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- Editors: Professor Emma Griffin University of East Anglia, UK and Dr Sujit Sivasundaram University of Cambridge, UK
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The Historical Journal continues to publish papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century. The best contemporary scholarship is represented. Contributions come from all parts of the world. The journal aims to publish some thirty-five articles and communications each year and to review recent historical literature, mainly in the form of historiographical reviews and review articles. The journal provides a forum for early career scholars making a distinguished debut as well as publishing the work of historians of established reputation.
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- The Ancient Constitution and the Languages of Political Thought
- 04 December 2018,
- My essay explores the nature of the myth of the Ancient Constitution, its manifestations over three centuries, and its historical and conceptual difficulties....
- Science in History: From the Cold War to Trump
- 27 November 2018,
- This episode neatly captures the way in which Cold War politics framed much of the debate about the history of science in the twentieth century. My Retrospect...
- Male Anxiety and the English Landed Gentry 1700-1900
- 26 November 2018,
- Our article explores anxiety as a gendered emotion in a specific part of a social group across a long period of time: the anxieties of younger sons of the English...
Historiographical Reviews
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- Promiscuous Presbyterians? Courtship, marriage and sexual activity in 18th and 19th century Ireland
- 18 January 2019,
- This blog accompanies Leanne Calvert’s Irish Historical Studies open access article ‘‘He came to her bed pretending courtship’: sex, courtship and...
- ‘…the Parliament’s Favourite’: Helen Arthur and the Williamite confiscation
- 14 January 2019,
- This blog accompanies Frances Nolan’s Irish Historical Studies article ‘‘The Cat’s Paw’: Helen Arthur, the act of resumption and The Popish pretenders...
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