History

Melbourne book explores slow conversion from institution that ‘excluded and dehumanised’ Aborigines into one that ‘accelerated their inclusion and success’

Concerns raised about Law and Justice candidate Karol Nawrocki’s role leading Institute of National Remembrance

Survey by the Royal Historical Society finds axe is falling most heavily on post-92 institutions

Unique course denied reprieve as staff say loss of 62 colleagues means averting further cuts is ‘no victory’

Academic exploration of leading university’s traditions uncovers dispossession, eugenics and grave robbing

Critics’ claim that research on British policy in Northern Ireland will be influenced by ministers is incorrect, says Ian McBride

Historians to be granted full access to state archives, but critics question relationship to controversial Legacy Act

Booker Prize-winning author is latest arts leader to speak out against job shedding at celebrated university

Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge 

Development of ‘cold spots’ without arts and humanities programmes prompts calls for more strategic approach to university provision

Timothy Snyder and Serhii Plokhii among researchers joining project founded by philanthropist Victor Pinchuk

As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon

Church of Ireland Historical Society removes references to founder following accusations of child sexual abuse

Union criticises Chichester’s plan to sack Hakim Adi, first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history

For a historian, the most gripping work does not entail vindicating or impeaching, but exploring how and why, says Alison Bashford

The reaction to James Sweet’s article about presentism – including his own – compromises genuine scholarly debate, says Jonathan Zimmerman

Studying images, rather than texts, would allow history students to better grasp colonised peoples’ agency, says Apurba Chatterjee

Head of state accused of ‘chilling’ research with three-year block

Olivette Otele criticises employer’s reliance on her research, saying overwork and back-stabbing led her to burnout

Mobile phones may distract students, but apps can bring the past alive for students and the public alike, says Fabrizio Nevola

Mental illness has been depicted as the primary occupational health hazard of UK student life since the 1950s, says Sarah Crook

A publisher’s move to correct the undue influence of pro-Israel groups on a history textbook shows the value of engagement, says John Chalcraft

Carrie Tirado Bramen enjoys a wide-ranging analysis of an important concept that has recently been neglected by scholars

Michael Marinetto enjoys a bold attempt to challenge one of the great pieties of our time

A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

June Purvis enjoys a group biography that offers new insights into the role of British working-class women in the struggle for the vote 

Neve Gordon has reservations about an ambitious analysis ranging across continents and centuries

Cambridge professor discusses swapping engineering for history, why researchers overlook the Indian and Pacific oceans, and what it means to offer ‘an environmental lens’ on imperial history

Coyness, contention and competing agendas all hamper historians and sociologists of sex. Matthew Reisz speaks to those who choose, nevertheless, to probe this most sensitive and intimate of subjects

Peter J. Smith gets drowned in the detail of an ambitious study of the playwright’s milieu

The counterfactual approach can open up fascinating new perspectives and give a voice to the neglected ‘losers’ of history, professors say

Scholars attacked for research into colonialism and atrocities of empire need professional support and counselling, says broadcaster

The author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century on finding girls and women in history, archaeology’s ‘heroic’ age and the cultural impact of ‘Egyptomania’

Geoffrey Cantor has mixed feelings about a bold attempt to put a 14th-century friar at the heart of our understanding of science

A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Ruby Guyatt enjoys a wide-ranging account of how developments in religion have often been shaped by changes in the climate

Susan McHugh enjoys a detailed analysis of how our relations with dogs reveal some essential truths about what it means to be human

University libraries are changing in major ways, but there are important lessons to be learned from the past, argues author of new book

John Barry enjoys a bold attempt to rethink our political priorities in the light of the ecological crisis

Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity

The professor of psychiatry and author of Of Fear and Strangers discusses learning about America from Twain, the ‘history of xenophobia’ and how to address it

Ann Hughes enjoys a richly detailed account of how Henry VIII imposed his power over the church

Ambitious AHRC-funded programme should help break down barriers and enable scholars to ask difficult questions about heritage

Evolution of indexes closely tied to development of universities, says author, who outlines how they have been used for centuries to settle scholarly scores

Writing, speaking and advising offer the rewards of scholarly life without the constraints and contradictions of universities, says Harvey Graff

Johann N. Neem enjoys a sharp historical analysis of why the humanities always seem to be overpromising on what they can do

Global HE community urged to help rescue scholars and students as outlook is potentially ‘disastrous’, particularly for women

R. C. Richardson enjoys a vivid account of how the French Revolution helped shape new ways of understanding the past

Not before time, the female partners whose intellectual contributions enhanced their husbands’ work get long-overdue credit, writes Emma Rees

Tributes paid to scholar whose ‘vision of rebuilding the humanities and arts’ left deep mark at the City College of New York

Crawford Medal-winning historian on why New Zealand doesn’t have borders, big screens are a good thing and research grant applications are too long

A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Geoffrey Alderman admires a definitive account of a wartime massacre that remains controversial today

Former Hong Kong v-c and expert on the overseas Chinese experience talks about living through nearly a century of Asian history

The historian and author of Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism on cool kids, a comic book shop as edgy as its contents, and international culture wars

Lincoln Allison is not wholly convinced by an analysis of the forces that shape history

Charlotte Jones enjoys a historical account of radical politics that may have important lessons for today

Tributes paid to authority on the American Dream who ‘confounded the supposed dichotomy between the academy and activism’

Years of restrictions have stymied scholars’ work on topics such as the Algerian war of independence, and a new law could cement this lack of access

Now concerned about impact of runaway artificial intelligence, diplomat worries scientific advances have overtaken capacity for reflection on their impact