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SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 1: Black Caribbean Experiences of Racism, Discrimination and the State
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SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 1: Black Caribbean Experiences of Racism, Discrimination and the State

By676075 13 July 202114 July 2021

SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 1: Black Caribbean experiences of Racism, Discrimination and the State

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Joseph Svoboda: Selling Clay Tablets in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad
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Joseph Svoboda: Selling Clay Tablets in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad

ByNadia Ghanem 2 July 202117 June 2022

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.

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Living in Dangerous Times: Liu Rushi and the Late Ming Epidemics
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Living in Dangerous Times: Liu Rushi and the Late Ming Epidemics

ByAndrea Janku 1 June 20218 September 2021

What happens if the histories of epidemics and other environmental factors are taken seriously? Will it change our understanding of historical processes?

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History and Amnesia: Reflections on David Blight’s “Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory” (Harvard University Press, 2001)
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History and Amnesia: Reflections on David Blight’s “Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory” (Harvard University Press, 2001)

ByDavid McKee 26 May 202117 June 2022

An examination of ‘historical amnesia’ informed by a review of David Blight’s well known 2001 text.

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Community Profile: Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China
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Community Profile: Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China

ByEllan Lincoln-Hyde 6 May 20218 September 2021

Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China of the School of History, Religions and Philosophies, is the instigator of the SOAS History Blog.

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Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian Omens
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Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian Omens

ByNadia Ghanem 6 May 202126 July 2022

Post-doctoral fellow, Dr Nadia Ghanem, examines the life and work of Ibrahim Elias Gejou who sold almost 18,000 artefacts (cuneiform clay tablets, steeles and amulets) to the British Museum alone.

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