History on Film

The Second World War exerts a peculiar hold over filmmakers. Although we’re half-way through the centenary of the Great War, and fifteen years into the post-9/11 ‘forever war’ on terror, it’s the 1939-45 conflict that

Technologically inferior, but at one with nature – JK Rowling’s ‘History of Magic in North America’ amounts to little more than a Eurocentric collection of reductive stereotypes that betrays the depth and diversity of indigenous

Tuesday, the 8th of March, was International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate and further the rights of women across the world. Yet, while IWD has been observed in one form or other for

Following the negative response that greeted its cinema release, the movie Regression recently appeared on DVD to little fanfare. In the words of critics, the film inhabited a ‘purgatorial wasteland between cop thriller and Rosemary’s

In her fascinating reflection on the making of Suffragette in Women’s History Review, director Sarah Gavron expresses a hope that the film will ‘provoke discussion’. It certainly has achieved that, not least within the women’s

Why have some women historians been so critical about a recent considerable feminist achievement? It is a question that has preoccupied me over the last few weeks as I have read some very negative comments