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‘Your loving scholar’: motherhood and affects in ‘One of God’s Lilies’ 

‘Your loving scholar’: motherhood and affects in ‘One of God’s Lilies’ 

by Talking Humanities | Jul 13, 2021 | Analysis & Comment

King’s College London PhD student Sandra Araya Rojas explores the 19th-century colonisation programme implemented by the Chilean state in indigenous territories.  Last month’s grim discovery of the remains of 250 children at Kamloops Indian Residential...
What is ‘unconventional’ history?

What is ‘unconventional’ history?

by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature

For her new book, ‘Mother’, the feminist and historian Professor Sarah Knott chose the striking sub-title ‘An Unconventional History’. Here she explains her choice, the boundaries between conventional and unconventional history, and how the...
Motherhood, loss and the First World War conference

Motherhood, loss and the First World War conference

by Talking Humanities | Sep 3, 2018 | Events, History & Classics, Politics & Law, PotW

The extraordinary death tolls suffered on the fighting fronts of the First World War gave rise to devastating and unprecedented levels of loss for individuals and communities across Europe and the wider world. Indeed, bereavement became so widespread during the...

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