• Ageing and Loneliness in England, c. 1500-1800 

  Berry, H; Foyster, E (Routledge, 28 February 2023)

  This chapter focuses on the responses of older people to loneliness in England, c.1500-1800. It is written on the premise that the conditions for loneliness existed in this period, and were experienced by some in old age. ...

• The occupational distribution of foundling apprentices during the English Industrial Revolution 

  Berry, H (Routledge, 4 April 2023)

  This article presents a new analysis of the distribution of apprenticeships brokered by the London Foundling Hospital, England’s pre-eminent charitable foundation in the eighteenth century for orphaned and abandoned children. ...

• A True Copy? Documents and the Production of Legality in the Bombay Inam Commission 

  Vendell, D (American Society for Legal History / Cambridge University Press, 1 March 2023)

  This essay examines the role of Indian-language documentation in the production of legality in colonial western India, focusing on the workings of the Bombay Inam Commission (1852-1863). It situates legal validation of ...

• Food, feminist rhetorical studies, and conservative women: The case of Elizabeth David 

  Vytniorgu, R (Routledge, 13 July 2022)

  This article argues for the importance of British food writer Elizabeth David (1913-1992) in questioning the centrality of power in feminist rhetorical studies and thereby furthering our capacity to understand the ...

• General average, human jettison, and the status of slaves in Early Modern Europe 

  Dyble, J (Cambridge University Press, 17 June 2022)

  This article proposes a transition in Western European thinking on slavery by examining the legality of slave jettison and its indemnification in the seventeenth-century Christian Mediterranean and comparing this with the ...

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