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'Don't Worry Mom...We've Got Penicillin': STDs in the Vietnam War

'Don't Worry Mom...We've Got Penicillin': STDs in the Vietnam War

Philippa Monk | 28 January 2025
"Dear Daughters of the Nation": Women's Magazines in Colonial India

"Dear Daughters of the Nation": Women's Magazines in Colonial India

Meera Trivedi | 3 March 2026
A Holy Gladiator? The Martyrdom of Perpetua in 3rd century North Africa

A Holy Gladiator? The Martyrdom of Perpetua in 3rd century North Africa

Mary Hitchman | 2023
Anti-Suffrage Women in Britain, 1880-1914

Anti-Suffrage Women in Britain, 1880-1914

Hollie Eaton | 09 January 2024
Beauty, Fashion and Violence

Beauty, Fashion and Violence: The Female Neck in England, 1840-1950

Elena Tucker | 2023
British Hippies, Indian Ideas, and Post-Imperial Memor

British Hippies, Indian Ideas, and Post-Imperial Memory

Robert Taylor | 17 March 2026
British Society and Culture in the 1960s

British Society and Culture in the 1960s

Petros Spanou | 26 March 2024
Byzantium and the Later Crusades

Byzantium and the Later Crusades

Nathan Websdale | 06 February 2024
Care Workers Experience of Work, Gender and Class

Care Workers Experience of Work, Gender and Class

Freya Willis | 05 March 2024
Children of the Struggle

Children of the Struggle - The Children of Anti Apartheid Activists

Julia Partsch | 2023
Cities in the 19th Century American West

Cities in the 19th Century American West

Baruch Gilinsky | 28 March 2024
Darkest Forests, Highest Mountains: Landscapes of Fear and the Early Modern Witches’ Sabbath

Darkest Forests, Highest Mountains: Landscapes of Fear and the Early Modern Witches’ Sabbath

Aaron Larsen | 2023
Discovering Buddhism, 1800-1900

Discovering Buddhism, 1800-1900

Bhadrajee Hewage | 25 March 2025
Examples to live by Elizabethan Politics and Classical Rome

Examples to live by Elizabethan Politics and Classical Rome

Ebrahim Joseph | 10 February 2026
Female Patrons at the Universities of Oxford and Paris in the Middle Ages

Female Patrons at the Universities of Oxford and Paris in the Middle Ages

Elena Rossi | 20 February 2024
Gender and Inequality in Care Work

Gender and Inequality in Care Work

Freya Willis | 2023
Gender, Race and Sex in Early Colonial Mexico City (c.1521-1600)

Gender, Race and Sex in Early Colonial Mexico City (c.1521-1600)

Clare Burgess | 25 February 2025
How to Kill the Crusades: The Papacy and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century

How to Kill the Crusades: The Papacy and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century

Nathan Websdale | 18 March 2025
In the beginning: Genesis and England's Contested Reformation

In the beginning: Genesis and England's Contested Reformation

Samuel Head | 04 March 2025
Islam and Muslims in Colonial Buganda, ca. 1900-1962

Islam and Muslims in Colonial Buganda, ca. 1900-1962

Brenda McCollum | 2023
Letter Networks in Byzantium: Digital Mapping Tools and their Uses

Letter Networks in Byzantium: Digital Mapping Tools and their Uses

Nathan Websdale | 24 February 2026
Mapping Queer Soviet and Post- Soviet Desire Spaces of Identity Formation

Mapping Queer Soviet and Post-Soviet Desire: Spaces of Identity Formation

Ioana Zamfir | 24 March 2026
Mathematics, Magic and Mongols: the forces that shaped medieval Islamic astronomy

Mathematics, Magic and Mongols: the forces that shaped medieval Islamic astronomy

Yusuf Tayara | 2023
Miracles in Christian Eygpt: Saint's, Shrines, and Sinners

Miracles in Christian Eygpt: Saint's, Shrines, and Sinners

Chloé Agar | 2023
Missing Women in Antebellum America 1830-1865

Missing Women in Antebellum America 1830-1865

Hannah Ezer | 19 March 2024
Mobility Aids in Early Modern Europe

Mobility Aids in Early Modern Europe

Liv Bennison | 11 February 2025
Normality & NASA: Culture and Sexuality in the US Cold War

Normality and NASA: Culture and Sexuality in the US Cold War

Eszter D Kovacs | 3 February 2026
Our Mother the University

Our Mother the University: Maternal Roles and Higher Education in the Middle Ages

Elena Rossi | 2023
Policing the Past: State Control over the Archive

Policing the Past: State Control over the Archive

Rajaa Sahgal | 27 January 2026
Queer Beyond London: LGBTQ+ lives since the 1960s

Queer Beyond London: LGBTQ+ lives since the 1960s

Professor Matt Cook | 4 February 2025
Queer Early Modern History: Challenges and Methods

Queer Early Modern History: Challenges and Methods

Maayan Aner | 10 March 2026
Reflections on the Five Senses in Medieval Europe

Reflections on the Five Senses in Medieval Europe

John Merrington | 12 March 2024
Reformations abroad: German print and England, 1547 – 1603

Reformations abroad: German print and England, 1547 – 1603

Kate Shore | 2023
Self-Censorship in Early Modern British Historiography

Self-Censorship in Early Modern British Historiography

Helen Rutkowska | 11 March 2025
Studying Climate Change in the Past

Studying Climate Change in the Past

Andrew McNey | 13 January 2026
The Humbled Generation

The Humbled Generation - Byzantines and the Fourth Crusade

Nathan Websdale | 2023
The League of Nations Mandates System

The League of Nations Mandates System

Benjamin Gladstone | 16 January 2024
The Origins and Importance of the League of Nations

The Origins and Importance of the League of Nations

Ben Gladstone | 20 January 2026
The Origins of the Expert Witness 1758-1832

The Origins of the Expert Witness 1758-1832

Alexander Aizenman | 23 January 2024
The Tower of London: Fact and Fiction

The Tower of London: Fact and Fiction

Catherine Jenkinson | 2023
Transfeminine Activism in 1970’s Britain

Transfeminine Activism in 1970’s Britain

Fleur MacInnes | 2023
Trust between traders in Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, 1240 – 1350

Trust between traders in Barcelona and Palma de Mallorca, 1240 – 1350

Annabel Hancock | 2023
War and Caricature 1854 - 1856

War and Caricature 1854 - 1856

Petros Spanou | 2023
Women in Male Society, Space and Culture

Women in Male Society, Space and Culture

Florence Smith | 2023
Women of the World: Prostitution and Gender in late 16th Century Seville

Women of the World: Prostitution and Gender in late 16th Century Seville

Clare Burgess | 2023
Would you survive the Black Death?

Would you survive the Black Death?

Megan Lee | 21 January 2025
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