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December 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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If you are currently enjoying Samantha Morton's TV performance as the 'Serpent Queen' Catherine de' Medici, read what UoP history student Sadie White had to say in her 3rd year dissertation about how Catherine has been represented.
NEW HISTORY BLOG POST
For her 3rd-year dissertation UoP history student Sadie White looked into representations of the French Queen Catherine de' Medici. Catherine has had a hard press over the years, a reminder of how female rule continues to be depicted negatively.
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For her 3rd-year dissertation UoP history student Sadie White looked into representations of the French Queen Catherine de' Medici. Catherine has had a hard press over the years, a reminder of how female rule continues to be depicted negatively.
wp.me/p91PlX-Vz
The misrepresentation of Catherine De’ Medici’s female rule
For her third-year dissertation UoP history student Sadie White looked into representations of the French Queen Catherine de’ Medici, one of several late-sixteenth century female rulers famou…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
If you are currently enjoying Samantha Morton's TV performance as the 'Serpent Queen' Catherine de' Medici, read what UoP history student Sadie White had to say in her 3rd year dissertation about how Catherine has been represented.
A bit belated, but good to remind people of the excellent work on our students. Read about the article by Emily Burgess on Alice Diamond, so-called 'Queen of the Terrors’ in interwar London. Emily studied with us all the way from undergraduate to PhD, completed in 2025.
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Alice Diamond, ‘Queen of the Terrors’ in the interwar London underworld
Emily Burgess, who studied for PhD in history at the University of Portsmouth, has had a paper published in Women’s History Review which is free to read here. The paper looks at press depict…
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November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
A bit belated, but good to remind people of the excellent work on our students. Read about the article by Emily Burgess on Alice Diamond, so-called 'Queen of the Terrors’ in interwar London. Emily studied with us all the way from undergraduate to PhD, completed in 2025.
wp.me/p91PlX-XI
wp.me/p91PlX-XI
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Lots of fun discussing Dutch art and culture today with my Beliefs, Communities and Cultures L4 students. Why do all Dutch children look like gremlins? asked one group (see left). Useful opportunity to discuss Dutch attitudes to childhood and I countered with Rembrandt's son Titus.
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Lots of fun discussing Dutch art and culture today with my Beliefs, Communities and Cultures L4 students. Why do all Dutch children look like gremlins? asked one group (see left). Useful opportunity to discuss Dutch attitudes to childhood and I countered with Rembrandt's son Titus.
NEW HISTORY BLOG POST
UoP third-year history student Elliott Thomas examines the surprisingly pragmatic relationship between Catholic Venice and the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
history.port.ac.uk?p=3685
UoP third-year history student Elliott Thomas examines the surprisingly pragmatic relationship between Catholic Venice and the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
history.port.ac.uk?p=3685
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
NEW HISTORY BLOG POST
UoP third-year history student Elliott Thomas examines the surprisingly pragmatic relationship between Catholic Venice and the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
history.port.ac.uk?p=3685
UoP third-year history student Elliott Thomas examines the surprisingly pragmatic relationship between Catholic Venice and the Islamic Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
history.port.ac.uk?p=3685
November 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Good morning #Portsmouth #ThursdayMotivation
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Good morning #Portsmouth #ThursdayMotivation
November 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
We will remember them #ArmisticeDay
November 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We will remember them #ArmisticeDay
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM