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Anxiety and Post‐Authoritarian Societies: Insights from 1980s Greece History Pub Date : 2024-02-19 PANAGIOTIS ZESTANAKIS
This article discusses anxiety as an analytical and methodological concept in the investigation of post‐authoritarian societies, drawing on three well‐being‐focused anxieties that marked Greece in the 1980s: first, the degradation of the urban environment, especially in Athens; second, the technologisation of everyday life, most notably the popularisation of information technology; and third, the impact
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State of the Field: Histories of the Future History Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Jeroen Puttevils, Max-Quentin Bischoff, Sara Budts, Elisabeth Heijmans, Sanne Hermans, Nicolò Zennaro
In the last decade, future thinking has rapidly gained importance as a topic of historical study. This article provides an overview of the existing historiographies of future thinking as well as the actions and practices that follow such thoughts. We trace the pedigree of histories of the future back to the German historian of ideas Reinhart Koselleck and show how his conceptual framework has been
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Richard, bishop of Syracuse and archbishop of Messina (d. 1195), and the History of the Tyrants of Sicily History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 MARK HAGGER
This article reconsiders the agenda and authorship of the Liber de regno Sicilie or History of the Tyrants of Sicily by way of a detailed study of its content. The History comprises one of the very few detailed sources for the kingdom of Sicily under Kings William I (1154–66) and William II (1166–89), and while it only covers part of the period in question (1154–69), it is of fundamental importance
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The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt History Pub Date : 2024-02-13 CHRISTOPHER JOBY
A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic. A recent study by Silke Muylaert (2020) on migrant churches in England engages with this trend. One church that
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Oaths of Fidelity: Loyalty and Officeholding in Late Medieval Durham History Pub Date : 2024-02-10 A.T. Brown
Oaths of fidelity, homage and fealty were ubiquitous in late medieval England. Variously given by tenants, officeholders and retainers, such oaths represented a promise of loyalty and goodwill towards a lord. Individuals might make many such professions, perhaps as a tenant of one lord, an officer of another or a hired retainer of yet a third. Such multiple loyalties can be difficult to recover, especially
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The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union History Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Andrew Jacobs
This article uses Angela Davis' 1972 visit to the Soviet Union to explore the continued connections between the Soviet Union and African Americans. Davis was made famous in the Soviet Union because of her victimhood and her pro-Soviet outlook. Soviet support for her cause combined with her eyewitness testimony that the Soviet Union had abolished racism provided Soviet propaganda with ample opportunities
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‘Je suis corse, un homme de village’: Towards a Study of Contemporary Corsican Nationalism (1959–98) History Pub Date : 2023-10-12 DEBORAH PACI
This article reconstructs the genesis and developments of contemporary Corsican nationalism between 1959 to 1998, from the emergence of regionalism to the most dramatic phase of the resurgence of violence represented by the murder of Prefect Claude Érignac. The underlying hypothesis for this study is that Corsica embodies the community of destiny through a dialogue between tradition and modernity.
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L. T. Hobhouse's idea of a European Federation History Pub Date : 2023-10-11 ALESSANDRO DIVIDUS
This article discusses L. T. Hobhouse's project for the creation of a new European Federation based on a social-liberal model of the State without sacrificing the principle of national identity. The nineteenth century, according to Hobhouse, associated the idea of nationality and liberty, and the connection was genuine enough as long as it applied to subject peoples struggling to be free. But that
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Devoted, Pious, Frivolous and Irreverent Women: The Representation of Female Religiosity in Spanish Painting, 1868–1917 History Pub Date : 2023-10-11 ROSA ELENA RÍOS LLORET
The aim of this article is to show how Spanish painting of the nineteenth century helped to construct the narrative of a female religiosity based on sentiment, which was specific to women. This narrative was not free from misogyny because women's piety was often diluted, converted into something superficial. It was brimming with exaggerated sentimentalism, the product of superstition and lacking in
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William the Conqueror's Lost Writ for London Rediscovered History Pub Date : 2023-08-09 NICHOLAS KARN
William the Conqueror's writ for London has long been recognised as one of the key sources for the Norman Conquest of England, and has been discussed at length and printed many times. Yet the archives of the Corporation of the City of London contain another, hitherto unpublished, text of a writ of that king in favour of the citizens of London. In the later middle ages, it was set alongside its better-known
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Elizabethan Catholic Intelligencers, Spain and the Armada of 1597 History Pub Date : 2023-06-22 JONATHAN ROCHE
Recent research on late Reformation English/British Catholics’ engagement in contemporary politics, has, for the most part, focused on regicidal schemes or on Catholic polemical writings. Espionage activities by Catholics in England, however, have been often overlooked. The hundreds of documents endorsed ‘avisos de Inglaterra’ (reports from England), located in el archivo general de Simancas, are intelligence
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A Community in Competition: The Barons of Leinster in Thirteenth-Century Ireland History Pub Date : 2023-06-17 JOHN MARSHALL
Over the last number of decades, the relationship between king and magnate in medieval Ireland has been prominent in scholarship, but less attention has been given to the tenantry below. Drawing on a range of sources from chancery material to chronicle evidence, this article analyses one such tenantry community, the ‘barons of Leinster’. During the first half of the thirteenth century, the Marshal
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Thinker, Gaoler, Soldier, and Spy: Sir John Peyton (1544–1630) and Early Modern Intelligence-Brokering in the Tower of London History Pub Date : 2023-06-05 DANNIELLE SHAW
Through analysing local administrative records, state administrative records, and personal correspondence, this article demonstrates how Sir John Peyton's role as Lieutenant of the Tower of London (1597–1603) provides us with a hitherto unexamined opportunity for commissioning, extracting, brokering, and obtaining intelligence. In doing so, it makes the case for re-examining the often-overlooked contribution
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New Explorations in Early Modern Intelligence-Gathering: Introduction History Pub Date : 2023-06-03 DANNIELLE SHAW, MATTHEW WOODCOCK
This introduction to ‘New Explorations in Early Modern Intelligence-Gathering’ provides a brief overview of some of the common currents and directions of scholarship on early modern espionage in order to provide a critical context for the essays comprising this special issue. It identifies the extent to which scholars have looked both at individual spies and the systems and secretariats within which
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Robert Barret and the Making of an Early Modern Occasional Spy History Pub Date : 2023-06-03 MATTHEW WOODCOCK
This article examines letters written by the soldier-author Robert Barret in 1581 describing his travels in France and Italy, while a runaway apprentice during the 1570s, that led him to the English College in Rome. Barret's letters constitute a valuable, hitherto overlooked source of first-hand information about British and Irish Catholics in continental Europe, complementing better-known sources
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The Secretariat of Francis Walsingham, 1568–1590 History Pub Date : 2023-05-24 HSUAN-YING TU
Mid-Elizabethan rivalry over policy and patronage split the system of state information and espionage into the collaboration of individuals. To maintain the utmost privacy, Francis Walsingham, principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, designed a comparatively enclosed information management and secretarial machinery that combined household space with clientage. This strategy facilitated the multiple
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‘They Hide from Me, Like the Devil from the Cross’: Transalpine Postal Routes as Intelligence Work, 1555–1645 History Pub Date : 2023-05-23 RACHEL MIDURA
Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter-espionage in seventeenth-century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in information security took place along different geography than the
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Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information-Gathering Regarding England and Poland History Pub Date : 2023-05-23 CHARLES R. KEENAN
This essay examines the information-gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved especially challenging for the papacy – England and Poland-Lithuania
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Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his Intelligence Work: 1702–1708 History Pub Date : 2023-05-23 ALAN MARSHALL
This article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth-century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative background of Harley's espionage work, and how he handled
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From History-writing to (Hi)story-telling: Historical Novel, Alternate/Counterfactual History and Implicit Uchrony History Pub Date : 2023-05-23 ADRIANO VINALE
The main aim of this article is to reconstruct the evolutions and the political implications of the Italian historical novel between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The starting hypothesis is that the historical novel has always performed a vicarious function with respect to traditional historiography. In the Italian case, in particular, the canon of the historical novel has progressively
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Detecting Nineteen Eighty-Four in Italian Alternate History and Future/Past Narratives (1948–1984) History Pub Date : 2023-05-22 ANGELO ARCIERO
Due to its structural complexity, Nineteen Eighty-Four poses itself as a real watershed within dystopian literature, involving a vision of history conceived as a discontinuous and non-linear progress. By such a token – and because of its enduring ability to spread to other cultural contexts – the representation of totalitarianism in Orwell's last novel is translated into a narrative structure with
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‘Missed Revolutions’: Historical Narratives During Italian Fascism (from Delio Cantimori to Camillo Pellizzi) History Pub Date : 2023-05-22 PATRICIA CHIANTERA-STUTTE
This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so-called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an interrupted process, one that, had it been completed, would have
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Geography, Race, and Nation, in Agostino Codazzi's Transatlantic Experiences (1793–1859) History Pub Date : 2023-03-21 FEDERICA MORELLI
Through the analysis of Agostino Codazzi's experiences in the Atlantic, this article aims at underlining the strong connection between Latin America and the Italian peninsula in the nineteenth century as well as his role in the emergence and development of geography. An officer in the Napoleonic army in Italy and later an exile in Latin America, Codazzi mapped the territories of Venezuela and New Granada
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Free Trade without Words: Popular Public Rituals and Corn Law Repeal in the Early 1840s History Pub Date : 2023-03-17 MASAHIRO KONISHI
This article examines the folkloric protest and popular political culture during the anti-Corn Law agitation. It offers a new analysis of the role of customary demonstration based on moral economy in supporting free importation of foreign corn. It examines previously unstudied bread processions during the 1841 general election and effigy burnings of Sir Robert Peel that occurred simultaneously against
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Alienated Outsider or Integrated Courtier? Edward Stafford, Third Duke of Buckingham, 1498–1521 and the Royal Court History Pub Date : 2023-03-14 JAMES ROSS
Edward Stafford, third duke of Buckingham (d. 1521), is a key example in the historiographical interpretation of relations between crown and nobility as difficult and in conflict under the first two Tudor kings, not least because of his execution for treason in 1521. In particular, he has been seen as an outsider at the Tudor court, playing little role there except perhaps on great set-piece occasions
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Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) and the Religious Life of his Time History Pub Date : 2023-02-23 ROBERT BARTLETT
In this article the scholar, preacher and bishop Jacques de Vitry (d. 1240) is taken as a vantage point to look at the religious life of his time. He had personal involvement with the nascent university of Paris, the earliest beguines of the Low Countries, the crusades against heretics and Muslims, and the first friars. He left varied and vivid descriptions of these movements. His writings also constantly
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The Missing Generation: Grandparents and Agency in Early Modern England History Pub Date : 2023-02-17 BERNARD CAPP
Grandparents have been largely overlooked in the otherwise rich historiography of the family in early modern England. This article shows how many were able to play significant roles in family life, in both emotional and practical terms. Some forged close bonds with their young grandchildren, or took them in for a period to relieve hard-pressed parents, while others were willing to raise and educate
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Withdrawn History Pub Date : 2022-12-05
Withdrawal: Emma Yeo, “Duel Without End. Mankind's Battle with Microbes. By Stig S. Frøland. Reaktion Books. 2022. 632 pp. £25.00,” History, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13311. The above article, published online on 5 December 2022, on Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been withdrawn by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Jennifer Davy, and John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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The Genesis of the Cult of Trotsky in the Russian Civil War History Pub Date : 2022-11-17 ALEXANDER V. REZNIK
From 1914 onwards, leader-centric imagery became a prominent component of hegemonic Russian political discourse, and these early cults of military and political leaders served as inspiration for later veneration of Lenin and Stalin. The case of Leon Trotsky, a top leader of the Red Army and the Soviet state, is of crucial importance for understanding the political universe of the revolutionary era
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Mercenaries, Migration and the Crew of the Mary Rose History Pub Date : 2022-10-09 SAMANTHA NELSON, CATHERINE FLETCHER
This article reconsiders the presence of foreigners in the crew of Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose in light of recent archaeological investigations of human remains from the wreck. Through an interdisciplinary analysis drawing on archaeological investigation, the artefacts found on board the Mary Rose and historical documents, this study investigates the context for the presence of foreigners on board
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Transnational Solidarities and Competing Visions of Europe: Vienna's Vote on the Russo-Japanese War History Pub Date : 2022-09-19 ULRICH BRANDENBURG
The 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War is commonly described as a clash between a European power (Russia) and an Asian one (Japan). This binary framing is problematic, however, as ideas of Europeanness and Asianness were hotly contested during the war. Both Russia and Japan laid claim to being more European than the other, based on competing notions of racial and ideological kinship. The Russo-Japanese War
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Mentally Maimed, Differently Treated. Attitudes Towards Mentally Disabled Civil War Veterans in Finland 1918–39 History Pub Date : 2022-08-04 VIRVA LISKI
This article analyses the ideological, political and medical positioning of mentally ill veterans of the Finnish Civil War of 1918 in inter-war Finland. Using pension applications, the writings of veteran activists, parliamentary debates, psychiatric examinations and military documents this article shows that war-related mental disability was a locally and nationally politicised, sympathised and justified
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Prisoners, Sanctuary-Seekers, and Workers: Jews at the Tower of London, 1189–1290 History Pub Date : 2022-07-25 RORY MACLELLAN
The most significant built remnant of the Jewish history of medieval England is not a synagogue but a castle: the Tower of London. From 1189 to 1290, hundreds of Jews entered the Tower as prisoners, sanctuary-seekers or workers. In the thirteenth century, the Constable of the Tower not only had authority over the London Jewry but also had the unique right to arrest Jews anywhere in the kingdom and
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State of the Field: Disability History History Pub Date : 2022-07-20 DANIEL BLACKIE, ALEXIA MONCRIEFF
Historical studies of bodily and cognitive difference have flourished in the past decade. This article surveys recent work in disability history to provide a sense of the state of the field today. Concentrating on work published in English, the article outlines three main pillars of the field: its political impetus; its commitment to a sociocultural approach to disability, and its insistence that disability
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Privileged Injuries: Defining Disability Among Veterans Of The Irish Revolution (1916–1923) History Pub Date : 2022-07-15 MARIE COLEMAN
Following its War of Independence from Britain (1919–21) and subsequent Civil War (1922–3), the Irish Free State government introduced disability pension legislation to compensate revolutionaries and soldiers who had been wounded and the dependants of those who had died in the conflicts. The legislation was initially limited only to physical wounds, but this remit was extended in 1927 to cover mental
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Pride and Privilege? New Approaches to War Disability in the Twentieth Century History Pub Date : 2022-07-14 SEBASTIAN SCHLUND, STEPHANIE WRIGHT
War disability occupies a prominent space within the small but rapidly blossoming field of disability history. The experience of maiming in war can contribute to a specific form of identity construction amongst disabled veterans, who have often been viewed separately from other disability groups. For wounded men returning home from war, it was often psychologically of the utmost importance to be proud
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‘Heroes to anonymous pensioners’: Francisco Franco's ‘mutilated gentlemen’ and the erosion of veteran privilege in Spain's transition to democracy History Pub Date : 2022-07-14 Stephanie Wright
This article explores how during Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s and 1980s, Francoist disabled veterans of the Spanish Civil War navigated the disappearance of formerly hegemonic historical narratives which had hitherto defined their relationship with the state. While for Republican disabled veterans of the Civil War, the transition brought a degree of legitimisation, political emancipation
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‘An Elite Among the Disabled’. The Welfare State and Identity Formation of Disabled Veterans in post-war West Germany History Pub Date : 2022-07-11 SEBASTIAN SCHLUND
This article explores how disabled war veterans received preferential treatment by Federal German social and welfare politics in the first two decades after the Second World War. Based on the case of their ‘sacrifice for the fatherland’, disabled veterans were entitled to a generosity not experienced by persons disabled since birth, by an accident or illness. Powerful war victims’ associations successfully
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Political Charity: The 1642 Collection for the Relief of His Majesties Distressed Subjects in Ireland History Pub Date : 2022-07-11 JOHN WALTER
This article revisits the 1642 Collection for the relief of the Protestant victims of the 1641 Irish Uprising. Based on an analysis of all extant (English) parish returns, it explores how the act of charity was understood by the thousands who contributed and what its consequences were for popular engagement in the politics of a country on the edge of civil war. Despite the relative historiographical
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William of Tyre, Translatio Imperii and the Genesis of the First Crusade: Or, the Challenges of Writing History History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 ANDREW D. BUCK
The article offers a contribution to wider dialogues on history creation and the analytical superstructures that influence how authors use the past to construct and legitimise identities tied to conquest and settlement. It takes as its case study the twelfth-century Chronicon of the Jerusalemite writer William of Tyre, and his crafting of an account of the First Crusade that demonstrated the legal
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State of the Field: The Modern History of Childhood History Pub Date : 2022-06-24 LAURA TISDALL
This state of the field article presents three questions for students and scholars of childhood: first, who is included in the history of childhood? Second, why does the history of childhood matter? Third, how should we do the history of childhood? It argues that all historians of childhood need to reflect upon modern developmental concepts of childhood which purport to tell us what children of different
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In Love with Social Order: William Allen and the ‘Science’ and ‘Art’ of Early Nineteenth-Century British Philanthropy History Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Matilde Cazzola
This article surveys the charitable and humanitarian activities of the Quaker philanthropist William Allen (1770–843), who was at the forefront of several campaigns for the relief and schooling of the poor and labouring classes in Britain and the emancipation and ‘civilisation’ of the enslaved and colonised peoples in the broader empire between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries.
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Corrigendum History Pub Date : 2022-06-08
Niamh NicGhabhann and Colleen M. Thomas, `Margaret McNair Stokes (1832–1900): Negotiating Cultural Values Within Nineteenth-Century Irish Antiquarian Discourse’, History, 106/372 (2021), pp. 597–618. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13200 Footnote 13 was published in this article as: The entry for Stokes in the Dictionary of Irish Biography includes a select bibliography on her work and life. Andrew
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Metahistory as Public History: On Introducing Metahistorical Perspectives in Events about Events History Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Ola Innset
This article argues that the introduction of ‘metahistorical perspectives’ can greatly enrich the practice of public history. Through the example of a series of public events about important historical events held at the National Library of Norway, it is argued that an attention to microhistory, pedagogical theory and especially William Sewell Jr.’s theory of events can be beneficial when programming
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‘The King's Other Islands of the Sea’: The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet Realm, 1254–1341 History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Alexander Kelleher
This article examines the relationship between the Plantagenet kings of England and the Channel Islands from 1254–1341. Notwithstanding a rich volume of accessible record material to consult, the history of the Channel Islands has been omitted from studies of the Plantagenet kings of England and in comparative studies of their wider ‘dominions’ on account of the Islands complex political status and
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History in Public: Power and Process, Harm and Help History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Christel Annemieke Romein, Laura Doak, Hannah Parker, Janet Weston
This introductory piece explains the choice of public history as a focus for this special issue of History, and its emphasis on the work of early-career historians. ‘Public history’ is a notoriously nebulous concept. We outline some of the most common ways in which it is understood, and discuss why we believe that its methods and approaches are of enormous value to all those involved in historical
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Going Deeper than ‘Emotional Impact’: Heritage, Academic Collaboration and Affective Engagements History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Anna Fielding
Organisations such as the National Trust have recently looked to academia to assist them in the telling of their properties’ stories and contexts. Academia has similarly turned to heritage organisations and sites for audiences they can engage in their variously funded projects, and to fulfil the requirements of the REF (Research Excellence Framework) when it comes to research dissemination. However
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Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards: The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust, Community Activism and Public History Programming History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Safina Islam, E. James West
Founded in memory of a Bangladeshi schoolboy who was stabbed to death in a racially motivated attack in 1986, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust works to archive the life stories of racial and ethnic minority communities in Greater Manchester. The Trust is partnered with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE (Race Archives and Community Engagement) Centre, a specialist library focusing on the history of race
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Finding Place in the Archive: A Case Study of St. John [Colored] Missionary Baptist Church, 1866–1900 History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Portia D. Hopkins
This article explores the ongoing preservation efforts of The St. John Fundraising and Preservation Committee at St. John Missionary Baptist Church (SJMBC). The church, founded in 1869 by former slaves, is located in Fort Bend County, Texas, a county which held the second-largest slave population in the state in 1860. SJMBC sought to develop an archive of historical records to narrate St. John's early
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Self-Representation, Community Engagement and Decolonisation in the Museums of Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from Meghalaya, India History Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Amorette Lyngwa
This article is an exploration of the museum practices of the Indigenous communities of Meghalaya, in north-east India. It uses Bryony Onciul's concept of museums as ‘Engagement Zones’, highlighted in the book Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice: Decolonizing Engagement as a conceptual basis for analyses and critique. Presenting a perspective from the Global South, the study aims to locate the limits
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Public History Play-Acting After All: Commentary on a Confederate Battle Flag Exhibition in Virginia History Pub Date : 2022-02-20 Laura A. Macaluso
Using a Confederate battle flag exhibit as the centre of discussion, this article examines the creation and implementation of an exhibition held in January 2020 around the history and public presentation of a divisive object. Purported to be a ‘community’-driven project, the exhibition tried to balance different aims for different publics, never taking a direct position on the problem of the presence
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Building Confianza: Collective Public History in the Time of Distance – a Joint Reflection from the Boyle Heights Museum Team History Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Jorge N. Leal, Yesenia Navarrete Hunter, Michelle Vasquez Ruiz, Cassandra Flores-Montaño, Arabella Delgado, Rosa Noriega-Rocha, Isis Galeno, Ivonne Rodriguez, Alexander Polt-Gifford
How do you preserve the history of a neighbourhood undergoing change? How do you honour its residents and their legacy of lucha (struggle)? How do you uplift the voices of community members, students and researchers of colour in the museum world? In this joint reflection, members of the Los Angeles Boyle Heights Museum (BHM) reflect on their collaborative endeavours to research, preserve and celebrate
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How Global was Medieval Prussia? An Analysis of the Barlaam and Josaphat Manuscript of the Teutonic Knights at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century History Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Gregory Leighton
The history of the southern Baltic region (Prussia) from the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries has only received increased attention from ‘Western’ scholars in the last three decades. It has remained peripheral within traditional ‘Western’ scholarship on the premodern world. As a result, we are still left with a wide variety of questions, especially concerning the place of this area in the broader
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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast History Pub Date : 2022-02-13 Carole Rawcliffe
This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth-century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about exercise have been largely neglected. Yet it was deemed essential
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State of the Field: Physical Culture History Pub Date : 2022-01-06 Connor Heffernan
This article surveys the state of the field of physical culture within the discipline of history. Understood broadly as a society's interest in gymnasium and health cultures, physical culture has become a topic of increasing importance for historians, sociologists and performance scholars in the past two decades. Seen as a distinct field from sport history, works on physical culture have evolved from
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History and Public Memory in Tobago: Opportunities and Obstacles History Pub Date : 2022-02-08 O'Neil Joseph
Since the 1980s, policymakers on the island of Tobago positioned public history as one of the main pillars for sustainable economic and social development. As such, from the early 1980s public history became central to the island's development policy and planning. Locals, researchers and tourists consume and experience public history at sites of memory throughout the island. This article contends that
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Out of the Ivory Tower, into the Digital World? Democratising Scholarly Exchange History Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Fraser Raeburn, Lisa Baer-Tsarfati, Viktoria Porter
The year 2020 has witnessed an unprecedented expansion of scholarly events online. Yet, in the scramble to adapt to difficult circumstances, little reflection has been given to the ways in which these new digital landscapes can reshape our approach to public history more permanently. This article draws upon the authors’ experiences as organisers of the 2020 AskHistorians Digital Conference (AHDC).
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Everyday Public History History Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Huw Halstead
Public history is often viewed rather narrowly as something that ‘happens’ in familiar places at particular moments in time under the watchful eye of a ‘professional’. This is the public history of the impact and engagement statement: bounded, controlled, measurable. Conversely, I argue for a more ecumenical, diverse and anarchic understanding of public history. Drawing on observations from oral history
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Public History and Collective Transformation: A Case Study of Un/Learning the State History Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Erin Katherine Krafft, Rikki Davis, E. Denise Meza-Reidpath
In the summer of 2020, amidst global pandemic and protest, a youth-centred non-profit organisation in Providence, RI, USA led a series of sessions meant to introduce participants to histories of slavery, incarceration, policing, abolition and transformative justice practices. Ultimately, it was an extremely successful experiment in popular education that revealed multiple dynamics: the failings of
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Emotion, Place and Weaponisation of the Truth: The Bloody Sunday Trust and the Search for Justice History Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Naomi Petropoulos
On 30 January 1972 in Derry/Londonderry, a march protesting against the introduction of internment without trial ended with the deaths of thirteen demonstrators. The findings of the initial public inquiry, dubbed the ‘Widgery Whitewash’, resulted in decades-long campaigning that still continues to this day. This article contextualises the events of Bloody Sunday and subsequent public inquiries while