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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
(Boydell & Brewer / University of Rochester Press, 2014-04)- -
"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 ... -
Foreword
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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 ... -
From Therapeutic Relaxation to Mindfulness in the Twentieth Century
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'The gentleman in Whitehall' reconsidered: the evolution of Douglas Jay’s views on economic planning and consumer choice, 1937-1947
(Maney Publishing, 2002-08)In his book The Socialist Case, first published in 1937, Douglas Jay wrote: ‘in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people ... -
‘“The Great Educator of Unlikely People”: H.G. Wells and the Origins of the Welfare State’
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H.G. Wells and the New Liberalism
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This article offers a new interpretation of H.G. Wells's political thought in the Edwardian period and beyond. Scholars have emphasised his socialism at the expense of his commitment to liberalism, and have misread his ... -
Harnessing the power of difference: colonialism and British chronic disease research, 1940-1975
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-11-12)Recent studies of post-war chronic disease epidemiology have generally focused on the histories of research in the USA and UK. Using the archival records of a major British funding body, the Colonial Medical Research ... -
Haunted thoughts of the careful experimentalist: psychical research and the troubles of experimental physics
(Elsevier, 2014)This paper analyses the relationship between the ‘elusive’ science of psychical research and experimental physics in the period approximately 1870-1930. Most studies of the relationship between psychical research and better ... -
Health-related shame: an affective determinant of health?
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017-06-08)Despite shame being recognised as a powerful force in the clinical encounter, it is underacknowledged, under-researched and undertheorised in the contexts of health and medicine. In this paper we make two claims. The first ... -
Henry IV of Germany: A Bad King?
(History Today Ltd., 2017-03)