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...
This post is from one of the historians working the Dilipad project, Luke Blaxill: The Dilipad project is on one hand exciting because it will allow us to investigate ambitious research questions that our team of historians, social and political scientists, and...
Susan Freidberg’s Anglo-American paper on ‘Moral ecomonies and the cold chain’ now published online. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the spread of what we now know as the cold chain sparked controversy in both Europe and...
Articles: ‘You are what you eat’: historical changes in ideas about food and identity. Steven Shapin Earl Gilbert Marshal and his mortal enemies. David Crouch Provincial news networks in late Elizabethan Devon. Ian Cooper Female barrenness, bodily access and aromatic...
This post is by Kaspar Beelen. Kaspar is a post-doctoral researcher and a member of the Toronto branch of our project team. Introduction Democratization fundamentally changed the form and function of parliamentary representation. From an assembly dominated by a class...
This is a post by one of the project team from the British Library. Peter Webster is Web Archiving Engagement and Liaison Manager. Peter writes: At the British Library, the web archiving team are delighted to be involved in this important new project, which builds on...
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