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I am happy to report that Shadow Agents of Renaissance War: Suffering, Supporting, and Supplying Conflict in Italy and Beyond has been published by Amsterdam University Press. This new collective volume (edited by Stephen Bowd, Sarah Cockram, and...
Stephen Basdeo is a cultural historian and lecturer based in Leeds, United Kingdom. Introduction The Second World War (1939–45) has become one of the defining moments in the history of the English nation. It is remembered as a time when everyone...
By Arpita Paul The kaleidoscopic patterns of community-based beliefs, practices, and lifestyles have given India a vibrant collective identity, yet, this multiculturalism remains missing from the historical canon.[1] Suppressed beneath the overwhelming...
By Marta Manzanares Mileo In 1611’s Arte de cozina, pastelería, bizcochería y conservería (The Art of Cooking, Pastry Making, Bakery and Preserving), Francisco Martínez Montiño, Philip III’s and Philip IV’s personal cook, provides a series...
Gender and Emotion in Japanese Christianity (1549-1638)GENDER AND WOMEN’S HISTORY RESEARCH CENTREInternational Hybrid Workshop7 February 2023 The Gender and Women’s History Research Centre at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the...
By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Maximilien Robespierre has gotten a bad rap in the last 228 years. In popular culture, he has become synonymous with the French Revolution’s “Reign of Terror,” a bloodthirsty man fond of violence. However, this image...
The Palgrave series Genders and Sexualities in History (edited by Joanna Bourke, Sean Brady and Matthew Champion) is seeking proposals for monographs, edited collections and collections of source material relating to the history of premodern genders and...
My bibliographic essay on “Women and Warfare” was recently published by Oxford Bibliographies in the Renaissance and Reformation subject area. “Women and warfare is an emerging field in early modern history with a rapidly growing historiography....
By Paris Spies-Gans “[I]t is very difficult to convey an idea today of the urbanity, the graceful ease, in a word the affability of manner which made the charm of Parisian society forty years ago,” the French painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le...
This article is a part of our series, entitled “Age of Slavery,” which explores the existence, persistence, and abolition of slavery in the revolutionary era. By Signe Peterson Fourmy In Missouri in the spring of 1845, Vicey, an enslaved woman...
I enjoyed presenting my research on “Un courage viril. Le genre et la violence en France pendant les Guerres de Religion” in a seminar on Genre et Guerre at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium in May. The seminar on Genre...
In 2021, the Bibliographical Society of America graciously hosted a conversation about the intersection of typography (specifically, how typography was/is described, discussed, and understood to function culturally and politically) with discourses of...
Recently I spoke with the Guardian journalist Tim Dowling for an excellent article he was writing (published last week) about whether beards are finally ‘over’, and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on some of this. Since re-emerging around...
Xavier Andreu-Miralles, “A Fatherland of Free Men. Virility and ‘Frailty’ in Spanish Liberalism (1808-1814),” Gender and History 34/1 (2022).
War crimes are once again headline news these days, as the Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv region has exposed numerous bodies of Ukrainian civilians allegedly executed during the Russian offensive of February – March 2022. Ukrainian President Zelensky,...
***** The scuffle over the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project—which has seen several eminent historians publicly pit themselves against the magazine issue and its editor, Nikole Hannah-Jones, over some of the most fundamental issues in United...
You are warmly invited to the first session of the 2022 Aotearoa Gender History Network! Wednesday Rāapa 16 March, 12 pm – 1 pm NZT / 10 am – 11 am AEST, via zoomZoom link: https://waikato.zoom.us/j/97078105588 Speakers: Amelia BarkerPhD Candidate,...
By Julia Martins A few weeks after my baby was born, I noticed her tear ducts were blocked. Echoing Galen, the midwife suggested a few drops of breast milk to help treat and open the ducts. A few days later, the problem was solved, much to my astonishment....
This is a regular, online seminar. Each session (held via zoom) features 2 x 10–12-minute research presentations on current research in Gender History with a focus on Aotearoa New Zealand, followed by discussion. Please be in touch if you would like...
Tracy Adams has published a review of a collective volume on Femmes à la cour de France, edited by Caroline zum Kolk and Kathleen Wilson. I was pleased to write an essay for this collective volume on noblewomen from the Montmorency family during...