Today’s post is the second in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/JohnWelchYE2025blog.mp3 Audio Version of “Ndee Trails.” Read by John Welch. (November 25, 2025)—I’ve been hot on the…
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Finding My Way across Many Trails
Today’s post is the third in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! Amy Gillaspie, BIA NAGPRA Assistance Program Coordinator https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/AmyAudiofile_enhanced_1.mp3 Audio version of “Finding My Way across Many Trails.” Read by Amy Gillaspie. (December 4, 2025)—When I…
Routes and Roots
Today’s post is the fourth in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We’ll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support! Steve Nash, President & CEO https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/wp-content/uploads/SteveNash-YE-BLog-2025.mp3 Audio version of “Routes and Roots.” Written and read by Steve Nash. (December 12, 2025)—In 1946, Bobby Troupe wrote…
Researching the History of Emotions in the Bibliography of British and Irish History
In this blog post, Dr Eloise Grey (University of Aberdeen) and Jenny Lelkes-Rarugal (editor of BBIH) discuss how the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) can be used to research and teach the History of Emotions. BBIH and the History of Emotions BBIH is one of the most accurate and comprehensive resources available for…
Protected: The Ground Truth Gradient: When AI-Assisted Transcription Becomes Historical Record
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Christmas in the IHR Wohl Library
This blog post was written by Sasha Pond and Sarah Snelling, the 2025-2026 Graduate Trainee Library Assistants at the IHR Wohl Library. This Christmas at the IHR Wohl Library we are highlighting four seasonal works from our collection. This includes an Edwardian work on a Kent Christmas tradition, a book on the Christmas Truce and Historical Memory, and…
All the World’s a Stage: Performativity in the Life History Interview
This blog post was written by IHR Fellow Nilakshi Das. Life history interviews are rarely simple acts of narrating one’s life story. They unfold as a dynamic, relational interaction in which the interviewer and interviewee jointly shape how a life story is told and later analysed. Oral Historian Penny Summerfield noted that ‘just as we…
The Catholic Counter-Reformation and its influence on Art – Just History Posts
Many of us are aware of the Reformation, and how it completely changed the landscape of Europe across the 16th century and beyond. But not so many are aware of the Catholic Church’s response to the Reformation, and how it tried to reform the Church and lure people back to Catholicism, whilst re-asserting its identity…
Humanity’s Worst Year Ever? – Just History Posts
Ask anyone on the street when they think the worst year in human history was, and I’m sure there’d be quite a variety of answers offered. Years during the World Wars; when the Black Death swept Europe; or even more recent events like during the Covid pandemic. War and disease are probably the most significant…
Medieval Unicorns in Europe – Just History Posts
Today we return to an old favourite series of mine, looking at the history of mythical creatures. In recent years, the unicorn has experienced a true revival, representing both LGBTQ+ communities and becoming a fan favourite of young children. But the unicorn was just as popular in medieval Europe, appearing countless times in artwork and…