False traitors or worthy knights? Treason and rebellion against Edward II in the Scalacronica and the Anglo-Norman prose Brut chronicles by Andy King This article examines three vernacular chronicles written from contrasting view-points: the Scalacronica of Sir Thomas...
The creation of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance as seen from the Romanian archives by Elena Dragomir This article presents documents from the archive of the central committee of the Romanian Communist party, recording the January 1949 Moscow conference that...
Sterilization and the British Conservative party: rethinking the failure of the Eugenics Society’s political strategy in the nineteen-thirties. Bradley W. Hart and Richard Carr This article argues for a revised view of the British eugenic sterilization campaign,...
Courting public favour: the Boy Scout movement and the accident of internationalism, 1907−29 by Scott Johnston This article explores how the Boy Scout movement moved from an inward looking and decidedly militaristic programme to one which embraced liberal...
Two oaths of the community in 1258 by Joshua Hey This article looks at two ‘oaths of the community’ of 1258. First, it shows that the oath of the community at Oxford has been widely misinterpreted by historians: it was an oath of mutual aid, not an oath binding the...
Episcopal emotions: tears in the life of the medieval bishop by Katherine Harvey This article explores the significance of weeping in the lives of late medieval English bishops (c.1100−c.1400). It considers the lachrymose devotions of saintly bishops alongside tears...
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