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A black and white ink drawing shows a Vauxhall car rounding the top of a curve, appearing to come at the viewer. The drawing evokes speed, and the car appears to be racing at the viewer who stands uphill. A written caption reads “Shelsley Walsh – Mr. Raymond Mays’ Vauxhall-Villiers Breaking all Records for the Hill.” The detail is from a larger spread featuring British cars in different races

Roberta Cowell: Britain’s reluctant “trans” pioneer

"Ironically, the trans-centric view also obscures aspects of her life that could be meaningful for the modern trans community, like the fact that there was little, if any, controversy around her eligibility for women-only races, which seems unthinkable in today’s media environment."

Rebecca Jane Morgan

6 days ago

An unfinished watercolor painting of a Royal Coach. A canvas colored sheet of paper features a partially completed painting of a coach in the middle. The coach is alone in the center of the sheet, with a few penciled shapes at the outer edges. The unfinished character of the work evokes a sense of the broken down in relation to royalty

Is Andrew the British Monarchy’s Marie Antionette?

"Like Marie Antoinette, Andrew has become a symbol of aristocratic decadence, highlighting the chasm between popular and elite morality and acting as a lightning rod for criticism of the monarchy.”

Nicoletta Gullace

May 15

A political poster depicts two men shaking hands. On the left, John Bull dressed in white pants, a yellow vest, and a black suit jacket with top hat stands in front of the Union flag. On the right, a Japanese solider wearing cold weather uniform and service hat, holding his firearm next to him, stands in front of the Japanese flag. The two men shake hands. The top of the poster reads “Vote for the Conservatives” and the bottom reads “Who Gave You the Alliance.”

An Impossible Position: British Diplomacy with Japan and the United States, 1914-1921

"Diplomatic documents make it clear that the British were driven primarily by a fear of the United States, not out of a loss of favor towards Japan."

Katie Cordell

Apr 30

A black and white line drawing shows a confusing shape, which, from afar, looks somewhat like a cactus or a close up of cellular structures. On closer inspection, the image shows a tree with huge bubbly leaves that each show a different topic or subject. The text is in French, and a large bubble labeled “Histoire” appears in the lower left.

The Humanities Paradox in AI: Why Praise Isn’t the Same as Hiring

“The organizations developing increasingly powerful tools for generating and interpreting language are doing so within incentive structures that make it difficult to value fully the disciplines most concerned with how language works and what it does in the world.”

Chloe Northrop

Apr 2

A black and white ink drawing shows depicts a bare tree with many branches. On each branch, even as they get smaller and smaller, a topic is written. The base of the three features philosophy, history, fine arts with smaller branches labelled diplomacy, poetry, biography, botany and so on.

Back to Basics? Historical Methods and the Rise of AI

"For if AI threatens to strip historical research and writing back to its most basic form, perhaps that’s a challenge we should meet head on."

Chris Campbell

Mar 12

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Artificial Intelligence

The Humanities Paradox in AI: Why Praise Isn’t the Same as Hiring

Chloe Northrop

Apr 2

Back to Basics? Historical Methods and the Rise of AI

Chris Campbell

Mar 12

An image shows a colorful red and yellow line drawing. Pulled from the page of book of facsimilies of 9th century illuminated manuscripts, the image shows a lion, mid-jump in the center of the page. A simple red boxed pattern decorates the page behind the figure of the lion.

Contesting Colonial Technologies: Historical Models for Resistance

Margaret K. Smith

Mar 6

A black and white print shows the internal gears of a chronograph. The circular shape of a watch or clock face is stuffed with machine parts. Gears, axels, and cogs all intersect in a busy pattern.

Deus in Machina: AI and Divine Rhetoric

Tobias Wilson-Bates

Feb 26

Pride Month 2025

Roberta Cowell: Britain’s reluctant “trans” pioneer

Rebecca Jane Morgan

6 days ago

A photograph shows a horizontal stack of book spines. The works are various books written by John Broderick. One book lays with the cover exposed, a pencil sketch style drawing of a man siting on a couch, with the words “The Trial of Father Dillingham” above it.

Banning Books is Stupid, So Keep Writing

Averill Earls

Jun 25, 2025

“A Special Law Just for Us:” Negotiating Gender Recognition in Postwar Britain

Adrian Kane-Galbraith

Jun 23, 2025

“Not totally gay, I suppose”: Bisexuality and Multiple-Gender-Attraction in the Archives

Martha Robinson Rhodes

Jun 20, 2025

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British Studies Outside the Anglophone Academy

A dramatic seascape painting titled by Carl Neumann, depicting the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801. The scene shows British and Danish warships engaged in intense naval combat amidst turbulent seas. Explosions and smoke rise from the ships, with cannon fire illuminating the dark sky. The Danish fleet is anchored near the coast, while British vessels maneuver in the foreground. The painting captures the chaos and scale of the battle, with detailed depictions of the ships' rigging and the surrounding environment.

Teaching Incidental British History around the Globe

Jessica Hanser

May 8, 2025

A stylized oil painting depicting a fairground scene from 1931. The central figure is a Black man dressed in a bright red coat and white gloves, standing in front of a velvet-draped entrance to a carnival ride. The background features a shadowy, indistinct figure, adding to the mysterious atmosphere. The composition reflects Philpot's modernist approach, characterized by flattened forms and bold color contrasts, capturing the allure and intrigue of the fairground setting.

Teaching Black London in Pandemic Paris

Laura Carter

May 6, 2025

The Prospects for British Imperial History: The View from Macau

Joshua Ehrlich

May 1, 2025

"Detailed black and white engraving showing San Domingo Street in Santiago, Chile, in 1822. The scene features colonial-era buildings with tiled roofs lining a wide, unpaved street. Several figures in period clothing walk or stand along the street, including women in long dresses and men in coats and hats. In the background, the Andes mountains rise prominently, partially veiled in haze, anchoring the setting in a South American landscape. The perspective draws the viewer's eye down the street toward the distant mountains, capturing the architectural and natural elements of 19th-century Santiago."

Addressing the Inequality of Languages: a proposal for teaching and writing British History from Latin America

Laura Tavolacci

Apr 29, 2025

Britain and the US Presidency

Washington, US Revolution, and the British Atlantic

Troy Bickham

Jan 24, 2025

In the Graveyard of Empires: The United States, Britain and the Afghan War

Sarah Burns

Jan 22, 2025

Public Utterances and Private Thoughts: A Perspective on the Eisenhower and Churchill Relationship

Justin Olmstead

Jan 20, 2025

London & the Making of Herbert Hoover

Tammy Proctor

Jan 17, 2025

British Studies: State of the Field

A Way Forward: Look Local

Priya Satia

Feb 16, 2024

A Teachable Moment?

Catherine Chou

Feb 13, 2024

British History, Once and Future

David Cressy

Feb 9, 2024

British History in Canada: No Jobs, No Field

Ted McCormick

Feb 6, 2024

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Historiography of Ireland/Northern Ireland Series

"The Irish do not live in the past rather Ireland’s history lives in the present"

Laura McAtackney

Nov 3, 2023

Why the Inertia? Situated Knowledge and Action in Northern Ireland

Jennifer Todd

Oct 31, 2023

The Start of the Troubles and Real Politics

Simon Prince

Oct 25, 2023

Consensus and Debate: Walking the 'New' Northern Ireland

Elizabeth DeYoung

Oct 20, 2023

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