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  • Egalitarian greetings: the social spread of the handshake in urbanizing Britain, 1700–1850

  • Penelope J. Corfield
  • Journal:
    Urban History / Volume 52 / Issue 3 / August 2025
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    30 May 2024, pp. 498-517
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  • Handshaking has a long multi-cultural history. This article focuses upon its diffusion in Britain 1700–1850. Two networks boosted the handshaking salutation. One was a mercantile network, extending across Europe’s urban/commercial regions. The other featured ‘middling sort’ Quaker men and women, who shook hands on principle. Gradually, the salutation became widely diffused – and acquired a range of egalitarian meanings. Handshaking was not an elite practice which ‘trickled down’ to the masses. Instead, it spread by social negotiation both ‘upwards’ and ‘downwards’ from middle-class society. Traditional hierarchy was yielding to an urbanizing and internationalizing world – with multiple individual options.

  • Enfolding empire into 1930s London: the India Round Table Conference

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  • Stephen Legg
  • Journal:
    Urban History / Volume 52 / Issue 3 / August 2025
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    30 May 2024, pp. 485-490
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  • This survey reflects on the intersections of global and urban history through brief reflections on the Round Table Conference which took place over three sessions in London between 1930 and 1932. Uniting Indian representatives and the British government in London to solve political stalemate in South Asia, the conference provides a dramatic event through which to explore the enfolding of the British empire into the imperial capital. But the conference was also indebted to international and global connections and comparisons which intersected in the intimate spaces of diplomatic networking in the capital.

  • From Roman Table to Anglo-Saxon Grave: An Archaeological Biography of the Scremby Cup

  • Hugh Willmott, Lenore Thompson, Jasmine Lundy, Courtenay-Elle Crichton-Turley
  • Journal:
    European Journal of Archaeology / Volume 27 / Issue 4 / November 2024
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    30 May 2024, pp. 507-525

  • The presence of Roman material in early Anglo-Saxon graves in England is well documented, and recent excavations at Scremby in Lincolnshire have revealed a complete copper-alloy enamelled drinking cup in a sixth-century ad female burial. Not only is such a Roman vessel a very rare find, but also its inclusion in an early medieval grave makes it a unique example of the reuse of an antique object in a funerary context. This article presents a typological and metallurgical analysis of the cup and selected comparative examples from England and France are discussed. The context of deposition and the role the cup played as a burial container for animal fat are examined, as are the mechanisms that lay behind the cup's continued life several centuries after its manufacture.

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