Nineteenth Century Europe
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Angela Mace Christian
Dr. Angela Mace Christian is a writer, lecturer, and pianist working in the field of music history. She specializes in music, culture, and society of the “Long Nineteenth Century”(1789-1914). Christian’s work focuses on the life and work of Fanny Hensel (born Mendelssohn), and her research interests include the Mendelssohn family and their circle, early nineteenth-century…
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A Year in Review: 1819
In the history book in my brain, 1819 is dominated by the Peterloo Massacre. England suffered a severe depression at the end of the the Napoleonic war, as a result of the transition to a peacetime economy. The sudden drop in government spending and the loss of wartime markets for British grain and manufactured goods…
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From the Archives: Florence Nightingale Does the Math
I just finished writing a review of a book that uses infographics, and only infographics, to tell a historical story. It’s a fascinating and beautiful work–and I’ll tell you all about it after the initial review comes out in Shelf Awareness for Readers. (I’d say that I’m sorry to be a tease, but that…
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