Race, Science and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany By Chris Manias Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology,…

Current Research: Ana Carden Coyne We are pleased to announce a landmark new collection of essays edited by Ana Carden-Coyne, Senior Lecturer in War and Conflict and co-director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is published by Palgrave McMillan in the Gender and…

Current Research: Pedro Ramos Pinto The Inequality, Social Science & History Research network, an initiative co-hosted by the Department of History and the Centre for History & Economics in Cambridge has been running a 2-year long series of events looking to bring an historical perspective to current debates on inequality. Pedro Ramos Pinto, who directs…