Galileo Galilei is credited with taking the first historical landmark in space exploration; his first telescopic observation of the night sky discovered the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus. These discoveries and Galilei’s involvement in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century saw the progress of space exploration catalyse rapidly. Galilei’s discoveries would […]
In the nineteenth century, Britain developed a reputation within Europe for religious tolerance. In the last quarter of the century, antisemitism in Western Europe saw a transformation from being rooted in religion to being a question of race. The advent of racial antisemitism as the primary current of anti-Jewish hate was brought on by the […]
1st May 1963: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during his visit to the Soviet Union. (AP Photo/ Tass) 4th May 1963: A civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Photo/ Bill Hudson) 11th June 1963: The Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc, burns himself in Saigon […]
We are delighted to announce the article titles for Issue 34, the first issue of the academic year! We are very excited to be working on this year’s issues, and would love for you to write for us! This issue’s special feature is on Protest and Revolution. We are hoping to publish a series of […]
Professor Paul Fouracre’s book Frankish History: Studies in the Construction of Power has recently been published in Ashgate’s Variorum Collected Studies Series. Dr Yangwen Zheng edited The Chinese Chameleon Revisited: From the Jesuits to Zhang Yimou which was also published recently. Dr Pedro Ramos Pinto wrote a chapter entitled ‘Why Inequalities Matter’ published in Reducing […]
Although we may be buried under a mountain of essays, dreading the thought of exams and dying from a medley of diseases, the debacle of the end of term does signal one good thing; Christmas is coming! In honour of this, we have devoted this issue to winter festivities, from the religious, to the pagan, […]
When a controversial bill is passed through Parliament in England, the streets surrounding Westminster may suddenly turn red or blue, either in support or opposition. Sometimes the streets turn into a rainbow. Yet in Argentina, the streets near the Palace of the Argentine National Congress have turned green for over two decades. But why the […]
Why are women always excluded from the retelling of historical events? This overlooked segment of the population plays a far greater role in rebellions and the resistance than we are led to believe. In the Algerian revolution women proved indispensable, holding greater importance to the resistance than their male counterparts. This article aims to rectify […]
In 500 BC, in a relatively obscure kingdom in Italy, a noblewoman was raped by the son of the king. 2,200 years later, the American Constitution was enshrined into law after the success of the American Revolution. If you believe in the butterfly effect, you may think that the latter might have never happened without […]
It was with a piqued imagination and a tantalizing curiosity that I walked up the pathway towards the beautiful Lowry complex and into the ravishing Lyric Theater on the morning of Sunday the 10th of November to attend the third annual TEDxSalford! True to the TED spirit that is devoted to ‘ideas worth spreading’, it […]
In 1869, Henry Morton Stanley went in search of the famous explorer, Dr. David Livingstone. Upon reaching the town of Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Stanley encountered a white man and uttered one of the most famous sentences in the history of exploration: “Dr Livingstone I presume?” This fateful meeting captured the minds […]
The expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 was a relatively quick and efficient affair. The order that the Jews were to leave the country by All Saints day (1 November) was issued on 18 July and the last of the Jews had left England less than four months later. Despite what the so-called […]
Classically, gin should be served with cubes of ice, a wedge of lime and tonic water. But where do the tonic and lime come from? Tonic contains quinine which has antimalarial properties and became an important mixer with gin for colonial British officers, initially in South Asia but also in Africa. Lime was originally added […]
1. January 20 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to a fourth term as President of the United States, the only President ever to exceed two terms. 2. January 27th the Soviet Red Army liberates the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps. Photograph of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during liberation. 3. 14th April Bearers put […]