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The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918 (2021)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2021). The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918. History, 106(370), 221-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.13103

Over the course of the long nineteenth century, people in the United Kingdom signed a wide variety of petitions, addresses, testimonials, and related documents. Though many forms of subscriptional culture had medieval and early modern origins, their... Read More about The Politics of Petitioning: Parliament, Government and Subscriptional Cultures in the United Kingdom, 1780-1918.

Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230) (2021)
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White, R. C., Gasper, G. E., McLeish, T. C., Tanner, B. K., Harvey, J. S., Sønnesyn, S. O., …Smithson, H. E. (2021). Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230). Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 112(1), 93-107. https://doi.org/10.1086/713724

In his treatise On the Rainbow (De iride), composed nearly four hundred years before the first known telescope, the English polymath Robert Grosseteste identified three striking optical effects: distant objects can be rendered close by; close-by larg... Read More about Magnifying Grains of Sand, Seeds, and Blades of Grass: Optical Effects in Robert Grosseteste’s De iride (On the Rainbow) (circa 1228–1230).

Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Edited by WalterPohl, ClemensGantner, CinziaGrifoni and MariannePollheimer‐Mohaupt. Millennium Studies 71. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2018. xiv + 586 pp. £118. ISBN 978 3 11 058959 7. (2021)
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Mawdsley, H. (2021). Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Edited by WalterPohl, ClemensGantner, CinziaGrifoni and MariannePollheimer‐Mohaupt. Millennium Studies 71. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2018. xiv + 586 pp. £118. ISBN 978 3 11 058959 7. Early Medieval Europe, 29(2), 277-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12465

Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation (2021)
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Ellis, C. (2021). Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation. History Compass, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12652

The Vikings are an excellent example of the significance of cultural memory: from post-Viking-Age sources to their rediscovery in the Victorian period to their popular appeal in current times. Ancestry is a key dimension as vikings could be dynasty f... Read More about Remembering the Vikings: Ancestry, cultural memory and geographical variation.

The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century (2021)
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Rampley, M., Prokopovych, M., & Veszpremi, N. (2021). The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century. Penn State University Press

This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural polit... Read More about The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century.

‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness (2021)
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Malpass, A., Mcguire, C., & Macnaughton, J. (2022). ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness. Medical Humanities, 48(1), 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011816

Breathlessness is a sensation affecting those living with chronic respiratory disease, obesity, heart disease and anxiety disorders. The Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile is a respiratory questionnaire which attempts to measure the incommunicable dif... Read More about ‘The body says it’: the difficulty of measuring and communicating sensations of breathlessness.

A Sodomy Scandal on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion (2021)
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Hamilton, T. (2021). A Sodomy Scandal on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion. Historical Journal, 64(4), 844-864. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000564

This article uncovers a sodomy scandal that took place in the Benedictine Abbey of Morigny, on the eve of the French Wars of Religion, in order to tackle an apparently simple yet persistent question in the history of early modern criminal justice. Wh... Read More about A Sodomy Scandal on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion.

Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London (2021)
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Mears, N. (2022). Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London. The Seventeenth Century, 37(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2020.1867626

At least thirty–eight memorials were erected to Elizabeth I in London parish churches between c. 1606 and c.1633. Though they have been interpreted as critiques of Jacobean foreign policy, this conclusion is not fully supported by extant evidence reg... Read More about Memorials of Queen Elizabeth I in early Stuart London.