Just published - our 2024 Summer Edition, Issue 2 of Volume 13...
We are proud to present the second issue in the thirteenth volume of the Queen Mary History Journal this June on the theme of 'Love and Loss' below - keep a look out!
Master of the Apollo and Daphne Legend. Daphne Fleeing from Apollo, c. 1500, oil on panel, transfered to canvas, 65.1 x 136.5 cm (25-5/8 x 53-3/4 in), Samuel H. Kress Collection, Smart Museum of Art, accessed May 22, 2024, https://www.kressfoundation.org/kress-collection/artwork/24a0c3b313c7c3d9be5259c8b2e7a7d413028081dc799ad812c9e57cc49092e.
To keep to the tradition of History Journal launch events, we have asked contributing students to tell you a bit about their essay and the universe and timeline it paints:
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Keep an eye out for our student body discussing their essays further in more detail!
For more brilliant submissions about the history of love and loss, have a read of the following:
Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)
Sarah Green, Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Bernhard Jessen and Ramie Targoff (eds.), Love After Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter GmbH, 2014)
Eduardo A. Velásquez (ed.), Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times, (Maryland, US: Lexington Books, 2003)
Thank you for visiting the History Journal's online launch. For any general enquiries, please email qmhistoryjournal@gmail.com.