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1068 in the Fayyum: A Micro-History of an Environmental Crisis
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The action of the imagination
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After Historicism: The Politics of Time and History in Twentieth-Century Germany
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2023-08-31) -
Against "Cultures of Hiatus": History and the Archive in the Political Thought of John La Rose
(Duke University Press, 2018-03-01)This essay examines the relationship between a radical politics and the institution of the archive through a history of the George Padmore Institute (GPI), a community archive attached to New Beacon Books in London. Focusing ... -
Am I a researcher or a self-harmer? Mental health, objectivity and identity politics in history
(Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature), 2019) -
Anger as Misshapen Fear. Fascism, Literature, and the Emotional Body
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The Archimedean point: Science and technology in the thought of Hannah Arendt, 1951-1963
(2014-01-01)This essay examines Hannah Arendt's treatment of science and technology in her work during the 1950s and early 1960s. As scientific research acquired prominence in the United States and Germany after the Second World War, ... -
Artists and the City: Mapping the Art Worlds of 18th-Century Paris
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Before compassion: sympathy, tact and the history of the ideal nurse.
(2020-07-30)The word 'compassion' is ubiquitous in modern healthcare. Yet few writers agree on what the term means, and what makes it an essential trait in nursing. In this article, I take a historical approach to the problem of ... -
Beguines, Free Spirits, and the Inquisitorial Network Conundrum
(2023-07-24)The so-called heresy of the Free Spirit is today considered the epitome of the religious construct produced by ecclesiastical authorities to legitimise persecution. By situating the trial and sentence of the visionary Na ... -
Belgian Rule and its Afterlives: Colonialism, Developmentalism and Mobutism in the Tanganyika District, Southeastern DR-Congo, 1885-1985
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-11-10)The arrival of Belgian rule in the late nineteenth century initiated significant changes in the labour history of Tanganyika, a province in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as well the discursive ...