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‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: old age, sex and infertility in early modern England
(Oxford University Press, 2015-07-04)This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies, sex and reproduction. The old body in early modern thought was particularly connected to barrenness and sterility: it was understood that old women were barren ... -
Enemy alien and refugee: conflicting identities in Great Britain during the Second World War
(University of Sussex: Department of History, 2015-05-29)The University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History provides space for the publication of research and the exchange of ideas amongst the international postgraduate and early post-doctoral community. -
The enemy within: loyalists and the war against Mau Mau in Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-07)Between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government of Kenya waged a violent counter-insurgency campaign against the Mau Mau rebels. In this effort the regime was assisted by collaborators, known as loyalists, drawn ... -
English Agricultural Output and Labour Productivity, 1250- 1850: some preliminary estimates
(Warwick University, 2008-11-26)This paper provides annual estimates of English agricultural output and labour productivity during the period 1250-1850, based on manorial records from the medieval period, probate inventories from the early modern period ... -
English individualism refuted - and reasserted: the land market of Earls Colne (Essex), 1550-1750
(Blackwell Publishing, 2003-11)Earls Colne first came to the notice of historians through Macfarlane's study of its seventeenth-century vicar, Ralph Josselin, and then Macfarlane's use of evidence from the village in his The Origins of English Individualism ... -
English law, Brahmo marriage, and the problem of religious difference: civil marriage laws in Britain and India
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)On the face of it, civil marriage represents both the most typical and most anodyne aspect of modern law. One might say that by instituting civil marriage, a bureaucratic, enumerative, and secularized state permits its ... -
Entry on Balfour Stewart
(Chicago University Press, 2004)Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, ... -
Entry on Cromwell Fleetwood Varley
(Chicago University Press, 2004)Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, ... -
Entry on William Crookes
(Chicago University Press, 2004)Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, ... -
Entry on William Fletcher Barrett
(Chicago University Press, 2004)Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, ... -
Entry on William Henry Harrison
(Chicago University Press, 2004)Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and practices of scientists were shaped by Victorian beliefs about religion, ... -
Ethers, religion and politics in late-Victorian physics: beyond the Wynne thesis
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Evaluating the role of Hans Selye in the modern history of stress
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"The extreme penalty of the law": mercy and the death penalty as aspects of state power in colonial Nyasaland, c. 1903-47
(Routledge, 2010)Capital punishment was the pinnacle of the colonial judicial system and its use of state violence, but has previously been neglected as a topic of historical research in Africa. This article is based on the case files and ... -
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Forging a Revolutionary Army: The All-Russian Military Union in 1917
(Sage, 2012-01)The Russian military was deeply divided after the February Revolution of 1917, but if Russia was to emerge victorious from the First World War, it needed to forge a unified revolutionary army. This article examines the ... -
'Frantick Hacket': prophecy, sorcery, insanity, and the Elizabethan puritan movement
(Cambridge University Press, 1998-01)This essay reconsiders the career of the most famous of Elizabethan false prophets, William Hacket, the illiterate pseudo-messiah who, together with two gentleman disciples, plotted a civil and ecclesiastical coup, and was ... -
Free-Trade Ideology and Transatlantic Abolitionism: A Historiography
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-06)This essay seeks to trace the many—and often conflicting—economic ideological interpretations of the transatlantic abolitionist impulse. In particular, it explores the contested relationship between free-trade ideology and ...