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George Holmes (1927-2009)

Bernard, G. — 2009-05-22

History and Hagiography in the Late Eleventh Century: The Life and Work of Herman the Archdeacon, Monk of Bury St Edmunds

Licence, T. — 2009-05-22

During the 1090s, a monk of Bury St Edmunds, called Herman, wrote an account of St Edmund's miracles by weaving them into a historical framework founded on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. His aim was to portray St Edmund as a national saint whose mercies had helped to shape the fortunes of the English people. Herman's work is an invaluable source for historians working on the eleventh century, but his identity is in doubt with the consequence that even his name is disputed. Antonia Gransden argues that ‘Herman’ in fact was a French hagiographer called Bertran who came to England c. 1090. The present article overturns this theory, painting quite a different picture of the monk whose work sheds new light on historical writing and intellectual culture at his monastery. Formerly a senior cleric in the bishop's household, Herman had spent up to thirty years or more in East Anglia, managing the bishop's correspondence with the king and dealing with major players who feature in his history. As a senior monk at Bury St Edmunds he would preach to the common people and invite them to revere the saint's relics. Moreover, he had an ambitious vision for his written project, which was uniquely innovative for its time as much in its portrayal of history as in its design.

'Requisites of a Considerable Trade': The Letters of Robert Plumsted, Atlantic Merchant, 1752-58

Smith, S.D., Wheeley, T.R. — 2009-05-22

The 1,551 letters written by the Quaker merchant, Robert Plumsted of London, provide a unique insight into transatlantic commerce and credit during the early phase of the Seven Years War. The rare survival of his last two letter books allow for a reconstruction of his firm's accounts and reveal a cyclical trade, with net-flows of capital in and out of his business of up to £10,000. Trade with the West Indies and North America posed difficulties, not least the ongoing management of the cash-gap (referred to by contemporaries as ‘Circulation’), as well as problems caused by the onset of war. In its blend of socio-religious commentary and financial insights, the letter books illustrate how Plumsted used private ordering systems to ease transactions. Moreover, his often frank expositions to Friends on the moral requirements of merchants and customers highlight the importance of social capital within the Quaker community. The letters demonstrate how trust was cemented by the operation of family succession, reputation-promoting behaviour, arbitration mechanisms, Quaker ostracism, and a rhetoric of persuasion. Yet the correspondence also demonstrates how the expansion of colonial market redefined the qualities needed to be a successful merchant, and how Plumstead was forced to react to changes in the transatlantic iron trade. Influenced by the mid-eighteenth century Quaker reform movement, Plumsted criticised declining standards of conduct among traders and condemned over-liberal credit extension.

The German Community in Manchester, Middle-Class Culture and the Development of Mountaineering in Britain, c. 1850-1914

Westaway, J. — 2009-05-22

The German community in Manchester formed the most significant international element in the Manchester bourgeoisie c.1850-1914 and contributed significantly to the city's commercial and cultural life. This study examines German models of voluntary association that linked sport and recreation, education and culture in the context of the Germanophile cultural and intellectual life of the city. Nonconformist élites within Manchester shared liberal and reformist ideals with German émigré groups, not least in the area of education. The German-Unitarian contribution to the kindergarten system, progressive education and the gymnastics movement is examined in some detail. With their emphasis on the whole child, physical education, physical culture and the balance to be achieved between mind and body, these pedagogic innovations were to have a significant influence on the nascent outdoor movement in the region. A number of important implications for the historiography of mountaineering are drawn out. The presence of a gymnastic tradition in the city is relevant to the debates on the emergence of rock climbing as a sport distinct from mountaineering in the 1880s and 1890s. Historians of British mountaineering have tended to characterize the sport as dominated by the world view of the gentlemanly upper-middle class, shot through with the chivalric codes of manliness, athleticism and the exploratory impulse and intent on satisfying nationalistic and imperial preoccupations. This paper argues that, in the context of a regional middle-class sporting and recreational culture, cosmopolitan intellectual and cultural links were just as significant as the dominant national discourse. It opens up the possibility of understanding mountaineering as not just part of an imperial discourse of conquest but also one rooted in the Enlightenment tradition of inner exploration and intellectual bildung.

'The Less Said about Suez the Better': British Governments and the Politics of Suez's History, 1956-67

Beck, P. J. — 2009-05-22

From an early stage of the 1956 Suez Crisis serious questions were raised about British policy, most notably about alleged collusion with the French and Israeli governments. Unconvinced by the Eden government's denials, critics accused ministers of misleading parliament and the country, and particularly of intervening in Egypt on a false pretext. The subsequent military debacle merely compounded the problem. Subsequently, Labour and Liberal MPs and peers conducted a determined parliamentary campaign, boosted by fresh revelations made in successive publications, in support of both a public inquiry and an official history on Suez. Unsurprisingly between 1956 and 1964 successive Conservative Governments rejected such demands, given the involvement of several ministers in the Eden government. Despite fostering expectations of a change of course, the 1964-70 Labour governments merely followed the position taken by their Conservative predecessors, particularly given the continuities in official advice pointing to the adverse domestic and foreign policy consequences of commissioning either a public inquiry or official history about Suez. Highlighting the politics of Suez's history, this episode helps explain why over fifty years on Suez occupies still a prominent place in contemporary political vocabulary in Britain, as demonstrated by the manner in which debates about British intervention in the 2003 Iraq War have been framed in part by echoes of Suez.

Making Sense of the Early Middle Ages

Collins, R. — 2009-05-22

The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales

Breeze, A. — 2009-05-22

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

Kulikowski, M. — 2009-05-22

Feasting the Dead: Food and Drink in Anglo-Saxon Burial Rituals

Banham, D. — 2009-05-22

Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity

West, C. — 2009-05-22

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975

Williams, A. — 2009-05-22

The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Stafford, P. — 2009-05-22

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200

Abrams, L. — 2009-05-22

Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative

Nicholson, H. J. — 2009-05-22

Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560

Tolan, J. — 2009-05-22

The Seventh Crusade, 1244-1254: Sources and Documents

Tyerman, C.J. — 2009-05-22

Medieval Religion: A Sourcebook

Cushing, K. G. — 2009-05-22

The Interdict in the Thirteenth Century: A Question of Collective Guilt

Haseldine, J.P. — 2009-05-22

Eclipse of Empire? Perceptions of the Western Empire and its Rulers in Late-Medieval France

Jones, M. — 2009-05-22

Passion and Order: Restraint of Grief in the Medieval Italian Communes

Prudlo, D. S. — 2009-05-22

Studies on the Hospitallers after 1306: Rhodes and the West

Riley-Smith, J. — 2009-05-22

The Gough Map: The Earliest Road Map of Great Britain?

Harrison, D. — 2009-05-22

Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society, and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy

Jurdjevic, M. — 2009-05-22

The Fifteenth Century. Vol. VII: Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown in the Later Middle Ages

Pollard, A. — 2009-05-22

The Late Medieval Interlude: The Drama of Youth and Aristocratic Masculinity

Fletcher, C. — 2009-05-22

Roman Monarchy and the Renaissance Prince

Rundle, D. — 2009-05-22

The Plain Man's Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation England, 1570-1640 * Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700

Green, I. — 2009-05-22

Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe

Janssen, G. H. — 2009-05-22

Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War

Rollison, D. — 2009-05-22

Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England

Wilcher, R. — 2009-05-22

Royalists and Royalism during the English Civil Wars

Smith, G. — 2009-05-22

Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Eearly Modern Ireland

Little, P. — 2009-05-22

Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II

Jenkinson, M. — 2009-05-22

West Country Farms: House-and-Estate Surveys, 1598-1764

Stevenson, J. — 2009-05-22

The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America

Lambert, F. — 2009-05-22

Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France: Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799

Legacey, E.-M. — 2009-05-22

The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives

Laidlaw, Z. — 2009-05-22

Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform

Navickas, K. — 2009-05-22

The Catholic Church and the Protestant State: Nineteenth-Century Irish Realities

Smyth, J. — 2009-05-22

Robert Peel: A Biography

Skinner, S.A. — 2009-05-22

Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850

Rowe, M. — 2009-05-22

China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843

Wang, H.-C. — 2009-05-22

Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith

Hannabuss, K.C. — 2009-05-22

A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain

Todd, S. — 2009-05-22

Certain Other Countries: Homicide, Gender, and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Fegan, M. — 2009-05-22

Hunger: A Modern History

Rich, R. — 2009-05-22

Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Johnston, R. — 2009-05-22

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism: Party Politics and Urban Governance in Late Nineteenth-Century England

Roberts, M. — 2009-05-22

Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur

Kelly, M. — 2009-05-22

British Democracy and Irish Nationalism, 1876-1906

Loughlin, J. — 2009-05-22

Contesting the German Empire, 1871-1918

Chickering, R. — 2009-05-22

Our Friend 'The Enemy': Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I

Anderson, R.D. — 2009-05-22

The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society since the Revolution

Jones, H.S. — 2009-05-22

Custom and Conflict in the 'Land of the Gael': Ballachulish, 1900-1910

Freeman, M. — 2009-05-22

Railways and the Russo-Japanese War: Transporting War

Howard, M. — 2009-05-22

Der Almanach des 'Blauen Reiters' als Gesamtkunstwerk

Stargardt, N. — 2009-05-22

Conscience and Conflict: Methodism, Peace and War in the Twentieth Century

Bebbington, D.W. — 2009-05-22

A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel

Takriti, A. R. — 2009-05-22

Mothers of Heroes, Mothers of Martyrs: World War I and the Politics of Grief

Horne, J. — 2009-05-22

Twisted Paths: Europe, 1914-1945

Kitchen, M. — 2009-05-22

To The Threshold of Power, 1922/33. Volume I: Origins and Dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist Dictatorships

Fritzsche, P. — 2009-05-22

Versohnung von Nation und Sozialismus? Lothar Erdmann (1888-1939): Ein 'leidenschaftlicher Individualist' in der Gewerkschaftsspitze. Biographie und Auszuge aus den Tagebuchern

Berger, S. — 2009-05-22

Germany and the Origins of the Second World War

Fischer, C. — 2009-05-22

National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia

Cornwall, M. — 2009-05-22

Expelling the Germans: British Opinion and Post-1945 Population Transfer in Context

Rothwell, V. — 2009-05-22

L'Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945-2000)

Bosworth, R.J.B. — 2009-05-22

The Guardsmen

Bogdanor, V. — 2009-05-22

The Many Lives of Khrushchev's Thaw: Experience and Memory in Moscow's Arbat

Smith, M. B. — 2009-05-22

Katholische Kirche und Sozialwissenschaften, 1945-1975

Menge, A. — 2009-05-22

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2009-05-22

The Exequies of Edward III and the Royal Funeral Ceremony in Late Medieval England

Given-Wilson, C. — 2009-03-23

The primary focus of this article is on the funeral of Edward III in 1377, the evidence for which has not been analysed in detail before; however, the article also attempts to use the surviving evidence for Edward III's funeral to establish a more complete history of the development of the royal funeral ceremony in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although there are no reliable narrative accounts of Edward's funeral (as there are for those of Henry V and Edward IV), a great deal of evidence relating to it survives in the accounts of the wardrobe and great wardrobe of the royal household, some of it explicit, some of it tantalisingly suggestive. It was also at around the time of Edward's death, or a little before, that the first English royal funeral ordo was compiled; this too provides clues to the protocol followed in 1377. Comparison with contemporary royal and aristocratic funerals and memorial services in France, and with aristocratic funerals in fourteenth-century England, also raises intriguing questions, especially in relation to the symbolic meaning or meanings which might have been attached to the display of Edward III's effigy, which still survives. Despite the incomplete nature of the evidence, what is argued here is that there are grounds for thinking that Edward III's funeral reflected both the military achievements for which he was famed during his life and the hopes and fears which accompanied his death. The result was a refashioning of the English royal funeral ceremony which was to have a significant influence upon the way in which royal funerals were conducted in both England and France during the fifteenth century and beyond.

Hephaestion and Alexander: Lord Hervey, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the Royal Favourite in England in the 1730s

Smith, H., Taylor, S. — 2009-03-23

This article explores the intense and ultimately embittered relationship between Frederick, prince of Wales and John, Lord Hervey, Vice-Chamberlain to Frederick's father, George II. It is argued that an understanding of their relationship, and the possible reasons behind its collapse in early 1732, can help to illuminate broader debates about the nature of English politics and society in the early eighteenth century. The relationship highlights the continuing vitality of notions of the royal favourite during a period when court politics was being transformed by the development of a parliamentary monarchy. Furthermore, because Hervey has emerged in recent years as a key figure not only in the study of the court and politics, but also in the history of sexuality, a reappraisal of his relationship with Frederick has implications for our understanding of aristocratic libertinism, sexual attitudes, and male friendship. The article goes on to consider the Patriot opposition attacks on Sir Robert Walpole and his supporters, popular concern over the rise of sodomy, and the construction of Hervey as a sexual deviant in the writings of figures such as William Pulteney and Alexander Pope. Thus, Frederick's and Hervey's relationship also offers a case study in the interaction between the court, the opposition, and popular opinion at a moment when the development of the public sphere was forcing the early Georgian monarchy to engage, in ever more subtle ways, with its image.

The Banality of Brutality: British Armed Forces and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-39

Hughes, M. — 2009-03-23

This article argues that the British used the legal system to legitimise brutal actions during their counter-insurgency (or colonial policing) campaign to defeat rebels during the Arab revolt in Palestine, 1936-39. The law was (re)constructed to provide a veneer of legal respectability to actions carried out by servicemen operating in the field against Arab rebels, allowing for reprisals and punitive actions against Palestinian civilians, targeted by the British in their offensive against rebels who were often hard to defeat in open battle. Lawlessness was the law. Servicemen were guided by a legal system that meant that they could accept the premises of their government that allowed for brutal actions, and they could do so with all the energy of good bureaucrats obeying orders. It shows that the British repression of the revolt was brutal and included torture and atrocities, notably at the villages of al-Bassa in 1938 and Halhul in 1939. More generally, its examination challenges the idea of British ‘exceptionalism’ in repressing imperial rebellions – the idea that there was a more benign British ‘way’ of dealing with colonial revolts. It suggests, however, that while some level of brutality became systematic and systemic, atrocious acts were exceptional and, comparatively speaking, British forces were more restrained than other colonial powers operating in similar circumstances. It also raises the issue of regimental differences in counter-insurgency methods.

Church Properties and the Propertied Church: Donors, the Clergy and the Church in Medieval Western Europe from the Fourth Century to the Twelfth

Nelson, J. L. — 2009-03-23

The Philosophy of History

Munslow, A. — 2009-03-23

A Moveable Feast: Ten Millennia of Food Globalization

Albala, K. — 2009-03-23

Britons in Anglo-Saxon England

Yorke, B. — 2009-03-23

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West

Maclean, S. — 2009-03-23

Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England

Hines, J. — 2009-03-23

The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

Cobb, P. M. — 2009-03-23

Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland

Downham, C. — 2009-03-23

Acts of Giving: Individual, Community, and Church in Tenth-Century Christian Spain

Reynolds, S. — 2009-03-23

The Cartulary of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel

Holdsworth, C. — 2009-03-23

Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies

Duffy, S. — 2009-03-23

Henry II: New Interpretations

Green, J. A. — 2009-03-23

The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300

Dunbabin, J. — 2009-03-23

Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages

Nederman, C. — 2009-03-23

Kingship, Rebellion and Political Culture: England and Germany c.1215-c.1250

Carpenter, D.A. — 2009-03-23

A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain

Burt, C. — 2009-03-23

Peasants and Production in the Medieval North-East: The Evidence from Tithes, 1270-1536

Harrison, D. — 2009-03-23

The Senses in Late Medieval England

Rosenthal, J. — 2009-03-23

The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus

Schwartz, S. B. — 2009-03-23

Jews in the Early Modern World

Bonfil, R. — 2009-03-23

Henry VIII's Military Revolution: The Armies of Sixteenth-Century Britain and Europe

Gunn, S.J. — 2009-03-23

The character of English Rural Society : Earls Colne, 1550-1750

Broad, J. — 2009-03-23

Drinking Matters: Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe

Clark, P. — 2009-03-23

The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics, and Protest in Elizabethan England

Marshall, P. — 2009-03-23

The Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England

Sommerville, J. — 2009-03-23

Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France

Greengrass, M. — 2009-03-23

Nuns: A History of Convent Life

Choudhury, M. — 2009-03-23

Believe Not Every Spirit: Possession, Mysticism and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism

Alberts, T. — 2009-03-23

Catholic Belief and Survival in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna: The Case of Georg Eder (1523-87)

Forster, M. R. — 2009-03-23

The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1600-1750

Clark, P. — 2009-03-23

Encyclopedia of Witchcraft. The Western Tradition

Hayton, D. — 2009-03-23

Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion

Goodare, J. — 2009-03-23

The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Responses, 1600-1714

Spurr, J. — 2009-03-23

Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania: Culture, Politics and Religion, 1693-1773

Murdock, G. — 2009-03-23

Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1603 to 1900 * The Scots and the Union

Bowie, K. — 2009-03-23

The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth Century Britain, Ireland and America

Budd, A. — 2009-03-23

Monarchisms in the Age of Enlightenment: Liberty, Patriotism and the Common Good

Bryant, M. — 2009-03-23

The '45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising

McLean, R. R. — 2009-03-23

Trade, Empire and British Foreign Policy, 1689-1815: The Politics of a Commercial State

Dickinson, H.T. — 2009-03-23

Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins

Shoemaker, R. B. — 2009-03-23

Possessing the Pacific: Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska * Empire, Barbarism, and Civilisation: Captain Cook, William Hodges, and the Return to the Pacific

Igler, D. — 2009-03-23

John Henry Williams (1747-1829), 'Political Clergyman': War, the French Revolution and the Church of England

Cookson, J.E. — 2009-03-23

Taming Democracy: 'The People', the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

Nicolson, C. — 2009-03-23

The Army in Finland During the Last Decades of Swedish Rule (1770-1809)

Wolke, L. E. — 2009-03-23

A History of Eastern Europe, 1740-1918

Okey, R. — 2009-03-23

Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950

Bartrip, P.W.J. — 2009-03-23

Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy: Political Argument in Britain 1780-1840

Poole, R. — 2009-03-23

The Perilous Crown: France between Revolutions, 1814-1848

Pilbeam, P. — 2009-03-23

The Young Karl Marx: German Philosophy, Modern Politics, and Human Flourishing

Moggach, D. — 2009-03-23

Chartism: A New History

Allen, J. — 2009-03-23

Palmerston Studies I and II

Hawkins, A. — 2009-03-23

Garibaldi. Invention of a Hero * Garibaldi. Citizen of the World

Davis, J. A. — 2009-03-23

Les prefets de Gambetta

Wright, J. — 2009-03-23

The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700

Brown, J. M. — 2009-03-23

Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development, 1800-1950

Laidlaw, Z. — 2009-03-23

Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, c.1880-1950

Kaul, C. — 2009-03-23

Writing the Nation: A Global Perspective

Keita, M. — 2009-03-23

Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain

Toye, R. — 2009-03-23

The Zionist Masquerade: The Birth of the Anglo-Zionist Alliance, 1914-1918

Schneer, J. — 2009-03-23

Pacifists, Patriots and the Vote: The Erosion of Democratic Suffragism in Britain During the First World War

Pugh, M. — 2009-03-23

Valkoisen Hamaran Maa? Suojeluskunnat, Virkavalta ja Kansa, 1918-1921

Newby, A. G. — 2009-03-23

The Strange Survival of Liberal England: Political Leaders, Moral Values and the Reception of Economic Debate

Thompson, N. — 2009-03-23

Priestley's England: J.B. Priestley and English Culture

McKibbin, R. — 2009-03-23

The Shadow of Marriage: Singleness in England, 1914-60

Bingham, A. — 2009-03-23

Conflicted Memories. Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Nehring, H. — 2009-03-23

Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg under the Nazis

Torrie, J. S. — 2009-03-23

Germany: The Long Road West, 1933-1990

Nicholls, A. J. — 2009-03-23

Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918-1948

Frommer, B. — 2009-03-23

Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism

Deak, I. — 2009-03-23

Black Market, Cold War: Everyday Life in Berlin, 1946-1949

Bruce, G. — 2009-03-23

Decolonization and its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires * Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's Imperial States, 1918-1975

Jackson, A. — 2009-03-23

Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace

Louis, Wm. R. — 2009-03-23

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

Lloyd, C. — 2009-03-23

Harold Wilson's EEC Application: Inside the Foreign Office, 1964-7

Ludlow, N.P. — 2009-03-23

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s

Horn, G.-R. — 2009-03-23

Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prum's Chronicle

MacLean, S. — 2009-01-23

Regino of Prüm's Chronicle, completed in the year 908, is one of the most important narrative sources for the history of the later Carolingian Empire, and contains the best contemporary account of its collapse in 888. Regino was not a detached observer of events, but a political actor whose career was profoundly affected by the turbulence of post-imperial politics. This article seeks to demonstrate how the text and its author's own career cannot be understood independently of one another. Through an analysis of Regino's rhetorical strategies (particularly insinuation, juxtaposition and self-censorship) I attempt to cast new light on the construction of the later sections of this important chronicle. At the same time, by interrogating the work as a source for its author's own life (and in particular his forcible ejection from Prüm in 899) I use it to draw out broader conclusions about the conduct of politics during the scramble for the Carolingian heartland of Lotharingia at the end of the ninth century.

Of Different Complexions: Religious Diversity and National Identity in James II's Toleration Campaign

Sowerby, S. — 2009-01-23

This article uncovers a remarkable speech given by James II in the city of Chester in August 1687. In this speech, which has not previously been discussed in print by any historian, the king made a startling analogy between colour-based prejudice and religious prejudice, saying ‘suppose...there should be a law made that all black men should be imprisoned, twould be unreasonable and we had as little reason to quarell [sic] with other men for being of different opinions as for being of different Complexions’. The king used this speech to articulate a novel definition of English national identity. Under this new vision of Englishness, being a Protestant would no longer be considered a prerequisite of true citizenship; instead, anyone who was willing to tolerate the religion of others would be accepted as a true English citizen. The goal of this catholic king was to secure the election of a Parliament that would repeal the laws that penalized religious nonconformity. At Chester and elsewhere during his toleration campaign, James II adopted a rights-based rhetoric of citizenship that had not previously been used by any English monarch. It is likely that he borrowed much of this rhetoric from his friend William Penn, yet it is remarkable, given his reputation as an authoritarian, that he used it at all. This rhetoric gained a popular purchase among some of those who had been stigmatised by the laws that the king was seeking to overturn.

British Radio Security and Intelligence, 1939-43

Harrison, E.D.R. — 2009-01-23

There is no previous monograph article on the Radio Security Service [RSS], the British organisation established to intercept the wireless messages of enemy spies during World War Two. This gap can be filled by drawing on private papers and documents in the National Archives from MI5, Bletchley Park, the War Office and the Admiralty. The official historians F.H. Hinsley and C.A.G. Simkins praised RSS efficiency, but MI5 records suggest that while RSS voluntary interceptors were competent, the same was not always true of some other operatives.

The most intellectually outstanding part of the Radio Security Service was its Analysis Bureau, which became part of Section V of the Secret Intelligence Service [SIS] as Vw when most of RSS was taken over by Section VIII of SIS in 1941. Under Hugh Trevor-Roper's leadership Vw produced analytical reports on Axis Intelligence activities, but Felix Cowgill, the head of Section V, sought to restrict the circulation of these reports and the decrypts of enemy secret service messages which they analysed. The diaries of MI5's Guy Liddell suggest that Cowgill's behaviour was a catalyst for the unsuccessful attempt by MI5 to take over Section V of SIS during 1942.

By 1943 Stewart Menzies, the Chief of SIS, was so impressed by Vw that he made it independent of Cowgill as the Radio Intelligence Service. By the end of 1943 MI5 and RSS interception also achieved a better understanding of their mutual roles. But there was a potential threat to the achievements of British radio security and intelligence from the reports of the Cambridge spies to Moscow.

Beyond Revisionism? Some Recent Contributions to the Study of Modern Ireland

Girvin, B. — 2009-01-23

A History of the Later Roman Empire AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World

Ward-Perkins, B. — 2009-01-23

The Fall Of Rome and the End of Civilization

Pohl, W. — 2009-01-23

Medieval Villages in an English Landscape: Beginnings and Ends

Liddiard, R. — 2009-01-23

Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England

Stokes, P. A. — 2009-01-23

Myth in Early Northwest Europe

Larrington, C. — 2009-01-23

Martyrdom in Islam

Hawting, G. — 2009-01-23

Europa in costruzione: La forza delle identita, la ricerca di unita (secoli IX-XIII)

Loud, G.A. — 2009-01-23

Tales from Another Byzantium: Celestial Journey and Local Community in the Medieval Greek Apocrypha

Angold, M. — 2009-01-23

Creating the Monastic Past in Medieval Flanders

Lutter, C. — 2009-01-23

The Return of the Vikings: The Battle of Maldon, 991

Woolf, A. — 2009-01-23

Episcopal Culture in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Pickles, T. — 2009-01-23

Cambridge History of Christianity, Vol. V: Eastern Christianity

Freeze, G. L. — 2009-01-23

Crusader Castles and Modern Histories

Purkis, W. J. — 2009-01-23

Henry I and the Anglo-Norman World: Studies in Memory of C. Warren Hollister

Church, S.D. — 2009-01-23

The St Albans Psalter: A book for Christina of Markyate

Kauffmann, M. — 2009-01-23

St William of York

Van Houts, E. — 2009-01-23

Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages

Yeager, S. M. — 2009-01-23

Miracles and Wonders: The Development of the Concept of Miracle, 1150-1350

Cushing, K. G. — 2009-01-23

The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice

Watson, S. — 2009-01-23

Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300-1474

Freedman, P. — 2009-01-23

Edward III's Round Table at Windsor: The House of the Round Table and the Windsor Festival of 1344

Palliser, D.M. — 2009-01-23

Justice and Grace: Private Petitioning and the English Parliament in the Late Middle Ages

Maddicott, J.R. — 2009-01-23

Fifteenth-Century Studies, Vol. XXXII: Essays in Honor of Edelgard E. DuBruck

Taylor, J. H.M. — 2009-01-23

Early Modern Confraternities in Europe and the Americas: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Lux-Sterritt, L. — 2009-01-23

Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530

Rundle, D. — 2009-01-23

Debating the Hundred Years War: 'Pour ce que plusieurs (La Loy Salicque)' and 'A declaration of the trew and dewe title of Henrie VIII'

Sumption, J. — 2009-01-23

A Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus, 1456-1489

Yiavis, K. — 2009-01-23

Mediterraneo in armi (secc. XV-XVIII) * Anglo-Saxons in the Mediterranean: Commerce, Politics and Ideas (XVII-XX Centuries)

Fusaro, M. — 2009-01-23

Scotland Re-formed, 1488-1587

Groundwater, A. — 2009-01-23

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

Osborne, T. — 2009-01-23

Scottish Coins in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. Part 1: 1526-1603

Metcalf, D.M. — 2009-01-23

Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama 1558-1642

Evenden, E. — 2009-01-23

Family and Community in Early Modern Spain: The Citizens of Granada, 1570-1739

Gil, X. — 2009-01-23

Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585

Pettegree, A. — 2009-01-23

The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty

Potter, D. — 2009-01-23

Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain since 1066

Manning, R.B. — 2009-01-23

Catholic Revival in the North of Ireland, 1603-41

Lenihan, P. — 2009-01-23

Les Affaires etrangeres au temps de Richelieu: Le secretariat d'Etat, les agents diplomatiques (1624-1642)

James, A. — 2009-01-23

Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke

Stillman, R. E. — 2009-01-23

Gender and Space in Early Modern England

Shepard, A. — 2009-01-23

Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier

Gentles, I. — 2009-01-23

The English Revolution and the Wars in the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1652

Bennett, M. — 2009-01-23

Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England, 1640-1700

Hutton, R. — 2009-01-23

Eighteenth-Century Russia: Society, Culture and Economy

Dixon, S. — 2009-01-23

Tales from the Hanging Court

Gray, D. D. — 2009-01-23

A Concise History of Austria

Gehler, M. — 2009-01-23

Naval Blockades in Peace and War: An Economic History since 1750

Mackay, R. — 2009-01-23

British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763-1785

Clark, J.C.D. — 2009-01-23

Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784-1797

Ditchfield, G.M. — 2009-01-23

The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1830

Jones, P.M. — 2009-01-23

The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution

Vick, B. — 2009-01-23

William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity

Hessayon, A. — 2009-01-23

1812: War with America

Benn, C. — 2009-01-23

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

Rodger, N.A.M. — 2009-01-23

The Truth against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery

Sweet, R. — 2009-01-23

Myths of Harmony: Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia 1795-1831

Earle, R. — 2009-01-23

Brittany, 1750-1950: The Invisible Nation

Ford, C. — 2009-01-23

Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717-1927

White, O. — 2009-01-23

Flagships of Imperialism: The P&O Company and the Politics of Empire from its Origins to 1867

Munro, J. F. — 2009-01-23

Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, 1827-53

Burns, A. — 2009-01-23

Rural Society and the Anglican Clergy, 1815-1914: Encountering and Managing the Poor

Smith, M.A. — 2009-01-23

Sacred bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France

Green, A. — 2009-01-23

Letters across Borders: The Epistolary Practices of International Migrants

Harper, M. — 2009-01-23

The Origin of the Welfare State in England and Germany, 1850-1914: Social Policies compared

Harris, J. — 2009-01-23

War and Society in Colonial India

Marston, D. P. — 2009-01-23

The Late Victorian Navy: The Pre-Dreadnought Era and the Origins of the First World War

Lambert, A. — 2009-01-23

Power at Sea

Till, G. — 2009-01-23

Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging

Laidlaw, Z. — 2009-01-23

Beyond Representation: Colonial and Postcolonial Constructions of Indian Identity

Harding, C. — 2009-01-23

Women Against the Vote: Female Anti-Suffragism in Britain * Suffrage Outside Suffragism: Women's Vote in Britain, 1880-1914

Lawrence, J. — 2009-01-23

The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World

Black, L. — 2009-01-23

The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914-1940

Jones, M. — 2009-01-23

A Very British Strike: 3 May-12 May 1926

Godden, C. — 2009-01-23

Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of the Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918

Ng, A. — 2009-01-23

Geschichte eines Buches: Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', 1922-1945

Gregor, N. — 2009-01-23

Somoza and Roosevelt: Good Neighbour diplomacy in Nicaragua, 1933-1945

Buchanan, T. — 2009-01-23

Kameradschaft: Die Soldaten des nationalsozialistischen Krieges und das 20. Jahrhundert

Kramer, A. — 2009-01-23

Fleeing Hitler: France, 1940

Taylor, L. — 2009-01-23

Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his Regime, Romania 1940-1944

Lorman, T. — 2009-01-23

Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 during the Second World War * Delusions of Intelligence: Enigma, Ultra, and the End of Secure Ciphers

Walton, C. — 2009-01-23

Germany and the Second World War. Volume VII: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5

Hart, S. A. — 2009-01-23

A Clean Sweep? The Politics of Ethnic Cleansing in Western Poland 1945-1960

Frank, M. — 2009-01-23

Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956

Pittaway, M. — 2009-01-23

Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957-1973

Rasmussen, K. B. — 2009-01-23

France's Security Independence: Originality and Constraints in Europe, 1981-1995

Salmon, T. — 2009-01-23

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