The Historian
Published in London at QMUL
Featuring posts from staff and student historians
Jeremy Corbyn is Angry. Or is he?
Jeremy Corbyn launched the Labour campaign for the 2017 UK General Election this week by saying that he - like millions of voters - was angry. But what does it mean when politicians claim to be angry? Thomas Dixon, Director of the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, offers some possible answers.
The Ghost of General de Gaulle
As their presidential election of 2017 nears its conclusion, the French people still live in the long shadow of General de Gaulle. Julian Jackson asks whether Emmanuel Macron might be the man to help them escape it.
The history of self-harm: An interview with Sarah Chaney
Self-harm was first categorised in the late Victorian era, but definitions have changed many times over the years. In this interview about her new book, Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-harm (2017), Sarah Chaney tells The Historian what we can learn about psychiatric categories today from the history of self-inflicted injury.
Take Five With: Paolo Gervasi
In the first of our Take Five series of interviews with historians at QMUL, we meet Marie Curie Research Fellow Dr Paolo Gervasi.
Stepping away from the screen? Technology and the occult
Was the original ‘photobomb’ in fact a ghostly spirit and not an overeager tourist? QMUL undergraduate student Ronnie Woods explores the nineteenth–century relationship between photography and phantasmagoria.