A Reagan-Era Champion of Human Rights
The Reagan administration’s record on human rights remains highly contested because its commitment was never universal but rather distorted by …
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Reaction to Cameron’s Europe Speech
I hope I will be excused for framing my response to David Cameron’s referendum speech with a personal note, even …
Spielberg's "Lincoln": Basically True
Reblogged from Adam I. P. Smith: Historian: Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln is really a phenomenally good film. Usually historians go to …
The Legacy of Chávez
Hugo Chávez is the most visible Latin America leader in decades. He lies seriously ill in a Cuban hospital, and …
How a practice interview helped me
Reblogged from UCL Careers Service Blog: Joe Mason, a 2nd year B.A. History student recently came to see us and …
Language and Enlightenment: book discussion
The launch discussion of Dr. Avi Lifschitz’s Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century was attended by …
Call for Papers: BrANCH Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop
BrANCH Workshop BrANCH Postgraduate and Early Career Workshop Institute of the Americas, University College London 12 April 2013 We are …
Dr Simon Macdonald awarded Review of English Studies prize
Dr Simon Macdonald has been awarded the Review of English Studies essay prize for 2012 for his essay ‘Identifying Mrs Meeke: Another …
Luxury, austerity and equality in Ancient Greece
On Tuesday evening Professor Hans van Wees, the Department’s Grote Professor of Ancient History, gave an Inaugural Lecture on the …
In Memoriam: Margaret (Peggy) Drower MBE
On 12th November Margaret S. Drower MBE died, just one month short of her 101st birthday. She studied Egyptology at …
