Japan’s revolutionary nationalism and the February 26 Incident
Written by Dmitry Filippov. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The pre-1945 history of Japanese nationalism and right-wing thought can be roughly divided into two stages: the first, from late 19th century...
View ArticleThe Hungarian Revolution 1956
Written by Maddie Alpar. Edited by Emma Ward. The collapse of the Hungarian fascist regime during the Second World War left an empty political vacuum in Hungary. The Soviets treated Hungary as a...
View ArticleSlave revolt in Antebellum America
Written by Ellicia Chester. Edited by Emma Ward. Antebellum American history, particularly in the South, has often been romanticised in popular culture. The idea of hot days and iced tea accompanied...
View ArticleClass identity during the 1917 Russian Revolution
Written by Lewis Wiley. Edited by Emma Ward. Class identity and rebellion go hand-in-hand, especially when looking through a Marxist lens. Class struggle clearly underpinned the February and October...
View ArticleThe Fall of Rome: Rebellion or Evolution?
Written by Lee Norton. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The fall of Rome is seen as an event of great importance. It marked the end of an advanced civilisation and according to Bryan Ward-Perkins it left...
View ArticleThe Peasant’s Revolt and Socialist Memory
Written by Liam Blackshaw. Edited by Emma Ward. In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Karl Marx issued an indictment of the European peasantry’s perceived inability to develop a sense of...
View ArticleThe 9th Century Papacy and the divorce of Lothar II
Written by Alex Traves. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. Lothar II was King of Lotharingia, the lands between modern day France and Germany, between 855 and 869. His father, Lothar I, had been the Holy...
View ArticleNichiren in Medieval Japan and his Legacy
Written by Dmitry Filippov. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The rise of the samurai in the late 12th century heralded profound change for religious life in medieval Japan. The nadir of the Imperial...
View ArticleThe 1979 Iranian Revolution: Islamic Revolution or Failed Liberal Revolution?
Written by Emma Ward. Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. The 1979 Iranian Revolution shocked the world. One of the reasons Iran was so shocking was that it was completely opposed to the archetypal European...
View ArticleThe United States First Amendment and Religious Freedom
Written by Liam Blackshaw, Edited by Nathaniel Robinson. In an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists of Connecticut, Thomas Jefferson spoke of a ‘wall of separation between church and State’, which...
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