Category Archives: Media history

Donald Trump and Boris Johnson: Two peas from the same populist pod?

Posted on August 18, 2019 by

Donald Trump just doesn’t get it, does he? Alternatively, he is in denial. Much more likely, however, is that he knows exactly what he is doing. President Trump simply refuses to accept that his incendiary words on race and ethnicity can lead … Continue reading →

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Discharged and Discontented: Ex-Service Men in Richmond in 1918

Posted on July 17, 2019 by

In a recent blog article I drew attention to some interesting new research in the BBC History magazine on the rather volatile summer of 1919 in Britain, including the unhappiness of former soldiers and the problems such men had felt … Continue reading →

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History at Kingston University achieves exceptional National Student Survey results

Posted on July 9, 2019 by

The History undergraduate Degree at Kingston University has done exceptionally well in this year’s recently released National Student Survey (NSS) results. The results were released by the Office for National Students (OfS). The University’s overall satisfaction rate this year jumped from … Continue reading →

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Rewriting history: Russia invents an alternative Chernobyl story

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

In 1986 public opinion around the world was shocked when the full extent of the nuclear disaster that had occurred from an explosion at Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine slowly became clear. Approximately 350,000 … Continue reading →

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Uncovering Kingston’s role in the 1944 D-Day landings

Posted on June 4, 2019 by

It is no exaggeration to say that D-Day, the 6th June, 1944, is a day that changed history. With the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, a day which began ‘Operation Overlord’ and the invasion of German-occupied France by the Allies, it … Continue reading →

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When the Bombs fell: The impact of wartime air raids on Kingston

Posted on May 28, 2019 by

The recent discovery of an unexploded Second World War bomb on a building site near Kingston University’s Penrhyn Road campus was a good reminder of how the local area suffered some considerable attention from the German Luftwaffe during the years 1939-1941. Kingston University’s … Continue reading →

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State of Emergency: Kingston and the General Strike of 1926

Posted on May 22, 2019 by

One of the areas of expertise in Kingston University’s History Department is in-depth knowledge of the interwar period and, in particular, some of the key political and social upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s. A good example is knowledge of … Continue reading →

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