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Arthur Sidgwick’s Diaries: Notes from a Work in Progress

by Emily Rutherford This image (click for full size) is a page from the diary of a man called Arthur Sidgwick, who lived from 1840 to 1920 and who taught ancient Greek first at an elite private secondary school and… Continue Reading →

The Gay Past and the Intellectual Historian

by Emily Rutherford In the papers this week was the news (slow, it seems, to come to the mainstream media’s attention) that, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, University of British Columbia graduate student Justin O’Hearn helped to fund the UBC… Continue Reading →

Making German history safe

by John Raimo Can a museum exhibition curate itself? So far as concerns history, the answer would seem to be not quite. Here I am referring to Neil MacGregor’s work at the British Museum, namely Germany: Memories of a Nation—A… Continue Reading →

The History Manifesto and Its Discontents

by Emily Rutherford David Armitage and Jo Guldi published their History Manifesto online and in print in October, and since then the critiques have begun to roll in. There has been plenty of chatter on Twitter and an interesting set… Continue Reading →

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