15/02/2022
1810, France
Embroidered silk satin dress
MAD Paris
Eighteenth-Century Worlds is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Liverpool.
Study and research into the global eighteenth century
Eighteenth-Century Worlds is an interdisciplinary initiative involving scholars and curators at the University of Liverpool and National Museums Liverpool. The centre aims to promote research in the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural life of the ‘long’ eighteenth century (1650-1850). Taking as our starting point our locati
15/02/2022
1810, France
Embroidered silk satin dress
MAD Paris
08/10/2021
Videos for all panels of the Bath250 conference last weekend are now openly available through the links on this thread.
Prof Elaine Chalus on Twitter “BATH250 conference: videos of all panels are now online for the next 2 wks, courtesy of the wonderful . See below for links. Those registered for the conference shd receive an email with all links early next week. Programme here: https://t.co/MYBwJBivPZ”
11/05/2020
//BLOG// To celebrate 75 years since VE Day, we've put together a blog post all about the famous sites in Liverpool that changed drastically during WWII. Read more about the city's iconic landmarks here:
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/blog/2020/ve-day-special-liverpools-most-famous-sites/
11/05/2020
//NEWS// Our very own Dr William Ashworth has been featured on BBC Radio Three's 'New Thinking' series. Click the link to find out more and listen to the podcast now. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/history/news/stories/title,1203311,en.html
01/02/2020
It wasn’t just the National Archives. The Library of Congress also balked at a Women’s March photo. Anti-Trump signs prompted officials to pull the picture days before an exhibit opened.
05/08/2019
Peterloo Page and Screen. Professor John Belchem and Dr Jacqueline Riding in conversation — Peterloo 1819 - Protest. Democracy. Freedom. Thu 15 Aug, 6pm – 7pm Free, booking required Historians Jacqueline Riding and John Belchem explore the events and characters behind Mike Leigh’s epic feature film ‘Peterloo’ and the process of transferring history from books and archives to the big screen. Jacqueline Riding was the productio...
09/02/2019
And, no, Queen Anne didn't keep rabbits.
Professor Elaine Chalus is interviewed about the depiction of Queen Anne in The Favourite.
So who really was Queen Anne? The truth about The Favourite's forgotten monarch Separating the historical facts from fiction
19/01/2019
At the end of the long 18C. Dr Christienna Fryar on what abolition and emancipation actually meant.
Liv Uni History on Twitter “Dr Christienna Fryar from speaks to about Sam Sharpe, the abolition of slavery and "what emancipation was and wasn't in the 1830s and onwards". https://t.co/1rxSizlsx5”
14/11/2018
America Is Divided by Education The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.
12/11/2018
In Mons, Belgians turn out to remember their Canadian liberators of 1918 Mons, Belgium, was the last town to be recaptured from the Germans before the end of the First World War. The Montreal regiment that was there in 1918 returned Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary.
04/06/2018
Runaway Slaves in Britain :: Home Runaways is an initiative led by School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with ...???