Making connections between the public and historians
The 1784 election contest for the constituency of Westminster was one of the most hotly contested in history, ‘forty days of riot, forty days of confusion’ in the words of Pitt the Younger . Aged only 24, Prime Minister Pitt tried to snatch Westminster from the hands of self-proclaimed ‘man...
Sex scandals are not a new occurrence for the political elite. Though ‘homosexual’ had not emerged as social category until the late-nineteenth century, homosexual sex scandals challenged the heteronormative masculinity of the British government during the nineteenth century. British politics prided itself on close homosocial bonds between politicians, whether in...
Cherish Watton recently published an insightful piece on the representation of gender dynamics in the ITV historical drama, Victoria. Although I have not yet watched the drama, Cherish argues that Victoria is a nostalgic work rather than a historical documentary. In other words, the compromised representation of Queen Victoria as...
As a new father I’ve become, amongst other things, a regular reader of NCT Matters, the quarterly magazine of the National Childbirth Trust. The most recent edition was a Father’s Day special, celebrating the ‘active and important’ role of dads bringing up their children. This might suggest a welcome progression...
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