Welcome to the UCL History Journal
The UCL History Journal is the oldest and most widely-read history journal at UCL. Since its foundation, the journal has provided an inclusive platform so that anyone at UCL History may feel welcome to share their passions and have their voices heard.
Our journal is semi-academic in character, which means that we are happy to publish both personal and academic pieces, as long as they are related to history or yourself as a historian at UCL.
About the
UCL HISTORY JOURNAL
Our journal is an inclusive platform for all UCL History students to express their opinions on their historical interests and current affairs. No matter what your historical interests are, we will have a space in our journal for you to write. Previous topics have been as wide-ranging as ones about the history of monsters in early-modern Europe to a global history of chess.
You can write pieces of all formats and lengths, from short paragraphs to full articles. You are also welcome to contribute to the journal in non-textual formats, such as illustrations, photographs, or even memes! As long it is historical, we have a place for you.
We will be sending out a call for regular writers at the start of term, but we are constantly recruiting non-regular contributors who would like to write for a particular issue. Don't worry if you are unsure if you can contribute to the journal - we have two passionate editors ready to read your piece and give encouraging feedback, as well as regular writing sessions for those who want to improve their writing. Just drop us a message to our Editor in Chief, Yi Jie (IG: yijie.teng) or to historysociety.ucl@gmail.com!
New Issue!!!
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Maddie Walker-Moffit, Margaret Cavendish: Queerness and Feminism in the Seventeenth Century
Yi Jie Teng, The Shadow over innsmouth: Race and class in American gothic literature
Iman Hafeez, Your Gender is Not Mine: A Yorùbá Case Study
Grace Lyon, “Facilitators, Campaigners and Radicals”: The Tradition of British Women and Politics Before ‘Votes for Women’
James Yu, Problems of historical analysis: nations and nationalism
Race and Gender
# 6 Revolutions and Change
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Grace Lyon, Should the Suffragettes be seen as Revolutionary?
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Dora Wan, Revolutionary Cinema: Evolution of Hong Kong films
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Michael Ustynovych-Repa, Intolerance and Bigotry: The Lives of Migrants in Modern European States
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Yi Jie Teng, Revolutions of 1989: The Dissolution of the USSR
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Jonas Lim, What Makes Revolutions Inevitable? Human Agency in the October Revolution
October 2023 Issue
#5 Environment and Crisis
Part 1 - Environment and Crisis
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Jonas Lim, How Sustainable is Our Freedom to Eat?
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Kitty O’Hara, Native American Nations in Indian Territory
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Jonas Lim, Times of Crisis: ‘Revolution’ in the Early Soviet Union
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Yi Jie Teng, Guerrillas in the Andean Cocaine Trade
Humans of UCL History #3: Jonas Jungwoo Lim
Part 2 - Voices from the Writing Room
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Jonas Lim, Women’s Rights Before Feminism: Revisiting the Adams’ Letters
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Anastasia Rabin, How the Long Cold War Recast Jewish History
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Lan Yao, Smoke, Alcohol, Sport and Chess
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Andy Liu, The Climate App: Climate Action Made Easy, Fun and Social
June 2023 Issue
#4 Race and Empire
Part 1 – Empire and Race
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Anouska Jha, Natural History in Colonial India
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Teng Yi Jie, The Origins of Jewish Ultranationalism
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Nishika Pishu Melwani, The Forgotten Empire
Part 2 – Voices from the Writing Room
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Jonas Lim, Book Review: Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
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Euan Toh, BJJ: A Revisionist Legend
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Lan Yao, Jewish Chess History: The Demonstration of Jewish Nationalism
January 2023 Issue
#3 Conflict and Heritage
Part 1 - Conflict and Heritage
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Eduoard Goussot, A Heritage in Conflict?: The Disputed Legacy of Edmund Burke in British Political Thought
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Andy Liu, The Wrath of the Queen: Perspectives on Dido
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Jonas Lim, Did the Scientific Revolution Emerge through a Conflict with Religion?
Humans of UCL History #2: Dr Alessandro De Arcangelis
Part 2 - New Beginnings
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Euan Toh, Manufacturing a 'Chinese' Identity in Singapore
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Lan Yao, Confrontations during the Cold War
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Jonas Lim, Dreams of a History that is 'Total'
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Anouska Jha, Celebrating Conflict and Heritage at the British Online Archives
December 2022 Issue
#2 Black Histories
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Jonas Lim, It’s All About the History: When Does Cultural Appropriation Matter?
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Yi Jie Teng, The Future of Public History: Reconciling Agendas
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Anouska Jha, Black History Month at the British Online Archives
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Max Mihailovici, Russia, Power Structures, and the West
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Lan Yao, Constructing Chess Culture in 20th-Century Britain
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Patrick Gale, How the Industrial Revolution Changed Europe and North America
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Lan Yao, Chess Elements in Paintings
October 2022 issue
#1 History in London
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Jonas Lim, The Power of History in a Time of Climate Crisis
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Zoe Lewis, 'White Girls are Not Fireable' and Other Prejudices in Black Film
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Humans of UCL History #1 Nishtha Saraf
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Yi Jie Teng, Histories of Imperialism
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Jonas Lim, What is Environmental History?
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Anouska Jha, Imagining the Self and Human Nature
September 2022 issue
Our Policy on Inclusivity
Our primary goal as a departmental society journal is inclusivity. This means that we view it essential that everyone in the history society feels welcome to voice out their opinions in the journal, without the fear of being marginalised for who they are. Hence, the UCL History Journal reserves the right to refuse the publication of a piece that promotes hate speech or unfair representations of a particular group of people. To find out more about equality, diversity, and inclusion at UCL History, click here.
Past Editions
Rethinking Conflict in History
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