Historical Research, August 2012

The August 2012 issue of Historical Research is now available. Contents include articles on ‘John Cabot and his Italian financiers’ by Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli; ‘The medicalization of poverty in colonial India’ by David Arnold; ‘The...

New issue of Historical Research

The May 2012 issue of Historical Research (lxxxv, no. 228) is now available. Contents include: The politics of remorse: penance and royal piety in the reign of Æthelred the Unready. Catherine Cubitt The Montfortian bishops and the justification of conciliar government...

Dedicated monarchs

Whenever someone asks me who is my favourite Chinese emperor I always reply, “Qianlong, who else?” Like other early Qing emperors, Qianlong was a fanatical antiquarian and collected and preserved countless cultural artefacts from China’s past, which...

Early View articles on Historical Research

The following new articles are available in the Early View issue of Historical Research:The South Sea Company and its plan for a naval expedition in 1712. Shinsuke Satsuma‘A Warning Against Quack Doctors’: the Old Bailey trial of Indian oculists, 1893. Sumita...

Social democracy – a Scandinavian mystery?

Perceptions of Scandinavia at the moment are governed by its seemingly endless production line of quality crime fiction and drama – the likes of Wallander, The Killing and the ubiquitious Girl With the Dragon Tattoo franchise, not to mention the terrifying work...