History
Danish Ferocity and Abandoned Monasteries: the Twelfth-century View
University of Leeds
Julia Barrow explains why twelfth-century authors found it so important to invent stories of Viking brutality towards monks and nuns […]
The Clergy in the Medieval World
University of Leeds
Unlike monks and nuns, clergy have hitherto been sidelined in accounts of the Middle Ages, but they played an important […]
Empire and Aftermath
University of Chicago
Clifford Ando re-frames the issue of beginnings and endings by reexamining “decline and fall” in the works of two eighteenth-century […]
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power
University of Chicago
Clifford Ando discusses how early states built their territorial, legal, and political powers before they had the capacity to enforce them […]
The political economy of religion in the early Roman empire.
University of Chicago
Women and the Politics of Pressure in Nineteenth-Century Britain
University of Warwick
In the long 19th century, women seized new opportunities offered by parliament and played a growing role in public politics […]
Food Reform and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
University of Warwick
Sarah Richardson considers the contribution of two female activists in the field of dietary reform and feminist politics: Anna Kingsford […]
A Brief History of the English Reformation
University of Warwick
The Reformation transformed Europe, and left an indelible mark on the modern world. It began as an argument about what […]
Chinese Workers in World War One France
Durham University
Paul Bailey, Durham University, is a specialist in the social and cultural history of modern China. His research interests cover gender […]
