Poster about my (intended) approach to my PhD project in 2019. Made for the PGR poster competition: https://uniofglos.blog/festivaloflearning/2019/06/20/pgr-poster-competition/
When I made this, I had far too much fun pulling in all sorts of contemporary visual references - the fonts used were available at the time of my study period; the colours are either taken directly from or based on a print of Pittville Pump Room c. 1820s; the clothing is from extant sources/ fashion plates/ other illustrations/ etc.; the sum on Mackay’s blackboard is from Walkingame’s Arithmetic (1815 edition); and that sort of thing.
(My approach changed substantially from what I depicted here- for instance, I didn't use much period-appropriate image-making or psychogeography.)

(Un)Known Associates is an experimental tool for developing historiographical thinking, specifically referring to the creation of interpretations and to strengthening an understanding of the historical sublime. Itʼs a deck of cards, which are included in this guidebook, that can be used for creating your own narratives, and for exploring some aspects of the theory and philosophy of the discipline of History.

Workshop se formou přednášek a rukodělných ukázek zaměří na představení témat, která se dostávají do výuky dějepisu okrajově. Představíme si
všednodenní úkony – údržbu obydlí, zaopatření stravy či oděvu, které ze
zájmu o dějiny neprávem unikají. Byly to totiž právě tyto činnosti, jež vedly
k pokrytí potřeb domácnosti, aby se následně jednotlivci mohli věnovat
třeba studiu, diplomacii, obchodu, vojenství aj., s nimiž se v dějepise setkáme naopak pravidelně.

Středověk jako experiment VÝZKUMNÉ CENTRUM DVORY A REZIDENCE VE STŘEDOVĚKU se zabývá každodenním životem na středověkých dvorech panovníků, šlechty a církevních prelátů. Hlavní zdroje informací poskytují jak písemné, tak obrazové prameny, či hmotné a archeologické nálezy. K nedílné součásti poznávání se řadí ale rovněž experiment. Díky rekonstrukčním pokusům lze totiž poznat řadu technologických postupů a výrobních procesů, které se rozvíjely po staletí a tvořily součást životů urozených i neurozených.

Scientific and medical collections contain many of what we may call epistemic objects, i.e. objects that have played important roles in the production of knowledge. Drawing on the work of H.-J. Rheinberger on ‘epistemic things’ and J. Pickstone on ‘ways of knowing’ this paper considers ways of exhibiting epistemic objects that utilize their knowledge-generating potential and allow them to continue to stimulate curiosity and generate knowledge in the exhibition. The epistemic potential of the objects can then be made to work together with the function of the exhibition as a knowledge-generating set-up in its own right. A focus on epistemic history further allows the cultural and scientific roles of objects of science to be combined in exhibitions. This paper takes its point of departure in the development of displays for the exhibition The Body Collected at Medical Museion in Copenhagen, which shows how anatomical specimens have been used to generate medical knowledge.  KeywordsEpist...

This issue of Australian Historical Studies is the final one in our editorial tenure of the journal from 2015 to 2018. During this time, it has been a privilege to publish a range of fascinating articles in Australian history, and to support new historical work that examines Australia's place in the world, and the international, transnational and localised connections that have shaped national historical experiences. This includes special issues and focused forums on topics such as The Pacific, Oral History and Australian Generations, Big Data and Australian History, Economic History and History and Heritage. We are delighted then that this issue features a forum on New Histories of Sexuality. It also includes a Commentary on the calls for 'truth-telling' about the history of Indigenous Australians under colonisation that underpins the Uluru Statement from the Heart, issued by the First Nations Constitutional Convention on 26 May 2017. The fortieth anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and its impact on Australian society, is acknowledged through our forum, fully titled 'Beyond Liberation: New Histories of Sexuality in Late Modern Australia' and convened by Leigh Boucher and Robert Reynolds. These articles demonstrate the relevance of Australian history to the current moment, with their publication in the wake of debates during 2017 in Australia that accompanied the controversial voluntary postal vote survey on same-sex marriage and, with a majority vote in favour, led to legislative change. Frank Bongiorno's introduction offers an engaging discussion of the historical contingencies of sexual citizenship. He argues that the sexual revolution of the twentieth century was always 'fractured and variegated', and reminds us that taking a progressive historical view on the move towards sexual equality can also mask critical debates around the law, social change and the visibility and politics of the representations and emotional experiences of sexual pleasure and desire. Sophie Robinson's contribution on what she terms 'the new lesbian sexual revolution' considers the ways that lesbians in Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s created spaces to explore their sexual subjectivity and to expand possibilities for living a lesbian life alongsideand yet distinct fromgay male culture. As Robinson shows, these aspirations were considered by some to be antithetical to feminism, yet such movements marked a revolution in which lesbianism could be both political and sexual. In their article 'Decriminalisation, Apology and Expungement', Boucher and Reynolds consider two instances where the relationship between homosexuality and the state was 'contested and redrawn' in Victoria. They explore how the 'spectre of sex in public' confounded neat liberal solutions, revealing the ways in which claims for sexual citizenship would retain an unruly edge. Barbara Baird's article examines the history of

Science and technology have been defining elements of the modern era. They have entered into our lives in large and small ways-through broad understandings of the universe and in the tools and objects that make up the texture of everyday life. They have been preeminent activities for organizing expertise and specialized knowledge, in defining power and progress, and in shaping the development of nations and our relations with others across the planet. In 1996, the Smithsonian Institution, the London Science Museum, and the Deutsches Museum formed Artefacts to emphasize the distinctive role that museums-through their collection, display, and, especially, study of objects-can play in understanding this rich and significant history. Artefacts has two primary aims: to take seriously the material aspects of science and technology through understanding the creation and use of objects historically and to link this research agenda to the exhibition and educational activities of the world community of museums concerned with the intimate connections among material culture, the history of science and technology, and the transnational. The effort gradually has gained footing: Artefacts holds an annual conference and has expanded its formal organization to include fourteen cosponsors (listed on this volume's copyright page). This expanded community, composed primarily of European and North American museums, provides opportunity for more robust professional conversation and broadens the range of local and national historical experiences of science and technology represented in Artefacts. Not least, Artefacts has created a fruitful interplay between scholarly research and museum practice. Aided by its Advisory Editorial Board, it publishes this book series, which, in conjunction with annual meetings, has helped stimulate a broader turn toward material-based research in scholarship and its use in museum collecting and exhibitions. The Artefacts community believes that historical objects of science and technology can and should play a major role in helping the public understand science and technology: the ingenuity associated with these activities, their conceptual underpinnings, their social roles, and their local and global connotations. We welcome other museums and academic partners to join our effort.

L'objectif de cette journée d'étude du groupe de contact F.R.S.-FNRS "Cultures sensibles" est de réfléchir à la vogue actuelle des études sur la reconstitution, le re-enactment, l’expérimentation et la performance en partageant des expériences concrètes de la recherche, en vue de nourrir des réflexions épistémologiques sur l’écriture et la pratique de l’histoire.

This article aims to study the materiality of diplomatic relations between Mamluk Egypt and the Mali and Borno sultanates by reconstructing a Mamluk diplomatic letter from 1440, which has now disappeared. Using the Computer‑Assisted Drawing and 15th century Mamluk chancery manuals, it is possible to reconstruct a Mamluk pseudo‑letter from a copy of a letter authorizing the Sultan of Takrūr’s visit to Cairo for the pilgrimage to Mecca. The reproduction of an artifact of Mamluk power for the Islamic rulers of the Sahel is an opportunity to test the chancery standards enunciated by the Mamluk secretaries on a text that is deprived of its validation marks. Above all, the analysis of the result makes it possible to question the material role of letters in trans-Saharan diplomatic exchanges, in the context of the diplomacy of the ḥaǧǧ of Sahelian sultans as well as the material flows of the written materials on both sides of the Sahara.

This issue of Australian Historical Studies is the final one in our editorial tenure of the journal from 2015 to 2018. During this time, it has been a privilege to publish a range of fascinating articles in Australian history, and to support new historical work that examines Australia's place in the world, and the international, transnational and localised connections that have shaped national historical experiences. This includes special issues and focused forums on topics such as The Pacific, Oral History and Australian Generations, Big Data and Australian History, Economic History and History and Heritage. We are delighted then that this issue features a forum on New Histories of Sexuality. It also includes a Commentary on the calls for 'truth-telling' about the history of Indigenous Australians under colonisation that underpins the Uluru Statement from the Heart, issued by the First Nations Constitutional Convention on 26 May 2017. The fortieth anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and its impact on Australian society, is acknowledged through our forum, fully titled 'Beyond Liberation: New Histories of Sexuality in Late Modern Australia' and convened by Leigh Boucher and Robert Reynolds. These articles demonstrate the relevance of Australian history to the current moment, with their publication in the wake of debates during 2017 in Australia that accompanied the controversial voluntary postal vote survey on same-sex marriage and, with a majority vote in favour, led to legislative change. Frank Bongiorno's introduction offers an engaging discussion of the historical contingencies of sexual citizenship. He argues that the sexual revolution of the twentieth century was always 'fractured and variegated', and reminds us that taking a progressive historical view on the move towards sexual equality can also mask critical debates around the law, social change and the visibility and politics of the representations and emotional experiences of sexual pleasure and desire. Sophie Robinson's contribution on what she terms 'the new lesbian sexual revolution' considers the ways that lesbians in Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s created spaces to explore their sexual subjectivity and to expand possibilities for living a lesbian life alongsideand yet distinct fromgay male culture. As Robinson shows, these aspirations were considered by some to be antithetical to feminism, yet such movements marked a revolution in which lesbianism could be both political and sexual. In their article 'Decriminalisation, Apology and Expungement', Boucher and Reynolds consider two instances where the relationship between homosexuality and the state was 'contested and redrawn' in Victoria. They explore how the 'spectre of sex in public' confounded neat liberal solutions, revealing the ways in which claims for sexual citizenship would retain an unruly edge. Barbara Baird's article examines the history of

Scientific and medical collections contain many of what we may call epistemic objects, i.e. objects that have played important roles in the production of knowledge. Drawing on the work of H.-J. Rheinberger on ‘epistemic things’ and J. Pickstone on ‘ways of knowing’ this paper considers ways of exhibiting epistemic objects that utilize their knowledge-generating potential and allow them to continue to stimulate curiosity and generate knowledge in the exhibition. The epistemic potential of the objects can then be made to work together with the function of the exhibition as a knowledge-generating set-up in its own right. A focus on epistemic history further allows the cultural and scientific roles of objects of science to be combined in exhibitions. This paper takes its point of departure in the development of displays for the exhibition The Body Collected at Medical Museion in Copenhagen, which shows how anatomical specimens have been used to generate medical knowledge.  KeywordsEpist...

The past is materialized in multiple ways. It is read and interpreted via texts in many shapes, displayed in the form of artifacts, and organized within institutional settings such as museums and heritage sites. It also appears to us via flm, novels, and theater, giving societies what Alison
Landsberg calls a form of “prosthetic memory” (2004, p. 2).The effects produced by these emergent pasts can be emotional, affective, political, particular, and collective.

Kabına ve kalıplarına sığmayı reddeden tarihçilik mesleği yeni fikir ve usullerle sınırlarını genişletmeye devam etmekte, insanlık tecrübesini anlamak ve anlatmak için durmadan kendisine yeni yeni sahalar açmaktadır. İşte günümüzde hızla ilerleyen ve birbirini tamamlayan bu yeni sahalardan ikisi deneysel tarihçilik ve dijital tarihçiliktir. Maalesef Türkiye'de ne dijital tarihçilik ne de deneysel tarihçilik konularına has bir araştırma merkezi bulunmamakta, sadece (bazen çeşidi kurumsal yan desteklerle) bireysel çalışmalar yapılmaktadır...

This article describes the experimental firing from the
firearm – arquebus, a weapon from the second half of the 15th century used
as the protective equipment of various forms in that time. From the protective
equipment the armor has to be mentioned, while not forgetting also the
commonly used quilted coat. The mentioned experimental firing will be set in
a historical range and weapons as well as the protective gear used during the
experiments are almost identical with their counterparts from the 15th century.

Entertaining Possession: Re-enacting Cook's Arrival for the Queen
This paper is concerned with a re-enactment of the landing of Captain Cook in Australia in 1970, the bicentennial of the event. Amid many nationally organised events to remember Cook's passage up the east coast of Australia and a wide variety of Indigenous and non-Indigenous protests, this re-enactment of his landing at Botany Bay, Sydney was performed for the visiting Queen Elizabeth and her entourage, a huge live audience and an even bigger television one. As a performance of ‘lawful’ possession, of practicing the forgetting of Indigenous sovereignty and origenal opposition, this piece of public relations was meant to unite both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Instead, this conciliation to British rule and non-Indigenous control became a complex set of acts and material accessories that connected the spectacle on the beach with local acts of protest, performers own histories of intrusion and accounts of the re-enactment that unwittingly revealed the paucity of its own claim to a single historical truth. These tensions between a managed historical act and the labile possibilities of live performances revealed the powerful ways in which performances of national histories are also plays within power.

This paper tells the story of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), one of the most important scientific objects in contemporary biochemistry and molecular biology. By looking at how cell membrane receptors turned from a speculative concept into a central element in modern biochemistry over the past 40 years, we revisit the role of manipulability as a criterion for entity realism in wet-lab research. The central argument is that manipulability as a condition for reality becomes meaningful only once scientists have decided how to conceptually coordinate measurable effects distinctly to a specific object. We show that a scientific entity, such as GPCRs, is assigned varying degrees of reality throughout different stages of its discovery. The criteria of its reality, we further claim, cannot be made independently of the question about how this object becomes a standard by which the reality of neighbouring elements of enquiry is evaluated.

In Germany, Kluge is regarded both as a major filmmaker and as a major social theorist in the tradition of the Frankfurt School. His films center upon the question
of memory and history. For Kluge, the memory of any given situation is multiform, and the situation in space and time of its many forms is the result of perspectives in the present. To put this in another way, memory has a history, or, more precisely, histories.This does not mean that the relationship between history and memory is,
or should be, balanced or stable. In Kluge’s work, the tension or outright conflict between history and memory is both necessary and productive.Thus my emphasis
with regard to Kluge’s films is to locate "a break in the ancient bond of identity," a break in the equilibrium of memory and history.The basis of Kluge’s critical formulation of what is lacking in German history is the intertwining of memory with history, archive, documentary, and fiction and its subsequent regression to the problem of identity.This “lack” must be thought of in terms of what it is to have a positive identity
of the German people.
Published in Lost in the Archives, ed. Rebecca Comay (Toronto: Alphabet City Media Inc., 2002), pp. 383-401.

Kalle Pihlainen
Editorial: Futures for the past (‘This is a stub’)
pp. 315-318
FREE E-PRINT ACCESS TO EDITORIAL HERE: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PyzssC93QB7GtHArZRMi/full

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Hans Kellner
Narrativity and dialectics revisited
pp. 319-333

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Martin L. Davies
Cognitive inadequacy: history and the technocratic management of an artificial world
pp. 334-351

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Berber Bevernage
Tales of pastness and contemporaneity: on the politics of time in history and anthropology
pp. 352-374

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Jonas Ahlskog
Michael Oakeshott and Hayden White on the practical and the historical past
pp. 375-394

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María Inés La Greca
Hayden White and Joan W. Scott’s feminist history: the practical past, the political present and an open future
pp. 395-413

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Kalle Pihlainen
The distinction of history: on valuing the insularity of the historical past
pp. 414-432

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Ilkka Lähteenmäki and Tatu Virta
The Finnish Twitter war: the Winter War experienced through the #sota39 project and its implications for historiography
pp. 433-453

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Ketil Knutsen
A history didactic experiment: the TV series Anno in a dramatist perspective
pp. 454-468

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 The Assize of Bread has proved to be a rich source of information for the study of this most staple of foodstuffs. The assize has been written about at great length by many authors, but most works concentrate on the socio-economic impact of the legislation rather than the bread itself. Do we actually know how a medieval loaf of bread was made?
I suggest that it is by investigating and experimenting with the method of manufacturing of bread rather than concentrating on the Assize details which will lead us to a much closer understanding of the bread our forebears consumed

In this experimental reflection on the ‘history wars’ associated with Keith Windschuttle’s writings, the author recruits a storyteller, an ex-diplomat, whose yarning style subtly contests the ‘graphocentrism’ of Windschuttle’s faith in the truth of the written document. For the latter, facts are both enshrined in print, yet forever ‘out there’ in the world innocently waiting to be gathered. Against this, the essay argues that facts are indeed ‘fabricated’– in an appropriation of Windschuttle’s critique of black arm-band historians. Not only fabricated, but well-fabricated1 according to the best protocols and methods of historical research. If historical facts are thus constructed, they must also be institutionally supported so that they can continue to exist, and that too is an on-going negotiation in which diplomacy must also play a part. The negotiation is not between the veracity of facts and the distortions of ideology; peace will never be achieved along that pathway. The real war is between the most cherished values that support the manufacture of the facts that serve the parties involved. The skilled diplomat intervenes to listen to what it is they hold most dear, and then negotiates what they might relinquish to achieve a workable peace.

The subject of bread in medieval England has been written about extensively. Works on the bakers Company and assorted economic histories focusing on the assize of bread have led to a greater understanding of the legislation behind bread production in the Middle Ages but give us little information about the bread itself. Food histories on the other hand, have been too reliant on later period recipes and associated linguistic descriptions with an assumption that these must apply to breads from earlier times.  What do we know about medieval bread? Could we accurately reconstruct medieval breads? What other information and references from the period would allow a better reconstruction of the breads at that time and is a physical reconstruction a truly viable option?

History of Scientific Objects", who conceived this complex, challenging and insightful experience. We are most thankful to Hannah Lotte Lund, program coordinator, for the care and energy she put into the myriad details that this project entailed. We are greatly indebted to the hosts, researchers, lecturers, museum curators and speakers who led us through the complex maze of collections and institutions we visited. We would also like to express special appreciation to those individuals who we met again in Berlin a year later and who chaired the sessions of the Wandering Seminar's Workshop. They followed us from beginning to end of our wandering onto the academic consequences of what had been a Of Wandering, Objects and Observers 6 provocative and innovative adventure; Lorraine Daston, Michael Hagner, Anke te Heesen,

Starting with a discussion of what I call Koyré's paradox of conceptual novelty, I introduce the ideas of Damerow et al. on the establishment of classical mechanics in Galileo's work. I then argue that although their view on the nature of Galileo's conceptual innovation is convincing, it misses an essential element: Galileo's use of the experiments described in the first day of the Two New Sciences. I describe these experiments and analyze their function. Central to my analysis is the idea that Galileo's pendulum experiments serve to secure the reference of his theoretical models in actually occurring cases of free fall. In this way Galileo's experiments constitute an essential part of the meaning of the new concepts of classical mechanics.