James Howe

Please RT! There's still time to participate in an online oral history interview. If you lived, worked, or travelled to Spain or Portugal prior to 1975 then I'd love to hear about your experiences. Email jh278@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info #Twitterstorians #OralHistory

Full article: The Ancient Constitution and the Udal Law tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… is now available, Open Access

😱Hard to believe that Issue 12 has been out for two weeks now! This issue explores #PopularCulture throughout history, from the development of punctuation to the development of generative AI. 🔗 Submit your work and be a part of the next edition of EPOCH History Magazine, we accept submissions year-round! [epoch-magazine.com/submit] #History #Submissions #twitterstorians

🎬'Pan's Labyrinth and the Franco Dictatorship' by James Howe (@JHowe1996) of @univofstandrews. Read it here: [epoch-magazine.com/post/pan-s-lab…] #PansLabyrinth #FrancoDictatorship #FilmLegacy #twitterstorians

We're very excited to announce the launch of St Andrews Early Modern Workshop!! Please follow to stay posted about our forthcoming call for papers for our first term, as well as to stay posted on all future updates!!

How do you talk about the legacy of dictatorship? It was a pleasure to edit @JHowe1996's article on representations of Franco's Spain in film with @Karianne_R_ for @HistoryEpoch. epoch-magazine.com/post/pan-s-lab…

Thrilled to contribute to @HistoryEpoch again! Read my article on film and ongoing battle in Spain over the memory of the Franco dictatorship. Many thanks to @will_garbett and @Karianne_R_ for all of their help. epoch-magazine.com/post/pan-s-lab…

Please RT! Hi #twitterstorians did you or someone you know travel from the UK to Spain prior to 1975 for any reason? If so why not participate in a #oralhistory interview about your #travel experiences. Email jh278@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info

I’m recruiting one more round of participants for my Oral History PhD on British people who lived, worked and travelled to Spain or Portugal prior to 1975 then I’d love to hear about your experiences. Email jh278@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info #Twitterstorians #OralHistory

Exciting News: The “Esperanto Wor(l)ds: Scotland, Postcards, and the Creation of an International Language” exhibition created by the Esperanto and Internationalism, c. 1880-1920s research project (@EsperantoStAnd) opens today @MuseumsUniStA. The exhibition runs until 29th May

It's safe to say 2022 was a great year for the School of History! Learn what happened last year in our latest blog by PhD student @JHowe1996, '2022: A Year in Review' standrewsschoolofhistory.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/202… @univofstandrews

The movie Home Alone was released in November 1990, at the start of the US-led Gulf War. It was #1 at the box office until that wars end, in February 1991. The film’s popularity can in part be explained by its fitting with liberal arguments about America’s failure in Vietnam 1/10

Worrying over the authenticity of news reports is not a modern phenomenon. It is, in fact, old news, as demonstrated by our newest blog by @BasilBowdler "The Daily Courant and news culture at the dawn of the age of daily papers!" ustc.ac.uk/news/the-daily…

Jacques Tati's genius visual comedy Playtime was voted as the 23rd greatest film of all time in the decennial #SightAndSoundPoll Here I briefly explore how mass tourism fits into Tati's particular vision of modernity atouristinhistory.wordpress.com/2022/12/04/mas…

There's been a lot of debate on sports washing in the media recently. Take a look at my latest piece on the 1936 Berlin Olympics which delves into the fascist origins of the Olympic torch relay and the 1938 film Olympia atouristinhistory.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/the…

Please RT! Hi #twitterstorians did you or someone you know travel from the UK to Spain prior to 1975 for any reason? If so why not participate in a #oralhistory interview about your #travel experiences. Email jh278@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info

Recorded another fantastic #oralhistory interview today. #twitterstorians If you or someone you know travelled from Britain to Spain or Portugal before 1975 why not participate in an online interview? Email jh278@st-andrews.ac.uk for more info

Why there's no such thing as art: (and why art has never actually existed, anyway)

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