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While researching for my short essay on the development of transnational history and its impact on the historiography of women’s history, I came across another dimension that I could incorporate into my project: that of gender history and theory. While

The unconference was an interesting exercise for me in evaluating how I work and think versus how my peers work and think. While I have looked up “polish women migration” “polish women transition period” so many times at this point,

Saturday’s unconference was really helpful for me. I was quite intimidated by the idea of sitting and writing with someone looking over my shoulder, but it was actually really nice to be able to talk out my idea and narrow

I found the exercise of pair writing very challenging, and there might be several reasons for that. Firstly, as I am still in the process of very early research for my essay, I felt that my ideas were not  formed

Today, conflict and ‘law’ are inseparable. The ‘Hauge Laws’ regulate conflict, proscribing weapons which cause unnecessary suffering, as well as the targeting of civilians. These proscriptions can be traced to the 1868 preamble to the St Petersburg Declaration prohibiting explosive

Tourism is not only a major force within a country’s economy, but also vital within the Western cultural lifestyle. [1] Within Europe, tourism provided some reconstruction of normality after the tragedies of the Second World War.[2]The twentieth century brought about new understandings

International Women’s Movements and Transnational Feminism: International Women’s Organisations in the Interwar Years Muthunlakshmi Reddi, founder-president of the Women’s Indian Association, stated at the 1933 International Council of Women that “from its infancy, the women’s movement was international in character”.[1]

Commercialized Peripheries: The role of legal and illegal northern European trade in the colonial Spanish Southern Cone (1802-18077)      The Atlantic Ocean is more than a stretch of water between continents. Rather, it is an arena for trade, migration, conflict,

  France, at the end of the 1960s, saw nuclear protest movements emerge because of rising ecological fears.[1]Meanwhile, in 1967, ‘Nature and Youth’ formed in Norway as a radical environmentalist group.[2] Clearly, there existed a European trend of environmental mobilisation in Europe

The Cold War has commonly been interpreted as the antithesis to globalisation. Following the Second World War, rather than being united in peace, the world was harshly divided into two distinct camps. The Iron Curtain separating East and West was

What does a postmodernist historiographical approach reveal about the driving determinants that inform post-Soviet Belarusian and Ukrainian textbooks’ origin of nationhood and conception of ‘nation’? As one of the biggest stages for international conflict throughout the twentieth century, Eastern Europe

Project Title – Rapanui and the Obliteration of Isolated Civilizations: Causes, Effects, and Methods of Comprehension  Word Count: 656  Rapanui, a tiny grass-covered rock that is more commonly referred to as Easter Island, is the most isolated island in the Pacific

Here’s the file so footnotes are also available to be seen 🙂

As I have been narrowing my focus as we approach our project proposals, I have found the recent conflicts in Eastern Europe to be particularly pertinent to my research. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has provoked a lot of questions among