Dr Nathaniel Andrews is a historian of Argentina who joined the Everyday Dictatorship Project as a Research Fellow in Spring 2023. Here, he talks to Islay about his work, his aspirations for the project, and a fascinating Miniature that he…
New Book Project: call for proposals
The Everyday Life History Reader: Working with Sources edited by Kate Ferris and Huw Halstead Publisher: University of Exeter Press This open access documentary history is the first to present readers with the rich and innovative source base deployed by…
Drugs Histories vs Histories of Drugs, by Josh Hill
Drugs Histories As a self-described “historian of cannabis” I get a lot of questions about my chosen research method. On the one hand “drugs” are laden with negative, subversive connotations, and some historians have described their research as “forbidden histories”.[1]…
‘Government Down, Buy Bread!’ – Dictatorship on Day One
In this report from the field, Dr Huw Halstead tells us about his approach to oral history research on the Greek dictatorships and how this work was unfolding prior to the hiatus imposed by the global pandemic. Until the global…
Playing Normality: How Fieldwork During a Pandemic Redefined My Research
In this dispatch from the field, Yannick Lengkeek discusses how his observations of people playing games during the COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal sparked a new trajectory in his research and led him to reconsider the role of ‘play’ during the…
Miniatures: Podcast Coming Soon to Everyday Dictatorship
‘People are just so interesting!’ – Dr Claire Langhamer, Miniatures episode 1 What can we learn from a headstrong donkey determined to deposit its rider into a large ditch, a First World War soldier refusing his corporal’s order to fetch…
Introducing: Dr Huw Halstead, Research Fellow (Greece)
Huw, how did you get interested in the history of everyday life? I initially came to the study of the everyday through oral history and memory studies. From doing oral history and ethnographic fieldwork, I got interested in the stories…
Introducing: Yannick Lengkeek, PhD Candidate (Portugal)
Hi Yannick. Could you start by telling us how it was that you first became interested in everyday life as a historical subject? Hi Huw! That’s a tough question. In a way, my intellectual curiosity was always centered on human…
Introducing: Joshua Hill, Project Member & PhD Candidate (Spain)
Hi Josh. Can you tell us how you came to be interested in the history of everyday life? Hi Huw. I chose to write my Master’s thesis on the Occupation of Fiume (now Rijeka) by Italian veterans in 1919, with…