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Can filmed representations of the past contribute to historical knowledge?

“History is a subject primarily concerned with the crafting of narratives,” writes Dipesh Chakrabarty (1998). For this reason above all,...

The second lecture I watched at the Cambridge History Masterclass (preceded by Gendering British Politics by Dr Ben Griffin) was...

On Saturday 10th February I journeyed to Cambridge bright and early in the morning to attend their History Masterclass. The train I took...

My grandfather (my Pappou) was born in the Peloponnese in 1930 and grew up around Athens. He was just a teenager when the Greek Civil War...

Relations between Greece and Turkey have been rocky for centuries. The battle between Greek ambitions for independence and Ottoman...

Darkest Hour is a drama directed by Joe Wright and starring Gary Oldman as Sir Winston Churchill. Given that I have been studying the...

This year I participated in my school's heat of the Historical Association's Great Debate which is an annual debate for students and keen...

Jadwiga (Hedvig in Hungarian) was born in Hungary at some time in the winter of 1373-4 to father King Louis I of Poland and Hungary and...

I have always had a strong love for cinema for as long as I can remember. As you may be able to tell from the mere existence of this...

The Greek Civil war was one of the most crucial early stages of the Cold War and yet gets often very little attention. It embodied the...