The current presidential election in the United States is a cause of mixed feelings. As someone with family and friends in and from the U.S., the popularity of Donald Trump’s divisive, rambling, and often deranged campaign is a source of anxiety and frustration. As a historian of modern American politics and foreign policy though, it…
Category: Making History
‘A Unique Site of Major Historical Importance’: Hannah Barker discusses the restoration of Quarry Bank Mill
Being a Historical Advisor for the National Trust I’m currently one of two members of History staff who are working with the National Trust as Historical Advisors. Whilst Sasha Handley is involved at Little Moreton Hall in Staffordshire (having previously collaborated with staff at Ham House), I am working with the Trust at Quarry Bank…
‘Christmas is all about stealing’: Dr Eloise Moss on Victorian Christmas burglars (with a happy ending…)
Marcel Rieder, ‘Noël,’ 1898. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I’ve thought long and hard about what would make a good History Christmas blog post. Chatting to colleagues, it seems like everyone has a tale to tell from their own research of some Christmas-related incident; from the banning of Christmas in Soviet-era Russia (that is the…
Some historical reflections on the Refugee Crisis by Professor Peter Gatrell
Vietnamese Boat people in 1984: image courtesy of Wikimedia commons I’ve been teaching a course on ‘Refugees in modern world history’ for several years and I wrote a book as a result – see http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198744474.do). Never has the subject seemed timelier or more troubling than in 2015. Here are a few short observations about what…
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