Murder, mystery and my family

PhD student Patrick Low will be appearing in an episode of BBC 1’s Murder, Mystery and My Family on Thursday 4th April 2019 at 9.15 am. 

Patrick researches nineteenth-century executions in North East England, and his expertise was drawn on in this episode which features the execution of Michael Gilligan, hanged alongside William McHugh and Elizabeth Pearson at Durham Prison in 1875. Patrick meets the family, talks about the execution and gives details about the prisoners' final moments. 

Translating the Old English elegies into Spanish

Dr Miguel Gomes has recently returned from Traductio et  Traditio Mediaevales - a conference in Spain dedicated to written culture as a tool for knowledge transmission. Miguel gave a paper which examined the spatial and cultural shifts involved in the translation of Old English literature into a language other than modern English, focusing on his own recent translation of the Old English elegies into Spanish verse, whilst discussing some of the difficulties encountered when rendering the ‘original’ texts into this target language for a contemporary readership.

The petticoat fallacy: male historians and female agency in women's narrative histories

The Faculty of Education and Society Research Institute is holding the next School of Culture Research Seminar on Wednesday 20^th March 4-5:30 pm at St. Peter’s Campus in Reg Vardy Building, Room 112.

Archaeologist and historian Max Adams will be discussing his research exploring how women have used alternative strategies to develop agency in artistic, social and political life and exploited opportunities created by widowhood and through patronage to gain access to resources and power.

Tickets are free for this event.

For full details of the event and to register for the seminar please click here.