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| Tim Galsworthy I’m writing this piece in a sleep-deprived and highly emotional state. I, like so many other people, have spent the last few days and nights watching bits of an interactive map turn blue and red as the… Continue Reading →
By Tim Galsworthy | I recently came across a New York Times op-ed by Republicans antagonistic to Donald Trump. This group declared their intention to forcibly oppose Donald Trump’s re-election, announcing the formation of the “Lincoln Project” to co-ordinate their… Continue Reading →
By Tim Galsworthy I recently holidayed in Budapest and, at the first available opportunity, ventured to the outskirts of the city to visit Memento Park. Memento Park was created in the aftermath of the Cold War as a site where Budapest’s… Continue Reading →
By Chris Bennett | Crafting a history PhD proposal that is both personally interesting enough to sustain your interest for three years and something an organisation might possibly fund is a process almost as convoluted as this sentence. Whilst putting… Continue Reading →
By Sam Grinsell | On 22 June 2017, Durham University played host to Ask the Experts, an event designed to help PhD students and early-career researchers (ECRs) understand how to approach the highly competitive academic job market. There were four… Continue Reading →
By Sibyl Adam | Public engagement, or its more convoluted brethren, impact, has always seemed a bit obvious to me. Why wouldn’t you be interested in institutions and groups outside of academia, and why wouldn’t they be interested in you? Clearly… Continue Reading →
by Diya Gupta | Organising an external speaker series at King’s College London descended on me rather serendipitously. I was setting up a reading group for postcolonial theory at the time (which, in the end, never quite took off), and… Continue Reading →
By Richard Parfitt | Every year, on the 12th July (‘the Twelfth’), members of the Orange Order march to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne. At this battle, near Drogheda on the Irish east coast, the Protestant… Continue Reading →
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