EPOCH History Magazine

26/10/2025

How did British Afro-Caribbean communities form grassroots educational movements in response to racialised government policy?

In Issue 21, Emmanuel Adeyemi-Abere explored how historic injustices continue to shape the Black British community.

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If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does the tree still make a sound? This thought experiment, though somewhat abstract, rings close to home for one British demographic than one might first think. The Afro-Caribbean diaspora laid down roots in significant numbers in Britain after the en...

19/10/2025

Do you have a favourite heritage site, museum, or preserved object?

From the Roman Republic to post-Soviet Hungary, via Canterbury and the industrial North East of England, the EPOCH team recently explored their favourites.

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The summer break in the academic year gives historians and historically minded people the perfect opportunity to take a break from their work and enjoy a holiday, or at the very least some well deserved time away from their offices.

12/10/2025

Historians often find many unexpected connections between their research interests, but do we ever take the time to explore them?

In Issue 21, Anna Drury and Laura Noller sat down to discuss French s*x workers in two very different contexts.

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Anna Drury and Laura Noller talk French prostitution across centuries and continents. Anna’s research centres on the history of the s*x workers’ movement in Brazil; exploring the nation’s colonial and imperial legacies and their resonances for s*x worker activists. Laura’s work focuses on th...

05/10/2025

Generations of Glaswegian memories, immortalised within one building.

In Issue 21, Dr Karen Mailley explored the captivating history behind Lansdowne Church and the individuals who designed some of its most enchanting features.

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Memory can be a complex and complicated thing. As time progresses, memories can fade, alter, or transform into entirely false versions of events. Furthermore, how each individual remembers an event is entirely subjective and unique to that person.

29/09/2025

Irish identities have long since provoked discussions on societal conflict and division, but how were they utilised at the Ulster Folk Museum to enrich visitors' understandings of a complex cultural landscape?

In Issue 21, Carys Tyson-Taylor investigated the work of the pioneering scholar Emyr Estyn Evans.

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In 1963, a two-roomed thatched cottage - originally located at the foot of Binevenagh Mountain in County Derry/Londonderry - was reconstructed in Cultra, just outside Belfast.

21/09/2025

Has Henry III been judged unfairly by historians, or was he really a 'useless' monarch? Fraser Wilmot recently analysed the Plantagenet king's troubled reign.

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The Tewkesbury annals describe a rather bizarre occurrence at the 1258 Westminster Parliament. On his way into Parliament, King Henry III was met by the intimidating sight of his barons in full armour.

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...