Sheffield students

Three years ago when my parents were sorting through my grandmother’s things, they came across a file. When they opened it they thought, “Hattie studies English Literature; I wonder what she’d make of this”. And

The debate on the EU referendum is never far from a historical comparison or ‘lesson’. David Cameron warned that ‘What happens in our neighbourhood matters to Britain. That was true in 1914, 1940, 1989...and it

It's a rare treat when reality television provides us with something other than a sense of dread having wasted an evening in front of the TV. However, the legal struggles of one group of reality

Note from the Editor: Here at History Matters we really do think that, well, history matters. We’re also aware of the huge range of ways history can be done, and histories can be told. From

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

Mother Teresa is to attain the highest honour bestowed on any within the Catholic Church – on the 4th of September this year, she will be made a saint. But her 'fast-tracked' canonisation is seen by