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The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages (2024)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. D. (2024). The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages. Social History, 49(3), 261-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2024.2351752

Histories of politics in the late medieval European town present a struggle between town oligarchs and town citizens. While the conclusions that historians draw differ, the stakes of politics are the same: exclusion, participation, and representation... Read More about The household, the citizen, and the city: towards a social history of urban politics in the late Middle Ages.

Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility (2024)
Book Chapter
Brown, A. T. Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility. In S. H. Rigby (Ed.), Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw's Legend in the Later Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer

Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875 (2024)
Book Chapter
Bennett, M. (2024). Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875. In K. Varley (Ed.), The Franco-Prussian War: Turning-Points in European Experiences and Perceptions of Military Conflict. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003336792-3

Almost as striking as the totality of German victory in the Franco-Prussian War is the paucity of contemporary observers who anticipated the result – particularly with an earlier, similarly stunning Prussian victory over Austria to judge by. Confusio... Read More about Tactics, learning and the civil-military interface in Europe, 1870 – 1875.

Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections (2024)
Journal Article
Cheeseman, N., Kanyinga, K., Lynch, G., & Willis, J. (2024). Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections. Journal of Eastern African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2024.2359154

Kenya’s 2022 general elections saw – for only the second time in the country’s history – a transfer of power from a retiring president to a candidate that they had not backed. Moreover, despite accusations of electoral malpractice, the Supreme Court... Read More about Has Kenya Democratized? Institutional strengthening and contingency in the 2022 general elections.

Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France (2024)
Journal Article
Greengrass, M., & Hamilton, T. (2024). Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France. The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2024.2346306

This article analyses a remarkable criminal trial which took place in early seventeenth-century France. In 1617, Gaspard de Monconys, son of a prominent judge in Lyon, was accused of committing sacrilege and theft in the basilica of Saint-Denis, and... Read More about Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France.

Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present (2024)
Book
Huzzey, R., Janse, M., Miller, H., Oddens, J., & Waddell, B. (in press). Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford: British Academy

Throughout history, across very different types of state and society, petitions and petitioning have been ubiquitous practices and the interaction between petitioners and authority has been a crucial dynamic in exercising and contesting power. Consol... Read More about Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present.

‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England * (2024)
Journal Article
Lloyd‐Jones, N. (2024). ‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England *. Parliamentary History, 43(2), 183-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12748

This article examines the oral and physical disruption of ‘public’ meetings in England in the spring of 1886, when such activity formed part of broader contests over the legitimacy of extra‐parliamentary responses to the Liberal government's Irish Ho... Read More about ‘Shut Up! Sit Down!’: The Politics of Disruption and the 1886 Home Rule Crisis in England *.

What is disability history the history of? (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C. A. (2024). What is disability history the history of?. History Compass, 22(6), Article e12813. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12813

This article has two connected aims. First, to contour the boundaries of modern disability history through outlining its development and second, to provide a new methodological agenda for disability history. The design model of disability has outline... Read More about What is disability history the history of?.

Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya's 2022 elections (2024)
Journal Article
Chome, N., & Willis, J. (2024). Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya's 2022 elections. Journal of Eastern African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2024.2359159

Asked why they intended to vote for William Ruto in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election, many people in central Kenya had a simple answer: ‘we owe Ruto a debt’. This was not the only kind of debt, nor the only idea of obligation, to feature in the ele... Read More about Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya's 2022 elections.

History at the heart of medicine (2024)
Journal Article
McGuire, C., & Woods, A. (2024). History at the heart of medicine. Wellcome Open Research, 9(249), https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21229.1

With a focus on the challenges of today and tomorrow in the critical medical humanities the role of history is often overlooked. Yet history and medicine are closely intertwined. Right now, with the surfacing of knotty problems such as changing demog... Read More about History at the heart of medicine.

Defeat on Display: The Public Abuse of Usurpers and Rebels in Late Antiquity (2024)
Journal Article
Mawdsley, H. (2024). Defeat on Display: The Public Abuse of Usurpers and Rebels in Late Antiquity. Journal of Late Antiquity, 17(1), 35-69

This paper examines the treatment of deposed emperors, defeated usurpers, and other political malcontents in Late Antiquity. During the period, such individuals, or their corpses, were occasionally displayed before the public in some of the major cit... Read More about Defeat on Display: The Public Abuse of Usurpers and Rebels in Late Antiquity.

A non-hysteretic simplification to the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mutsvairo, T., Lloret-Cabot, M., Hughes, P., Muguda-Viswanath, S., & Dias, A. S. (2024). A non-hysteretic simplification to the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM). In W. M. Coombs (Ed.), UKACM Proceedings 2024 (113-116). https://doi.org/10.62512/conf.ukacm2024.060

The Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM) is an established elasto-plastic constitutive model developed to capture the coupled hydro-mechanical response of unsaturated soils. This study highlights the unique capabilities of the GCM in modelling the water ret... Read More about A non-hysteretic simplification to the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM).

Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia (2024)
Journal Article
Marfany, J. (2024). Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia. Social History of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae018

Small local hospitals have been neglected by historians, and frequently assumed to have been marginal to their communities and largely obsolete by the eighteenth century. This paper questions such assumptions via a case study of Catalonia. It provide... Read More about Marginal and Obsolete? Rural Hospitals in Early Modern Europe: A Case Study of Catalonia.