450 Years since The Dutch Revolt

450 Years since The Dutch Revolt

The 450th anniversary of the start of the Dutch Revolt – the Eighty Years War as it is known in Dutch – is being commemorated in 2018 by a series of events, including an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. In this blog, Prof. Judith Pollmann reflects on Prof. Geoffrey...
LGBT History Month

LGBT History Month

February is LGBT History Month across the UK. As the month draws to a close, Prof. Richard Parkinson (Professor of Egyptology at Oxford) reflects on celebrating ‘a great unrecorded history’.  The end of February is an opportunity to reflect on changes in...
Controversial Public History

Controversial Public History

We recently visited Queen’s University Belfast to co-host a symposium on “Teaching & Researching Controversial History”. Ahead of our Public History Prize awards later this month, Dr Olwen Purdue (Director of the QUB Centre for Public History) reflects on the...