SOAS History Blog Podcast, Ep. 1: Black Caribbean Experiences of Racism, Discrimination and the State
SOAS History Blog Podcast Ep 1: Black Caribbean experiences of Racism, Discrimination and the State
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?
History and Amnesia: Reflections on David Blight’s “Race and Reunion: the Civil War in American Memory” (Harvard University Press, 2001)
An examination of ‘historical amnesia’ informed by a review of David Blight’s well known 2001 text.
Community Profile: Dr Andrea Janku, Senior Lecturer in the History of China
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.
Ibrahim Elias Gejou and Old Babylonian Omens
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.