English Historical Review

New Review Article: Stephen Tuffnell on 'Compulsory Empire: Imperial Histories of Globalisation and the Globalisation of the United States'

Compulsory Empire: Imperial Histories of Globalisation and the Globalisation of the United States In June 1978, James A. Field Jr. damned the subject of American imperialism as ‘the worst chapter in almost any book’. After summarising the elements of an

New article: Naomi Pullin on 'The Quaker Reception of John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Women’s Preaching'

The Quaker Reception of John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Women’s Preaching* Abstract. Studies of important intellectual figures often debate the influence of their thought but are not always attuned to the ways in which their writi

New article: David Hitchcock and Brodie Waddell on 'Riches and Poverty in English Protestant Culture, c.1550–1800: Vernacularising the Parable of Dives and Lazarus'
https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceae080/7686510

New article: Christopher Haigh on 'What Was the Restoration Church of England?'
https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceae079/7685471

New article on advance access: Matthew Firth asks 'What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s "the Great"’.

What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’* Abstract. King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but i

New article on advance access: Anthony Ossa-Richardson on 'The Disappearance of Leo Africanus: Rival Repertoires of Historical Scholarship in the Mid-Twentieth Century'

https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceae055/7676385

New article on advance access: Sophie Ambler on 'The Dark Trophies of The Battle of Evesham, the Northumbrian Cult of Simon de Montfort and the War of the Welsh Marches (1264–1265)'

The Dark Trophies of The Battle of Evesham, the Northumbrian Cult of Simon de Montfort and the War of the Welsh Marches (1264–1265)* Abstract. At the Battle of Evesham (4 August 1265) the army of Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, was annihilated and his body dismembered, his head, te

New article on advance access: Abigail Greenall, 'In Pursuit of Equanimity: Managing Change and Adversity in Early Modern English Households, c.1570–c.1670'

In Pursuit of Equanimity: Managing Change and Adversity in Early Modern English Households, c.1570–c.1670* Abstract. This article establishes equanimity as an important emotional ideal in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In showing how equanimity se

We are delighted to welcome two new members of the EHR team! Dr Alex Middleton joins us with primary responsibility for the modern reviews section, and Dr Judith Everard joins Catherine and Kim as a new Assistant Editor.

New Article: Gary Baker and Craig Lambert on ‘"William Fowler", Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade'

‘William Fowler’, Sir William Garrard, Sir John Hawkins and the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade* Abstract. This article sheds new light on English involvement in the sixteenth-century transatlantic slave trade, especially the voyages of John Hawkins in

New Article: Natasha Bailey on 'Academic Collaboration in the Early Enlightenment: Daniel Waterland (1683–1740) and his Cambridge Tyros'

Academic Collaboration in the Early Enlightenment: Daniel Waterland (1683–1740) and his Cambridge Tyros* Abstract. While early modern collaborative practices have long been associated with the natural sciences, humanistic scholarship has mostly been depicted,

New Review Article: Lucia Akard on 'Medieval S*x Work Studies: The State of the Field'

Medieval S*x Work Studies: The State of the Field Recent scholarship on medieval s*x work is varied in its approach: scholars have tackled the thorny issue of identity and subjectivity, examined the econom

New Article: Lucy Underwood on 'Law, Nationhood and Religion: Trial Defences of English Priests, 1585–c.1640'

Law, Nationhood and Religion: Trial Defences of English Priests, 1585–c.1640* Abstract. This article examines how defendants indicted under the 1585 statute against seminary priests and Jesuits conducted their defences at trial. It e

Delighted to present our first Forum! A discussion of the concept of the 'People's War', with articles by David Edgerton, Lucy Noakes, Sean Dettman and Richard Toye, and Jessica Hammett and Henry Irving. Find the articles here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-articles

David Edgerton: 'A Cliché to Be Avoided Like the Plague: The "People’s War" in the History and Historiography of the British Second World War'

Lucy Noakes: 'The "People’s War" in Concrete and Stone: Death and the Negotiation of Collective Identity in Second World War Britain'

Sean Dettman and Richard Toye: 'The Discourse of "The People’s War" in Britain and the USA during World War II'

Jessica Hammett and Henry Irving: 'Renegotiating Citizenship through the Lens of the "People’s War" in Second World War Britain'

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New article: ‘"Tanto di Capuccini come di Giesuiti": Religious Orders, Exceptionalism and the Absolution of Heretics in Early Modern Italy', by Jessica M Wärnberg

‘Tanto di Capuccini come di Giesuiti’: Religious Orders, Exceptionalism and the Absolution of Heretics in Early Modern Italy* Abstract. From the first history of the Society of Jesus, written in the late sixteenth century, to modern scholarship on the order, texts by and about Jesuits

We have a lot of new material available on advance access - do come and browse!

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With our generalist and global scope in mind, we are pleased to introduce a new section: ‘Reflections’. Review articles, historiographical pieces and discussions of a historian’s contribution will offer opportunities to reflect on wider developments: https://academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/reflections

New Article from Matt Raven on 'Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England'

Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England* Abstract. The late medieval period was an important phase in the history of political communication in England, as more people than ever before became involved

New Article by Elisabeth Piller on 'Prelude to Re-education: US Internationalists, Students and the German Problem, 1919–1949'

Prelude to Re-education: US Internationalists, Students and the German Problem, 1919–1949* Abstract. Much has been written about US efforts to solve the ‘German problem’ after the Second World War. Scholars have carefully studied US attempts to de-Naz

New Article: Colm Murphy on 'The Forgotten Rival of Marxism Today: The British Labour Party’s New Socialist and the Business of Political Culture in the Late Twentieth Century'

The Forgotten Rival of Marxism Today: The British Labour Party’s New Socialist and the Business of Political Culture in the Late Twentieth Century* Abstract. In recent years, historians of modern Britain have focused on reconstructing its ‘political culture’, drawing extensively upon print sources. This wor

New Article: Lewis Wade on 'Royal Companies, Risk Management and Sovereignty in Old Regime France'

Royal Companies, Risk Management and Sovereignty in Old Regime France* Abstract. Shortly after William of Orange arrived in Devon at the outset of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, Dutch troops stationed in Dartmouth seized the Amit

New Article: Suzanne Schwarz on 'Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'

https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/cead108/7258906

New Article: Suzanne Schwarz on 'Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries'

Royal Attitudes to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Abolition in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries* Abstract. Recent historiography has placed particular emphasis on the social origins and influence of individuals who took opposing sides in debates on the abol

New Article: Pierre Purseigle, 'Au Nom de la Patrie: Southern Identities and Patriotic Mobilisation in First World War France'

Au Nom de la Patrie: Southern Identities and Patriotic Mobilisation in First World War France Abstract. At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, many French commentators doubted that France had the strength to withstand the trials of war. Y

New Article: Marco Wyss on 'The Nkrumah Factor: The Strategic Alignment of Early Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria'

The Nkrumah Factor: The Strategic Alignment of Early Postcolonial Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria* Abstract. In stark contrast to the Nigerian Civil War, when the Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny supported the secessionist Biafran Republic against the

New Article: Michael Richards on 'Catholic Intellectuals and Transnational Anti-Communism: Pax Romana from the Spanish Civil War to the post-1945 World Order'

Catholic Intellectuals and Transnational Anti-Communism: Pax Romana from the Spanish Civil War to the post-1945 World Order* Abstract. This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era

New article on open access! Justin Willis on 'Document Number Five: Elections and Tutelary Politics in Uganda, 1967–1971'.

Document Number Five: Elections and Tutelary Politics in Uganda, 1967–1971* Abstract. In July 1970, Uganda’s President Milton Obote published—under his own name—a plan for a new system of single-party elections. ‘Document Number Five’,

New article on Open Access! Robert Thompson on ‘"The True Physicians Here are the Padres": British Christian Army Chaplains and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen'

‘The True Physicians Here are the Padres’: British Christian Army Chaplains and the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen* Abstract. When a senior medical officer summarised the work of army chaplains in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he said: ‘The true physicia

New article on advance access: Shannon McSheffrey on 'Disorder, Riot and Governance in Early Tudor London: Evil May Day, 1517'

Disorder, Riot and Governance in Early Tudor London: Evil May Day, 1517* Abstract. On the eve of the May Day festival in 1517, a night of anti-immigrant violence broke out in London. Though pre-modern English historians have frequent

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