This article by Dr Katy Gibbons, Senior Lecturer in History at Portsmouth was published recently in The Conversation: Link: https://theconversation.com/five-of-the-most-violent-moments-of-the-reformation-71535 Katy’s research looks at religious exile in Early Modern Europe, its impact on the home and host societies, and what it reveals about the complex interactions between groups of coreligionists in different parts of Europe. Katy’s most recent publication is ‘English Catholics and the continent‘, in The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare, edited by R.K. Smuts (Oxford University Press, 2016)’
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Working & Dying on the Railways
Dr Mike Esbester is a senior lecturer in history at Portsmouth. Mike’s research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, particularly on the cultural history of safety, risk and accident prevention, and on the history of mobility Working & Dying on the Railways At 5.45am on 11 August 1913, steam locomotive fireman Charles Lock, an employee of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, clocked on as usual. His train arrived at Portsmouth Town station, now known as Portsmouth & Southsea, at 10.13am; 2 minutes later, whilst he was underneath the engine oiling it, another engine gently touched the train, moving it forwards slightly. Lock was caught in the locomotive’s mechanism […]