What can we learn about yourselves, and our relationship with History, by studying throw-away souvenir tourist items? East Coast Industries (poster) by Frank Henry Mason is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 How do we approach the question of historical leisure experiences and domestic consumer items which we now find at best insignificant, or at worst deeply... Continue Reading →
We’re delighted to announce that the History team at Northampton has just been awarded the 2022-24 stewardship of the East Midland’s Centre for History Teaching and Learning! Our first event in September 2022 will be an online conference and workshop on two of the most pressing issues of our time: sustainability and inclusivity. And we... Continue Reading →
Today (30th April 2021) is the first international Day of Remembrance for Care Experienced People. Today's remembrance day is the culmination of the first Care Experienced History Month, a series of awareness-raising events by organizations advocating for those who have experienced care recently and in the past. A series of online talks and tweet... Continue Reading →
Would you join a militant political movement, risking not only your job but potentially your family, friends and public reputation? What physical and emotional trauma would you be willing to face? These were all questions that faced women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they joined the emergent women’s rights and suffrage... Continue Reading →
Professor Matthew McCormack recommends: H. G. Cocks, Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century (I. B. Tauris, 2003). This is a fascinating study of homosexuality in late Georgian and Victorian Britain. We usually assume that the modern understanding of the homosexual man was invented at the end of the nineteenth century, with the rise of sexology... Continue Reading →
The University of Northampton History department is home to the Searchlight Archive, a unique archive collection of material documenting the activities of British and international fascist and racist organisations from the 1930s onwards. It is one of the most extensive and significant resources of its type in Europe. Daniel Jones, the Searchlight Collections Officer recommends:... Continue Reading →
Rachel Moss, Lecturer in History recommends: Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages: Robert Mills (Chicago, 2015) Densely written and packed with complex case studies, this lavishly illustrated leviathan of a book requires careful attention; it’s not a casual read. Nevertheless, this sensitive, imaginative work is bound to become a classic among studies of pre-modern gender... Continue Reading →
LGBTQ+ History and the Holocaust Associate Professor in History Paul Jackson blogs on LGBTQ+ victims of the Holocaust Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code was established in 1871, and essentially banned male homosexuality. Despite this, by the 1920s Berlin in particular had developed a reputation as a city that turned a blind eye to... Continue Reading →
Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History Jim Beach recommends: Philip Hoare, Wilde’s Last Stand: Scandal, Decadence and Conspiracy during the Great War (1997) My suggestion for this reading list connects with the content of my third-year module HIS3027 Secret State. It is not an academic history, and although some of its statements about intelligence history don’t stand... Continue Reading →
Senior Lecturer in History and Programme Leader for BA History recommends: Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (1982): A pioneering study charting shifting attitudes towards physical and emotional intimacies between men between the late middle ages and early Enlightenment. Judith C. Brown, Immodest Acts: the life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (1986) A good example of the... Continue Reading →
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