EPOCH History Magazine

17/09/2025

How can digital heritage improve collaboration across museums, cultures, and nations? Can it impede progress? Is it all about power politics?

In Issue 21, Yuxin Tao analysed the potential for digital heritage to shape the global heritage sector.

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At the British Museum, I stood before a delicate silk painting from Dunhuang. Behind the glass, a seated Buddha looked out with calm detachment, flanked by two donor figures. The caption read: 'Paintings from the Silk Roads collected by Aurel Stein'. It provided a brief biography of the Hungarian-Br...

09/09/2025

We hope you've enjoyed the release of Issue 21, 'Heritage & Memory'!

Over the coming months we'll be sharing many of the pieces featured, kicking off with a fascinating article from one of Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference (LHPC) 2025's speakers, Megan Schlanker.

Read on to discover how British museums shifted their approach to children's education during the Second World War 👇

In the late 1930s, the staff of the Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch, East London, were witnessing a rise in children visiting the museum.

01/09/2025

🎉Issue 21 is now live!🎉

Join us for a journey through Heritage and Memory across periods, localities, and topics. From museum practice and Salesian missions and archival legacies of a twentieth century Black British Educationalist Movement to digital memorialisation of Dunhuang and regional heritage in Northern Ireland, there's something for everyone in this diverse collection of outstanding original research.

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24/08/2025

There's only a week to go until the release of Issue 21, themed around the topics of 'Heritage & Memory'. To whet your appetite, we've delved into the EPOCH archives to find articles on similar themes...

In June 2022, as part of Issue 8, Amy Stanning examined a set of sugar cutters in the Judges Lodgings Museum, Lancaster, to highlight the connections between the artefact and the world around it.

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Volunteering at the Judges Lodgings Museum Lancaster is the perfect role for a historian. The opportunity to explain the place of what is La

16/08/2025

How did the Scottish author and Poet, Nan Shephard, inspire later generations of writers to employ nature writing to push for social change?

In Issue 20, Maggie Langford returned to the pages of EPOCH to explore this fascinating topic.

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Climate, nature and environmentalism are words that can ignite both passion and concern. Concepts including eco-criticism and eco-poetics float on the periphery of more dominant theories such as ecology, science and environmental land management.

11/08/2025

How did disability activists contribute to the increasingly unstable political landscape of Hungary in the late 1980s?

In our previous issue, Boglárka Kőrösi explored this fascinating fight for disabled rights.

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The above quote is the opening of a petition that was proposed by the youth department of the Hungarian National Association of People with Physical Disabilities (MEOSZ) in 1989. This petition was submitted as part of a street demonstration in Budapest, which was organised with the aim of raising aw...

03/08/2025

We now have less than a month to go until the publication of Issue 21, themed around the topics of 'Heritage and Memory'!

With that in mind, why not delve back into Issue 20? Adis Kovačević explored reservoir landscapes across the United Kingdom, themselves part of the UK's national heritage landscape.

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Water impounding schemes have been around since antiquity: from the drought-prone plains of India, over irrigation systems of Egypt, and to Roman dams in present-day Spain. Security in water provision represented - and continues to be - a major human preoccupation. The concerns resulting from indust...

29/07/2025

A turbulent region, laced with complex legacies of colonial rule.

In Issue 20, Siddhant Joshi analysed the birth of the Bangladeshi state.

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It is 1947 in the Indian subcontinent – the year of the birth of the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. This event is known for the trauma that succeeded it – the Partition of India and the first Indo-Pak War. 1947 would define the politics, warfare and society of the subcon...

16/07/2025

Can we reconstruct the lives of ancient female philosophers? What challenges do we face in attempting to do so?

In Issue 20, Aimee Wilkinson explored the lives, deaths, and afterlives of ancient female philosophers.

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In scholarly discussions of ancient Western philosophy, female philosophers are rarely mentioned. This can partially be explained by the fact that none of their works have survived, so our understanding of them can now only be reached through the descriptions provided in other ancient texts. The sam...

08/07/2025

How did feral horses come to settle in Southern Namibia?

In issue 20, Vincenzo Cohen analysed the competing theories as to the origins of feral horses in south-west Africa, and their struggle for survival today.

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https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/feral-horses

29/06/2025

Have you ever pondered inter-communal relations in the medieval world?

In our June issue, Brandon M. Bender investigated the history of Inuit-Norse contact in medieval Greenland - a glimpse into a fascinating subject.

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The Norse Greenlanders and Inuit may not appear to have much in common at first glance, but they have a fascinating shared history. Each had moved into Greenland from elsewhere and shared it from roughly the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. These two very different cultures – one from Europe a...

22/06/2025

What can petitions tell us about politics in the Plantagenet world?

Josh Coulthard examines an underutilised source base, and provided a tutorial for others looking to do the same!👇

The Article-> https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/voices-from-the-margins-the-politics-of-petitioning-in-the-plantagenet-world
The Tutorial -> https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/epoch-tutorials-reading-resistance

Firstly, follow the link to the National Archives search bar or follow this link to the SC 8 catalogue. From here, you can search for any term that you believe might appear in the petition description. Some examples might include ‘wife’, ‘rebel’ or ‘York’. To see only results from SC 8, ...