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Modern Intellectual History publishes scholarship in intellectual and cultural history from 1650 onwards. MIH concerns itself primarily with apprehending the contextual origins and receptions of texts in order to recover their historical meanings. But we understand ‘texts’ in the broadest sense, so as to encompass multiple forms of intellectual and cultural expression. These include, but are not limited to, political thought, philosophy, religion, literature, both the social sciences and the natural sciences, music, architecture, and the visual arts.
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'Modern Intellectual History' Blogs
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Revising the history of early French social science
- 08 June 2023,
- 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?
- 06 June 2023,
- 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...
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An Editor’s Perspective: Laikwan Pang on Public Humanities
- 15 October 2026,
- We’re pleased to feature Laikwan Pang, Editor of Public Humanities and Professor of Cultural Studies and Head of the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies...
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An Editor’s Perspective: Julia Kindt on Public Humanities
- 14 October 2026,
- We’re pleased to feature Julia Kindt, Editor of Public Humanities and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Sydney. A historian of ancient...
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Beyond the ‘Lady Spy’: Noor Inayat Khan, Violette Szabo, and the Making of SOE Agents
- 24 September 2026,
- The phrase “lady spy” is hard to escape when writing about women of Britain’s Special Operations Executive. It appears in headlines, documentaries, book blurbs,...
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