Laura Sangha Last week, I delivered the introductory lecture for a second year undergraduate module, ‘Doing History’, and for various tedious reasons, I also recently spent some time reading, refle…

Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…

Exclusive: The former education secretary on her new role as Labour chair and continuing as the minister for women and equalities

Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop

Shakespeare mentions dragons over 5 times in his plays, and all of his descriptions give fearsome images and terrifying attributes.

Four weeks ago, the university that I have been working at for 9 years announced massive, unjustified, reckless job cuts, predominantly targeting the humanities, arts and social sciences.

This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…

This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…

This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…

Annual statistics on participation in higher education by pupil and study characteristics.

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Just half of white working-class pupils say they’re likely to attend university, compared with 82 per cent of their middle-class peers

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

The University of Exeter has recorded sweeping success in the latest prestigious international ranking, reflecting its strong teaching and research excellence. Exeter has recorded significant, double-...

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

Alcoholic drinks played a vital role in premodern societies. People have gathered around drinks for centuries, conveying social meanings and creating cultural customs. The trade in beer, wine, and mea...

The Records of Early Football series highlights types of evidence and sources central to the study of medieval and early modern football, as compiled in the REF database. This post spotlights court…

Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...

Economics, politics, and custom at the country mill: Bovey Tracey, Devon, 1599–1732

Jobs and tasks offer very different ways of investigating the nature of work. Jobs or occupations summarize the unique aspects that characterize a person’s overall work activities, while work tasks fo...

It’s a historic time for Scottish football: the men’s national team has qualified for the World Cup, ending a near three-decade drought. Scotland’s rugby (football) team has a cha…

Mark HailwoodI needed to try something to get me writing again. Blessed with a period of research leave to resume work on my book – Everyday Life in the Seventeenth Century English Village &#…

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.