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The Mexican Revolution through Pictures, by Liam York

The Mexican Revolution was a hugely significant moment in modern Mexican history. By 1911, the 34-year dictatorial rule from the Porfirian regime had come to an end, eventually overthrown at the Battle of Ciudad Juárez by a group of revolutionaries, thrusting the country into a decade of social unrest, uprising and uncertainty. Despite this defining moment in Mexican history, it is often hard to reduce the revolution to a singular driver. Political leaders like Francisco Madero represent bourgeois sentiment, yet populist figures like Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa and Emiliano Zapata played a significant role in mobilising the agrarian classes. What can we learn from the photography of the revolution?

What led to the 19th Century Gaelic Revival? By Erin Kilker

The Gaelic revival refers to the revival of interest in the Irish language and Irish Gaelic culture. While this broad movement emerged as early as the 1840s, it rapidly gained traction in the late nineteenth century. A variety of organisations espoused this revival, for example by promoting Gaelic literature or traditional sports.

St Cuthbert’s Coffin: Devotion in Runic and Roman Lettering, by Catrin Haberfield

In 698 A.D., eleven years after his death, St Cuthbert’s body was exhumed and found to be incorrupt. Removed from its subterranean stone sarcophagus in St Peter’s Church, on the monastery island of Lindisfarne, the body was then transferred into a new oak coffin and placed above ground next to the altar. Almost 200 years later, in 875 A.D., this coffin was evacuated from Lindisfarne and for seven years carried across Northumbria by monks evading Danish armies.

Arpilleras against Augusto: Community and Memory in Pinochet’s Chile, by Sarah Cundy

Amidst empty streets in a fearful nation, Chilean women met at churches and in neighbours’ houses to stitch compassionately into fabric their stories of an uncompassionate truth. These pieces documented the realities of life under Pinochet’s military dictatorship and provided the women who made them with a voice, a community, and a means of receiving economic solidarity from abroad.

Category: History in Culture

When Rolls met Royce

Posted On 1st April 20112nd December 2012 By Jenny Ho

A local event with a global impact.

Category: University

Behind the bust

Posted On 1st April 20112nd December 2012 By Jenny Ho

A closer look at the life of the SAHC namesake, Samuel Alexander.

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It's time to catch up on the 'Whose Streets?' @HistoryWO feature so far – a series of short articles that pioneer an experimental form of spatial history, walking you through city streets of the past.

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The Mexican Revolution through Pictures, by Liam York

What led to the 19th Century Gaelic Revival? By Erin Kilker

St Cuthbert’s Coffin: Devotion in Runic and Roman Lettering, by Catrin Haberfield

Arpilleras against Augusto: Community and Memory in Pinochet’s Chile, by Sarah Cundy

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