by Talking Humanities | Nov 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Image: © IWM (E(AUS) 2078) In the fourth of a series of scholarly articles marking the Armistice centenary, Dr Mandy Banton, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explores the ‘hostile environment’ many colonial ex-servicemen and unemployed...
by Talking Humanities | Nov 2, 2018 | Archives & Libraries, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
In the third of a series of scholarly articles ahead of the Armistice centenary, Dr Peter D Fraser, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, wonders why there is little to commemorate the British West Indians who came to the aid of the mother...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 30, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Over the past four years, in particular, London’s Imperial War Museum (IWM) has mounted a series of exhibitions underlining the extraordinary contribution by the man (and woman) power from across the empire to the global British war effort in World War I. As the IMW...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 30, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, First World War Centenary, History & Classics, Research & Resources
Fashion in history is a topic which has come of age in recent years, as scholars have turned to addressing what is chic and what is style over the ages and across different cultures. The history of fashion, and the role of fashion in history, is not just confined to...
by aseifert | Jun 12, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Human Rights, Magna Carta 800, Politics & Law
On 15 June 1215, in the meadow of Runnymede beside the Thames between Windsor and Staines, King John sealed (not signed) the Magna Carta. Although this iteration of the document on legal rights lasted for a very short time before being torn up, its successors paved...
by aseifert | May 26, 2015 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics, Magna Carta 800, Research & Resources
On 15 May 1679, the supporters of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, introduced the Exclusion Bill in the Commons. The intention was to exclude James from the succession to the throne. Professor Michael Braddick tells us more about the Exclusion Crisis...