We Need to Talk about the History of Rape
It seems impossible to deny the ubiquity of sexualised forms of violence against gendered bodies, and that things need to change. We need to keep talking about it.
The 1951 Oil Strike in Iran: Student–Worker Solidarity Against Colonial Capitalism
The 1951 Oil Strike in Iran is characterised by an unprecedented solidarity and collaboration between students and workers in their fight against colonial capitalism.
Lesbian Sex is Holding Hands: Why Depictions of Lesbian Desire Matter in UK Historical Dramas
t best this leads to far too many people asking the average lesbian minding their own business: ‘But, how do you even have sex?’ At worst, it snowballs into misconceptions of the longevity of queer, gender, and even racial and disability emancipation movements throughout history.
SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep 5: Family Histories of Migration
Researching family histories of migration from Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda – extracts of the SOAS History Blog event ‘Family Histories of Migration;.
Rapping the Decolonisation of ‘America’ – Rapear la decolonización de ‘América’
[Traducción al español incluida.] Ana Nenadović discusses Residente’s new single This is not America, establishing connections between the lyrics, the music video and relevant theoretical debates, and examining the contributions of creative practices to the decolonisation of our minds.
SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 4: The Ramayana – History as Storytelling, Storytelling as History
Listen to our two part episode about the Ramayana, the history of story telling, and the place of storytelling in history.
When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century
Many of the artefacts we see today in the ‘Ancient Near East’ collections of European and American museums were purchased in the late 19th and early 20th century from dealers who specialised in smuggling archaeological artefacts to Europe from Baghdad.
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SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 3: Sudanese History through Music
More about this episode Saffa Khalil Interviewee Saffa is an interdisciplinary researcher and recent SOAS graduate in History and African Studies. Her work is mainly concerned with the ability of music to shape our understanding of transnational identities and historiography. Dissertation Abstract: From intimate moments to more comprehensive historical events, Sudanese music provides a lens…
Joseph Svoboda: Selling Clay Tablets in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad
The diaries of steamship officer and artefact trader Joseph Svoboda reveal both the personal and political sides of archeological trading in the late 19th t early 20th centuries.
Living in Dangerous Times: Liu Rushi and the Late Ming Epidemics
What happens if the histories of epidemics and other environmental factors are taken seriously? Will it change our understanding of historical processes?