Artistic impression of Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia, when unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were shot at by the Imperial Guard in front of the Winter Palace on 22 January 1905. / Imperial War Museum, Wikimedia Commons Looking at the ideologies of violence and violent practices driving the Russian[…]
Wikimedia Commons Exploring how women’s lives changed during the Russian Revolution, tracing the history of female revolutionaries in Russia and the different ways women documented and participated in events. By Katie McElvanney AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Candidate Queen Mary University What was life like for women before the Russian Revolution? The life experiences of women in the Russian[…]
A 1297 copy of the Magna Carta on display in the Members’ Hall of Parliament House, Canberra, Australia / Wikimedia Commons One of the four surviving 1215 Magna Carta manuscripts was burnt in the Ashburnham House fire of 1731. Then a failed restoration attempt in the 1830s rendered much of its text illegible. In the charter’s 800th anniversary[…]
The Magna Carta (originally known as the Charter of Liberties) of 1215, written in iron gall ink on parchment in medieval Latin, using standard abbreviations of the period, authenticated with the Great Seal of King John / Wikimedia Commons Who were the key personalities in the history of Magna Carta? Find out more about King John, the barons,[…]
Palatine Chapel, Creative Commons Charlemagne hailed from Aachen, where the 1743 Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen Treaty may have created fireworks that later led to the European Union. By Kathleen Lusk Brooke and Zoe G. Quinn Introduction On November 11, 1993, the European Union was formed, and began to change the course of western alliances and global economics. If there[…]
Terracotta amphora, c490 BCE. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Despite a wealth of ancient writings, archaeological remains of instruments, and even inscriptions with musical notation, the question has long been thought intractable. By Dr. Armand D’Angour / 08.08.2018 Associate Professor of Classics Jesuit College University of Oxford They told me, Heraclitus, they told me[…]