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‘Nothing is heavier than the dead body of someone you loved’

  1917, the First World War and Male Intimacy By Lily Smith   The use of male friendship as an anchoring point within combat and the suggestion that...

Crafting a Way of Life… Review of ‘The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts’

by Peter Smith, undergraduate, School of History and Heritage In 1998, the Bowler family moved into a nineteenth-century terraced house and for three months lived as though they...

Review of Medici: Masters of Florence – Women of the 15th century or the 21st?

By Emma Fox, Level 2 History Undergraduate Netflix’s series Medici: Masters of Florence first aired in December 2016 with its first season focusing on the period of Cosimo...

Review: Bohemian Rhapsody

by Amber Coombs, Level 3 History Undergraduate Nearly 50 years after the formation of one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Bryan Singer (later replaced by...

‘Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812’

by Lauren Boname L2 Undergraduate ‘Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812’ (known as ‘Great Comet’) is a theatre adaptation of Volume II, Part V of Leo...

Review of “Civilisations”

by Poppy Strange Level 3 History student Of all the current documentaries available on the BBC, ‘Civilisations’ is the one must see item. This documentary series is a...

Review of "The Crown": Then vs. Now

by Bryanie Geehan Level 3 History student Netflix’s The Crown depicts the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from 1952 and the death of her father, King George VI, to...

Theatre Review: Gore Vidal's 'The Best Man' in the West End

by Dr Finn Pollard The Best Man in the West End, or, What Makes A Good American President? Plenty of theatre makers in recent times have sought to...

Lincoln’s Scandalous Mistress

By Samantha Ann Rose Brinded Level 3 History student What first drew me to Anya Seton’s 1954 historical fiction, Katherine, was the front cover. Edmund Blair Leighton’s painting,...

Book Review: Mary Beard's Women & Power

by Molly Day-Coombes Level 3 History student Mary Beard’s Women & Power is the adaptation of two lectures she delivered as part of the London Review of Books lecture...