{"title":"Women and Witchcraft in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur","authors":"C. Hudson","doi":"10.5920/PPP.546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/PPP.546","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers how the theme of witchcraft within Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur can be examined alongside real examples of women accused of witchcraft in the late Middle Ages. It argues that Malory was influenced by contemporary events and his work includes references his audience could associate with. These real witchcraft accusations were made by influential men against women in order to indirectly attack their male political enemies. Reading of both Malory’s fictional accounts and the records of actual trials enriches our understanding of how accusations of witchcraft came to be politically important in fifteenth-century England.","PeriodicalId":192057,"journal":{"name":"Postgraduate perspectives on the past","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133674364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering the ‘Transition Narrative’: The Domiciled Britons of Company Rule, c.1760-1857","authors":"Emily Webb","doi":"10.5920/PPP.544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/PPP.544","url":null,"abstract":"This article engages with narratives of the domiciled British community during Company Rule in India. It traces the development of the ‘transition narrative’ which locates the differences in society, culture and beliefs of domiciled Britons in the early eighteenth century with those of their nineteenth-century counterparts and challenges the duality of this narrative highlighting its over-reliance upon the ‘colonial archive’ and limiting the scope for research. Through an exploration of developing approaches and methods which challenge both the ‘colonial archive’ and ‘transitional narrative’, it seeks to demonstrate potential new areas for research into this community","PeriodicalId":192057,"journal":{"name":"Postgraduate perspectives on the past","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120959169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Culture Behind Bars: Women Political Prisoners and Prison Culture in Czechoslovakia 1948-1968","authors":"Marie Mrvova","doi":"10.5920/PPP.545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/PPP.545","url":null,"abstract":"Research on women political prisoners in Czechoslovakia 1948–1968 reveals phenomena of culture in prison. Women secretly organised lectures and discussions, wrote poems and made various objects. Exploring gender perspectives of political imprisonment shows the differences and attitudes specific to women, who created an unique space to share and support each other. During my oral history interviews I conducted with former political prisoners, I collected photos of the objects women made and had the opportunity to discuss meaning of culture in prison. Such objects are strongly connected to our cultural memory and identity. I will argue that prison culture helped women to cope, unite and resist in cruel environment. Women's experiences of political persecution can provide better understanding of human behaviour under repressive regimes and allow us to reflect on the role of culture, knowledge and education in such circumstances.","PeriodicalId":192057,"journal":{"name":"Postgraduate perspectives on the past","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130678419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volume 3 Editorial","authors":"Alexander von Lunen","doi":"10.5920/PPP.543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/PPP.543","url":null,"abstract":"The third volume of the Postgraduate Perspectives represents the breadth and depth of postgraduate research in history and related disciplines. The four articles in this volume range from witchcraft and chivalry in the late Middle Ages, the historiography of the English East India Company, gendered political persecution in post-WW2 Czechoslovakia, and the roots of heritage management in England. These contributions originated in the postgraduate history student conferences in 2017 and 2018 at the University of Huddersfield.","PeriodicalId":192057,"journal":{"name":"Postgraduate perspectives on the past","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126977941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Memory and identity: the influence of early preservation practices on English culture","authors":"Mariel Rodríguez","doi":"10.5920/PPP.547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5920/PPP.547","url":null,"abstract":"Until the nineteenth century, written records were often considered an adequate form of preservation for historic monuments, buildings, and landscapes. The shift from written to physical preservation was a gradual one that was pioneered by seventeenth century chorographers, eighteenth century antiquarians, and nineteenth century archaeological and architectural societies. Drawing on the work of historians who have examined these eras of amateur historical study, this paper will examine how chorographers and antiquarians who have not always been given serious consideration by historians of the modern preservation movement were, in fact instrumental in popularising heritage and advocating for early protectionist measures.","PeriodicalId":192057,"journal":{"name":"Postgraduate perspectives on the past","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131127883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}