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Christmas at Sea: 400 Years of the Festive Season Afloat, with Dr Richard Blakemore

Posted on December 15, 2021 by readinghistory

Dr Richard Blakemore gave this talk as part of an event on ‘Christmas at Sea: 400 Years of the Festive Season Afloat’ on 7 December 2021, organised by the Royal Museums Greenwich and Institute of Historical Research Maritime History & Culture … Continue reading →

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The Gothic ‘Other’ at Christmas, by Dan Renshaw

Posted on December 13, 2021 by readinghistory

The tradition of telling scary stories at Christmas is an old one. Tales of ghouls and goblins during the festive season, dating back to the Elizabethan period, have become part of Christmas tradition. In the years before the First World … Continue reading →

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Supernaturally chattering teeth: Romanticism and the politics of gathering winter fuel, by Dr Jeremy Burchardt

Posted on December 8, 2021 by readinghistory

In recent years I’ve been researching and teaching on rural landscape and the way it has been represented in England since the late eighteenth century.  It is widely agreed that the Romantic movement, and in particular the Romantic poets, played … Continue reading →

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Sugar and Slavery: Reproductive Mills, by Jude Reeves

Posted on October 26, 2021 by readinghistory

I have been given the opportunity to share my experience working as an intern at the Mills Archive Trust on Watlington Street, a registered charity dedicated to the protection and preservation of records of milling history, in the summer of … Continue reading →

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, and a Challenge to White Fragility, by Dr Heike I. Schmidt

Posted on October 12, 2021 by readinghistory

NPR, the US American public radio station, was broadcasting some critical reporting on the day of the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, 7 October. The journalists were discussing that, while the Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o had been … Continue reading →

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