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Pueblo Bonito at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Photo by mksfca, Creative Commons Flickr.
Digging and Controlling the Past — Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology

1 March 2018

Prague - Lois Roberts blog piece
"It made me realise that history really was just outside my doorstep" — Lois shares her study abroad experience in Prague

27 February 2018

Liverpool Docks
Liverpool: Celebrating 10 years as the Capital of Culture

14 February 2018

Baptismal font from a church in later sixth-century Clupea (modern Kélibia, Tunisia). Now in the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
"It’s two institutions presenting rival claims on the loyalties of North African Christians" – Dr Robin Whelan discusses Being Christian in Vandal Africa

8 February 2018

Woman in front of a monument
Why did Suffragette Edith Rigby plant a bomb at the Cotton Exchange in Liverpool?

6 February 2018

Body Modern by Michael Sappol
"I decided we should have an illustration that is not a body factory" — MA Cultural History student chats to Michael Sappol

31 January 2018

A woman holding a Roma flag
Opinion: Anti-Roma stigma of Czech president Miloš Zeman threatens progress over Romani rights

24 January 2018

A group of young people on a boat in Shanghai
Taking a year abroad - are you adventurous enough to come and live in China?

19 January 2018

Portait photo of a young man
Our top tips to beat the Blue Monday blues this January

15 January 2018

Newspaper article about the International Slavery Museum
Exploring perceptions of Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum

15 December 2017

University of Georgia campus.
An experience to remember - PhD research at University of Georgia

8 December 2017

Emma Copestake
Let's meet...a history masters graduate

7 December 2017

Photo of Robert Mugabe.
Robert Mugabe’s resignation - an extraordinary week in Zimbabwe's history

1 December 2017

Historic records.
Victorian vagrants - researching female criminals from the Victorian era

5 October 2017

Black and white portrait of James Sims
Statues of medical racist who experimented on enslaved people should also be taken down

23 August 2017

'But if it DID happen' headline from newspaper
Nuclear stories: understanding nuclear anxiety through storytelling

23 August 2017

Archive image of a police officer and police dog
The 'Sniffing the Past' app - take a dog's eye view of the city in London, Paris and New York

1 August 2017

Wendy Asquith
Pursuing a career in academia - history alumna Wendy Asquith tells her success story

31 July 2017

Gender blog post
Transforming Ideas about Gender at Sudley House

23 June 2017

Galleries showing ceramics and decorative arts
Fine china cups and shipping tycoons - decorative art explored at the Victoria Gallery and Museum

19 June 2017