History Of England Research Articles

From Robert Keayne to Angola, Richard, and Grace: Bernard Bailyn and New England's Place in an Atlantic World

From Robert Keayne to Angola, Richard, and Grace: Bernard Bailyn and New England's Place in an Atlantic World

Religion and Politics in Early Modern Royal Travels: Queen Elizabeth's Progress to Kent in 1573

The article is devoted to the consideration of the summer travels of the English royal court of early Modern times. This practice, originating from the traveling courts of the Middle Ages, flourished in England in the second half of the XVI century. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth Tudor, summer progresses became an integral part of the court ceremonial, an important means of representing the monarch and a mechanism for implementing royal policy. The article focuses on one of these trips, namely, a summer trip to Kent in 1573, whose central episode was a reception hosted for the Queen by Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker. The author examines the preparation and course of this reception, analyzes the motives and expectations of all participants in the events and fits the royal visit into the context of church history and religious policy of England in the second half of the XVI century. The scientific novelty of the work lies in a detailed, based on a wide range of sources, consideration of the royal visit of 1573, which had not previously attracted special attention of researchers. The main conclusion of the study is the observation about the peculiar nature of the reception in Canterbury, due to the increased attention of all participants to the religious and political content of this event. For Elizabeth, this reception was an occasion to emphasize her image of a pious monarch and defender of the true faith. On the other hand, such a visit in the first half of the 1570s, during a harsh period for the Church of England, was on its part a gesture of support for the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the latter sorely needed. Parker, in turn, made considerable efforts to extract the maximum benefits for himself from this reception. Thus, the conducted research shows how the royal progress could be used for the purposes of religious policy and complements our understanding of the methods and mechanisms of its implementation in early Modern England.

Biography and Bernard Bailyn: The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson and the “Logical Obligation” of Historical Research

Biography and Bernard Bailyn: <i>The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson</i> and the “Logical Obligation” of Historical Research

“Frances Burney's Legacy Duty Account” (1840)

“Frances Burney's Legacy Duty Account” (1840)

Edward Anthony Wrigley: In Memory and Appreciation

It is with sorrow that we report that our long-time contributor, editorial board member, and true scholarly friend, Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley FBA, passed away on 24 February 2022 at the age of 90. A pioneer in the field of historical demography and social and economic history more broadly; co-founder (with Peter Laslett) of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (1964); author of numerous pathbreaking books, most notably perhaps The Population History of England, 1541–1871, published in 1981 with co-author Roger S. Schofield; and contributor of six articles to JIH, Tony’s deft facility for asking the most important questions, his compelling historical reason, elegant prose, and critical editorial pen, will all be sorely missed. The historical profession has truly lost one of its giants, and for those of us dedicated to the enterprise of interdisciplinary historical investigation, one of our most creative guiding voices.A Cambridge man from his undergraduate days at Peterhouse beginning in 1949, he remained for his postgraduate studies and a long tenure as a Fellow of Peterhouse until 1979. Moving to the London School of Economics, he served as a Professor of Population Studies for nearly a decade. In 1988 he became a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, returning to Cambridge for the final years of his active academic career as a Professor of Economic History for the period 1994–1997. His last two publications in the JIH appeared as recently as 2020, one a special essay on “The Interplay of Demographic, Economic, and Social History” for our 50th anniversary volume, and the other a reply to a Research Note submitted by a fellow economic historian to his 2018 research article, “Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution: England and Wales.” This was nearly four decades after his first publication for us on “The Prospects for Population History.” In 1985, he and his co-author Roger Schofield expertly offered their services as editors for a special issue of the Journal on “Population and Economy: From the Traditional to the Modern World.” Thus was Wrigley active in all aspects of the scholarly enterprise of JIH, and elsewhere, until nearly the final years of his long life.The Editors of the JIH will miss Tony immensely, of course for the always exciting research that he submitted for our review, as well as for his decades of service providing discerning comments on the work of so many others. His prodigious legacy of books, articles, students, colleagues, institutions, and even a small mountain of anonymous reviewer reports, will, we hope, carry his wisdom, insight, perseverance, and genuine love of the past to many generations yet to come.

"I'll Go On" – Terry Eagleton, Writer

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Prisoners, Sanctuary‐Seekers, and Workers: Jews at the Tower of London, 1189–1290

AbstractThe most significant built remnant of the Jewish history of medieval England is not a synagogue but a castle: the Tower of London. From 1189 to 1290, hundreds of Jews entered the Tower as prisoners, sanctuary‐seekers or workers. In the thirteenth century, the Constable of the Tower not only had authority over the London Jewry but also had the unique right to arrest Jews anywhere in the kingdom and to preside over certain legal cases involving them. Even if Jews were arrested elsewhere, they would often be transferred to the Tower. This history of imprisonment reached its height in 1278 to 1279, when at least 600 Jews were held on charges of coin‐clipping. The Tower appears in the indices of most books on the medieval Anglo‐Jewry and is often alluded to in articles on the same topic, though usually merely in passing. None of this prior research has been specifically dedicated to the various stories of Jews at the Tower, however, something that this present article will be the first to discuss in depth. It is derived from a recent project at Historic Royal Palaces on the Tower's Jewish history, which created biographies of every Jewish individual known to have been at the Tower in the medieval period.

Sociological approaches and the urban history of medieval England: research trends and new perspectives (2017–2022)

In 2011, when Jelle Haemers looked back on a decade's worth of Ph.D. theses on urban centres in the medieval Low Countries, he identified three main trends in scholarship: the emphasis on individuals, rather than institutions; the increasing use of new methodologies, such as social network analysis (SNA) and prosopography; and the deployment of inter-disciplinary perspectives. Haemers’ intuition proved prescient; recent doctoral contributions to the historiography of medieval English towns and cities tend, generally, to fall along similar lines. In many ways, this is natural, and a testament to the enduring legacy and successes of earlier works. But, as the following discussion will elaborate, important and divergent steps have also been made, pushing our perceptions of pre-modern urban societies in new directions. Medieval urban history remains a vibrant area for study, with Ph.D. students forming an important section of its vanguard.

A Legal History of Legal History in England and Wales

This article explores the development of the study of legal history as a subject in the law schools of England and Wales. It outlines changes in university education more generally, and in legal scholarship in particular and how those changes impact the particular subject under study. Drawing on empirical studies and personal reflections relating to past experience it concludes by speculating on potential different outcomes, both positive and negative, which may emerge when the universities of England and Wales emerge from the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which the piece was written.

The Historical Context of C.S. Lewis's Novel "That Hideous Strength"

That Hideous Strength, the third novel of C.S. Lewis The Space Trilogy, called by its author “a modern fairy-tale for grown-ups”, was written in the end of the Second World War; it is set in some indefinable time “after the war”. Nevertheless, the culture and history of England plays the significant role in the novel, not only as the source of images and storylines, but also as a topic of scientific research inside the author’s world. The characters’ attitude towards this topic is meaningful. The cultural and historical context of the novel is complex: we can see there the legendary history of England (Arthurian tales, Merlin as the legendary person and literary character) and its real history (certain features of English colleges dating back to the Middle Ages, Henry Bracton, the famous lawyer of the 13th century, Cromwell, etc.). Both real and legendary histories intertwine in the world of the novel, sometimes within a single paragraph or a scene, for example when the narrator speaks of his visit to Bragdon Wood (chapter 1, part 3) where a real historical figure (Bracton), imaginary locus (wood) and “the medieval song” of the 14th century made up by Lewis himself are put together, or when Mr. Dimble (chapter 1, part 5) talks about historical origins of Arthurian legends. It makes the world of the novel multidimensional and atemporal.

History of England in the Rose "Anna Boleyn"

Many English roses have names related to English people, places, even literary characters. The article devoted to the rose "Anne Boleyn" introduced by English hybridizer David Austin for the UK in 1999. He named this rose after Anne Boleyn, the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII. On 7 September 1533, she gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I. Given biological characteristic of English Rose Anne Boleyn. The authors describe what happened with Henry VIII, King of England, charming, attractive and even kind, for a member of the Royal family. Yet he is most remembered for being gluttonous, impaired and executing wives (Henry VIII and miscarriages; was it the Kell antigen?). Anne Boleyn is a mysterious figure in history. Queen Anne Boleyn is well-known for playing a key figure in the political and religious transformation in England about 500 years ago. Since her death in 1536, Anne Boleyn has appeared in various artistic mediums, with each decade contributing yet another incarnation of the late queen. Other queens of the world have seen their moments in the spotlight come and go sporadically, but Anne Boleyn remains a constant. The authors write that Anne Boleyn is an intriguing historical figure who has been the subject of many biographies, novels, paintings, films, and television series, a tragic opera "Anna Bolena" (1830) composed by Gaetano Donizetti.

Research Perspectives on Students in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1945

Historians of Britain and Ireland have long been interested in universities and students. They have acknowledged the importance of these institutions and individuals within the history of elites, the history of the state, intellectual history, the history of science, of social movements and of politics and political thought. Yet, for many years much of this research has centred around higher education institutions themselves rather than the student body that they cater for. Following the expansion of the higher education sector and the growth of the student movement in the 1960s the quantity and quality of literature on British and Irish students, rather than the institutions that they studied at, has grown substantially and has become a burgeoning historical field. This article surveys the development of this historiography and the key research perspectives on students in Britain and Ireland from 1800-1945, focusing on five thematic areas: student culture, student representation and politics, student life during war, students race and empire, and student women - to track the progress, development and connections between the different strands of this historiography over the past fifty years and to offer insights into potential avenues for further research.

“Here Lyes the Body of Cicely Negro”: Enslaved Women in Colonial Cambridge and the Making of New England History

Abstract Gravestones for early eighteenth-century enslaved Cambridge women, Cicely and Jane, have sat for centuries largely unexplored by scholars despite the markers' close proximity to Harvard University. This essay re-centers the lives and stories of such women, using their gravestones as a fulcrum to explore gender, race, memory, and the construction of early New England history.

Introduction On the Histories and Futures of Black New England Studies

Introduction On the Histories and Futures of Black New England Studies

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Theatres of memory; un-silencing the past – Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ anthology

ABSTRACT This article discusses Steve McQueen’s collaborations with the BBC to examine how his ‘Small Axe’ anthology of five films represents Black British experiences in Britain, charting discrimination, racially motivated violence, police persecution, and activism for social justice as well as ordinary life. The anthology chronicles events between 1968 to the early 1980s and centres anti-racist activism, resistance struggles, and key debates around Black British subjectivity. From a contemporary twenty-first-century lens, McQueen intervenes in important public debates, refracting them in the context of today, highlighting the ongoing importance and relevance of this history in Britain’s contemporary moment, especially in a time of increased racially motivated violence fuelled by ethno-nationalism. Arguably, through the platform of public service broadcasting, these interventions position McQueen in wider public debates and link him into Black British public intellectual traditions. The article argues that by focusing on key moments and events in Black British history, under-represented in mainstream narratives, and by collaborating with BBC One, McQueen opens up crucial questions about whose history is centred and how these events are opened up to wider public audiences. The article examines how McQueen intervenes in important public debates by centring the margins, and argues that the ‘Small Axe’ anthology challenges received understandings of Britain’s recent past and contributes to necessary conversations around social justice, equality and inclusion, especially important to ongoing debates around citizenship, belonging, and conceptions of Britain.

The French Senate on the Possibility of Britain's Withdrawal from the European Union in 2015-2016.

The proposed article analyzes the position of the French political elite on the issue of the possible withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union (Brexit), which was discussed by Europeans even before the British national referendum on June 23, 2016. The authors use historical sources that were not introduced into scientific circulation earlier – transcripts of meetings of the French Senate and analytical reports prepared on behalf of Senate committees. This set of sources allowed us to study not only the discussions of parliamentarians, but also to see how French senators treated the possible withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union. The chronological framework of the study is 2015 and the first half of 2016. The article examines the following subjects: the history of Britain's membership in the EU, the events preceding the British Brexit referendum, the materials of the French Senate related to Brexit are examined, the process of negotiations between Europeans and the Cameron government is analyzed. The conducted research showed that French senators as part of the political elite of the Fifth Republic in 2015 - the first half of 2016, that is, before the British referendum, could not recognize the danger and, in fact, did not consider the possibility of a Eurosceptic referendum scenario, that is, the victory of supporters of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union, which happened in June 2016.

The history of England's cathedrals. By Nicholas Orme. Pp. xii + 304 incl. 91 black-and-white and colour ills and 1 table. Exeter: Impress Books, 2017. £20 (paper). 978 1907 60592 5

The history of England's cathedrals. By Nicholas Orme. Pp. xii + 304 incl. 91 black-and-white and colour ills and 1 table. Exeter: Impress Books, 2017. £20 (paper). 978 1907 60592 5 - Volume 73 Issue 2

Visual Resource Stewardship—An International Perspective

This paper provides an international perspective on visual resource stewardship. It examines the long history of Britain’s love affair with its landscapes and its abandonment of measuring the subjective element of landscape quality, focusing instead on landscape character, which could be objectively assessed. This paper summarises the development of the European Landscape Convention, which has been embraced across much of Europe, and which follows Britain’s emphasis on landscape character. Programs in a range of European countries are reviewed. The recognition of outstanding landscapes under the World Heritage Convention, the UN List of Protected Areas program which includes landscapes, and National Scenic Area programs, are briefly summarised. The key message of this paper is that most of the provisions summarised focus on the character of the landscape and not its quality. Because it has been alleged, particularly in Britain and Europe, that it is too difficult to measure scenic quality, landscape character has become the subject instead of scenic quality.

The History of England’s Cathedrals by Nicholas Orme

The History of England’s Cathedrals by Nicholas Orme