History: Recent submissions
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The popularity of ancient historians, 1450-1600
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 26 February 2018)The histories of ancient Greece and Rome are part of a shared European heritage, and a foundation for many modern Western social and cultural traditions. Their printing and circulation during the Renaissance helped to shape ... -
The Social, Personal and Spiritual Dynamics of Ghost Stories in Early Modern England
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 16 January 2019)In early modern England, spectral figures were regular visitors to the world of the living and a vibrant variety of beliefs and expectations clustered around these questionable shapes. Yet whilst historians have established ... -
Construction and power: the ethics of educational policy research
(Institute for Pedagogy and Andragogy, 1 November 2012)Western scientific communities have, for the past few decades, been overly concerned with ensuring that social - including educational - research is conducted to the highest ‘ethical’ standard (Hammersley, 2010). The exact ... -
Poverty and mental health: the work of the female sanitary inspectors in Bradford (c. 1901–1912)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 19 June 2018)Although there are many excellent studies of the work of pioneer women public health officers, few accounts dwell on mental health issues or discuss any relationship that such staff might have understood to exist between ... -
Creating and resisting the Terror: the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal, March-June 1793
(Oxford University Press, 3 April 2018)The Paris Revolutionary Tribunal was a key institution of the Terror during the French Revolution, as evidenced by the show trials of Jacques-Pierre Brissot and Georges Danton. However, the early history of this central ...