Editors note: This is an archived blog post from 20/10/2013. Fieldwork in Mexico 2013 –  three lessons I learnt which have little or nothing to do with my research by Rosy Rickett, 3rd year PhD student I was in Mexico City (“De EFeh”) from March-June 2013 looking at materials related to the roughly 30,000 Spanish…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 15/1/2014 Examination Papers as Historical Sources By Emily Jones (Manchester, ’10) (Exeter College, Oxford) Four years after my last January exams at Manchester, I’ve been wading through seemingly endless late-Victorian and Edwardian scripts as part of my doctoral research. Aside from being far more fun to…

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…