History Matters

Cultural history

Hallam Roffey | 11 April 2023

Radical Histories of Psychedelics

Isobel Hadlum | 30 November 2020

‘Illegitimate’ Cultures: from the Music Hall to the Rave

Izzy Larsen | 20 March 2020

Did the Feminist Challenge Actually Shake Up the Print Press in 1969? Press Representations of Women in the Run-up to Women’s Lib

Natalya Edwards | 10 September 2019

‘Maybe It’s Medieval?’ – Comparing Modern TV And Film Against The Medieval Morality Play

Christopher S. Byrne | 12 August 2019

The (Un)knowability of Jews in Britain: Discourses From State and Sitcom in 1965

Aaron Ackerley | 16 May 2019

Old Prejudices, New Debates: J.A. Hobson And Anti-Semitism

Renan Simao | 8 April 2019

Expanding Perspectives: Why Libraries Still Matter

Emily-Rose Baker | 28 January 2019

Holocaust, Home and Memory in Literature

Hannah Silvester | 1 August 2018

Are Museums Really ‘Hiding’ The Imperial Past?

Isabelle Carter | 24 July 2018

‘Love Among The Ruins’? Telling The Social History Of Sheffield’s Best-Known Housing Estates

Pete Watson | 19 June 2018

The World Cup, Colombia And Communism

Giulia Quaggio | 17 April 2018

Cold War Angst: The Iconography of Peace in Spain during the 1980s

Esther Wright | 10 April 2018

Playing with History in Video Games

Helen Stanton | 20 February 2018

The Greatest Showman: The Last Great Con of P. T. Barnum

Julia Moses | 9 January 2018

The State Of Marriage – Progress Or Decay?

Emily Marlow | 20 December 2017

Finding Jesus In Video Games

David Vessey | 9 November 2017

Remembering The Russian Revolution: “Fellow Travellers” In Modern Britain

Caroline Dodds Pennock| 5 November 2017

Top 10 Books on the History of Latin America

Amber Regis| 2 October 2017

Charlotte Brontë: legacies and afterlives

Andrew Sillett | 17 September 2017

Swallow your Pride and Tune into “Bromans”

Rosie Nelson| 5 September 2017

A Genealogy of Bisexuality; Androgyny, Behaviour, and Suspicion.

Catherine Baker | 14 August 2017

Finding my place in queer cultural history through the ‘post-Cold-War’ period

Daniel White | 6 June 2017

Jarl Donald? How Trump’s temperament might have fared in Iceland’s Game of Thrones

Meredith Warren | 13 April 2017

What Would Jesus Eat This Easter? A First Century Menu for the Last Supper

Kate Bellamy | 22 December 2016

What Goes Around (Eventually) Comes Around: A Partial Return to Mother-Tongue Instruction in P'urhepecha

Harriet Smart | 19 December 2016

On ‘Indigenous Languages and Cultures: Then and Now’

Imen Neffati | 21 November 2016

Drawing Conclusions on Trump: How do you Caricature a Caricature?

Aaron Ackerley | 14 October 2016

Creepy Clowns: Terrifying Menace, Humorous Farce, or Instructive Case Study

Jessica Wardhaugh | 10 October 2016

Would you Ban this Bonnet? Dressing for Battle in Street Politics

Sarah Kenny| 15 September 2016

Clubs and the community: from Fabric to Leadmill

Anna Geurts | 9 July 2016

How the Tsars Started a Mexican Wave

Alban Gautier| 31 May 2016

In defence of the ‘Dark Ages’

Charles West | 13 May 2016

English Heritage and the Dark Ages

Hannah Leach | 12 April 2016

Why Oral History matters – a sociolinguist’s journey into an oral history archive

Martial Staub | 7 April 2016

What is Europe? A medievalist’s reflections on European identity and the referendum

Harriet Smart | 24 March 2016

JK Rowling’s Ilvermorny – A school in need of a history lesson?

Helen Morris | 10 March 2016

One film, one story: exploring perspectives of Suffragette on International Women’s Day

Aaron Ackerlery | 2 March 2016

Satanic Cults and Ritual Abuse: A fantasy on film and in History?

James Chetwood | 10 December 2015

Where are all the plain-speaking Englishmen?

Tom Leng | 28 August 2015

From Palmyra to Cheapside: Iconoclasm and its Audiences

Kate Gibson | 14 August 2015

The End of the Affair? Ashley Madison and the History of Adultery

Stephanie Wright, Aaron Ackerley | 14 July 2015

Review: ‘Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century’ by John Higgs

Kate Gibson | 9 July 2015

Review: The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone

Andrew Heath | 3 June 2016

Boss Blatter: FIFA and U.S. Machine Politics

Ryosuke Yokoe | 30 April 2015

Is Sugar Water healthier than Alcohol? The Temperance Movement and the Rise of the Soft Drink

Adam James Smith | 21 April 2015

Coffee, Culture and Conversation in the Eighteenth Century

Robyn Parker | 2 March 2015

Hard to Swallow? Myths and Cultural Memes about Spiders

Meghan Fitzpatrick | 4 February 2015

Redefining Tommy Atkins: Encouraging Diversity in the British Armed Forces

Julia McClure | 16 October 2014

Is History Ending Again?

Kathryn Robinson | 3 October 2014

The Tube and the Blitz: A Historical Legacy

Julia McClure | 12 September 2014

ISIS and the Politics of the Middle Ages

Alex Taylor | 21 August 2014

Old leaves and new: from Gloucestershire tobacco to Albanian pot

Sophie Hylands| 11 August 2014

How should the USA remember the First World War?

Meghan Fitzpatrick| 4 August 2014

Remembering the Forgotten War: Korean veterans and the power of public memory

Mark Seddon | 29 July 2014

Video Games, Drugs and Violence: The Real and Virtual Lives of North and Noriega

Sir Keith Burnett | 21 July 2014

Andalusia or Al-Andalus? Why History Matters

Clare Griffiths | 17 July 2014

History under the Hammer: The sale of the Royal Agricultural Society of England’s collection

Sarah Kenny| 1 July 2014

Cultural authenticity and consumerism: the end of the hipster?

Catherine Fletcher | 19 June 2014

Football Matters! What’s history’s most significant footballing moment?

Anna Geurts | 16 May 2014

Give us an Ordinary Bearded Lady

Charles West | 22 April 2014

Is Britain a ‘Christian Country’, Historically Speaking?

James Yeoman | 27 March 2014

The Spanish Civil War 75 Years On: What are we commemorating?

Anna Geurts | 6 March 2014

LGBT or LGBTIHQQBDSMXYZ History Month?

Matt Houlbrook | 6 March 2014

What’s the problem with LGBT history month?

Cydney Sturgess | 13 February 2014

Should we really compare Sochi 2014 to the ‘Hitler Olympics’?

Charles West | 28 January 2014

The Father of Europe? Remembering Charlemagne

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 13 January 2014

Harpooning Ducks: Indigenous Americans, Immigration, and Multicultural Identity

Anna Geurts | 9 December 2013

A Well-Used Passport and Other Things that Make you Think

Claudia Rogers | 11 November 2013

Chasing the War Horse: the influence of popular culture and the perks of TV history

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 8 November 2013

On This Day In History: Why Do Anniversaries Matter?

Alex Taylor | 7 November 2013

Quitting the habit: Stoptober in Jacobean England

David Holland | 23 October 2013

Sheffield’s pioneering pre-war, South Asian settlers

Amanda Power | 10 October 2013

Cultures of Mass Surveillance – Modern and Medieval

Catherine Fletcher | 4 September 2013

The Great Men Of Florence

Elizabeth Norton| 28 August 2013

Writing Popular History: Comfortable, Unchallenging Nostalgia-Fodder?

Phil McCluskey | 20 August 2013

Louis XIV On TV, Or Why It's Not Helpful To Compare The Sun King To Hitler

Claire Williams | 8 August 2013

The Demolition Of The Edwardian Wing Of Jessop Hospital: Does Heritage Matter?

Charles West | 8 August 2013

The Demolition Of The Edwardian Wing Of Jessop Hospital: Balancing Heritage And Development

Tim Cooper | 16 July 2013

What’s The Use Of A History PhD, Or How Did I End Up In Telly?

Julia McClure | 17 June 2013

Why We Should Remember The Poor: The Importance Of Poverty History

Andrew Grierson | 14 June 2013

Why Royal DNA is Front-Page News Again

Andrew Heath | 12 June 2013

To Hear The Past: Music, Faith And Fear In Philadelphia

Adrian Teal | 8 May 2013

The Cult Of Georgian Celebrity

Alex Jackson | 2 May 2013

Kai Akosia And The Rediscovery Of The Ashantee Village In Sheffield

Miriam Dobson | 20 December 2012

Atomic Anxieties: The Cold War and the Apocalypse

Amanda Power | 19 December 2012

What’s the point of the apocalypse?

Caroline Dodds Pennock | 17 November 2012

The 2012 Apocalypse, or why the world won’t end this week

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