[ ... ] to improve a history essay.
My husband also suggests, probably rightly, that it's a lot harder to sell support services (where you're not getting ... more
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history
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Backwards thinking
@ 2011-01-06 – 21:43:00
In the last couple of weeks I have been trying to disentangle Hincmar of Rheims' arguments in his text on Lothar II's divorce, contemplating morality, … more -
A cold, cold Christmas
@ 2010-12-26 – 09:30:40
[ ... ] that of past history, but a stone church emphasises that even more. We were singing traditional carols, but I found myself in solidarity and empathy ... more -
Should we teach our children history?
@ 2010-11-18 – 23:19:58
[ ... ] learning history: Simon Schama and Antony Beevor have both had articles on the topic, and so have some less well-known historians. The problem ... more -
What can historical fiction do that history can’t?
@ 2009-11-14 – 22:03:52
[ ... ] ‘straight’ history. The rising cultural importance of historical novels is reflected in the recent Booker prize shortlist, and History Today in ... more -
Medieval attitudes and mental exercises
@ 2009-08-26 – 13:08:49
[ ... ] on religious history I’ve ever read is Peter Brown’s The body and society: men, women and spiritual renunciation in early Christianity (Columbia ... more -
Why I no longer read historical fiction
@ 2009-08-10 – 18:50:35
[ ... ] is research history). So if I criticise historical novels, it is not with any sense of superiority or illusion that they’re easy to write. ... more -
IMC 2: gender and the purposes of history
@ 2009-07-21 – 23:22:29
[ ... ] medieval history matters, even if I don't start citing Paul Ricoeur, as Rider did. And yet after the session a friend of mine was dismissive of ... more -
A prosopography of Cambridge medievalists
@ 2008-12-20 – 21:50:29
[ ... ] in medieval history at Cambridge in the same year as me: 1998-99. There were twenty two of us who started the course: here is what has happened in ... more -
RAE results for history
@ 2008-12-18 – 22:27:18
The Research Assessment Exercise results for 2008 are now out, in theory telling us (among other things) the UK history departments doing the highest … more
