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William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910 (2025)
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Drury, C. (online). William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910. Studies in Travel Writing, https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2025.2462540

In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destination for British mountaineers at the beginning of the... Read More about William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910.

Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science (2025)
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Martin, J. D. (in press). Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science. American Quarterly, 77(3),

In March 1953, Allen Astin, Director of the National Bureau of Standards, lost his job. He was fired by Sinclair Weeks, Dwight Eisenhower's newly confirmed Secretary of Commerce. The bureau had concluded that AD-X2, an after-market additive advertise... Read More about Acid Test: The AD-X2 Affair and the Political Awakening of American Science.

Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540 (2025)
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Brown, A. (online). Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540. The English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf003

Enclosure riots in England have been understood through their importance to early modern social history, representing a conflict over rights and access to resources. Driven by Tudor demographic growth, these disputes demarcate changing social relatio... Read More about Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200-1540.

Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation (2025)
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Riggs, C. (2025). Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation. Visual Studies, 40(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2024.2415904

The digital colourisation of historical photographs has received prominent and favourable media attention since the 2010s; several museums, heritage organisations, and publishers have adopted it. In the US and British contexts, both the selection of... Read More about Past Caring: Archive, Affect, and Whiteness in Digital Colourisation.

‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020 (2025)
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Johnson, R. (2025). ‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020. Parliamentary History, 44(1), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12783

In Westminster‐model institutions of which the South African parliament is one, an opening ceremony takes place annually at the start of a parliamentary session. In the South African context in the early 20th century, it involved a speech by the gove... Read More about ‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020.

Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan (2024)
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Abbashar, A. (2024). Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan. African Historical Review, 55(2), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2024.2432176

This article interrogates the late colonial and postcolonial evolution of Sudan’s security sector, trade unions, and professional associations. Specifically, this article is concerned with how Sudan’s police and army responded to trade professional a... Read More about Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan.

‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship (2024)
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Strahl, H. C. (2025). ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship. Journal of Medieval History, 51(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2024.2436042

The eight complete contemporary accounts of the 1120 wreck of the White Ship offer a unique opportunity to study emotions, remembrance and the writing of recent history in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman society. This essay analyses and compares Orderic... Read More about ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship.

Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. (2024)
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Heffernan, A. (online). Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. British Journal for the History of Science, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087424001031

It has been thirty years since the end of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Those decades have been marked by single-party dominance under the African National Congress (ANC), and the expansion of democratic rights and public goods like ed... Read More about Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state..

Physics Envy (2024)
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Martin, J. (in press). Physics Envy. Centaurus,

The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving (2024)
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Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (online). The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving. The English Historical Review, Article ceae205. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae205

Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popul... Read More about The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving.

‘The Service of Astronomy’: European star-gazing and its implications in the Middle Ages (2024)
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Gasper, G. (2024). ‘The Service of Astronomy’: European star-gazing and its implications in the Middle Ages. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2877, Article 012029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2877/1/012029

What follows is an exploration of medieval European astronomy focussing on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as a period of significant change in terms of technologies and learning largely via the inheritance from Greek and Islamicate astronomical... Read More about ‘The Service of Astronomy’: European star-gazing and its implications in the Middle Ages.

Blurred Boundaries and Contested Authorities in Two Archenfield Parishes in the Later Middle Ages (2024)
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Thomson, D. (2024). Blurred Boundaries and Contested Authorities in Two Archenfield Parishes in the Later Middle Ages. Religions, 15(10), Article 1191. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15101191

This article’s primary aim is to present a highly localised body of evidence from two neighbouring small communities, Garway and Pencoyd, in the Archenfield area of the Welsh March. In Garway’s case, two documents from either end of the long fifteent... Read More about Blurred Boundaries and Contested Authorities in Two Archenfield Parishes in the Later Middle Ages.

The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism (2024)
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Courtney, C. (2025). The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism. Modern China, 51(1), 15-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/00977004241280931

This commentary argues that Stevan Harrell’s An Ecological History of Modern China offers valuable insights into the transformation of ecosystems, which reflect the lived experiences of Chinese people. It examines some of the more contentious claims... Read More about The Ecological Consequences of Developmentalist Modernism.

Habiter la transition : la vie quotidienne et la politique de transformation de l'État en Afrique du Sud (2024)
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Johnson, R. E. (in press). Habiter la transition : la vie quotidienne et la politique de transformation de l'État en Afrique du Sud. 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire,

Le Parlement sud-africain siège au Cap, à l'ombre de la montagne de la Table, au cœur de la ville datant de l'époque coloniale. On peut l'approcher par l'ouest et se promener sur l'avenue du gouvernement, dans les Company Gardens, devant la South Afr... Read More about Habiter la transition : la vie quotidienne et la politique de transformation de l'État en Afrique du Sud.

Saving, inheritance and future-making in 1940s Kenya (2024)
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Velasco, C., & Willis, J. (online). Saving, inheritance and future-making in 1940s Kenya. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae013

The colonial state in Kenya offered its African subjects a novel tool for imagining a future life. The Post Office Savings Bank (POSB) was meant to encourage ‘thrift’ — the postponement of consumption — and to play its part in a wider colonial projec... Read More about Saving, inheritance and future-making in 1940s Kenya.