Before the World Wide Web, There Was the World Wide Silk Web
In 1892, Vicente Sanjuán, a Spanish agricultural engineer, arrived in Padua on a government mission: to revive his country’s struggling silk industry.…
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: why a 3,000-year-old story still captivates us
As Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' reaches cinemas, explore the scholarship behind one of history's most enduring and influential stories.
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Reconsidering the Renaissance: Elizabeth I and Classical Persia
In the 1570s, Elizabeth I grappled with the question of whether to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. As she did so, she was urged to follow the compelling example of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.…
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The Pathologisation of Dissent in Fascist Italy, 1922-43
Mussolini’s Blackshirts marched on Rome in 1922 and consolidated power by 1925-26, turning the country into the world’s first ‘totalitarian’ state.…
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Author Q&A: Merry Wiesner-Hanks on A Concise History of the World 2nd ed.
Read Merry Wiesner Hanks' Q&A on the new edition of A Concise History of the World, her social and cultural world history from the Pleistocene to Putin.
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The Secret Life of 1930s Australian Boardrooms: Why the “Managers” Weren’t Really in Charge
In the classic story of modern capitalism, ownership and control separate as companies grow. Shareholders provide the capital, while professional managers run the firm.…
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Drawing the “Enemies” of Empire: Lebanese Migrants and the Boundaries of Frenchness in Postwar Senegal
On the cover of a 1950s issue of Les Échos d’Afrique Noire, readers encountered a striking visual prophecy. A fakir—invoking a deeply racialized colonial imaginary—reveals “twenty years into the future.”…
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May Releases from Cambridge Aspire
Fully revised and updated, the new edition of Engineering Dynamics provides a comprehensive, self-contained and accessible treatment of classical dynamics. All chapters have been reworked to enhance student understanding, and new features include a stronger emphasis on computational methods, including rich examples using both Matlab and Python; new capstone computational examples extend student understanding, including modelling the flight of a rocket and the unsteady rolling of a disk.…
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Between Rome, Berlin and Brussels: Rexism and the Circulation of Fascist Models in Europe
On 10 July 1938, several thousand supporters of the Rexist movement gathered in the Flemish village of Lombeek-Notre-Dame, on the outskirts of Brussels.…
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“Danke, Amerika!?” Gratitude and German-American Relations under Trump 2.0
In June 2025, German foreign minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) gave a keynote speech at the annual dinner of the Arthur F.…
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Manhood, Money and Survival: Rethinking Child Soldiers in Somalia
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…
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The One Where Joey Meets Marcel Mauss: Theories of Giving, Receiving and Gratitude
“Joey: Anyway, I started on what I’m gonna say for the ceremony. You want to hear it? Monica: Yeah. Joey: Listen, this is just the first draft, so… “We gathered here today on this joyous occasion to celebrate the special love that Monica and Chandler share” Eh?…
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Biomedicine, Scientific Internationalism, and the Containment of Soviet Power
By the end of the Second World War, Britain and the United States discontinued their scientific and technological collaboration with the Soviet Union.…
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Zoological colour on HMS Beagle: Charles Darwin’s chromatic language
On 25 April 1832 the Royal Navy vessel HMS Beagle was anchored in the blue waters of Botafogo Bay, Brazil. The naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882) was leaving the Beagle in a small boat, en route to a temporary residence on the mainland, when a series of waves swamped the vessel and scattered his ‘most useful’ possessions into the sea.…
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A gift with unexpected – and lasting – consequences
It’s always nice to receive a gift. However, receiving a gift that permanently transforms the living conditions of a significant proportion of society is disruptive, much like a product or process innovation.…
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State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Michael Albertus and Victor Gay about their open access article, State-Building and Rebellion in the Run-Up to the French Revolution.…
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Lost in Translation: How Wilsonian Propaganda Clashed with Italy’s Reality
The First World War is often described as the moment when the United States government started its first attempts to design and implement a coordinated, though still germinal, form of public diplomacy.…
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March Releases from Cambridge Aspire, Part 1
Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as a leading text in professional military education and undergraduate teaching. This third edition has been revised throughout to reflect dramatic changes during the past decade.…
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Far-Right Extremism in Post-1945 Europe
As far-right extremism surges across Europe, the editors of Contemporary European History have been searching through the journal’s archives to see what we have published on the topic over the years.…
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Framing Corruption: The Discourse in Operation Lava Jato and the Judicial Activism in Brazil
For years, Operation Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) was the “spectacle” of Latin American politics. From 2014 to 2021, the world watched as a group of Brazilian prosecutors and a provincial judge dismantled a seemingly untouchable web of corruption involving the state oil giant Petrobras and the country’s largest construction firms.…
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Common Ways to See Differently: Race, Mestizaje, and Criollismo as Seen by Blind People in Chile and Venezuela
The “visual idea of race” is one of those widespread misconceptions that naturalise biologistic notions of race. Such idea is premised on the assumption that the markers of race are pre-culturally inscribed in visually perceptible phenotypical variance and thereby in biological substance.…
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Contested Cards and Banking Competition in the1970s-1980s: From Exclusivity to Globalization in Spain and Europe
This research examines historical evidence to analyze how the standardization and globalization of bank credit cards transformed the competitive framework of European retail banking.…
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From Mycenaean Frescoes to Hellenistic Sculpture: Women’s Research in the Early Years of the ABSA
The first volume of the Annual of the British School at Athens was published in 1895, almost a decade after the foundation of the School in 1886.…
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Re-imagining Landscapes through Indigenous Literature
“Maize Landscapes in Indigenous Literatures: Toward Alternative Cartographic Imaginaries” discusses the work of four 21st century poets who write bilingually in Spanish and their Indigenous language: Ethel Xochitiotzin Pérez (Nahuatl), María Dolores Dzul Barboza (Yucatec Maya), César Vargas Arce (Central Peruvian Quechua), and Emilio Corrales (Bolivian Quechua).…
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The Chilean Christians for Socialism Movement: Liberationist, Third Worldist, and Utopian
Recent scholarship on the long 1960s has moved beyond the solely political dimensions of the era to recognize the religious impulses that shaped cultural and social transformations across the Atlantic.…
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Rural Scotland and the Kapp Putsch
The Scottish Farm Servant is not a well-known journal. Established in 1913, amongst the wider maelstrom of the ‘Labour Unrest’, the journal served as the official organ of the Scottish Farm Servants Union (SFSU) and was explicitly aimed towards Scotland’s agricultural labour force.…
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Empire in the Soil: Superphosphate and the British and French Imperial Manufacture, 1914-1937
The history of European imperial agriculture has often been told through the lens of technological innovation, such as the development of the agricultural automotive industry or the application of advanced irrigation systems.…
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The Franco-German Brigade: A Mirror of Integration—and Its Limits
When the Franco-German Brigade (FGB) was established in 1989, it was hailed as a unique experiment in postwar Europe. Never before had soldiers from two former enemies served permanently under a shared command structure in times of peace.…
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Political Disinformation on the Eve of Reform
The ‘Vote Leave’ or ‘Brexit’ bus which toured the UK in 2016 plastered with the blunt assertion ‘We send the EU £350 million a week’ is an infamous recent example of political disinformation.…
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The IVF Pioneers: Who Really Wrote Their Autobiography?
This blog post is about the author’s recent paper in Medical History, The ghostwriter and the test-tube baby: a medical breakthrough story For 45 years A Matter of Life has provided the standard account of the science and medicine behind the sensational birth of the first ‘test-tube baby’.…
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Trust and the French revolutionary cahiers of 1789
The French Revolution is more obviously associated with paranoid and deadly suspicion than with trust, but it was in the pervasive desire to rebuild a political system that could be trustworthy that much of that suspicion was born.…
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A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire
The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking examples of this fact.…
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How cadaver scarcity shaped the racial science of skin in Enlightenment Europe
This blog post is based on the article ‘Abraham Bäck, scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin’ published in The Historical Journal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039…
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Revising An Economic History of Europe for a Rapidly Changing World
How we updated the classic textbook An Economic History of Europe to reflect changes both in the world and in how we teach and learn economic history.
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A conversation with the historian of science Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston is an American historian of science whose work spans a broad range of topics in the early modern and modern history of science.…
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Cuerpo, mestizaje y colonialidad: La alteridad de las mujeres trans en las muestras fotográficas Padre Patria y Vírgenes de la Puerta/
The photographic series “Padre Patria” (2014) and “Vírgenes de la Puerta” (2014), by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Andrew Mroczek, offer a visual narrative of hate crimes against the LGBTI community in different parts of Peru.…
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French European Diplomacy post-2024 – the Little Entente Revisited?
French president Emmanuel Macron outlined his new vision for French foreign policy in a speech on 5 March 2025. He argued that the Russian invasion of Ukraine posed a threat to all of Europe.…
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Pensar los 30.000 Que sabíamos sobre los desaparecidos durante la dictadura y lo que ignoramos todavía
The 1970s remain a minefield in Argentina. Nothing underscores this more than the discussion about who is responsible for the cycle of political violence and the number of missing persons, a topic that recurs time and again, dividing those who openly hold denialist positions on the one hand and those who uphold the symbol of the 30,000 on the other.…
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Exploring the Arrival of Domestic Cats in the Americas
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
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How Globalization Disrupted the Stars
Early modern globalisation—particularly maritime expansion and the discovery of the southern hemisphere—posed significant challenges to the traditional framework of astrology inherited from Ptolemaic cosmology.…
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Pardo Soldiers’ Historical Claims in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba
José Maldonado and Manuel José Castellanos were two Cuban pardo veterans who petitioned the court in hopes of securing military status, rank, and salary.…
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Meet the Editors: Tristan R. Grunow and Mary M. McCarthy, Editors for Asia-Pacific Journal
We are pleased to introduce ourselves to the Cambridge Core family as the co-editors of Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Tristan is a professor of modern Japanese history at Nagoya University, specializing in colonialism, architecture, urban planning, film, and pop culture.…
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The Fronde, the Court, and the Cosmos: Morin, Gassendi, and Astrology’s Decline in XVII Century France
Astrology today is often seen as the epitome of pseudoscience. Yet, until the 17th century, it was considered a legitimate scholarly discipline, serving as the practical branch of astronomy.…
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“Nous les mamans“: ‘European’ Communism, Cross-Cultural Encounters, and Women’s Anticolonial Resistance in French North Africa
Mention the words “women” and “Algeria” and the remarkableness of their role in armed resistance during the War of Independence (1954-1962) will often come to mind.…
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From Brexit to Environmental Destruction: Understanding Modern Britain with James Vernon
What inspired you to write a book on the history of Modern Britain? There were two motivations. I was interested in rescuing national histories from the nativism of the right. Of course, in Britain that virulent type of nationalism swept the country with Brexit, but across the world authoritarian populists have also evoked nativist histories that they promise will make their country great again.
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Making Trust in Early Modern London
In the bustling streets of medieval and early modern London, trust was a precious commodity, just as it is today. But who did Londoner’s choose to trust?…
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Policing and pension reform in nineteenth-century London
In the late nineteenth century, at the same as large corporations began to emerge as central features of industrial capitalism, parallel developments were taking place in state bureaucracies across western economies.…
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Female Housewives and Male Engineers: Co-Creating Japan’s Appliance Innovation
It may seem improbable, but the columns in a housewives’ magazine were the unexpected source of innovation in Japan’s appliance industry.…
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Albert Aftalion’s meso-approach to theorising the morphologies of industrial capitalism can help us better understand how to achieve energy transitions
Capitalism as an economic system is untied to any technology, resource endowment or political arrangement. Its versatility made it capable of extraordinary morphological changes, from the late medieval ‘games of exchange’ (Braudel) to classical industrial capitalism (Marx) and its socially oriented, non-laissez faire version (Keynes), down to the late twentieth-century global financial capitalism and, more recently, its tentative retrenchment within cultural and politically homogeneous spheres.…
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Spanish–French leech trade and its consequences: From the increase in medical demand to resource depletion and technical innovation
This article studies the impact caused by the success and dissemination of theories of the French Doctor, Françoise J.V. Broussais, on the use of leeches as a medical supply on Spanish–French trade relations, as well as its consequences for the Spanish market between 1821 and the 1860s.…
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“The state tells the story”: how sovereignty and territoriality changed banditry forever
Banditry played recognisable and widely accepted roles societies up to the 19th-century throughout the world
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Commemorating “Mr. Production”: The Life and Plans of Étienne Hirsch (1901-94)
17th May 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the death of the French engineer, and civil servant Etienne Hirsch, who served as French General Planning Commissioner between 1952 and 1959.…
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Bibles and Bible Translating in Early Modern England
There are some 6 billion bibles circulating across the globe and a further 100 million printed every year. Each of these copies, from the children’s illustrated editions to the grandly bound King James Bibles, make a claim to be the textual and material expression of God’s Word: the Word made Book.…
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‘Down pythons’ throats we thrust live goats’: snakes, zoos and animal welfare in nineteenth-century Britain
In September 1902, as he was passing the Reptile House at London Zoo, T.W. Hitchmough was approached by a ‘small goat of friendly disposition’, which came running up to the wire fencing of its enclosure, eager to be ‘petted’.…
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Introducing the New Editors of Central European History
We are honored and eager to try to fill Monica Black’s big shoes as co-editors of Central European History, the official publication of the Central European History Society. …
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Introducing Early Medieval England and its Neighbours
The publishing of Anglo-Saxon England (ASE) is a source of pride for Cambridge University Press. The recent fiftieth anniversary of the journal provided a compelling moment to celebrate all that it has achieved, and assess its position within a field that has continued to flourish, grow and evolve.…
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Interpretive battlegrounds: Melancholy, spiritual experience, and dissent in early modern England
In a spiritual narrative published in 1672, Charles Langford lamented that some would deem his descriptions of visions and temptations “as meer Fictions, and the issue of a melancholly brain.”[1]…
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The Tricontinental Revolution, in Europe? When Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and Amilcar Cabral lit the flame in the European Continent
The decade of the long 1960s was shaped by major global transformations. The wave of revolution that swept the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America from the late ‘60s onwards went hand in hand with the winds of change sweeping Europe. Student protests, incessant unrest, violence and terrorism dominated the front pages during these years in countries such as France, Italy, Germany and Spain, where the processes taking place in the Global South seemed to resound like distant echoes far removed from the effervescent European reality.
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Natalie Zemon Davis under investigation: writing history under political persecution
“The full Historical Journal article on which this blog is based is currently not yet published but will be out soon!…
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Mills, Money, and Morality: Entrepreneurial Philanthropy under a Spatial Microscope
Walking through the mill yard at Quarry Bank mill, on a dull December day, I noticed the bell tower high above.
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From the Author: Lifescapes, with Professor Jeremy Burchardt
Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives’.…
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From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown
Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, published by Cambridge University Press, examines the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare portrays in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’.…
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Beyond Appearances: A Comparison Between the French and Italian Fashion Industries.
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the prêt-à-porter industry in France and the ready-to-wear industry in Italy evolved from their beginnings to their growth stages during the 20th century.…
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William Petty’s survey of Ireland and the role of natural history in the development of statistics
William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among the first to grasp that certain information, like data on different categories of landowners or the number of births and deaths, could be used to describe trends and tendencies occurring on the level of what he called the ‘political body’ – or what we would nowadays call ‘population phenomena’.…
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At the crossroads of history and digital humanities
A common narrative around digital humanities paints it as a realm of ease where pressing a button magically generates statistical insights but does not contribute to serious scholarship.…
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Remembering Professor John Röhl (1938-2023)
The acclaimed historian of Imperial Germany and Europe John Röhl has died. John Röhl was a longtime author with Cambridge University Press, where he published his most influential writing over several decades. …
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The importance of open access publishing for the arts and humanities
Between 2012 and 2014, I held a two-year Wellcome Trust Research Leave Award (WT096499AIA) for a project on women surgeons in Britain, 1860-1918.…
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An Interview with the editors of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Part Two
Part One is available here What can we look forward to with the next issue & future of the journal? Rosanne: Coming up in the journal, we have a lot of noise.…
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An Interview with the editors of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Part One
Please introduce yourself. Rosanne Currarino: I am a co-editor of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and I’ve been on the editorial team since January 2020.…
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Spreading the Revolution: Paine’s Rights of Man in Germany
Tom Paine’s revolutionary Rights of Man, whose first part was published in London in 1791, was an extraordinary publishing success and extremely influential.…
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Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking the origins of bacteriology
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century observations and depictions of ‘little animalcules’ were food for imagination in later centuries, in particular from the late nineteenth century.…
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Ideology, violence, and the state: a new interpretation of transnational protest violence after 1968
Contemporary European History's 2022 prize-winner, Luca Provenzano, wrote a blog introducing the argument of his (prize-winning) article.
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How Long did the School Year Last in Early America?
My interest in researching this question stems from reading the reminiscences of Horace Mann, the mid-nineteenth century leader of the public school movement.…
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Revising the history of early French social science
Historians long thought the term science sociale was coined in 1789 by the revolutionary theorist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès.
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Radical Democracy and/or Ordinary Anarchy?
Journalist Colin Ward (1924-2010) believed anarchism was ordinary with its roots firmly in the small, everyday acts of improvised co-operation that made living together possible.
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World War in the Library: How the burning of the Leuven library in the First World War continues to resonate today
A burned library in a ruined city, civilian victims of shelling by a ruthless invader, a policy of occupation including linguistic censorship, the deportation and internment of professors teaching in the vernacular, condemnations by the international community: today all this might sound like the description of Russia’s war against Ukraine, or perhaps Nazi Germany’s policies in the General government of occupied Poland during the Second World War.
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The Holy Coat of Jesus: Mass Pilgrimage and the Usable Empire in a Napoleonic Borderland
Borders are not going anywhere. In Europe alone, the stark realities of our time include the aftermath of Brexit, the tendency to shore up ‘Fortress Europe’ against refugees from the Middle East and Africa, drastic border closures implemented to slow the spread of COVID, and the ongoing Russian attempt to redraw the map by waging war on Ukraine.
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Failure and flexibility in Plantation Munster: the O’Driscolls at law
Between the early sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries, a simple inheritance dispute arose over the O’Driscoll lordship of Collymore in west Cork, in the area south of the Ilen river and incorporating the village of Baltimore/Dún na Séad and the islands of Sherkin and Cape Clear.
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‘What remembrance is there now?’: The Musical Cult of St Thomas of Canterbury in the Sixteenth Century
This article accompanies Katherine Emery’s British Catholic History article, ‘Destruction, Deconstruction, and Dereliction: Music for St Thomas of Canterbury during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, 1530-1600‘.…
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Is This the End of Britain?
Q&A with Historian and Author, Stuart Ward, on his upcoming Cambridge Festival event.
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
Post Excerpt The Elements series on the histories of emotions and senses owes everything to the vision and dedication of Jan Plamper, who established the series.
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The Indian Civil Service, Classical Studies and an Education in Empire
The years around 1900, when the British Empire was at its height, witnessed a flurry of publications comparing the British Empire to ancient Rome.
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Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715) constructed a geological history in which he proposed various natural causes to explain biblical events and their effects on the Earth and life on it.
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Part Two: An Interview with Modern American History Editors, Darren Dochuk and Sarah B. Snyder
We caught up with Modern American History's new editors, Sarah and Darren, about what makes a good article & feature and what they're most looking forward to.
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Part One: An Interview with Modern American History Editors, Darren Dochuk and Sarah B. Snyder
New editors Darren Dochuk and Sarah B. Snyder. They discuss their background and the exciting future of Modern American History.
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Planned Plunder? The British Museum and the 1868 Maqdala Expedition
In 1871 Prime Minister William E. Gladstone made a statement to the House of Commons in which he regretted.
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How ITV launched modern research on primate facial expressions
Although ITV fundamentally transformed British television, a combination of archival red tape and academic disdain for the BBC’s ‘low-brow’ competitor has left its history largely untouched.
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A new agenda for women’s and gender history in Ireland
The publication of this special issue, seeks to recognise the significant impact of the 1992 ‘Agenda’ on Irish scholarship
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Poverty comes like an armed man: the economic crisis of the 1690s
In a new article on the economic problems of this decade, I argue that we need to pay close attention to the impact of these events on the lives of workers and traders at this time.
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Hybrid Pedagogy, World-Centered Education, and the Civil Rights Movement
Slate’s research into educations during the civil rights movement presents three distinct takeaways. Perhaps the most compelling part of Slate’s findings come not from the paper itself, but from his research journey.
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Their Wins Are Their Own, Not Ours
In July of 2021, Zalia Avant-garde, an eighth grader from Harvey, Louisiana, became the first Black student to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the organization’s ninety-six-year history.
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Up the Yangzi: American merchants and the Taiping Civil War
The American Civil War’s impact upon Sino-American commerce – a topic explored more thoroughly in my recent article with the Historical Journal – is more fascinating still given the parallel unfolding of China’s own Taiping Civil War.
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A Spanish Civil War Scrapbook
All I hoped as I embarked on my doctorate devoted to cross-cultural encounters between the International Brigades and the Spaniards who hosted them in the course of the Spanish Civil War was that those cross-cultural encounters had actually taken place.
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Human ‘Sacrifice’ and the Status of Slaves
‘Human sacrifice’ isn’t a practice that we tend to associate early modern Europe. Nor would we expect it to be defended in a court of law. Yet this is exactly what happened in 1783 in a case concerning a British slaving ship, the Zong.
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Making “Freedom Energies”? How 1980s struggles over market access shaped the rise of renewables in Germany
In a special session of parliament held on 27 February 2022, German Minister of Finance Christian Lindner discussed how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected his country’s energy strategy. “We will build-up reserves of gas and coal, in order to increase our perseverance,” he said.
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Cambridge to publish a new flagship journal in the fast-growing field of Pakistan studies
Critical Pakistan Studies will be the first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its peopleJournal will be interdisciplinary and open accessAims to give the widest possible understanding of Pakistan, past, and present Cambridge University Press is to publish the world’s first international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan and its people.…
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“I think my enemy”: Carl Schmitt, sick of reading Arendt
Carl Schmitt, “the famous professor of constitutional and international law who later became a Nazi” (as Hannah Arendt once put it), continues to shock and intrigue, to convince and exasperate.…
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Embedding science scrutiny mechanisms in the UK Parliament
At times during the past few years, evidence sessions of the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee have made headline news, for example Dominic Cummings’ account of his time advising the Prime Minister during the COVID-19 pandemic, or controversial witness statements about diversity and inclusion in STEM careers.…
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Beyond When and Why: North Korea’s Reluctant Embracing of “Peaceful” Nuclear Power
Nobody knows when and why did the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) begin its nuclear weapon program. Our current state of knowledge regarding these simple questions is at best partial; scholars point to different periods as its origin such as 1950 (when the Korean War broke out), 1958 (when the United Stated brought nuclear weapons to South Korea), 1964 (when the People’s Republic of China tested its first bomb), or 1979 (when South Korea started its undeclared enrichment activities that were revealed only in 2014).…
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Fiume’s Post-1918 Transition in Gendered Workplaces: Teachers and Tobacco Workers
In 2020, the city of Rijeka, which is located in the Kvarner gulf in present-day Croatia, was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture. Although the Covid surge heavily affected the cultural programmes, Rijeka’s multi-layered history has still proved able to stir up historical controversies.
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