The cultural and intellectual milieu of the European Enlightenments, with its twin emphases on the universality of nature and the all-encompassing power of...

Enlightenment Histories: History and Time in 18th Century Thought and Culture (HIST0378)

Identity, Cosmology and the Supernatural in the late Middle Ages (Dissertation) (HIST0317)

HISTORY|CHINA|JAPAN|SECOND WORLD WAR|MODERN HISTORY|WORLD HISTORY

Every person has a story. Every story has a past. How were the lives and experiences of those in East and Southeast Asia during the Second World War...

Untold Stories: Constructing Lives, Narratives and Experiences in Wartime East Asia (HIST0125)

Every person has a story. Every story has a past. How were the lives and experiences of those in East and Southeast Asia during the Second World War (1937-1945) told, received, represented, and remembered? Through an examination of diaries, oral histories, letters, autobiographies, memoirs and other types of personal narratives and life writing, this module examines the limitations, challenges, and ways in which such sources can serve to capture and narrate the relationships between individuals and the state, with their families and communities, with one self, and how wartime pasts are negotiated by individuals and nations in the postwar period. Primary sources include reflections by ordinary civilians (women, the elderly, families, and students); the last letters of fallen soldiers and kamikaze pilots; accounts by missionaries and medical personnel; stories and drawings by children who grew up in the face of familial and social dislocation; and visual and literary representations of wartime East and Southeast Asia. Students will also be encouraged to draw parallels and comparisons with other wartime experiences in Britain, Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world. All documents and primary source materials are provided in English translation.

This Special Subject explores the great cities of the late medieval Mediterranean world – Cairo and Venice, Damascus and Florence, Constantinople and...