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Pons Aelius ( E-Journal)

  • Annual Postgraduate Conference – 19th May 2021
    • MA Poster Submissions
  • Author Guide and Editorial Process
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  • Exploring Classical Northumbria 2024–25: Whitby Demons, Wearside glass, Walking the Wall — and other adventures! 28 September, 2025
    A few sample of our varied experiences on these trips last year! We began the year at a Roman fort at the mouth of the Tyne, and ended it at an Abbey and prison north of the Tweed! First stop was Arbeia Roman fort at South Shields and a ferry across the Tyne to North […]
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  • Exploring from Home 2 July, 2020
    With things the way they are in the world at the moment, it’s become difficult (to say the least) to explore not only Northumbria, but the wider world too: you just need to ask the Newcastle University Classics Society who were set to visit Rome in April! But all is not lost! Technology has improved […]
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  • Joyce Reynolds: A short introduction 26 June, 2020
    The following article was researched and written by Naomi Bloxham, PhD student in History and one of our 2 Classics JobSOC interns for 2019–20. An exceptional teacher during testing moments   Dr. Susanna Phillippo and I were set to interview Joyce Reynolds in March to gain an insight on her experience as one of the […]
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  • Armchair exploring 4: Holy Island & Bamburgh: By the utmost margin of the loud lone sea 1 June, 2020
    Probably our last trip of 2019/20 was to have been this past weekend, to either Bamburgh or Holy Island (Lindisfarne).  Both are reachable by public transport — with careful homework into tide-determined bus timetables for Holy island 🙂 — though not in the same day! (deciding between the two was going to be a challenge…)  Both are […]
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8th Edition of the Historical Studies Postgraduate Forum E-Journal (2011)

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How to remember one’s father: paternal images in the Seleucid Court – Kyle Erickson

Adapting to Russia’s changing approaches to its past: the Western historiography of Stalin and Stalinism – Ariane Galy

O Uncle, Who Art Thou? Basil’s adoption of identities from Homer’s Odyssey – Jennifer Gane

Pete Curran and the Jarrow Parliamentary By-Election of 1907 – Stephen Lowrey

The Wirral brooch: a case study in trade across Roman Britain – Frances McIntosh

When the Sea Dragon Roars: Hydrological Disasters and the High Qing Emperors – Chung-yam PO

The Changing Landscape of Archaeology – Douglas Rocks-Macqueen

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