School of History: Recent submissions
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Towards Peoples’ Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts
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Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920 – stunning in scope but celebrating female artists with exhibitions isn’t enough
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Moving objects: French history and the study of material culture
(Oxford University Press, 2023-12-01)What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle ... -
Politics against individualism?
(Wiley, 2021-02-12) -
‘Tumbling into the lap of Majesty’: Minuets at the Court of George III
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2021-06-01)Performance and ritual were central to the functioning of royal courts in the Georgian era. Every year George III held court balls to mark the birthdays of the monarch and consort. The royal birthday ball opened with ... -
Building borders in a borderless land: English colonialism and the alam Minangkabau of Sumatra, 1680–1730
(2021-01-01)This article adopts the concept of securitisation to understand the failure of the English East India Company’s attempt to build a territorial empire on the island of Sumatra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. ... -
John of Damascus’s Theology of Icons in the Context of Eighth-Century Palestinian Iconoclasm
(Harvard University Press, 2022-02-08)John of Damascus, in his Three Treatises on the Divine Images, used traditional Christian arguments defending images against the accusation of idolatry in reaction to a larger conversation between Judaism, Christianity, ... -
"If they send him off, I think I shall not long be safe myself": Contesting Early American Citizenship in the Longchamps Affair, 1784–1786
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Atlantic Crossings Revisited
(2023-10-15)This roundtable reflects on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Daniel T. Rodgers's Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Harvard, 1998), a classic in our field.