Introduction: Meet the Team!
The Historian Circle is comprised of four postgraduate historians, who dedicate their time to sharing ideas, papers, and thoughts on history, archaeology, classics, medievalism, and other related humanities studies and subjects.
My name is Darcy R. Keim. I am a Masters graduate in History (undergraduate: BA Hons - Medieval History) from the University of Winchester. My academic focus is Medieval and Early Modern Queenship (with an interest in the Aristocracy). Furthermore, my additional area of study is Gender History and Historiographical analyses. Past study has included Late Medieval Social History. My third-year undergraduate independent research was an assessment of the emergence of a Proto-Feminist "Anne Boleyn" from the nineteenth-to-twenty-first-century (under first, second, and third-wave feminism). In addition to this, my Masters research focused on the historiographical makeup of Medieval/Early Modern Queenship throughout the long nineteenth-century within collective biographies, artwork, and opera/plays. What I plan to do with this blog is share past and current academic papers. I look forward to sharing my interests with a wider audience!
Our second member is Thomas Saxon, a University of Winchester Alum (undergraduate in Medieval History) and completed his Masters at the University of York in Medieval Studies. His primary areas of study are the Anglo-Saxon world; especially the period of the Viking Wars up to the rule of Knรบtr. In particular, he looks at the use of culture to create politics, and politics to create society and kingdoms. His other main area of interest is the so-called Byzantine Empire; especially under the Makedonian and Komnenian dynasties, and it's transformation through the centrifugal forces of politics, religion, history, and military reality. In particular he focuses on identity and enforcement, as well as performance of political power, through the lenses of cultural zeitgeist and shared cultural understanding.
A third party to our Team is Jess Nipper, a University of Winchester Masters Graduate with a research focus on Gender Studies, Imperial Rome, and a particular interest in the Media Representation in Ancient Rome (specifically looking at the Flavians). She will introduce herself further in our first post!
Our fourth member is Classicist, Meg (pronouns: they/them): a University of Winchester alum (BA hons - Classical Studies), a University of Edinburgh alum (MSc in Classics), and a University of St. Andrews alum (MLitt in Classics). They will be elaborating their research background and interests in our second post!
Our fifth member is Yaaseen Baksh. Yaaseen is a student at the University of Birmingham studying History BA from 2020 to 2023. He has an interest in all things Empire and is a keen numismatist, specialising in British numismatics from 1816 to 1970 regarding the duodecimal currency.
Our sixth member is Angel-Celeste Drinkwater and I am
currently in my second year of an undergraduate degree in English
Literature & History at the University of Winchester. My main
academic focus revolves around Medieval England & France, as well
as Early Modern France (specifically the Reign of Terror during the
French Revolution, and the lives of Maximilien de Robespierre and
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just), however, other areas that I’m
interested in include Renaissance Italy, Victorian Crime &
Punishment, and general Queer History.
It is important to note that we are looking for new members (history enthusiasts -- whether undergraduate, postgraduate, or outside of academia), so if you feel like this is the space for you to share some of your work, do not hesitate to contact us!
As this blog is not run through normal academic channels, the posting shall be infrequent - but we will do our best to keep contributing content at a steady pace.
That is all from us (for now)!
Yours warmly,
The Historian Circle!
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