This week our own Dr Matthew Heaslip was interviewed by multiple national and regional media outlets including ITV Meridian, BBC South Today and The Guardian to help contextualise Britain’s response via the Royal Navy to America’s war on Iran, specifically the practicalities of the deployment of the destroyer HMS Duncan. Along with being Senior Lecturer in Naval History teaching on Portsmouth’s MA in Naval, Maritime and Coastal History he is also a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Navy’s Strategic Studies Centre. Matt’s research centres on the 20th century Navy, the importance of naval power in Britain’s efforts to exert influence worldwide and its applicability to present-day global geopolitics. ‘When faced with […]
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“In God is our trust” – How evangelical Christians became so crucial to Trump’s Republican Party
Elliott Thomas is a second-year history student at the University of Portsmouth, and studied modern US history with Dr Lee Sartain as part of the first-year World Histories module. In the wake of Trump’s presidential victory, he discusses how the evangelical Christians and the Republican Party came to be so closely aligned. In the early hours of November the 6th, the victorious Republican president elect Donald Trump would give his victory speech to a crowd of his supporters, who would soon break out into the popular Evangelical hymn “How Great Art Thou”.[1] Despite being mired in controversy, including being put on trial for paying hush money to cover up an […]