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QMUL will be the place to be for British History Today! 1-2 May 2025 20-minute papers of 90-minute panels by 24 January JOIN US! This will be fun! projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/#skystorians#britishhistory#HistoryToday

British History Today Queen Mary University of London 1-2 May 2025 What might a history of Britain and the world which speaks to the problems of our current world look like? What new histories need writing? Which explanations of the past require reworking, and which assume a renewed urgency for historians today? Which actors, sites, institutions or structures command our attention? Which are the key moments of transformation or periods of endurance? What are our chronologies and temporalities? What, indeed, are the new forms that our histories might assume? What are the conceptual categories that they might mobilise? In the midst of our multiplying crises, disputes over the interpretation of Britain’s pasts have become increasingly prominent. The authority of the academic historian competes with many others. Museums, statues, schools and national institutions from the Church of England to the National Trust have become the terrain on which competing political visions of the past compe
How can we understand and explain the pasts that have shaped or have use for our present? In addressing these themes, and connecting our disparate answers together, this event is predicated on the possibility for a renewed history of modern Britain. We will take stock of the field and consider what an agenda shaped by the demands of our present might be. If we are to value the practice of historical imagination and understanding, it requires not that we simplify the past to meet the stark battle lines of the present, but that we insist on the complexity of the past, and its otherness. There can be no guarantees about which sites, actors, or times require or demand our attention as we press the questions of our present to the past; rather, it is the very loss of guarantees in the present that holds the possibility of opening the past up to us anew. The above questions describe the challenges of historical imagination, interpretation and understanding that confront us, but we also hope
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MLmathewlyons.bsky.social

I wrote this for the August @HistoryToday on a soggy attempt to bring chivalric contests back to life in early Victorian Britain www.historytoday.com/archive/mont...

The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off

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BDbarbdrummond.bsky.social

Curious straps round head of #woman similar to a few I’ve seen on church # corbels. In current @HistoryToday

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DHheatherlwellis.bsky.social

Our piece on 'The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils' is out in the August issue of @HistoryToday! #histsci#knowhistwww.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils
The Extraordinary Rise and Inexplicable Decline of Lit & Phils

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