The Historian
Published in London at QMUL
Featuring posts from staff and student historians
#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.
When Does Size Matter? A Story of Giants
In the second of our series of blogs inspired by our third-year undergraduate module ‘The Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture since 1832’, QMUL History student Katy Maguire explores how gigantism has been depicted and understood, in fact and in fiction.
Take Five With: Carla Valentine
In the first in a series of themed blogs inspired by our third-year undergraduate module 'The Body in Science, Medicine, and Culture since 1832', here we Take Five with Barts Pathology Museum's Technical Curator and Public Engagement Officer, Carla Valentine.