The Mexican wave: seemingly bound up with the world of modern sports and television, my work as a travel historian has recently brought me face to face with a much older instance of this clever
Anna Geurts
'Do you iron?' We were lying by the pool, so my friend’s question was an unexpected one. She herself is a non-ironer, and she seemed to be gauging whether this makes her a bad person.
As a historian who has worked on gender performance and the powers and weaknesses that such performances may bring, I have been watching this year's Eurovision Song Contest with some excitement - but also with
This is the fifth in History Matters’ series of blogs on LGBT History. All of the blogs will appear here as they are posted. So LGBT History Month is over. Ironically, if we take this month seriously
British air is too dirty, according to the EU. And Sheffield is one of the cities particularly affected. But who decides what is dirty? As a historian, I see norms of cleanliness shift over the centuries.
This is part of a series of posts commissioned by HistoryMatters in response to the award of the MacArthur 'genius' prize to the historian Robin Fleming for her work on archaeological sources. All of the