#Past

All those who think tv representations of the past don’t matter and don’t impact on wider public memory, do have a read on Tim Edensor’s work on Braveheart ... or
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My initial reaction to @SimonClarkeMP's inane take on British history was despondency, but my students convinced me it's worth engaging - so here is a thread, since this really is
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I had just turned 19 and finished a 1 year secretarial course. A job was more important than anything else, any job. I sent out 300 CVs and got no
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Why are we so convinced that our scientifically superior analysis of a very few remaining texts is superior to the ancient knowledge of their own past based on many texts
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I wake up early in the morning and spend the first couple hrs of my day reading and sometimes writing.  My kitty Feona always crawls up beside me and snuggles
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Had a chance to catch some of this this afternoon. Certainly interesting, and Phoenix always tells a very compelling story. But it behoves me, once again, to take issue with
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“Our language”... about that:English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European family. It first came to these islands through Angles, Saxons and Jutes—migrants from the continent who brought their
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The decision of the HRD Ministry of Union Govt, and the UGC is absolutely absurd and probably from an alternate universe. I urge UGC to not make this a silly
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A meaningful understanding of history starts with understanding not what happened but what drove it to happen, and that begins with the way people in history lived, the simplest parts
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im realizing that a lot of newer kinfolk don't understand kin terminology and stuff like that so i decided to create a little thread of resources and advice for someone
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I thought of this tweet today and took you up on your challenge @BrettCainBooks. While I was writing I was impressed to look back on previous entries in my journal
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#Archaeology31 Short thread on #gender in prehistory.It is generally accepted that biological sex, which can be estimated from skeletal remains, may differ from gender which is a person's social identity
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1. Does nature conservation in England today accurately mimic traditional land use in the past? No, in some important respects argues Fuller et al.Novel forms of conservation, including #rewilding ,
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Given I’m always supportive of any initiative that showcases women and our contributions to society and culture, I have to admit to being a bit taken aback by the tone
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I interacted with 100+ students in the past week, all of them from class 11/Science. Here are some observations : Percentages are approximate. 1. 80% of students have never heard
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Like many, I suspect, I’ve been thinking about the events of the last year and thinking about my study of history. I really love the period of the American Revolution.
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