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.