Historia Lectures 2025

21 January 2025 - Would you survive the Black Death? | Megan Lee

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Reading List

University of Oxford Futuremakers podcast - https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/black-death.  

Sharon DeWitte, Age Patterns of Mortality During the Black Death in London, A.D. 1349–1350 - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3094018/ - this is a challenge, so don’t worry about the statistics and focus on the overall argument. 

Ole Benedictow, The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever - https://www.historytoday.com/archive/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever  

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28 January 2025 - 'Don't Worry Mom...We've Got Penicillin': STDs in the Vietnam War | Philippa Monk

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Reading List

Primary

Nguyễn Du, The Song of Kiều: A New Lament (2019), trans. Timothy Allen.

Vũ Trọng Phụng, Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi (2011), trans. Shaun Kingsley Malarney.

Vũ Trọng Phụng, Dumb Luck (2002), trans. Nguyen Nguyet Cam.

 

Secondary

Michael G. Vann, The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt: Empire, Disease, and Modernity in French Colonial Vietnam (2018)—a graphic history book.

Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2014).

Amanda Boczar, An American Brothel: Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War (2022).

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4 February 2025 - Queer Beyond London: LGBTQ+ lives since the 1960s | Professor Matt Cook

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Reading List

Rebecca Jennings, A Lesbian History of Britain

Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain

Matt Cook and Alison Oram, Queer Beyond London

Paul Flyn, GAY. From Prejudice to Pride: 30 Years of Gay Britain

Kit Hyam, Before we were Trans

Jason Okundaye, Revolutionary Acts: Love and Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain

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11 February 2025 - Mobility Aids in Early Modern Europe | Liv Bennison

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Reading List

Historic England, A History of Disability: From 1050 to the Present Day -https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/disability-history/

Simon Jarrett, A history of disability in England: From the medieval period to the present day (Swindon: Liverpool University Press, 2023).

David Turner, Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining physical impairment (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017)

Susan Anderson and Liam Haydon, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

Johnathan Hsy, Tory Pearman and Joshua Eyler, A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (London: Bloomsbury academic 2022).

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25 February 2025 - Gender, Race and Sex in Early Colonial Mexico City (c.1521-1600) | Clare Burgess

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Reading List

  • Barbara Mundy, ‘No Longer Home: The Smellscape of Mexico City, 1500-1600’, Ethnohistory 68 no.1 (2021): p77-101
  • Reconstruction of Tenochtitlán https://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
  • Aztec Altar built after the Spanish conquest – article from the Smithsonian
  • Jonathan Truitt, “Courting Catholicism: Nahua Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Mexico City,” Ethnohistory 57, no.3 (2010): p415-444
  • Not Just the Tudors podcast, in particular episodes on Indigenous Americans and Sor Juana.

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