We are all familiar with the faces of the famous splashed across billboards, TVs and magazines dubiously endorsing all manner of products from face creams to funeral services. Alex Hulmes looks at celebrity branding through history.
The South American slave trade
Kate Ayling writes a potted history of the South American slave trade, often overlooked in favour of the more prominent trade in North America.
Slogans: because they’re worth it?
Slogans are some of the most memorable media we have, with most of us being able to repeat them at will. Alice Rigby explores where slogans come from and how have they changed over the last century and a half.
Interview with Dr Christian Goeschel
Megan Dina Garlick interviews Lecturer of Modern European History, Dr Christian Goeschel.
In defence of history
Michael Gove has recently suggested that the revisionist critiques of the First World War amount to no more than ‘undergraduate cynicism’. Vivienne Delliou-Daly defends the study of history and explains why the inconvenient truths of history cannot be ignored.