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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 ... -
'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 ... -
Hindu city and just empire: Banaras and India in Ali Ibrahim Khan's legal imagination
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014)This article examines the career and ideas of a late Mughal administrator, a Shi‘a Muslim called Ali Ibrahim Khan, who was appointed magistrate of the north Indian city of Banaras after its conquest by the East India Company ... -
Historians and Labour parties: changing methods, approaches and purposes
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The historiography of psychical research: lessons from histories of the sciences
(Society for Psychical Research, 2008-04)This paper surveys the different uses to which history has been put, and the different historiographical perspectives adopted, in psychical research and related enterprises since the mid-nineteenth century. It contrasts ... -
'Honour and odd tricks': the creation of a pocket borough in Clitheroe, Lancashire, 1693-1780
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Household wealth, indebtedness, and economic growth in early modern England
(To be published in Economic History Review, 2012-12-13)Estimates of wealth are presented as recorded by over 18,000 probate inventory totals in five English counties for the two centuries after 1550. Real household wealth grew, almost without interruption, from the turn of the ... -
Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440-1650: Evidence of Women's Work from Probate Documents
(Cambridge University Press, 2005-12)This essay examines the work patterns of housewives and female servants in rural England between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. Despite the fact that such women expended the majority of female work-hours ... -
How dependent were the ‘dependent poor’? Poor relief and the life-course in Terling, Essex, 1762-1834
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-08-05)Despite the volume of research on the Old Poor Law, only in the last two decades have detailed local studies have begun to assess the impact of relief payments across the life-courses of individuals. Their conclusions have ... -
How revolutionary was revolutionary justice? Legal culture in Russia across the revolutionary divide
(Routledge, 2017)On 24 November 1917, the Bolsheviks published their vision for a new justice system. Abolishing all existing courts, they established local (later people’s) courts for crimes such as murder, theft and civil disputes, and ...