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Introduction: trade unions in the global south from imperialism to the present day
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Inventing the Lollard past: the afterlife of a medieval sermon in early modern England
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-10)This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul's Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print. It highlights ... -
An irrevocable shift: detailing the dynamics of rural poverty in Southern England, 1762-1834: a case study
(Wiley, 2014-10-20)Nearly every conceivable aspect of the old poor law in England appears to have been studied. Yet some fundamental questions about parish-level provisioning remain hard to answer. These include the amount that people received ... -
J.H. Thomas and the Rise of Labour in Derby 1880-1945
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Keynes, Liberalism, and ‘The Emancipation of the Mind’
(Oxford University Press, 2015-09-11)This article offers a more systematic assessment of John Maynard Keynes’s attitude to Liberalism, and his engagement with the Liberal Party, than has previously been attempted. It does so as a means of exploring how the ... -
Keynes, the Labour Movement, and "How to Pay for the War"
(Oxford University Press, 1999)This article considers the evolution of John Maynard Keynes's wartime plan for compulsory saving in 1939-40, and the ways in which this was influenced by Keynes's desire to solicit the support of the Labour movement for ... -
Killing the condemned: the practice and process of capital punishment in British Africa, 1900–1950s
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the ... -
The Labour party and Keynes
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The Labour Party and the Economics of Rearmament, 1935-39
(Oxford University Press, 2001)This article examines the Labour Party’s attitude to the finance of the British rearmament programme in the later 1930s, principally with reference to debates in the House of Commons. It is suggested that the party’s ... -
The Labour Party and the trade unions
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The Labour Party's external economic policy in the 1940s
(Cambridge University Press, 2000-03)This article challenges the view that, in accepting the 1945 American loan and its attendant commitments to international economic liberalization, the Labour party easily fell in behind the Atlanticist approach to post-war ... -
The land market of a Pennine manor: Slaidburn, 1650-1780
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)The quantitative study of English land markets in the three centuries after the close of the middle ages is still in its infancy. The medievalists, exploiting the conveyances of customary tenants recorded in manorial court ... -
Law and the Spaces of Empire: Introduction to the Special Issue
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Lay Religion and Pastoral Care in Thirteenth Century England: the Evidence of a Group of Short Confession Manuals
(Elsevier, 2010)This paper examines the extent of lay religious knowledge and observance in thirteenth-century England, using a series of short manuscript treatises on confession inspired by the De modo confitendi of Robert Grosseteste ... -
Learning lessons from war? Inclusions and exclusions in teaching First World War history in English secondary schools
(Indiana University Press, 2016-03-01)The recent centenary anniversaries of the First World War have underscored how commemoration of the war is best understood as being about keeping the memory alive, especially since those who experienced it first-hand have ... -
The local experiences of reformist Islam in a “Muslim” town in colonial India: the case of Amroha
(Cambridge University Press, 2009-07)This article discusses shifts within Islamic life, ritual and practice in the town of Amroha in the United Provinces of India, during the eventful period of approximately 1860-1930. Based primarily upon Urdu writings ... -
Locking out the Communists: the Labour party and the Communist party, 1939-46
(Oxford University Press, 2013-08-30)The Second World War was a crucial period in the development of the British left, and particularly in finally delineating between the Labour and Communist parties. Communist party membership hit record levels just when ... -
Mahzar-namas in the Mughal and British Empires: The Uses of an Indo-Islamic Legal Form
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-03)This paper looks at a Persian-language documentary form called the mahzar-nama that was widely used in India between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries to narrate, represent, and record antecedents, entitlements, and ... -
The Membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920-1945
(Cambridge University Press, 2000-09)The opening of archives in recent years makes it possible to reassess the membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) before 1945. The revised aggregate figures, while not startling, suggest that revisions ...