UoP Senior Lecturer in history Dr Fiona McCall had the following post published today on the website of the Ecclesiastical History Society, in which she discusses the extraordinary role of the military in Interregnum religious life.
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The Society for Nautical Research Winter Lecture Series 2024-5
The Society for Nautical Research have announced the schedule for their forthcoming winter online lecture series. The series aims to promote research into economic, social, political, military and environmental aspects of nautical history, drawing on British, European and international experience. Our own UoP history lecturers Dr Cathryn Pearce and Dr Matthew Heaslip will be giving lectures in February and March next year! Lectures held fortnightly on Wednesday evenings at 6:30PM (UTC) between October 2024 to March 2025. They will be held online (via zoom) and free to members of The Society For Nautical Research. To become a member see https://snr.org.uk/become-a-member/ For queries see the convenor at: daisy.turnbull@myport.ac.uk. Lecture Schedule 9th October 2024 […]
Discovering a railway-worker ancestor
Our own Dr Mike Esbester was featured on BBC 1’s ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ on 5 September 2024, helping Rose Ayling-Ellis learn more about her ancestor’s railway accident. The episode is available to watch on BBC iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022n0p
The different experiences of black and white women within the US feminist movement
Recent UoP history graduate Rebekah Sistig’s dissertation looked at how inherited racism divided members of the second-wave feminist movement in the USA. She discusses her research below, with some good tips on breaking down the process. Rebekah’s supervisor was Dr Lee Sartain. Angela Davis, Betty Friedan, bell hooks and Gloria Steinem – all icons of the second wave feminist movement in the US, all women who dedicated their lives to fight against sexism. But were they truly united in their fight against the patriarchy? Was the supposed ‘sisterhood’ all it was chalked up to be? Judging by their contrasting books, organisations, ideologies, and social groups, I think it may not […]
Researching the role of the Western powers in concealing Japanese War Crimes
Recent UoP history graduate Benjamin Taylor wrote his third-year dissertation on Japanese war crimes, discovering that the US and other Western states played a far larger role in the cover-up than has been previously acknowledged. Below he writes about the trial and error process of writing his dissertation, and how the guidance of his supervisor, Dr Rudolph Ng, has been vital. My chosen topic for my dissertation was an investigation of the cover-up that has surrounded Japanese war crimes. Specifically, my dissertation sought to answer two questions: has there been a cover-up surrounding Japanese war crimes? And two, if so, which country was most instrumental in creating and perpetuating this […]
Graduation Day 2024
It is always a proud day for us as tutors to see students we have nurtured since they were freshers step up onto the podium to receive their degrees. We love chatting to students after the ceremony to talk about their experience of the course, moved by the stories of students who have got there despite having to navigate difficult obstacles, catching up with students we taught several years ago, and hearing about what students are planning to do next. It is also great to tell students how much we appreciated some of their wonderful final year work, which hardly seemed possible when they were the ‘noisy’ group of post-covid […]