The Historian Circle

  Scared to break the mould? Second World War ‘pleasure culture’ & the First World War films problem By Catherine Warr History has been a life-long interest for Catherine, fostered by books and a childhood filled with visits to castles, museums, and any other sight of historical interest. In 2017 she created the YouTube channel Yorkshire's Hidden History, steadily documenting throughout her time at the University of Bradford various elements of Yorkshire history. She graduated from there with a BA in Peace Studies in 2020 and has since pursued a career as a historian. Her first book, A Yorkshire Year: 365 Days of Folklore, Customs and Traditions, has been accepted for publication and is due to be released in Spring 2022. Her main focus is on Yorkshire history, but she also enjoys learning and exploring other aspects of the past. This is an extended version of a video essay originally published on my YouTube channel, Yorkshire’s Hidden History, in May 2021. There is a problem wi...

  Carthago Conservanda Est Carthage in the Roman imagination, memory, and identity after 146 BCE by Maarten Schmaal Maarten Schmaal is a graduate student in the Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Studies research master program at the University of Groningen. He specializes in ancient Mediterranean history, with a particular focus on the contact points between imperialism and identity formation in the Greek and Roman worlds. He graduated with a BA in History from the University of Groningen in 2020, with a thesis on imperialist strategies in pre-Roman Tarentum. Currently he is involved in an upcoming research project on comparative analyses of ancient Mediterranean colonial strategies. In his spare time he is an avid science fiction reader. Maarten is owned by a cat and two bunnies. “ [When he had given the order for firing the town] he immediately turned round and grasped me by the hand and said: "O Polybius, it is a grand thing, but, I know not how, I feel a terror and ...