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Social security in late medieval England: corrodies in the hospitals and almshouses of Durham Priory Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-12-23 A T Brown
Historians have debated the extent of poor relief and social security provision in late medieval England, yet our knowledge about the inmates of hospitals and almshouses remains limited. Corrodies – grants of food, clothes and shelter – have been seen as a way of alleviating poverty in old age. Utilizing the evidence of 260 corrodies, this article explores the gender, marital status and length of time
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Whiteness is not enough: South Africa and the 1922 responsible government referendum in Southern Rhodesia Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Charlton Francis Cussans
In the 1922 referendum White Southern Rhodesian voters rejected the Union of South Africa in favour of becoming a self-governing part of the British empire. This article will examine White Southern Rhodesian perceptions of South Africa during the referendum, considering historiographic ideas, particularly the ‘British world’, using contemporary newspapers and letters. The argument of this article is
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‘How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust’: recipes to animate small objects in late medieval European manuscripts Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Vanessa da Silva Baptista
In his late thirteenth-century collection of playful and amusing recipes, which this article calls magic tricks, Richard de Grimhill, a low-ranking Worcester noble, collected a trick ‘to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust’, alongside other instructions to animate domestic objects such as eggs, loaves of bread and spit-roasting chickens. Using a source base of 100 late medieval manuscripts,
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King Henry VII and the case of the missing treaty: Anglo-Hungarian crusading diplomacy reconsidered Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Charlotte Gauthier
Henry VII of England has never been considered a ‘crusader king’; his monetary contributions towards anti-Ottoman crusading have been characterized by his biographers as little more than bribes designed to constrain the ambitions of would-be pretenders to the English throne. However, an unpublished Anglo-Hungarian treaty of alliance calls such simplistic explanations into question, showing that after
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Military music and society during the French wars, 1793–1815 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Eamonn O’Keeffe
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars were experienced by the ears as much as the eyes, yet the auditory dimensions of these conflicts have received limited attention from historians. This article interrogates the reach and reception of military music in wartime Britain and Ireland by drawing on a wealth of evidence from memoirs, diaries, press reports and regimental archives. It demonstrates
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Henry VII and the Tower of London: the context of the ‘confession’ of Sir James Tyrell in 1502 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tim Thornton
The recent development of studies of the itineraries of English monarchs has enhanced understanding of a range of aspects of their kingship, as well as of the road and river transport network. In the case of Henry VII, study of the king’s movements allows for a better understanding of his preferences between his residences in and near his capital, and the reasons for these choices. It also sheds light
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The socio-environmental impact of mining in a peripheral Andean region, 1776–1831 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Osvaldo Sironi
From an environmental-historical perspective, this article seeks to contribute to the characterization of mining and metallurgy developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in the Argentine Cuyo region (Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis). It also seeks to examine the role they played in the region’s socio-historical dynamics, particularly in terms of the appropriation of available natural
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The High Priest of Blind Zeal: Milton, Montelion and mockery Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Steven Prizeman
A long-standing debate about the relationship between the poet John Milton and his nephew John Phillips has been undermined by inaccuracies in the bibliographical record and the failure of scholars to identify relevant passages in Phillips’s writings. This article brings new evidence with specific reference to A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655), containing an overlooked attack upon Milton; the Montelion
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Ralph of Diss, the coronation of Philip Augustus (1179) and the English claim to the French throne Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Björn Weiler
In the 1190s Ralph of Diss, the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, wrote a universal chronicle from the Creation to the author’s lifetime. This article uses Ralph’s account of the coronation of Philip Augustus of France in 1179 to tackle a series of broader issues: the role of history as a form of erudition, the ability of a remote and distant past to contain lessons for the present, and how this
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The contribution of the parliamentary press to Oliver Cromwell’s image as a military hero of the first English Civil War Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Joyce Macadam
This article examines the parliamentary press’s role in promoting Oliver Cromwell’s heroic image during the first civil war, a topic that has received relatively little scholarly attention. Based on a detailed study of contemporary pamphlets and newsbooks, it suggests three phases of press coverage that correspond to the conflict’s campaigning seasons. It shows that Cromwell’s image in print was greatly
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‘An inferior technician’? African American signallers in the First World War Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Brian N Hall
In the literature on the struggles of African Americans during the First World War, there has been a failure to examine the experiences of the 325th Field Signal Battalion, the first Black signal unit in the U.S. Army. Drawing upon a range of archival sources, unpublished letters, official documents and newspapers, this article assesses the experiences of the battalion’s Black officers and men before
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‘Avoid it without the appearance of running away’: Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine and the use of other conflicts, 1970–86 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Stuart C Aveyard
This article considers connections between the Northern Ireland and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, particularly claims that the Irish Republican Army and the Palestine Liberation Organization shared arms and expertise. It shows that British official investigations dismissed these allegations. The article argues that the two conflicts were linked by self-interested parties to support a politicized discourse
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Slavery and charity: Tobias Rustat and the African companies, 1662–94 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Michael Edwards
The links between enslavement and charitable giving in the late seventeenth century were deep and have become newly controversial. This article considers Tobias Rustat (1608–94), a royal servant and a long-term investor in the Royal African Company and other trading companies involved in the transatlantic slave trade, who gave prolifically to English educational and religious institutions from the
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King Arthur of England, count of Habsburg: the use of Arthurian imagery in Habsburg diplomacy Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-09-13 A D Curry
Arthurian symbolism utilized by King Henry VIII in Habsburg diplomacy was a tribute to his esteemed mythic forefather, King Arthur, who commanded great respect from countless individuals, not least his imperial cousins. This article proposes that the King Arthur pageant at the 1522 London entry of Charles V was part of Henry’s broader use of Arthuriana in Habsburg political theatre, inspired by Maximilian
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Profitable settlements: the earl of Warwick and toleration in the English Atlantic, 1643–8 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Jeremy Fradkin
This article examines the tolerationist policies of Robert Rich, second earl of Warwick, in response to religious disputes among English settlers in Bermuda and Rhode Island in the 1640s. It shows how Warwick’s newly established Committee for Foreign Plantations extended toleration to those godly Protestant settlers who were deemed useful to the militant confessional program of English colonization
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Irreducible ambiguity? The line between custom and statute in the law-making of thirteenth-century Poland Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Piotr Górecki
A resurging subject today is medieval customary law and its boundary with statute. Regarding Poland, the inquiry is complicated by a historiographical consensus that here the law essentially was customary, supplemented by statute only in the later fourteenth century. This certainty has reduced legal reality to unwarranted uniformity. In response, I survey the terminology related to custom and statute
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War, peace and commerce and the Treaty of London (1604) Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Alexandra Gajda
The Treaty of London (1604) brought an end to the long Anglo-Spanish War. Scholars have assumed that peace was broadly welcomed, especially among the English mercantile community. Yet many merchants had made vast fortunes from the war, through privateering or opening trade routes with Spain’s imperial territories. This article demonstrates that the lobbying of merchants significantly shaped the negotiations
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Translating between the lines: the rape of Constance Mauduit and histories of violation Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Katherine Weikert
This article illuminates the life of Constance Mauduit, a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman heiress, patron and rape victim, while problematizing the modern historiography around her. Drawing on feminist theory and gender history, the article recasts her life (and assault) by centring her experiences, elucidating wider social concerns with violent disruptions – actual and metaphorical – to social and spatial
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The organization and output of the ‘controlled English leather economy’, 1711–1830 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Stuart Henderson
This article examines, in detail, the organization and regulation of the English leather economy during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, looking at the total output as outlined in the excise records pertaining to the three key leather outputs: leathers tanned, tawed and dressed in oil. This research aims to identify and review what this article terms the ‘controlled leather economy’,
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Rumour, slander and propaganda in fifteenth-century Scottish politics Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Gordon McKelvie
Early modernists have recognized the importance of propaganda and public opinion in Scotland after the development of print culture and the Reformation. Consequently, there is an impression that these sixteenth-century developments were new features of political life. Yet the role of rumour and slander in the political culture of fifteenth-century Scotland has gone unnoticed, despite numerous references
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Popular politics, heritage and memories of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918–2020 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Matthew Roberts
Chartism has enjoyed a remarkably enduring posthumous life. This article focuses on the politics of remembering the movement via three case studies: the interwar political left, the attempts by the political and cultural establishment to co-opt Chartism since the 1980s, and the role of Chartism in the contemporary and ongoing campaigns for democratic renewal promoted by a range of heritage organizations
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Religious masculinities in William of Newburgh’s Historia rerum Anglicarum Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Maroula Perisanidi
William’s revenant stories, far from being oddities, fit well within the Historia rerum Anglicarum and can be read as reformist models of masculine behaviour. They present the reader with negative examples, such as clerics who acted in inappropriate ways and got their rightful punishment, as well as positive examples of men who not only stayed faithful to the precepts of the church but bolstered their
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Captain Pennington’s perplexity: the loan of English ships to France, 1625 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-26 David Cressy
The contentious loan of English ships to France in 1625 has usually been treated as a political scandal contributing to the impeachment of the duke of Buckingham. Here it is examined as a maritime episode, particularly challenging for Captain John Pennington of the royal ship Vanguard. English mariners were opposed to serving under the French, and vehemently against allowing their vessels to combat
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Reassessing the productivity of enslavement on large-scale plantations and small farms in Brazilian cotton production (c.1750–c.1810) Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Felipe Souza Melo, Diego de Cambraia Martins
This article compares the two largest raw cotton regions in Brazil between the 1750s and the 1810s. Through the analysis of new data on cotton export records and parish records, we argue that the high pattern of ownership of enslaved people, together with the organization of labour, the specialization in cotton and the cultivation of short fibres, made enforced labour more productive in Maranhão. In
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Licensing libel in seventeenth-century England: John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests in context/s Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-04-16 Samuel Fullerton
This article explores the polemical history of John White’s First Century of Scandalous, Malignant Priests (1643) to argue that the revolutionary public culture of England’s mid-century civil wars transformed seventeenth-century libellous politics by rendering ad hominem defamation into a routine element of formal partisan print culture for the first time in English history. The article concludes by
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The emergence of Leveller polemic: William Walwyn, collaborative authorship and radical identity, 1645–7 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Gary S De Krey
This article investigates Leveller prehistory by analysing three polemical tracts of 1646–7. William Walwyn and Richard Overton arguably collaborated in the Remonstrance of Many Thousand Citizens and in the New Found Stratagem Framed in the Old Forge of Machivilisme, as well as in the Warning to All the Counties of England. Their denunciations of the dominant Presbyterian faction supported the independent
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The politics of press astrology in wartime Britain, 1939–42 Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Oliver Parken
This article explores the politics of popular press astrology between 1939 and 1942. Charting the astrological content of the News of the World, The People, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Express and the Sunday Pictorial, it unearths connections between predictions and wider themes of morale and press freedoms during the war. The article argues that these predictions, which were largely aimed at female
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Life after death: uses in practice in the fifteenth century Historical Research Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Michael Hicks
This article documents a considerable increase in the percentage of manorial lords in fifteenth-century England who had enfeoffed their lands in use (trusts). Enfeoffments to use were the principal mechanism that enabled manorial lords to resettle their lands. The recent publication of inquisitions post-mortem for 1483–5 and wills for 1479–86 reveal how uses proliferated. Long-term uses appear to have
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Memory, community and the end of empire on the Isle of Dogs, 1980–2004 Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Finn Gleeson
How might we best understand the place of imperial memory in contemporary British history? Recent scholarship has tended to characterize this through one of two binary categories, pointing to either imperial ‘amnesia’ or imperial ‘nostalgia’. This article contends that sustained and detailed case studies can offer us a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of the production of memory. It uses
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Go west: Contextualizing Scandinavian royal naval expeditions into the Insular world, 1013–1103 Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Caitlin Ellis
Scholarly attention has focused on the explanation for raids at the start of the ‘Viking Age’, not on the motivations for royal expeditions of the eleventh century. This article examines Sven and Cnut’s invasion of England, the Norwegian prince Magnus Haraldsson’s presence in the Insular world, Harald harðráði’s attempted invasion of England, a series of failed Danish interventions in England, and
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Trade and traders in Plantation Ulster, c.1600–c.1650 Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-07-18 William Roulston, Brendan Scott
The Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century introduced to that province not only new markets and marketplaces, but also a new community interested in buying and selling the goods now on offer there. The Ulster port books for 1612–15 not only offer a great deal of information regarding the products being bought and sold in the province, but also provide us with the names and activities of
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Production of parchment legal deeds in England, 1690–1830 Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Sean Paul Doherty, Stuart Henderson
Biomolecular analysis of historical parchment legal documents is providing new insight into their production and use. Successful interpretation of this data is dependent on understanding if the location and date written on the document accurately reflect where the animal from which the parchment was produced was raised and when it died. Our analysis reveals that the location the deed concerns, or that
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Intruders in the Scottish church: clerical allegiance and English clergymen in Scotland during the Second War of Independence, 1332–57 Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Jenny M McHugh
Abstract Ecclesiastics on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border have often been forgotten in discussions of allegiance and political identity during the Scottish Wars of Independence. This article explores the careers and loyalties of English clergymen working in Scotland, their relationship to their Scottish counterparts, and their influence on the political landscape of the Anglo-Scottish border
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Transnationalizing fascist martyrs: an entangled history of the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin in Spain and Romania, 1937–41* Historical Research Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Zavatti F.
AbstractThis article analyses the memorialization of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin, two Romanian Legionary movement volunteers who died while fighting for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, as an entangled history of Romanian and Spanish fascisms. The commemoration practices and narratives recounted in the Spanish and Romanian newspapers and archival sources from the period 1937–41 show that commemorating
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Radical and/or respectable: coverage of radical politics in The Times and the Manchester Guardian in interwar Britain Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-12-15 Aaron Ackerley
A major issue for campaigners for radical political programmes is the question of publicity. A vibrant literature has emerged examining the ways in which the Labour party developed a media strategy and cultivated their own newspapers and links with established media organizations in mid twentieth-century Britain. However, the role of the quality press in helping make the radical respectable in the
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Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–90 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Erika Graham-Goering
While ceremonial progresses and civic entries have been understood primarily through the lens of urban–royal relationships, they were also occasions for the political engagement of the rural elite. A case study of the homages performed by southern French lords to King Charles VI shows that the landed aristocracy was integral to the royal agenda. It also offers an innovative spatial approach to analysing
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‘I say I must for I am the kings Shrieve’: magistrates invoking the monarch’s name in 1 Henry VI (1592) and The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntingdon (1598) Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Lucy J S Clarke
This article examines the presentation of magistrates invoking the king’s name in two 1590s plays from the popular theatres. It examines what these moments of invoking the king’s name suggest about the state and its structure in these plays, linking the drama to recent historiography on the manifestation of the state in arrests and other magisterial interventions, conceptualizing the state as an entity
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The trade fair network in Apulia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-10-25 Luciana Petracca
The article examines the places, times and spaces dedicated to the free market in Apulia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The primary documents consulted for this article indicate a significant increase in the regional fair circuit, starting from the reign of Frederick II. The increase in the number of fairs (divided between major and minor) inevitably favoured the development of the
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Foreign policy thought in Weimar’s ‘conservative revolution’: realpolitik or a question of being? Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Nicholas Nedzynski
This article illuminates a neglected aspect of conservative revolutionary ideology: namely, foreign policy. It shows that the conservative revolution was united by more than opposition to political liberalism, while simultaneously considering the different tendencies and tensions at work within the current. It proves that the foreign political agendas championed by conservative revolutionaries share
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‘Better off with Labour’? Fiscal policy, electoral strategy and the road to John Smith’s shadow budget, 1979–92 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Peter Sloman
The failure of John Smith’s ‘Shadow Budget’ to deliver a Labour victory in the 1992 general election has taken on a mythical status in narratives around the development of New Labour. This article sets the episode in a larger context by examining the development of Labour’s fiscal policies in opposition after 1979, in the face of rising inequality, public-sector austerity, and regressive tax reforms
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Parish councils, political inclusion, Liberal politics and the question of class: the 1894 elections as a forgotten phase in British democratization Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-30 James Moore
The creation of parish councils in 1894 has been somewhat neglected by historians of democratization and social class. This article explores how questions of political inclusion and class became important features of the first parish council elections. The National Liberal Federation and allied pressure groups encouraged electors to see the elections as a battle between working people and the privileged
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The 2021 Historical Research lecture: Historians, accountabilities and judgement Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Ludmilla Jordanova
‘Accountability’ may be a useful notion for reflecting on historians’ responsibilities, not just to students and peers but to their audiences, to ideas and to the past itself. The roles historians play in public life are of considerable interest given current controversies about ‘contested heritage’ that are strikingly polarized, with the lives of historical figures in the dock. To assess such roles
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Jesting culture and religious politics in seventeenth-century England Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Tim Somers
This article argues that jestbooks performed important functions within seventeenth-century religious politics. These functions were distinct from the ‘biting’ polemic and satire that more often catches the eyes of scholars. The article identifies ubiquitous ‘popular jests’ and discusses how jesting opened up space to engage playfully with controversial topics. In doing so, it challenges the historiographical
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The bewildered peasant: family, migration and murder in the Greek Cypriot community in London Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Panikos Panayi, Andrekos Varnava
Greek Cypriots became a key feature of early post-Second World War London. This article focuses on the case of the penultimate woman hanged in Britain, Styllou Christofi, who was executed in December 1954 for the murder of her German-born daughter-in-law, Hella. It outlines the emergence of the Cypriot community in London, tackles the image of the Cypriot in the British imperial imagination and investigates
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The long history of child sponsorship, c.1700–1950 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Hillary Kaell
The invention of child sponsorship, a fundraising tool that raises billions of dollars a year for global projects, is widely credited to the Save the Children Fund in 1919. This article is the first to revise that history, as it follows sponsorship through multiple iterations across more than two centuries. Doing so, it uncovers sponsorship’s roots in transatlantic Protestant missionary networks that
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The Zaran company in the Holy Land: an unknown fourth crusade charter from Acre Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-09-08 G E M Lippiatt
This article publishes and examines a newly discovered charter drafted in the Holy Land during the time of the fourth crusade, bringing the number of such original documents to four. In addition to shedding light on the nature of donations made by minor crusaders to the Templars while in Outremer, the witness list also reveals for the first time documentary evidence of the progress of a group of crusaders
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Mercenary gentlemen? The transnational service of foreign quarterdeck officers in the Royal Navy of the American and French wars, 1775–1815 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Sara Caputo
In the late eighteenth century, like most European fleets, the British Royal Navy still employed some foreign officers. This phenomenon, almost completely unexplored, seemingly embodies a contradiction between the national and the transnational meanings of honour. Using archival and printed sources, this article examines the foreign presence, or lack thereof, in four distinct categories of ‘quarterdeck’
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A pause in time: history writers and the regicide of Charles I Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Matthias Meng Yan Wong
The unprecedented trial and execution of Charles I left a nation aghast and bewildered. This article examines how the English reacted to such a disruptive event, namely how the regicide changed ideas of time and the future. Using a diachronic approach, this article examines the work of three history writers and the temporalities embedded within their narratives. Recognizing the significance of the
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The emotional evidence of early modern English plague wills Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-20 Olivia Formby
For seventeenth-century English Protestants will-making was a legal, religious and emotional practice, and one that continued in plague time. This article charts the resilience and accessibility of will-making in plague epidemics in Louth, Lincolnshire (1630/1–1631/2) and Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire (1637–8) and analyses both qualitative and quantitative emotional evidence from plague wills to illustrate
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Lord Bergavenny’s illegal retaining revisited, 1501–22 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-07-09 James Ross
George Neville, Lord Bergavenny, was fined £70,650 in 1507 for illegal retaining. This is used as the classic example of early Tudor attitudes towards noble retaining. Yet it is frequently taken out of the context of the other occasions for which he was prosecuted for this crime over a fifteen-year period, and for which he escaped punishment. A thorough analysis of the legal records and other sources
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Jan Huygen van Linschoten and the Reys-gheschrift: updating Iberian Science for the Dutch expansion Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Nuno Vila-Santa
In 1596 Jan Huygen van Linschoten published his Itinerario. It contained a section called the Reys-gheschrift, which was the first nautical compendium to include sailing routes on the earth’s three main oceans. This publication enabled the Dutch and the English to launch successful maritime strategies. In this article I discuss how Iberian Science, mainly its sources, was employed in the Reys-gheschrift
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The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Brodie Waddell
London experienced repeated outbreaks of popular xenophobia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the worst coming in the Evil May Day riot of 1517. This article illuminates the hydra-like nature of the stereotype of the immigrant at this time, which rhetorically combined the diverse population of aliens into a single material and political threat. It begins with a close analysis of the
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Memorandum concerning Joseph Priestley Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-06-17 Daniel A Jones
A previously unpublished memorandum on the life of Dr. Joseph Priestley written by Priestley’s former student, Benjamin Vaughan. Vaughan, who participated in the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris and served as a member of parliament, recounts the academic accomplishments, research interests and character of one of England’s most famous eighteenth-century polymaths. Vaughan’s reflections provide a
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Resituating Henrician Ireland: imperium, prophecy and Reformation between the Atlantic and Eurasian worlds, 1514–47 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-06-10 James Leduc
An intellectual-cultural history of sovereignty in Henrician Ireland, this article mines government writings and printed pamphlets to argue for Ireland’s integration within the dynastic strife, spiritual controversies and imperial ambitions that bridged the ‘New World’, the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean in the early Reformation. Its conclusions are twofold: that the Henrician Reformation galvanized
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Forging liberal states: Palmerston’s foreign policy and the rise of a constitutional monarchy in Spain, 1833–7 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Alfonso Goizueta Alfaro
British and Spanish historiography have consolidated the idea that Palmerston’s foreign policy toward Spain during the first Carlist War is representative of a ‘liberal phase’ in his career as foreign secretary. However, a close study of Palmerston’s private correspondence with his minister in Madrid, George Villiers, reveals that this compromise with liberalism actually masked a brute struggle with
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‘A legend somewhat larger than life’: Karl H. von Wiegand and the trajectory of Hearstian sensationalist journalism Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Benjamin S Goldstein
This article re-evaluates the trajectory of sensationalism within twentieth-century American journalism and foreign correspondence by examining William Randolph Hearst’s chief foreign correspondent, Karl H. von Wiegand (1874–1961). By following von Wiegand’s activities as a journalist, celebrity, propagandist and diplomatic go-between through both world wars, it argues that post-World War I concerns
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‘A natural passion?’ The 1810 reflections of a Yorkshire farmer on homosexuality* Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-02-14 O’Keeffe E.
AbstractIn a newly discovered passage from an 1810 diary, Yorkshire tenant farmer Matthew Tomlinson considers the notion that homosexual desire is a natural, divinely ordained human tendency, discernible from adolescence and undeserving of capital punishment. Although ultimately inconclusive, his reflections offer tantalizing evidence that historical attitudes towards same-sex love in early nineteenth-century
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Preaching and politics in the Welsh Marches, 1643–63: the case of Alexander Griffith* Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Bowen L.
AbstractThis article considers the nature and development of episcopalian identities and attitudes during the mid-seventeenth century by examining the case of Alexander Griffith. Griffith has been known to historians as an unbending ‘Anglican’, an exemplar of obdurate royalism and a man who was in the vanguard of resistance to the puritan experiments in Wales during the 1640s and 1650s. However, the
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Patronage and insanity: tolerance, reputation and mental disorder in the British navy 1740–1820 Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Beck C.
AbstractThis article examines contradictory attitudes towards insanity in the navy and how mental disorder affected officers and seamen’s reputations and careers. It challenges assumptions that dangerous sea-service and the prioritization of ability meant that those who experienced disorder were considered inherently ‘unfit’, exposing the complexity of eighteenth-century ideas of merit and disability
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Genealogy from a distance: the media of correspondence and the Mormon church, 1910–45* Historical Research Pub Date : 2021-01-10 Hjorthén A.
AbstractThis article adopts a media historical approach to studying the modern history of genealogy, suggesting an alternative to both the dominant methodologies and periodization of the field. Empirically, it focuses on the ways in which correspondence was adopted as a tool for long-distance research by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1910–45, examining in particular its research