Archaeology and History: Recent submissions
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The shameful dead. Vaccine hesitancy, shame and necropolitics during COVID-19
(Manchester University Press, 28 May 2024)As mass vaccination programmes for COVID-19 gathered pace, they were was accompanied by a nexus of social and political shaming around vaccine hesitancy or refusal. Frequently, shame has been directed at individuals ... -
Trusting the postman: prosecuting theft and managing sickness in the British Post Office, c.1860–1910
(Routledge, 4 March 2025)The Post Office was an immensely important institution of the British state. It fostered communication, encouraged business, provided employment and generated revenue for the Treasury. Efficiency and economy were paramount ... -
Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2,200 BCE in Eurasia
(Nature Research, 6 June 2024)Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their domestication and widespread integration as a means of transportation remains contentious. Here we assemble a large collection of ... -
Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain
(Wiley, 2 May 2024)This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite ... -
‘The Wild West of England’: Enclosure, Stag-hunting, and the Creation of New Popular Perceptions of Exmoor in the Nineteenth Century
(Routledge, 3 June 2024)Recent research emphasizes parallels between agrarian enclosure campaigns in eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and Ireland, and neo-colonial discourses. Both used the ‘wasteful’ under-exploitation of land by ...