The Historian
Published in London at QMUL
Featuring posts from staff and student historians
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.
Hacking the Middle Ages
What happens when scholars in the humanities try to build an app? The History department at QMUL and Cambridge University Library partnered to find out. Chris Sparks reflects on the event.
Through a glass brightly: Whitechapel’s pandemic window
Hidden in a Grade 3-listed church in Whitechapel is a remarkable stained-glass window commemorating the ‘heroes and heroines’ of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic. As the centenary of the pandemic looms, Mark Honigsbaum reveals how the window disappeared from view and what it says about our culture of forgetting.
Art, Oscar Wilde, and Queer Labels
A new exhibition at Tate Britain explores the history of queer art from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Exploring the life of perhaps the most famous figure in that exhibition, Oscar Wilde, QMUL History student Tom Lee shows us how conceptions of sexual identity in the Victorian period were not always as straightforward as we assume.
Take Five With: Mark Condos
To mark Indian Independence Day, we are publishing the next in our series of Take Five interviews, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow and historian of India, Mark Condos.
Workshop report: The uses of historical medical photography
For the University of Huddersfield's 'History in Action' day, QMUL Lecturer Dr Jennifer Wallis and West Yorkshire Archive Service archivist David Morris ran a workshop on the history of medical photography in the asylum. The workshop highlighted the value of using visual sources as a way in to the history of psychiatry, and also raised some ethical issues that both Jennifer and David are hoping to explore further in the future.