The long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

Dwarfism, Institutionalisation and Marginalisation at the Court in Early Bourbon France, 1589–1715

'A work of remarkable archival scholarship... extraordinary' Harriet Baker 'Illuminating and brave' Alison Light 'A wonderful history... intimate, fascinating and touching' Ian Mortimer An immersive ...

Two Journeys into Diaspora: Qing and British Imperial Investigations in the Dutch East Indies and Australia

Understanding long-term human–environment dynamics is essential for contemporary debates on resilience and sustainability. This paper reviews approaches to studying humans and their environments in th...

This article introduces the special issue ‘Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities and the Production of Local Culture’, which emphasises the importance of host communities in creating and...

The Marquis de Morès was an uninspiring man. A gambler, a spendthrift and a womanizer, he collected a remarkable number of failed ventures in his short

Hasaam Latif explains the cultural isolation and mental challenges faced by Lascar sailors in 1900s Britain.

Abstract. The Black Death swept through Europe between 1347 and 1353, killing perhaps half of the population. Yet there is remarkably little information ab

Im Mittelalter trat in Europa ein neues Volk in Erscheinung. Man nannte sie die »Deutschen«, lange bevor sie diese Identität selbst annahmen.

Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...

God, Demons, and Fear

Abstract. This article traces continuities and changes in Parisian Catholic militancy after the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (Aug. 24, 1572). It evaluates the rites of violence later reactivated by some of the killers, alongside a radicalized faction of their colleagues in the civic militia, who belonged to a younger generation and played a significant role in the later religious wars. Pursuing a forensic examination of the surviving manuscript sources, it provides a new perspective on the killers on Saint Bartholomew's Day by showing how these men were shaped by, and in turn reshaped, the transformation of Parisian society in the sixteenth century.

What do Italian astronomers, cloistered nuns, levitating saints, and the “sexy dreams” of desert church fathers have in common? In the pages of the

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A new history brings to light the dissenting women who wrote, preached, and testified during England’s tumultuous seventeenth century, claiming the standing to speak as excluded outsiders who had un u...

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Clothing, for Caravaggio, worked in the same way as his chiaroscuro, dramatising disclosure and reticence, attraction...

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