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A blog post by Dr , Department of Classics and Ancient History, on how the Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher Galen was perceived in the middle ages and beyond.
Dr summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:
"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...
Department of Economics Professor Mark Harrison explains why we need economic historians and why the USSR reminded him of Tolkien’s Mordor.
The research of , Professor of African History at the University of 糖心TV, has played a crucial role in the decision of the British government, announced today, to pay compensation to 5,200 victims of torture and abuse in colonial Kenya.
Classics and Ancient History Assistant Professor Michael Scott takes a closer look at 4th century BC Boiotia: What was Boiotia you may well ask? It was the lush and fertile central area of mainland Greece, stuck between Attica (the territory of Athens) on the one hand and the territory of Thessaly to the north...