Katie Donnington writes about the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project and the launch of the British Slave-ownership database, which has seen renewed interest in the issues of transatlantic slavery and the acknowledgement of this…
In this month’s feature, we asked Jordana Silverstein, Sander Gilman and Zhou Xun to reflect on the timeliness of historical memory through the lens of the Holocaust.
Laura Stewart and Lloyd Bowen offer historical perspectives on the debates surrounding this month’s referendum on Scottish independence, and on the issue of Welsh sovereignty
Deborah Cohen's relentlessly compelling book Family Secrets unravels a complex and tangled history of how privacy, secrecy, and shame colluded and collided in the making of modern British family life
Howard Brenton’s new play examines the last act of British rule in India, the dissection of the country in 1947 to create the independent nations of India and Pakistan.
Six commentators reflect on the scope, the limits, and the implications of Mazower's argument in his recent book Governing the World, a sweeping and provocative account of the expansive vision of global political cooperation
Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000 documents relating to women in social movements in the United States.
Are historians are well placed to play a more important role in policy making, as Pamela Cox (a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex) argues? Please post your comments and join the discussion!
Josie McLellan writes on Open Access, and the potentially dramatic consequences, not only for the dissemination of research results, but for how they are produced and published.
A report by Susie Christensen from 'Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism' held on 21st-22nd September 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, London.