Dr Gabriel Glickman of the University of Warwick's Department of History argues: Images of domineering English imperialists or scrounging Scots unable to stand on their own two feet have been with us for centuries, and they have pockmarked this campaign. But the ‘no’ campaigners need to show that this is at best a partial view of British history.

Dr Sarah Richardson of the University of Warwick's Department of History argues that the Yes campaign is narrowing the gap in the Scottish Referendum because, in part, of the complacency from Westminster and swing voters having “played a key role in determining the relationship between England and Scotland from 1707”.

A hundred years ago this week the Great War broke out. As the story of this conflict has been told and retold, a set of misperceptions about the war have emerged. A paper from the ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick has analysed the most common myths.

A blog post by Dr Caroline Petit, Department of Classics and Ancient History, on how the Roman physician, surgeon and philosopher Galen was perceived in the middle ages and beyond.

Dr Charlotte Mathieson summarises the 2013 Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium:

"Although the papers were diverse in their topics of focus, if there was one theme that I found threaded throughout the day it was the sense that travel practices and narratives serve not so much to connect, but rather to destabilise categories of identity, places, narratives...