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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 5h

New article (OA): Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social on 'Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain'

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Planning for Retirement in Post-war Britain*

Abstract. This article explores how Britons envisaged and planned for the end of working life across the second half of the twentieth century. It shows how

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the EHR would like to record their thanks to Hannah Skoda for her many years of service to the journal, and to welcome Katharine Sykes as her successor as one of our Reviews Editors.

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the EHR would like to record their thanks to Hannah Skoda for her many years of service to the journal, and to welcome Katharine Sykes as her successor as one of our Reviews Editors.

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 12d

New article! Tim M. Schmidt on 'Social Democracy, Multi-Ethnicity, and National Conflict: Belgium and the Bohemian Lands, 1885–1940'

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 12d

New article! Lewis Darwen on 'Workhouse Labour, Less Eligibility and the New Poor Law'.

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Workhouse Labour, Less Eligibility and the New Poor Law*

Abstract. The principle of ‘less eligibility’, which required pauperism to be less appealing than living independently, underpinned the New Poor Law of 183

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George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social · 17d

This has been a while in the making. Grateful to the great team @enghistrev.bsky.social

The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 18d

New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940'

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Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940*

Abstract. This article re-examines the international thought of British historian Robert W. Seton-Watson during a period of intense national and imperial t

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 16d

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 18d

New article on Open Access! Georgios Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social on 'Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940'

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Nationality before Internationalism in the Age of Empire: Robert W. Seton-Watson and the Shifting Landscape of Eastern Europe, 1900–1940*

Abstract. This article re-examines the international thought of British historian Robert W. Seton-Watson during a period of intense national and imperial t

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 24d

New article on Open Access! Noah Millstone on 'Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640'

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Bishop Williams among the Puritans, 1621–1640*

Abstract. In 1627 the bishop of Lincoln, John Williams (1582–1652), was accused by a group of his diocesan subordinates of showing favour to Puritans. Will

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Sep 12

New article! Stefan G. Holz on 'Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II'

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Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II*

Abstract. This article examines the jornalia accounts that were used in the English royal administration during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth ce

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Sep 2

Peter J. Marshall (1933-2025) and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation bit.ly/4mSADyn

We are very grateful to @petermandler.bsky.social for his reflections on Peter Marshall, former President of the Society (1996-2000), which are published today on the RHS blog #Skystorians

Opening page of RHS blog post: 'Peter J. Marshall and the Royal Historical Society: an appreciation'.

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Sep 2

From the Carolingians to the Northern Ireland Peace Process, from Yorkshire to the Middle East and beyond, from civil war to cricket to the agency of cattle, EHR is open to the full range of historical inquiry.

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Issues | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Publishes original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the Cla...

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our June/August issue is out, in paper and here: academic.oup.com/ehr/issue

Issues | The English Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Publishes original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the Cla...

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Sep 2

New article on Advance Access: Matthias Berlandi, 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom'

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Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom*

Abstract. Several studies have dealt with the extent and development of the English grain trade, based on English sources, but few have attempted to place

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Sep 2

New article on Advance Access: Dmitry Sterkhov 'With God against Napoleon: Military Mobilisation and Patriotic Preaching in Prussia during the Spring Campaign of 1813'

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With God against Napoleon: Military Mobilisation and Patriotic Preaching in Prussia during the Spring Campaign of 1813

Abstract. This article focuses on the religiously motivated mass mobilisation in Prussia during the Spring Campaign of 1813. At the centre of attention are

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 27

New article on advance access: Matthias Berlandi @uni-goettingen.de on 'Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom'

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 22

We note with regret the passing of Frank O’Gorman.

Frank O’Gorman obituary

Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 13

New in Reflections! Hugh Doherty and Roy Flechner on 'Richard Sharpe (1954–2020)'

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Richard Sharpe (1954–2020)

Abstract. Richard Sharpe (1954–2020) was a medieval historian in the broadest sense but also a historian of the book in the broadest sense, and a diplomati

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article! Ingrid Rembold on 'Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World'

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Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World*

Abstract. This article fundamentally reassesses the interpretation of grants of protection within the Carolingian world. The established view of such grant

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article! Jeremy Fradkin @jfradkin.bsky.social on 'Toleration and the Sword in the English Civil War'

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Toleration and the Sword in the English Civil War*

Abstract. This article rethinks the assumption that early modern advocates for religious toleration sought a programme for peaceful coexistence in the face

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article! Eilish Gregory @eilishgregory.bsky.social, "‘Published by Her Majesties Command’: Sermons Preached before Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager, 1685–88"

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‘Published by Her Majesties Command’: Sermons Preached before Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager, 1685–88*

Abstract. This article argues that the sermons preached before Catherine of Braganza as queen dowager in her chapel royal and later published by her comman

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · Aug 8

A very interesting new article out in @enghistrev.bsky.social from Ingrid Rembold on the discourse around orphans, widows and protection in the Carolingian World. academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Widows, Orphans and Churches: Protection and Virtue Signalling in the Carolingian World*

Abstract. This article fundamentally reassesses the interpretation of grants of protection within the Carolingian world. The established view of such grant

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jul 28

The IHR is saddened by the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall, historian of the British Empire, and a long-standing member of King's College London's History department. As a long-time friend, supporter, and Fellow of the IHR, he will be greatly missed and remembered for his kindness and courtesy.

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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social · Aug 1

'One can only marvel at the stoicism it must have taken on the part of the author to write about these cases... I cannot recall when I last read a work of academic history that made me want to reach into the text and hold the hand of a protagonist. I did on this occasion.' @enghistrev.bsky.social

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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · Jul 29

Katharine Robadiek reviews 'Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena', By James Hankins

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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena, By James Hankins

Francesco Patrizi (1413–1494) was an eminently learned Italian Renaissance humanist from Siena, who later ruled over Gaeta as a Catholic Bishop until his d

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