The Historian
Published in London at QMUL
Featuring posts from staff and student historians
Report: QMUL-Northwestern Exchange 2019
Postgraduate researchers at QMUL have the opportunity to participate in a number of international exchanges. In this short post, PhD students Conor Bollins, Emily Steinhauer, Bert Carlstrom and Stephen Bentel report on the exchange with Northwestern University which they took part in during April 2019.
#twitterstorians Calling: Running a Student Conference on Twitter – Part One
Can you run a student conference on Twitter? In March this year, Dan Todman and students on his final undergraduate year history Special Subject set about finding out. In part one of a three-part series of posts Dan explains the origins of the conference and how he hoped it would enhance teaching on the module.
#twitterstorians Calling: Running a Student Conference on Twitter – Part Two
In part two of our three-part series on a student-led Twitter conference, we follow Dan Todman and his students as they set things up. (Need to catch up? Part one is here.)
#twitterstorians Calling: Running a Student Conference on Twitter – Part Three
In this final post in our three-part series, we join Dan Todman’s students as they are about to run their first undergraduate Twitter conference. To catch up, read about the pedagogy behind the conference in part one, or the preparations in part two.
From Baartman to ‘Belfie Queens’: The Evolution of the Big Booty
For the fifth instalment of our 'Body' series, recent School of History graduate Harriet Clark argues that the story of Sara Baartman, 'The Hottentot Venus', should not be forgotten.
The (In)complete Marbles? Displaying the Disabled Body
In the fourth instalment of our 'Body' series, Elizabeth Waddell considers what Marc Quinn's statue, Alison Lapper Pregnant, tells us about contemporary attitudes towards the disabled body.
Vaccination Trepidation: Facing our Fears from the Victorian Era to the Present
With celebrity tattooist Kat Von D recently announcing that she and her husband intend to raise their child 'without vaccinations', in the third of our 'body blogs' Lucy Jennings looks at how vaccinations have provoked anxiety from the 19th century to the present day.