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Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture
(Oxford University Press, 2018-01-18)This collection of essays illuminates the social and cultural conditions that made such a varied career possible, offering fresh insights into previously unexplored aspects of late Georgian culture, society, and politics. -
Clinical molecular genetics in the UK c.1975-c.2000
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2014-02-16)Chaired by Professor Martin Bobrow and introduced by Professor Bob Williamson, this Witness Seminar included geneticists from a broad range of research and clinical specialities. Discussions of molecular research into ... -
COERCION AND CONCILIATION AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE: STATE-BUILDING AND ITS LIMITS IN WAZIRISTAN, 1849–1914
Since 2001, the geo-strategic priorities of the ‘War on Terror’ have prompted renewed attention to the historically significant region of Waziristan. Ironically, given the apparent failure of British attempts to pacify the ... -
Common Knowledge: Bodies, Evidence, and Expertise in Early Modern Germany
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-06-01)Over the past twenty-five years, history of science has expanded into history of knowledge. Plurality has been the main message. Commonality, by contrast, is the main finding of the present study. It examines the knowledge ... -
Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe
(Oxford University Press, USA, 2019-02-07)Corens proposes a new interpretative model of 'confessional mobility'. She opens up the debate to include pilgrims, grand tour travellers, students, and mobile scholars alongside exiles. -
Controversies surrounding the excavation at Börneplatz, Frankfurt am Main, 1987
(2016-07-02)© 2016, © 2016 Taylor & Francis. In summer 1987, the remains of Frankfurt’s medieval Jewish ghetto were unearthed by construction workers excavating a car park to make way for a new municipal building. When no effort was ... -
Culture and university in the late Middle Ages: a recent Italian study and its European dimensions
(Firenze University Press, 2018-12-18)This short essay considers Paolo Rosso’s book as a contribution to the history of medieval universities; it discusses the feasibility and merits of works of synthesis by single authors, and reflects on the Italian perspective ...