Mathew Lyons

One Election Too Many

The Representation of the People Act, which received royal assent on 30 July 1948, abolished university constituencies.

First in Her Field (Work)

The pioneering archaeologist and Oxbridge’s first woman professor, Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Chair of Archaeology on 6 May 1939.

Under Good Birds

The role birds played in the lives – intellectual, practical, emotional and otherwise – of men and women in the ancient world.

Between fact and fiction

We live in an era sceptical of singularity and authority, yet attracted to narrow certainties. Might a more self-consciously subjective approach to history offer solutions, asks Mathew Lyons?