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Documentation in the Nazi State Office (NSO), recording the details of the major deportation of Romanies from Osnabrück on 1 March 1943, lists fifty-four people deported to Auschwitz. The document records their names, ages, places of birth, and relationships, alongside an inventory of each person’s personal property.[1] Empirical facts, from single sources such as these, are…
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“We scheme for three meals per day, and for one sleep by night.” M Sing Au The emergence of Chinese cookbooks written for Western audiences began in the first half of the twentieth century, and interest in such publications has continued into the present day. This blog post focuses on these early cookbooks, which largely…
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The debate over why ecclesiastical institutions took so long to become established in medieval Iceland is not new. Between 1940 and 1970, what became known as the ‘Icelandic School’ framed the issue through a binary lens, portraying a society fractured between a clerical, European sphere on one hand, and an indigenous, national, and secular sphere…
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I wrote this essay in 2024 and have been meaning to share it for some time: This essay argues that the colonial economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, following the scramble for Africa, which extended from 1879 to circa 1905, was systematically based upon exploitation that greatly contributed to European development. Firstly, it is important to recognise…
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Hi All, As I shared in the last post, I have recently been selected through a competitive process to become a member of the UK-China Film Collab with the title Historian & Documentary Producer. Within this role, I completed a film review on a timely film called No Time for Goodbye by Dong Ng. (Please…
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