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From:Labour/Le Travail (Issue 71) Peer-ReviewedIN 1963, VICTOR GOLLANCZ, the British leftist press, published E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class. Most readers are likely more familiar with the revised edition published by Penguin's Pelican...
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From:Canadian Journal of History (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay revisits the life of Oliver Cromwell and offers new perspectives on his emergence from provincial obscurity up to and beyond his 40th birthday to become one of Britain 's most brilliant generals, a...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIt's a great pleasure to be here and a great pleasure to be among a group of people who, like myself, count themselves as not simply admirers of Peter Bauer but also as old friends of his. We regret his passing and can...
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From:Albion (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs with earlier review articles, (1) there is the problem of deciding what to focus on, with the accompanying issue of choice and subjectivity. The last arises from the continuing breadth of the subject, particularly...
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From:Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 2)One important perspective on English history that receives short shrift is the holistic understanding of the British landscape as an historical document. The student in the classroom fails to grasp the underlying...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 111, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Victorian world--known to us best as depicted by Dickens, the Brontes, Hardy, and Disraeli--is one of mighty contradictions. The sheltered bourgeois primness we associate with this period is countered by the...
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From:Albion (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe story of beleaguered Protestants who fled to the continent during the reign of Mary Tudor in the 1550s is well-known, but less familiar is the attempt by the queen and her representatives to order some of those...
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From:Shakespeare Oxford Newsletter (Vol. 38, Issue 4)An unprecedented exhibition of paintings, manuscripts, art, and personal items relating to the life of Elizabeth I opens on May 1, 2003, at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, commemorating the 400th anniversary of...
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 118, Issue 478) Peer-ReviewedDURING September 1947, Anglo-American economic diplomacy met with a crisis, hard on the heels of that which had attended the suspension of sterling convertibility the previous month. The multilateral trade talks taking...
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From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIllegitimate children in the respectable working class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries faced numerous obstacles in their childhoods, including violence, poverty, state intervention, and identity...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhen the New Historicist scholar Stephen Greenblatt recently published a book on Purgatory as well as an essay and two book chapters on the Eucharist, (1) clearly something new was afoot in early modern English studies....
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From:Shakespeare in Southern Africa (Vol. 21) Peer-Reviewed"Shakspeare, as Bearing on English History" is the second of two lectures on Shakespeare given by Archdeacon Nathaniel Merriman in Grahamstown in 1857. The first was delivered in the Court House on the 2nd September...
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From:Apollo (Vol. 164, Issue 538)A historic skirmish took place at Sotheby's main London saleroom on the morning of 29 November 2001. The adversaries were the art dealer Guy Morrison (who remained locked to his client via mobile phone) and the...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 36, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) pauses to introduce the history of Persia and the great, ancient realms of the East: Gibbon's passage serves as a precis of the complex image...
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From:The English Historical Review (Vol. 119, Issue 480) Peer-ReviewedAMONG the reasons prompting me to write 'Pre-Reformation Churchwardens' Accounts and Parish Government: Lessons from London and Bristol' (hereafter referred to as 'Lessons'), two were prominent. I hoped to secure not...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSince the early 1970s, a succession of critics has sought to describe and decode the Victorian ideology of domesticity. Beginning with such groundbreaking studies of etiquette as Leonore Davidoff's The Best Circles...
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From:Parergon (Vol. 28, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMuch of the intellectual history of early modern England has been written as a story of emergent ideologies, with constitutionalism, Ciceronianism, Tacitism (new humanism), de factoism, divine right, ascending political...
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From:The Catholic Historical Review (Vol. 95, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1287, Bishop Godfrey Giffard of Worcester fell out with his clerk, Peter of Leicester, denouncing him for ingratitude. Yet the bishop faced a problem: Peter's ecclesiastical benefices. For lords, benefices had...
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From:The Oxfordian (Vol. 3) Peer-ReviewedA FEATURE of English social life in the sixteenth century which aroused the curiosity of foreigners and the bitterness of Englishmen was the royal right of wardship and marriage. Since 1540 this right had been...
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From:Criticism (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"THEY CANNOT REPRESENT themselves, they must be represented." (1) Marx's formula regarding French peasants in The Eighteenth Brumaire is uncannily applicable to animals, who cannot create their own documents, oral or...