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Historians have long argued that the value of their field lay in its applicability to the present day. It serves society best, according to a recent formulation, as a guide that encourages broad perspective...
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Honolulu’s Honuakaha smallpox cemetery, photographed in 2013. The first outbreak of smallpox in 1853 took as many as 6,000 lives, eight percent of the Islands’ roughly 75,000 people. Hundreds are ...
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A few weeks ago I went out for my daily walk on Thursday evening just before 8pm. I had forgotten that since the current lockdown in the UK, this is the time set aside for the weekly Clap for our Carers...
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During recent weeks we have witnessed often abusive gatherings in the United States and Spain demanding that covid-19 restrictions be lifted. Flags are flown, anthems are sung, slogans are cheered, all...
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In April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health Organization, blaming it for what he claimed were missteps, failures, and prevarications in its handling of the coronavirus...
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When politicians started calling the coronavirus an
“invisible enemy”, it was obvious that the rhetoric accompanying the pandemic
was moving from science to magic. Both Donald Trump and Boris Johnson...
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For a historian of religion, an interesting aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has been witnessing the resurgence of popular interest in religious beliefs and practices across Europe that might have seemed...
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Living Lockdown as an academic historian has meant learning a great deal, and fast. There was the move to online teaching and student support, meetings to plan the first academic year with social isolation,...
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Historians have long argued that the value of their field lay in its applicability...
Read the Article
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Honolulu’s Honuakaha smallpox cemetery, photographed in 2013. The first outbreak of smallpox in 18...
Read the Article
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A few weeks ago I went out for my daily walk on Thursday evening just before 8pm....
Read the Article
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During recent weeks we have witnessed often abusive gatherings in the United States...
Read the Article
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In April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health...
Read the Article
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When politicians started calling the coronavirus an
“invisible enemy”, it was...
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For a historian of religion, an interesting aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has...
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Living Lockdown as an academic historian has meant learning a great deal, and fast....
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