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Academic History Writing and its Disconnects
Hitchcock, Tim (2011) -
Accommodating 'Mrs. Three-in-One': homemaking, home entertaining and domestic advice literature in post-war Britain
Lees-Maffei, Grace (2007-10-01)This article analyses the effects of the ‘servant problem’, meaning the contraction of the domestic service industry in the twentieth century, as represented in domestic advice literature (etiquette, homemaking and home ... -
Accommodating the elderly poor : almshouses and the mixed economy of welfare in England in the second millennium
Goose, Nigel (2014)This article provides an outline of the development of the English almshouse across the second millennium, and its place within the broader spectrum of social welfare. It discusses the evolution of the almshouse into its ... -
An Act of War? : The Interview Affair, the Sony Hack, and the Hollywood-Washington Nexus Today
Shaw, Tony; Jenkins, Tricia (2019-02-01)Film has been an integral part of the propaganda war fought between the United States and North Korea over the past decade. The international controversy surrounding the Hollywood comedy The Interview in 2014 vividly ... -
Afterword. “An unjust attack on a peaceful demonstration that had the legal and moral right to meet”. In correspondence on Peterloo with Katrina Navickas
Navickas, Katrina; Rogers, Rachel (2021-10-01) -
Afterword: June 1817
Navickas, Katrina (Comma Press, 2017-09-08) -
Afterword: Ritual, Emotion and Power
Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter (Palgrave, 2017-03-06) -
Against Ruskin: Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell’s Recasting of Venice
Bainbridge, William (2021)The images of Venice by Philadelphian Joseph Pennell (1857-1926) have never really escaped from James McNeill Whistler’s long shadow. His etchings, drawings, pastels, and lithographs all show the influence of the master. ... -
Agents in their own Concerns? Charity and the economy of makeshifts in eighteenth-century Britain
Lloyd, S. (Manchester University Press, 2003)In 1721, several 'Welsh gentlemen' complained to the governors of the Welsh Charity School in Clerkenwell, claiming that poor families were leaving Wales for London so that their children could benefit from the charity. ... -
Agricultural productivity in past societies : Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses
Currie, Thomas; Bogaard, Amy; Cesaretti, Rudolf; Edwards, Neil R.; Francois, Pieter; Holden, Philip; Hoyer, Daniel; Korotayev, Andrey; Manning, Joseph; Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos; Oyebamiji, Oluwole K.; Petrie, Cameron; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Williams, Alice (2015)Agricultural productivity, and its variation in space and time, plays a fundamental role in many theories of human social evolution. However, we often lack systematic information about the productivity of past agricultural ... -
”All besides the rail, rang’d beggars lie” : Trivia and the Public Poverty of Early Eighteenth-Century London
Hitchcock, Tim (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2007) -
Almshouses in England and the Dutch Republic circa 1350-1800 : a comparative perspective
Goose, Nigel; Looijesteijn, Henk (2012) -
Ambassadors of the Screen : Film and the State-Private Network in Cold War America
Shaw, Tony (Routledge, 2006) -
American Bewitched : the Story of Witchcraft after Salem
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers of intolerance and persecution. The refrain 'Remember Salem!' was invoked frequently over the ensuing ... -
Amour in the Shrubbery: reading the detail of English adultery trial publications of the 1780s
Lloyd, S. (2006)This article examines how late-eighteenth-century knowledge about adultery was constituted through English publications based on legal evidence of female infidelity. A mass of published fragments and hints produced distinctive ... -
An Analysis of Twitter and Facebook Use by the Archival Community
Crymble, Adam (2010)This paper discusses how the archival community is using social networking services such as Twitter and Facebook as outreach tools. The study analyzes the usage patterns of 195 individual and institutional users over a ... -
Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790
Davies, Owen (Cambridge University Press, 2006) -
Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England
Evans, Jennifer (Boydell & Brewer, 2014-10)It was common knowledge in early modern England that sexual desire was malleable, and could be increased or decreased by a range of foods - including artichokes, oysters and parsnips. This book argues that these aphrodisiacs ...