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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.

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The French republic is under threat. We are 1,000 historians and we cannot remain silent | Patrick Boucheron, Antoine Lilti and others www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Interesting summary of latest ideas on popular early modern ideas and practices of the law.

#LegalHistory

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In the first blog stemming from an article in our current issue No. 263 Grace Stafford (University of Vienna) explores

"The Present in the Past: Reflections on Veiling Practices and Practicing History"

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Registration (free) is open for the "Histories of Scottish Politics in the Age of Union, c. 1700-1945" conference

Taking place at Durham University 23rd - 24th July 2024

Full details of the programme and registration:

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5/ “Left to their own devices: Radio, radiomen and radio stations in the making of Tibet’s modern political landscape”

by Huasha Zhang (Yonsei University)

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3/ “Astrology, plague, and prognostication in early modern England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public health”

by Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, University of Oxford)

#OpenAccess

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We were pleased to support the "Gender and Sainthood 1100-1500" conference at the University of Oxford on 5th-6th April 2024

Here, organisers Antonia Anstatt and Ed van der Molen reflect upon the event:

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New on advance access: "Environment, Slavery and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750–1810"

by Emiliano Travies (Carlos III - Juan March Institute)

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New on advance access: "Fatima’s inheritance: Law, Islam, and gendered archive-making in India’s early modern global connections"

by Du Fei (Cornell University)

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We are pleased to be supporting "Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the Modern Day"

12th - 13th April 2024 at the University of Oxford

Programme details and registration (closing 31/03/2024) can be found below:

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Very excited to be speaking at this workshop!

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We were pleased to support "Merchant Politics, Capitalism and the English Revolution: Robert Brenner's Merchants and Revolution Revisited"

At the University of Sheffield in November 2023. Here, organiser Thomas Leng reflects on the event:

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We're pleased to be supporting the Popular Knowledge of the Law in Early Modernity workshop St. John's College, Oxford (and online) on 3rd Apr 2024

Full programme and registration for this event can be found:

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New on advance access: "Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent"

by Christopher L Hill (University of Michigan)

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New on advance access "National liberation by other means: US visitor diplomacy in the Vietnam War"

by Pierre Asselin (San Diego State University)

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New on advance access: "Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950"

by Daniel Haines (University College London)

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"Solitude and Soul Union: the Seraphic Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin"

In the second blog from an author in our Feb 2024 issue Barbara Taylor (Queen Mary, University of London) reflects on early modern notions of solitude

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"I am very sympathetic to the ideal of writing for broad publics. But not all history. Sometimes historians need to make difficult arguments, with specialist terminologies, or that challenge the concepts that are taken for granted ... The challenge is coming back, to try to make it make sense."

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2/ “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century”, Past & Present, Volume 50, Issue 1, February 1971, Pages 76–136

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To mark the centenary of the birth of deeply influential social historian E.P. Thompson (3rd Feb 1924), our published @OUPHistory has made his three articles for the journal free to read for the next fortnight

(see thread for links)

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the subtle difference between believing propositions and harbouring fears (or holding to faiths)

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“Witchcraft was not a coherent ‘belief system’ but a tissue of doubts around the possibility that living human beings could cause harm through inexplicable or magical means.”

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1/ “Petition and response as social process: Royal power, justice and the people in late medieval Castile ( C .1474–1504)”

by Yanay Israeli (Ann Arbour, Michigan)

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