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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. (2024). Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. 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, 18(2), 301-320. 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, April). A non-hysteretic simplification to the Glasgow Coupled Model (GCM). Presented at 2024 UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, Durham, UK

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.

Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700 (2024)
Journal Article
Finn, F. (2024). Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700. Historical Journal, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x2400013x

The involvement of melancholy had the potential to undermine the authority of early modern individuals’ religious experiences, reframing their spiritual afflictions as the mere product of a distempered body. This article refines our understanding of... Read More about Melancholy, Spiritual Experience, and Dissent in England, c. 1650–1700.

Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich (2024)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2024). Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich. European History Quarterly, 54(2), 258-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/02656914241236618

Focused on transnational exchanges, this article examines a series of trips to Fascist Italy that were undertaken by pupils of Nazi elite schools in their role as youth ambassadors of the Third Reich. As a form of cultural diplomacy that continued du... Read More about Nazi Elite-School Pupils as Youth Ambassadors: Between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich.

Norfolk Hearth Tax 1672 and Norwich Hearth Tax 1671 (2024)
Data
Green, A., Seaman, P., & Wareham, A. (2024). Norfolk Hearth Tax 1672 and Norwich Hearth Tax 1671. [Dataset]

Edition of hearth tax records for Norfolk and Norwich with an Introduction to the tax and its relationship to households and housing in late 17th Century England.

The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe (2024)
Journal Article
Liddy, C. (2024). The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 264(1), 3-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad030

The relationship between towns and lords was fundamental both to the making of towns and to the making of polities in the late Middle Ages. The European literature on state growth has led historians to focus on the role of towns in historicizing narr... Read More about The making of towns, the making of polities: Towns and lords in late medieval Europe.

Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England (2024)
Journal Article
Harkes, R. (2024). Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England. Journal of British Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.109

As in many areas of pre-Reformation devotion, the dead were a conspicuous presence in English religious guilds of all sizes. Members joined in the expectation that the guild would say prayers and perform masses for their souls after death, and previo... Read More about Remembering the Dead: Postmortem Guild Membership in Late Medieval England.

The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England (2024)
Book Chapter
Crosbie, B. (in press). The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England. In M. Cannon, & L. Tisdall (Eds.), Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z. London University Press

Adulthood is surprisingly hard to locate in histories of eighteenth-century England. The historiography might be dominated by those between childhood and old age, but this reflects an unconscious bias in which the middle stage of life is an implicit... Read More about The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England.

“Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan (2024)
Journal Article
Leonardi, C. (2024). “Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan. Environmental History, 29(2), 254-280. https://doi.org/10.1086/729404

Elephants have been extraordinarily inconspicuous in the history of the ivory trade in nineteenth-century southern Sudan. One explanation for this is the process of commodification, which abstracted ivory from its animal origins and rendered invisibl... Read More about “Extraordinarily Inconspicuous” Elephants: The Interspecies Constitution and Contestations of the Ivory Commodity Frontier in Nineteenth-Century South Sudan.