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Blaise Pascal’s ideas have led to some of the world’s most important inventions. API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

3 juillet 2023

400 years ago, philosopher Blaise Pascal was one of the first to grapple with the role of faith in an age of science and reason

David Hoinski, West Virginia University

Blaise Pascal, a mathematician and a Catholic theologian, born 400 years ago, left a deep and lasting influence on the world that can be felt today.

In England, children were seen as a way to replenish the military and sustain the economy. Universal Images Group via Getty Images

9 août 2021

Taxing bachelors and proposing marriage lotteries – how superpowers addressed declining birthrates in the past

Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Go back to 17th- and 18th-century England and France and you’ll see the same sort of handwringing over birthrates that we’re seeing today.

‘The Queens Closet Opened,’ first published in 1655, shared recipes and support for the deposed monarchy. Here, portrait of Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony van Dyck, 1632. (Arcidiecézní muzeum Kroměříž/Wikimedia)

19 mai 2020

Cooking in the coronavirus crisis is much more fun with old secrets from the Queen’s pantry

Madeline Bassnett, Western University

Recipe sharing is all the rage in the pandemic as in other times of turmoil. English cookbooks of the 16th and 17th centuries promised recipes for comfort with a dash of glamour.

‘Living Mady Easy: Revolving hat’, a satirical print with a hat supporting a spy glass, an ear trumpet, a ciggar, a pair of glasses, and a scent box, 1830, London. Wellcome Images CCBY

9 août 2019

The past stinks: a brief history of smells and social spaces

William Tullett, Anglia Ruskin University

The history of smell in 18th-century England reveals the complex story of scent and personal space.

Richard Paton, Battle of Barfleur via Wikimedia Commons

21 décembre 2018

A genealogy of the term British reveals its imperial history – and a Brexit paradox

Mark A Hutchinson, University of York

British is an imperial term, not a national one.

For centuries, Pulter’s manuscript lay untouched at the University of Leeds’ Brotherton Library. University of Leeds Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 32

21 novembre 2018

In the 1600s Hester Pulter wondered, ‘Why must I forever be confined?’ – now her poems are online for all to see

Samantha Snively, University of California, Davis

In a time when women were expected to be silent, no topic was off limits for Pulter, who penned verses about politics, science and loss. Her manuscript was just published in a free digital archive.

31 octobre 2017

The bloody truth – why BBC’s Gunpowder had to be so violent

Hannah Greig, University of York et John Cooper

Gunpowder, treason and plot: historical consultants to BBC drama explain their role on the show.

22 juillet 2016

French kissing to lesbian orgies: the origins of the myth of the debauched French court

Una McIlvenna, University of Kent

The ‘French kiss’ didn’t come from France and nor did the ‘French pox’, so does the reputation of France as raunchy stand up to scrutiny?

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