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'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 'Mother of the Nation' to 'Lady Macbeth': Winnie Mandela and perceptions of female violence in South Africa, 1985–91
(Wiley, 2015-07-15)Winnie Mandela, an emblematic figure in the anti-apartheid struggle throughout her husband's imprisonment, attracted particular public attention in the mid-1980s as her advocacy of political violence earned her approbation ... -
From Therapeutic Relaxation to Mindfulness in the Twentieth Century
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Frontier Politics: French, Portuguese and Indigenous Interactions between Cayenne and the Amazon, 1680-1697
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Functions and failures of transnational activism: Discourses of children’s resistance and repression in global anti-apartheid networks
(University of Hawaii Press, 2016)Throughout the later twentieth century, Britain’s Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) sat at the heart of a transnational advocacy network. From the mid-1980s, the increased repression of child and youth activists in South Africa ... -
'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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Grey-market medicines: Diphtheria antitoxin and the decay of biomedical infrastructure
(Elsevier, 2017-04-29)More so than most of its European neighbours, Spain at the turn of the 21st century thought it had relegated diphtheria to the past: the country had not seen a case of diphtheria since 1986. Not, that is, until a 6-year ... -
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?
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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 ...