How to Impress Your Tutor
There must be a myriad of articles and blog posts telling you how to get extra credit by convincing your tutors that you’re a brilliant student who knows everything. However this will not work at Leicester. Due to the anonymous marking system the only way your tutor will know that you wrote your essay is […]
Studying at a research-intensive University
If you’ve been doing some research into the University of Leicester then you’ll probably know that it’s a ‘research led’ or ‘research-intensive’ University. But perhaps you don’t really know what that means, or how it will impact upon the course you’re looking to study. So I’m going to try and help to answer those two […]
History Quote: Judith Apter Klinghoffer & Lois Elkis
I’ve had this written on a note stuck to my wall for a while now, so I thought I should share it on the eve of my first last exam. Judith Apter Klinghoffer & Lois Elkis: As all historical events are essentially unique, they come to resemble the individual pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. It […]
History Quote: ‘England, England’
So it’s been a while since I have done a lovely quote about History, and I thought why not? This one is from a book by Julian Barnes called England, England, which I have mentioned in a previous post. It’s a weird book, but interesting in trying to understand how we view history. ‘It was like a […]
History Quote: Inga Clendinnen
Not a positive one today, but I’m a bit down under the weight of the snow outside and the revision inside. Inga Clendinnen: ‘Historians are the camp followers of the imperialists’ So what is your opinion on this? Just think about that while I go and revise. I’ll try and write something next week after […]
History Quote: Matthew Restall
Matthew Restall: ‘Historical conclusions are not infallible, but when they are well evidenced and carefully argued they deserve to be taken as telling us something true about the world’ I’ve been thinking about this quote, and I don’t know if Matthew Restall meant it to mean this, but to me I think everything we read as […]
History Quote: Felipe Fernández-Armesto
For those of you who are new to this blog- I’ve been trying out something where I post a quote about history every now and again in the hope it will make us all think about history and what it really is. I don’t always agree with the quotes but I pick them because I […]
History Quote: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
This quote may not really be about history, but I think it is something every historian has to consider. It is a bit like my Joan Bakewell quote from a few weeks ago, but said in a way that really made me think differently. This quote is from Ken Kesey’s ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s […]
History Quote: ‘The Beautiful and Damned’
This quote comes from the pen of F. Scott Fitzgerald, but the voice of the character Gloria from Fitzgerald’s second novel. It is sort of about history, but also about if it is right to preserve the past. “Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying […]
History Quote: Joan Bakewell
Today’s History quote comes from the Edinburgh International Book Festival where I have been for the last week. I saw loads of different talks and debates from the future of the internet to desigining book covers… I even saw Irvine Welsh interview Nile Rodgers (such a weird moment in my life). I will try and […]
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