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Month: February 2016

The Small Beginnings of my Transnational Project

After approximately 500,000 widely varied, hardly developed ideas, none of which particularly excited, I think I have finally come up with two potential focusses for my project, which is fortunate given the impending presentation and proposal deadline. Having originally been researching

Bernhard Struck February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

Endless Amount of Questions

As I work on my project proposal for tomorrow, I am still facing fundamental issues with finding the appropriate or ideal topic. The past six weeks has given me a seemingly strong basis of Transnational History, its reach, abilities, short

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When Things Start to Come Together

In last week’s blog post I wrote about the difficulties I had finding the sort of sources I would need to get kick-started on my project. My topic, whilst not yet clearly defined, revolves around the fact that welfare states

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Unexpected Discoveries

A challenge I have found when doing my own research is where to find sources. I began with a few books from the library and then scoured the footnotes, writing down any titles that seemed to be of relevance or

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Reading Werner and Zimmermann in Conjunction with developing a Project Idea

For this week’s blog post, I would like to give an update on my ideas for the Project with reference to Werner & Zimmermann’s article on histoire croisée (Title: ‘Beyond Comparison: Histoire Croisée and the Challenge of Reflexivity,’ available on

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A Project and Its Beginnings

As we near our project proposals and presentations I have begun to narrow down and also to begin to dive into some readings on the top I’ve chosen and as I have done this I have begun to cultivate a

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Well I have a project idea but lets see if it’s workable!

Having skimmed one or two journal articles about the study of sex in transnational history I came across a mention of an epidemic of venereal disease in Germany right at the end of the Second World War, apparently thanks to

Bernhard Struck February 29, 2016 Discussion, Uncategorized Read more

Introducing “European Sailors Clothing in Transnational Perspective, 1750-1790”

The clothing worn by sailors throughout Western Europe in the late eighteenth century reflected the transnational links and divisions of the maritime world they inhabited. As boats crossed between nations, the men aboard both military and commercial vessels dressed in

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The Long Project and Personal Connection in the Study of History

For the past week I have been researching, thinking and re-thinking potential subjects for my long project. Being presented with such an open project where each aspect of it has to be independently thought out makes you realise the difference

Bernhard Struck February 28, 2016 Uncategorized Read more

From Project Proposal to Presentation

It is great to see the first posts on projects coming in – including the teething problems, how to decide on a topic (you see, that is what we do as academics, PhDs – the world is wide open). Nikos

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The Daunting Task of Practising Transnational History

So, this is the week transnational history starts to get a bit more daunting. Up until this point, we have spent the majority of our time reading the work of historians, trying to grasp an understanding of the approach based on what

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Michael McGerr’s Article and How to Write Transnational History

While many of my colleges I’m sure will be writing on how and what their projects are beginning to look like I felt it only right as I had yet to post about prior reading to begin my blogging with

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Hiccups in My Project Proposal

I’ve been doing research into my potential project, and I’ve been encountering quite a few issues which I am anxious to address. If anyone has any advice for me on how to proceed, I would  be exceedingly grateful. I am

Bernhard Struck February 22, 2016 Discussion Read more

How to Pick a Research Project

Without any assigned readings for this week, and the ‘uncomference’ looming, I felt that my blog posting should reflect my journey towards picking a project proposal. This has been a difficult task for me, and I’ve often jumped from idea

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Practicing Microhistory

As the debate between Microhistory and Global History is raised this week, I would like to focus on Struck, Ferris and Revel’s article, ‘Introduction: Space and Scale in Transnational History’ as the foundation for contemplating scale in history, then look

Bernhard Struck February 15, 2016February 16, 2016 Uncategorized Read more
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