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Somerville Historian: July 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Wednesday, 30 July 2014. A member of our household recently received a new passport from Her Majesty’s Passport Office. The famous sea arch of Dorset. There are pictures of moorland, and of rolling hills much like the South Downs. The landscape itself, which we could all agree to love. For historians and nation-builders, nationalists and patriots in the 19. This is the United Kingdom. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Somerville Historian: How to Vote

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Thursday, 7 May 2015. The Polish royal election of 1573, as imagined by Jan Matejko (d. 1893). On UK Election Day (which on this occasion has been awaited for the unusually long span of five full years), what do our late medieval and Renaissance forbearers tell us about how to vote? Although we think of it as a period of mighty monarchies, 15. The UK party leaders, these were always transgressed).

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Somerville Historian: Oświęcim or Auschwitz?

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Monday, 27 October 2014. Earlier this month, I attended a conference. In Poland on the Jagiellonians. A favourite national dynasty representing a lost golden age. The conference, jointly organised by the Universities of Warsaw and Katowice, was held in the medium-sized, southern town of Oświęcim – in the 15. Is it, and should it always be, 1944 in this pocket of Europe? As a British citizen from the Polish diaspo...

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Somerville Historian: February 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Monday, 17 February 2014. Not just the students who are learning. In particular, I’m now aware of just how deeply indebted my new European Research Council Research project. 8217; course, which is meant to showcase interdisciplinary ways of studying the past, has shaped the ERC project just as much. Many colleges make ‘Approaches’ compulsory for first years, so that students get a panoramic sense ...Natalia is Pr...

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Somerville Historian: August 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Sunday, 31 August 2014. Two Men From Gdansk. Photo by Alina Zienowicz. Although it may not have made much of a splash in the British or US press, the selection of Donald Tusk as the new president of the European Council. But what of the historical significance? Last night, Polish journalists. Was relocated to France to rule the duchy of Lorraine. Asking if Poland, with her geopolitical weight and economic success...

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Somerville Historian: October 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Monday, 27 October 2014. Earlier this month, I attended a conference. In Poland on the Jagiellonians. A favourite national dynasty representing a lost golden age. The conference, jointly organised by the Universities of Warsaw and Katowice, was held in the medium-sized, southern town of Oświęcim – in the 15. Is it, and should it always be, 1944 in this pocket of Europe? As a British citizen from the Polish diaspo...

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Somerville Historian: May 2015

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Thursday, 7 May 2015. The Polish royal election of 1573, as imagined by Jan Matejko (d. 1893). On UK Election Day (which on this occasion has been awaited for the unusually long span of five full years), what do our late medieval and Renaissance forbearers tell us about how to vote? Although we think of it as a period of mighty monarchies, 15. The UK party leaders, these were always transgressed).

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Somerville Historian: May 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Thursday, 22 May 2014. Photo by Francisco Antunes. Before the challenges of an Oxford Trinity term started, I spent a week in Alsace, one of Europe’s great borderlands. Alsace occupies a plain between the Vosges and Black Forest mountains, full of vineyards, medieval villages and ruined castles. Perhaps the most famous of the Alsatian castles is Haut-Koenigsbourg. Kaiser Wilhelm II, castle enthusiast. A Corner of...

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Somerville Historian: Dolphins in the Bodleian

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Monday, 12 January 2015. Dolphins in the Bodleian. After a long, busy autumn term of teaching and running a research project (hence the gap in blog posts, apologies), last week I finally ventured back into the Bodleian Library, and found a new exhibition in the entrance hall. Aldus Manutius:The Struggle and the Dream. At a time when academic publishing is again going through a major metamorphosis, and experiencin...

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Somerville Historian: March 2014

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Is a Tutor and Lecturer in Early Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Monday, 10 March 2014. How do current events in Ukraine look to historians? Historians are often reluctant to commenting on fast-moving crises, because we are trained to sit back, ponder, cogitate and reach conclusions slowly and carefully; it’s not a natural reflex to offer instant verdicts. So far, Timothy Snyder – author of the seminal. Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania and Belarus, 1569-1999. History Faculty, Oxford.