The Editorial Board
Dear Reader,
Today, EPOCH celebrates its fourth birthday (and as such will be starting primary school in a few days time). We are exceptionally proud of the work that the editorial board and our contributors have put into the last sixteen issues, and we are very excited to share EPOCH 17: ‘Borders & Boundaries’.
This issue shares its theme with LHPC 2024, the annual history conference run by postgraduates, for postgraduates, at Lancaster University. This year, the conference sought to explore the forces that attract and repel our cultures and societies by bringing disciplines from across the arts and humanities together, and some of that vibrancy can be seen in this issue. You can read more about LHPC 2024 here.
In ‘Borders and Boundaries’, C. Robert Raynor from the University of Birmingham examines how coal reached up from under the earth to drive British politics in the 1970s, and British health policy thereafter. Alex Pomeroy looks at the stories of the Irish volunteers in the British armed forces during the Second World War. Both writers gave papers at LHPC this year and have done a fantastic job adapting their material to the magazine format—no mean feat.
Other articles in this issue assess how borders and boundaries have changed over time. Scott Macfie from the University of Glasgow assessed the rapid erection of fences around private land and its impact on the land politics of Scotland in the eighteenth century, and Mirjam Wien from the University of Erfurt explored how the boundaries of Central and Eastern Europe have shifted in our minds over the last two hundred years.
Members of our editorial board have also contributed two articles to this issue. Jude Rowley, our International History Editor, tells the story of how Cold War paranoia made its way to Lancaster University in the 1970s, and Amy Louise Smith, our Art Director and Cultural History Editor both amuses and informs with her exploration of community responses to the enclosure of common land in England at the turn of the seventeenth century.
In this issue, we have also published another two interviews, with Dr Helen Taylor from the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, who spoke to our Maritime History Editor Dabeoc Stanley and our Deputy Coordinating Editor Anna Drury about the history of the RZSS’s conservation efforts, and Dr Philip Riris from Bournemouth University, who spoke to our Medieval Editor Ed Moore about Pre-Columbian rock art in the Orinoco River basin. We would love to do more interviews, so if you think you are interesting please do get in touch at epoch@lancaster.ac.uk.
In Northern England, at least, the days are still long; but the Earth is happily and inexorably hurtling around the sun, and Christmas is coming. However, there are things to look forward to before then. New PhD students will be joining the magazine in October, and Issue 18, ‘Gender & Sexuality’, will be out on 1 December. This theme encompasses such a broad swathe of the human experience that all researchers will have something to add: submit your pitch here.
Best wishes,
Will Garbett
Coordinating Editor | EPOCH Magazine
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