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The York Historian, Heslington, York (2024)

26/01/2024

A new article has been published! Kaye Bermingham provides a review of Kate Lister’s ‘A Curious History of Sex’, delving into historical myths and taboos surrounding sexual history. 💘

Please check out Kaye’s article! It is currently live on our website.📚

05/01/2024

We’re starting off the new year with the winning article of our Halloween competition! Jack Rooney uniquely tells the story of humanity’s own struggle with the earth and the cold, using the story of a tormented exploration crew. ⚓️

Please check out Jack’s article! It is currently live on our website.📖

17/12/2023

Our runner up of our Halloween Writing Competition! Seren-Davies Jones writes about the typical historical fixation with all things dark and mysterious, and how these interests shaped the origins of Samhain and therefore Halloween. 👻

Her article is live on our website! Please go check it out.📖

15/12/2023

Another new article, this time focusing on the political history of 1960s and 1970s America! Looking at the interlinking presidencies of Kennedy, Nixon and Johnson - Sam Chapman presents a new and insightful look into the impacts on JFK’s death on his successors. 👨🏻‍⚖️

His article is live now on our website! Please go check it out!✏️

13/12/2023

For our next article of the year, we’re back with a special commemorative edition. Joe Langham has written a special, personal history of the Lancaster W4240 and it’s crew during WWII. ✈️

Please give his article a read! His article is currently live on our website.📝

22/11/2023

Another new article! Focusing more on modern and military history, Steph Pook debates the complexity of the causes of World War I, analysing the death of Franz Ferdinand. ⚔️

Please give her article a read! Her article is currently live on our website. 📚

21/11/2023

We’re back with another writer’s workshop this Friday in Spring Lane, with our Co-Editor in Chief and Early Modern Editor!

Come drop by, work on Halloween competition submissions, brainstorm some ideas with us, or just come sit and work! Looking forward to seeing everyone :)

13/11/2023

Our first article of the year - Sacha Brozel has written about the differing understandings of leprosy, and how these came about in this intriguing article contributing to the disease’s history. 🏰

Check it out on our website now! The link is in our bio! 📝

22/10/2023

Hello everybody!

To give people inspiration for our Halloween competition, we are hosting a social on Friday 27th at 6pm with the Mad Alice tour! Afterwards, we plan to go to the House of Trembling Madness.

Please only sign up if you have the full intention of buying a ticket and coming - this is just so we know how many tickets to buy!

Link to the form is on our Instagram story! Please check it out, or feel free to DM us or email us for the link! :)

17/10/2023

Interested in writing for the York Historian, but unsure where to start, or what to write about?

Come along to our chill writing drop-in session on Friday!

You can come for how ever long you wish. This is a great chance to discuss some ideas with the committee, or to just sit in our designated space and write!

Feel free to bring snacks, coffee, lunches, and your writing materials! We will be providing some snacks - we can’t wait to meet everyone! :)

11/10/2023

Hi everyone, we are very happy to announce a deadline extension for our Halloween competition, allowing people more time to write and perfect their historical articles! We can’t wait to read them!

Please send us a DM or email if you have any questions about the competition :)

04/10/2023

As this month is UK Black History Month, we would like to encourage the submission of any written articles that centre around British black history!

We still welcome your articles and reviews of other chosen topics, but would like to especially promote and welcome submissions that may uncover and shed light upon the stories and histories of black people in Britain.

We look forward to seeing this month’s article submissions!

04/10/2023

As this month is UK Black History Month, we would like to encourage the submission of any written articles that centre around British black history!

We still welcome your articles and reviews of other chosen topics, but would like to especially promote and welcome submissions that may uncover and shed light upon the stories and histories of black people in Britain.

We look forward to seeing this month’s article submissions!

03/10/2023

Hi everyone!

We’ve had to change the room that our Writer’s Workshop will be held in this Friday. We are very sorry for any inconvenience, but still hope to see you there!!

Please send us a DM or email if you have any questions or queries :)

02/10/2023

Happy October!

To get into the spooky spirit, we are running a Halloween History Writing Competition throughout this month, with the deadline as Halloween.

The theme is Supernatural Stories and Haunted Histories. We’d love to hear what historical articles you create with this theme in mind, whether it be the ghosts of York or the witches in Salem. Please interpret this theme as you see fit, as long as its part of history!

You do not need a York Historian membership to enter the competition, although it is encouraged that you purchase one if you wish to continue writing with the magazine :)

We will be publishing shortlisted articles and our favourites, as well as giving away some prizes!

We can’t wait to read your writing!

30/09/2023

Interested in writing for the York Historian, but unsure where to start, or what to write about?

Come along to our first event of the year, our Writer’s Workshop! These will take place fortnightly, in PS/B/002, Fridays from 12-3pm.

You can come for how ever long you wish. This is a great chance to discuss some ideas with the committee, or to just sit in our designated space and write!

Feel free to bring snacks, coffee, lunches, and your writing materials! We will be providing some snacks - we can’t wait to meet everyone! :)

29/09/2023

Hello everyone!

We hope everyone has had a great couple of weeks starting or restarting university.

If you would like to join our community of writers and submit an article, here is how!

Please check out our online website and consider purchasing a £4 membership/subscription for the magazine!

We cannot wait to read the range of submissions for this academic year :)

Please also keep an eye out on our socials for when our first writing workshop will be, which will be a great chance to get face-to-face advice on your writing from our editors, and meet them and the rest of the committee!

26/09/2023

Meet the new Co-Editor in Chief / President, Ariane!

Hi guys, I am Italian born but British by adoption, metalhead, bookworm, yoga and gamer affectionate. Love to explore all things culture and archaeology and expend long times outside exploring new places.

Basically I am the person responsible to supervise the work of all the other editors. I also do the second draft reviews of your submitted articles to make sure that is all as should be with our guidelines and then publish it our online magazine website, where everyone can read it!

25/09/2023

Meet the new Co-Editor in Chief / Secretary, Piper!

Hey everyone :) I’m Piper, and I’m so glad to be part of The York Historian team this year! 
Even though I am particularly interested in modern history, I love all things historical and cannot wait to read everyone’s submissions.

I am quite introverted, so I’m excited to step out of my comfort zone whilst working alongside the rest of the lovely committee!

25/09/2023

Meet the new General Editor / Treasurer, Hollie!

Hiya! I’m Hollie and I’m so excited to be treasurer/editor for The York Historian this year and be part of such a wonderful team!

I love early modern and historical literature (especially if there’s feminist criticism involved) but, honestly, I’ll read anything and everything.

24/09/2023

Meet the new Medieval Editor, Ellie-Mae!

Hey! I’m just a Yorkshire lass who loves travelling, reading and dragging my family around castles.

Usually I am doing behind a stack of books and snacks! I’m pretty introverted but if given the opportunity I will talk about medieval women for hours!

I can’t wait to read all the amazing things you guys will produce this year :)

24/09/2023

Meet the new Early Modern Editor, Sacha!

Hey! Chess-playing, history-obsessed, bookworm here. I have always had a love of stories, and I think for this reason history endlessly fascinates me. I also have lots of fun playing with words so look forward to editing some articles :)

24/09/2023

Meet the new Modern Editor, Kaylie!

Hi, I’m Kaylie and I’m super excited to be the York Historian’s Modern Editor! I just came to York from Washington D.C. and I’m looking forward to getting to know the city and the people here. In my free time, I love swing dancing and reading!

24/09/2023

Hello everyone! Throughout the next couple of days, please look forward to posts from us announcing our new committee for the 2023-2024 year! :)

21/09/2023

Hey everyone! Please come and join us at the Fresher’s Fair on Saturday for more information about The York Historian, as well as some freebies! We will be at Table 40 in the Roger Kirk Centre from 9:30am.

Looking forward to meeting you all :)

12/09/2023

Hello everybody!

We have had to move forward the deadline for applying for the York Historian Committee for the new academic year. We are really sorry if this inconveniences anyone! The new deadline is September 18th.

Please check our previous post for more information on how to apply for our vacant positions and which roles we are looking to fill.

We look forward to seeing any further applications! :) Thank you for the submissions so far, we really appreciate it and, again, apologises for the deadline change.

10/09/2023

Hello everyone! :)

We hope everyone is having a great summer and is enjoying the hot weather! As we are nearing the new academic year, we are starting the recruitment process for the new committee.

On the slides we have detailed the vacant positions. We are currently looking for an editor/treasurer, being 1/3 of our signatory positions. We are also looking for 3 editors for the Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods.

Please email us with a short explanation of why you want to join at [email protected] and please let us know which role you are applying for. The deadline is the 30th of September!

If you have any questions or enquiries, feel free to pop us a DM or an email and we’ll reply as quick as possible! :)

20/07/2023

Hello everyone!
As the academic year has come to a close it’s time for a change in the committee!

This year The York Historian has seen such an amazing growth. We have gained a huge increase in followers and articles, invites to exhibition opening nights, article competitions, and even our medieval editor being shortlisted for an award at the yusu media awards!

Thank you to everyone who wrote for us and engaged with our content!

Now you can continue to develop this amazing magazine by adopting it on the yusu website!

If you have any questions about the society don’t hesitate to dm or email us :)