Respectable Resistance in Occupied Northern France, 1914-1918,’ Historical Research, vol. 88, issue 242 (November 2015), pp. 693-715. It can be accessed online here This article is based on a chapter of my PhD thesis (and planned monograph) about French behaviours under the German occupation of the…
Student Ideas Competition: Support Mappedemia!
Mappademia is a project submitted for the JISC student ideas competition which, if it can get 250 votes from the public, would get funding for a piece of software which would allow students or researchers with little or no previous programming experience to easily create mobile mapping applications and share them for free with the public….
Peter Speight, British Men’s Skiing Champion, discusses pursuing sports and History/sporting history at the Uni of Manchester!
I first got into freestyle skiing when I moved to Sheffield aged 12. They had a really good dry ski slope there which I used to go to every week. Loads of my friends went and there were hundreds of kids getting taught to ski. I progressed up and got more and more involved in…
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