Making the Past Present

There is so much I could say about Vienna, which is one of my favorite cities in Europe. So much, in fact, that one post is not nearly enough to convey all of my thoughts, so here I’m going to focus on one particular aspect of Vienna: its café culture.…

Time for a very belated update of this blog! This is an abridged description of my travels around Yorkshire over the Christmas holidays, as I explored the area around York. The first place I visited was Leeds (it was also the last place I visited during the holidays, as I…

As you could probably guess from the lack of activity on this blog lately, things have been busy here in York for the last few weeks. Between essays, classes, preparing for the end of term, and the rest of life, it’s been a busy month so far. So, hold onto…

For the past two weekends, I’ve begun exploring northern England and Scotland. One of my goals for this year is to explore the United Kingdom as much as possible, and I think I’ve made a good start towards that! Last weekend, I took the train up to Edinburgh for an…

The last few weeks have been very busy, for one main reason: I moved to the UK to start my MA in cultural heritage management at the University of York. Between settling into my new room at Wentworth College, getting to know my fellow archaeology postgraduate students, and exploring my new…

As I was reading a book review the other day, I was reminded that, in my eagerness to discuss the lesser-known borderlands of Western Europe in my last post, I neglected a very interesting borderland region in Germany: the area to the south and east of Dresden. Located in the…

The concept of borderlands is a popular topic in recent historical studies of modern European history. Over the past several decades, a growing number of scholars of European history have focused their attention on the borderlands of Europe, which were zones of great ethnic and cultural diversity.  Often, these historians…

It would be no exaggeration to say that Berlin is one of my favorite cities in Europe.  It’s one of those wonderful places where there is so much to see and do that it’s hard to imagine ever getting tired of exploring all that the city offers. After three visits…