College of Humanities
The College of Humanities is rated among the top 100 universities for the study of arts and humanities in the world, and is one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching across our diverse range of subjects, reflecting all aspects of human experience, culture and creativity through disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. For more information, please visit http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk
Recent Submissions
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But what do they really think? Methodological challenges of investigating young people’s perspectives of war remembrance
(UCL Institute of Education Press, 2020)This article contributes to discussions surrounding the development of ‘analytical tools’ sensitive to the fluid nature of collective memory and all its ‘varieties, contradictions, and dynamism’ (Olick, 2008: 159). It ... -
Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care
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Bastardy in Butleigh: illegitimacy, genealogies and the old Poor Law in Somerset, 1762-1834
(MDPI, 2020)Early academic histories of non-marital motherhood often focused on the minority of mothers who had several illegitimate children. Peter Laslett coined the phrase 'the bastardy prone sub-society' ... -
Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2 June 2014)In the autobiography of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, the first black author to be published in Britain, slavery was represented at best neutrally and at worst as spiritually and socially beneficial. Re-reading Gronniosaw's ... -
A radical change of heart: Robert Wedderburn's last word on slavery
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 12 January 2016)This article introduces to modern scholarship An Address to Lord Brougham and Vaux, a recently rediscovered anti-abolitionist tract by the black radical author and orator Robert Wedderburn, written in 1831, towards the end ...