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Over the last decade, architectural history has responded to the climate crisis by strongly integrating environmental topics into its research agenda. The change has been so dramatic that it can be referred to as a paradigm shift within the discipline. The article reviews research tendencies in the environmental history of architecture by discussing the papers presented at a conference organized in Reykjavik in 2023 and several recent publications. The introduction of environmental perspectives in architectural history appears to call into question consolidated ways of understanding its relationship with planning history. Cities are no longer seen as an essential field of analysis to achieve meaningful generalizations in architectural research; many recent works privilege, on the contrary, the investigation of the flows and movements linking individual buildings to processes taking place at a global or planetary level. The paper discusses the question from three interrelated perspectives (the scales of observation, the articulation of temporalities, and the public role of historians). It argues that the environmental turn affecting many fields of the humanities open the way for rethinking patterns of cross-disciplinary collaboration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What can the Battle of Lepanto (1571) reveal about the interconnected politics of nationalism and racism in contemporary Europe? Linking memory studies, critical heritage and the history of European-Ottoman wars, this article uses the 450th anniversary of the historic battle as an entry point for rethinking the politics of commemoration in modern Greece. It takes a multi-scalar perspective which charts memory-making across different spatial and temporal scales and examines the role of mnemonic practices as articulations of Greek nationalism blended with dependence on Greece’s Euro-Atlantic patrons. The article situates the 450th anniversary of Lepanto within a larger commemorative tradition and long-term development of civic rituals and representational conventions. In doing so, it highlights the dynamics of voicing and silencing that shapes public history in ways that sanitise the past and obfuscate complex historical processes. Specifically, the article shows how the erasure of the Black history of Nafpaktos (the Greek town associated with Lepanto) and portrayals of the Greeks as an anti-Islamic nation have reinforced eurocentric civilisational narratives, occluding histories of colonialism and empire that continue to cast their shadows today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Power is exercised through truth claims, as seen in the case of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia. Gertrudes Johan Resink, a scholar of international law, successfully exposed the history of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia and demonstrated the pre-existence of international law before European expansion by considering the role of international law in Indonesia’s history. This article examines Resink’s legacy and the potential for elaborating further on his ideas in Indonesia’s history of international law. Although this article deals with a specific context, the Indonesian experience can contribute to the history and development of international law in the region more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Local history in Pakistan has a complex relationship with national historical narratives that are derived from ideological debates on Muslim nationhood in South Asia. This article discusses how 'local' is understood in Pakistan's historiography and puts forth an argument for the adoption of an environmental framework to enhance our understanding of local history. Mapping methodology used for a project on the Rachna Doab is discussed in order to demonstrate how local environmental history can give new insights into history by eschewing preconceived frames of reference and using a different concept of space and time defined by environmental change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The project "Representation of Childhood at the Museums of Latvia, Integrated in the E-Learning Environment of Higher Education" was a response to the need for sources in the history of education that would accommodate the interests of students in educational sciences. The article aims at sharing the project experience in (1) mapping the history of childhood in museums, (2) building the digitised museum objects database, (3) integrating the database in learning environment, and (4) reflecting on the lessons learned through the project. The mapping was done in 30 museums, digitising 1190 artefacts and creating a "draft" database, which in 2021 was used by 74 master's students in educational sciences at the University of Latvia. We concluded that object-based childhood interpretation entails subjectivism in both the creation of museum collections and the choice of objects for the database. The objects selected by students revealed that educational science students are interested in less attractive sources for exhibitions as educational documentation and statistics. The project findings draw attention to the gaps in childhood history, for example, children with special needs are still "invisible", the material culture created by children themselves is poorly exhibited and the question about the 1990s as the "end" of childhood history in Latvia is open. The students' work with the database revealed challenges in history didactics; for example, how to prepare students for the "translation" of modern educational concepts into the language of history. Further development of the education history database depends on technical solutions, as well as on engaging students in systematic feeding of the database. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose a new framework for understanding post-conflict history education based on ethnographic fieldwork in the same South African school two decades apart. We explore how and why teachers engage with the legacies of conflict in 1998 and 2019 by investigating how they draw boundaries around 1) time, what the conflict period is and how stark lines are between past and present; 2) source, where knowledge resides and legitimacy of expertise and lived experience; and 3) responsibility, who creates and who benefits from social change, particularly vis-à-vis individual and collective action. We suggest that by looking at why, how, where, and by whom these lines between past/present, historiography/experience, and individual/structural responsibility are drawn, we can strengthen comparative approaches to understanding post-conflict history education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite her prolific publication history, Anne Dutton (1692–1765) has received little in-depth scholarly attention. Working with a select coterie of dissenting printers and booksellers in London from her home in Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire, Dutton published in nearly every genre popular with eighteenth-century women writers: diary, autobiography, hymns, poems, letters, formal religious discourse and polemical treatises. Her writings reveal a powerful voice that allowed Dutton to enter areas of pastoral ministry unknown to any other eighteenth-century Baptist woman. Her vivid and accessible prose made her one of the most popular religious writers during the Evangelical Revival of the late 1730s and early 1740s. Dutton exhibited a mature brand of authorial power as a woman writer across three decades and more than sixty volumes of printed letters and religious treatises on topics that few women of her day dared to approach, cleverly redefining the limits of public and private spheres for women writers in her two defences of the right of women to publish. Dutton's writings laid the groundwork upon which dissenting women like Maria de Fleury and Mary Hays would build in the latter decades of the eighteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the study was to analyze the narratives of the Solidarity movement in upper-secondary level history textbooks, published between 1991 and 2018. Quantitative methods were used to measure different categories of historical figures in terms of their frequency and textual space, as well as any changes in representation over time. To explore the values and ideologies embedded in the textbook narratives of Solidarity, the study was guided by the qualitative approach and the critical discourse analysis of both verbal and visual texts. It seems that the content of the Polish history textbooks is not as susceptible to governmental and/or policy changes as initially assumed. Women consequently remain outside the historical narrative of Solidarity as a marginalized group. The study noticed oversimplification of historical and political complexity of Solidarity, with its major cost being the reproduction of socio-economic inequalities and gender stereotypes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technology has the potential to enhance learning; however, generic technocentric strategies in schools have exacerbated barriers to technology integration in the classroom. Teachers are key to successful technology integration in schools. Factors such as subject culture and pedagogy will affect teachers' willingness and ability to adopt technology in the classroom, yet subject-specific studies tend to focus on STEM subjects at the expense of the humanities. This mixed-methods study investigates technology use by teachers and pupils in the A-level history classroom in Northern Ireland, through the lens of Ertmer, P. 1999. "Addressing First- and Second-Order Barriers to Change: Strategies for Technology Integration." Educational Technology Research and Development 47 (4): 47–61 classification of barriers. A number of impediments to effective technology use in the classroom were identified and strategies to minimise these barriers are recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "International Law and the Politics of History" by Anne Orford explores the relationship between law and history, challenging the conventional narratives and methodologies used in legal and historical scholarship. Orford critiques the Cambridge School's approach to history and its influence on international legal scholarship, highlighting the importance of revisionist history in decolonizing narratives and empowering marginalized groups. The article emphasizes the significance of Indigenous perspectives in reshaping international law and history, particularly through the example of the Waitangi Tribunal in New Zealand. Ultimately, Orford calls for a more nuanced and inclusive conversation between international lawyers and historians to explore the political and methodological implications of engaging with the past in the context of international law. [Extracted from the article]

Thomas Hun (1808–1896)—along with his sons Edward (1842–1880) and Henry (1854–1924)—were prime movers in establishing the clinical practice and academic discipline of neurology in the Hudson River Valley of New York in the ninteenth and early-twentieth centuries. This article outlines the life of the family's semi-aristocratic patriarch, beginning with Thomas's unusual educational background and his six-year post-graduate hiatus in Paris of the 1830s, where he came under the influence of P. C. A. Louis (1787–1872). It lays out his subsequent career as professor of the Institutes of Medicine and ultimately as dean of an American medical school that was not situated in a major metropolis. It also will demonstrate how Thomas Hun's career as a medical practitioner, academician, neurophilosopher, and "proto-neurologist" recapitulates the evolution of clinical and academic neurology in nineteenth-century America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "International Law and the Politics of History" by Anne Orford explores the intersection of critical international law and intellectual history in the last two decades. It discusses the interdisciplinary engagement between these fields, highlighting the challenges and frictions that arose due to poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial critiques. Orford's monograph, "International Law and the Politics of History," provides a critical analysis of the relationship between international law and intellectual history, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of the political and epistemological underpinnings of scholarship. The article concludes by reflecting on the future of international legal history and the need for new intellectual coalitions that transcend disciplinary boundaries. [Extracted from the article]

The article traces and examines the history of some of the specimens used in teaching in Swedish secondary grammar schools from the mid-nineteenth century up until today. Previous research has focused on empirical analyses of teaching materials and school collections, while this paper adds new knowledge to the history of education using an object-biographic approach. Whilst focusing on the history of two distinct specimens, a bird and a small collection of butterflies, and how these were circulated and recontextualised, the paper raises wider questions about how different actors are involved as meanings and knowledge content change. Through the object-biographic approach, we show that the use of natural history objects was multifaceted and had several purposes at the same time, ranging from research to education to providing status or being a hobby. The use of natural history specimens changed with reforms of the Swedish educational system. New teaching materials and new educational ideals were developed, and from 1960 onwards the importance of these objects decreased. We show how the specimens have taken on new meanings today as selected and displayed museum objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the narration of China as a nation in history education in two regions – mainland China and Hong Kong – that share cultural roots but different socio-political contexts. Inductive analysis of data from junior-secondary Chinese history textbooks used in the regions in the late 2010s revealed that whereas mainland China's textbooks constructed China as a nation by stressing its constitutive territory and ethnic inclusiveness, Hong Kong's highlighted its constitutive ethnicity and changing territory, more frequently and directly narrated interethnic conflicts, and more explicitly promoted Han superiority. The study proposes constructing the nation in history education as a contextualised and socio-political exercise of reinterpreting the past to reflect current contexts and needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractAs an increasing number of states mandate or consider the incorporation of Asian American history into school curricula, educators and curriculum developers are actively responding to this growing demand. Recognizing the transnational nature of Asian American history and the explanatory power of Asian Critical (AsianCrit) Theory in addressing this complexity, I advocate for the pedagogical effectiveness of a human rights framework. This framework provides a valuable scaffold for students’ learning and the development of a transnational perspective. After reviewing multiple typologies of Human Rights Education, I propose that the C3 Inquiry framework offers a robust model for implementing Human Rights Education. This approach provides a comprehensive strategy for teaching about, through, and for human rights within the context of teaching and learning about Asian American history. To illustrate this approach, a sample unit plan focusing on key moments in Chinese American history is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the beginning, the peasantry has played a pivotal role in the making of the Turkish national identity. Throughout the century-long history of the Turkish nation-state, the status and significance of the peasantry have shifted in response to strategic and pragmatic changes in national, international, and oppositional politics. This article aims to trace the changing meanings of the peasantry in Turkish politics in accordance with the changing characteristics of the peasantry as a class element in Turkish capitalism. In doing so, we seek to explore how the real and imaginary meanings of the peasantry align or diverge from each other in a century-long period. For the first time, the article presents a comprehensive table that identifies key elements of this interaction across different periods spanning a century of Turkey's history. By elucidating the criteria that have influenced the peasantry's development as a social class and its definition within the broader societal framework over this extensive period, provoking new inquiries into the peasantry's enduring role as a dynamic force in contemporary Turkish society is anticipated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Anne Orford's book "International Law and the Politics of History," highlighting her critical approach to historical narratives in international law. Orford challenges the conventional framing of debates in international law, urging readers to question normative assumptions and engage with history in a politically aware manner. The article also explores the role of genealogy in historical inquiry, using examples from Orford's work and Samuel Moyn's book "The Last Utopia" to illustrate how genealogical approaches can disrupt established historical narratives and prompt critical reflection on present values. The author suggests that genealogy offers a politically engaged and presentist alternative to traditional historical methods, encouraging readers to reevaluate their understanding of history and its implications for contemporary legal practice. [Extracted from the article]

The article "International Law and the Politics of History" by Anne Orford explores the intersection of law and history in the context of international economic law. Orford delves into the debate between lawyers and historians regarding the proper methods of addressing the histories of international law, focusing on the role of historical argument in international legal disputes, particularly in the fields of trade and investment law. The article critiques Quinn Slobodian's work on neoliberalism and economic integration, highlighting the importance of historical narratives in shaping legal arguments. Orford calls for lawyers to responsibly engage with the past to make effective interventions in the present, drawing on the concept of the uncanny to emphasize the hidden histories that underpin legal practice. [Extracted from the article]

The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article explores how one Indonesian transgender population known as waria became the subject of various forms of research since the 1980s. Research was one way that waria came to be classified as part of the key population of “transgender people.” Drawing on an oral history project conducted in 2021/2022, we show how – while necessarily hierarchical – ethnographic accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can rethink fundamental global health concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Informed citizenship in the 21st Century requires individuals to be numerate. In Australia, all teachers are expected to attend to numeracy inherent in the subjects they teach. Many teachers, however, find this approach challenging and may not see potential benefits for subject learning. Drawing on lesson vignettes and post-lesson interviews, a conceptual approach based on Wenger's communities of practice was used to analyse the use of boundary objects by four secondary history teachers. Their use of boundary objects was categorised by their attention to the contextual and mathematical meanings of the artefact they used. Findings suggest that there is potential for teachers to concurrently enhance subject learning and develop students' numeracy capabilities if they attend to both the contextual and mathematical meanings of the boundary objects they use. Research is needed into how numeracy is addressed in curriculum pedagogy courses. One aspect worthy of investigation is how boundary objects can be used effectively in subjects across the curriculum to enhance subject learning and promote numeracy development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests have given renewed impetus to campaigns against racial inequality. In education, the issue of curriculum – and particularly the history curriculum – has been at the centre of campaigns to "decolonise the curriculum". While barriers to the teaching of "diverse" British histories in England's classrooms have long been recognised, relatively little research has been done on the crucial role of history teacher educators and teacher training in developing a diverse profession, practice, and curriculum. This paper seeks to address these gaps through analysis of interviews with history teacher educators, trainee history teachers and key stakeholders. In particular, it explores the responses of history teacher educators to recent calls for curriculum reform, charts how these demands for change have influenced thinking and practice in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in history and identifies ongoing challenges to the development of more inclusive curriculum and pedagogic practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "What is the History of International Law For?" published in the journal "Global Intellectual History" discusses the intersection of history, critique, and international law. The author explores the turn to history in international law since the 1990s and its implications for legal arguments. The article critiques the limitations of empiricist historiography in international law and the challenges of engaging with history in legal scholarship. It also examines the role of indigenous international law and the impact of genealogy as a method of critique in understanding international law. The author reflects on the changing landscape of international law and the need for scholars to adapt to new geopolitical and ecological conditions. [Extracted from the article]

This essay reviews three recently published books on the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance. In his survey of Italian humanism in the "long fifteenth century" (c. 1350–c. 1525) The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance, Christopher Celenza argues that the intellectual project of the humanists was centred on questions regarding language, philosophy, and the stance of the intellectual toward institutions. Celenza traces the fortunes and mutations of the humanist project into the modern era in The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Humanities, and expresses concern that in today's universities the balance struck by the humanists between "openness" and "boundary-generating habits" unduly favours the latter. Humanism, according to James Hankins's Virtue Politics, was primarily about repairing politics by first reforming the moral character of Italy's ruling elites. The language and literature of Roman and Greek antiquity provided the models for this education in virtue. Hankins believes the humanists' educational and cultural programme offers a salutary corrective to our misplaced, post-Machiavellian trust in legal constraints and constitutional guardrails to regulate contemporary political life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last couple of years, several interesting books which formulate a realist approach to history appeared. Their authors, Tor Egil Førland, Branko Mitrović and Adam Timmins, are very critical of what they conceive as a widespread constructivist tendency in philosophy of history and they argue for realist accounts instead. In my text, I focus specifically on the views of Timmins. After briefly introducing some of the key points presented in his book I explore constructivist understanding he opposes and some of the tenets of his realist understanding of history. I dispute his claim that constructivists maintain the past does not exist and I argue that his examination of one version of constructivism, irrealism defended by Paul Roth, is incorrect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The introduction to the theme issue on the Politics of Voluntariness in Modern History starts by discussing the origins and uses of the liberal discourse on voluntariness in the seventeenth century. It was during this period that philosophers and politicians began to present voluntariness as specific to liberalism. By the same token, voluntariness and authoritarian rule have been declared incompatible. This introduction and the papers in the theme issue critically discuss the exclusive linkage of voluntariness and liberalism – an interpretation that fails to capture authoritarian governing in its entirety, while ignoring compulsory and exclusionary practices in liberal societies. This theme issue shows voluntariness to be essential to policies and political practices in both liberal and illiberal societies. Political practices are at the core of our articles: amid a web of actors, institutions, discourses, and expectations, the individual means and capacity to act voluntarily, make choices, and overcome constraints are historically and socially variable. The introduction and the theme issue explore this variability to illuminate how voluntariness operates as a driving force for political practices in liberal and illiberal societies, drawing on case studies from German, Swiss, and U.S.-American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Where are Chinese Australians in Australian history? Australia's Chinese past is persistently framed as 'forgotten' in public debate, a perpetual newness which ignores forty years of scholarship in the field. Contemporary works on Sino-Australian relations proliferate, resurrecting Cold War mentalities but avoiding Australia's colonial history of Chinese migration and settlement. This article accounts for this forgetfulness while also drawing attention to a spate of recently unearthed Chinese-language sources written by Chinese Australians. These sources, newly translated, invite us to see Australia's past in a Chinese context, revealing a propensity in Australia to organise historical time along European lines, obscuring ties of causality between events in Asia and Australia. Multilingual archives challenge the primacy of English-language sources in the narration of Australia's past, humanising Chinese Australians and destabilising China as the proxy for Australian security fears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Despite recognition of the importance of genetic factors in the pathogenesis of MND and the increasing availability of genetic testing, testing practice remains highly variable. With the arrival of gene-targeted therapies there is a growing need to promptly identify actionable genetic results and patient death before receipt of results raises ethical dilemmas and limits access to novel therapies. Objective: To identify pathogenic mutations within a London tertiary MND center and their correlation with family history. To record waiting times for genetic results and deaths prior to receipt of results. Methods: In this series of 100 cases, genetic testing was offered to all patients with an MND diagnosis from the tertiary clinic. Data on demographics, disease progression and a detailed family history were taken. Time to receipt of genetic results and patient deaths prior to this were recorded. Results: Of the 97 patients who accepted testing a genetic cause was identified in 10%, including seven C9orf72 and two positive SOD1 cases. Only three patients with positive genetic findings had a family history of MND, although alternative neurological diagnoses and symptoms in the family were frequently reported. 14% of patients who underwent testing were deceased by the time results were received, including one actionable SOD1 case. Conclusions: Genetic testing should be made available to all patients who receive an MND diagnosis as family history alone is inadequate to identify potential familial cases. Time to receipt of results remains a significant issue due to the limited life expectancy following diagnosis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractExisting histories of behavioral and experimental economics (BE-XP) are primarily focused on its developments in the United States. While French economist Maurice Allais made significant contributions in the 1950s, the subsequent trajectory of BE-XP in France is understudied. This article addresses this gap by comparing the history of BE-XP in France to international trends previously identified in the literature. We find that, after an initial ambivalent influence from Allais, French BE-XP subsequently aligned with international trends. We nevertheless identify some distinctive national features in utility measurement and social preference modeling that are heterogeneously distributed across the French territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThe purpose of this study was to explore history teachers’ inclination toward the goals of teaching disciplinary history, active teaching methods, and their experiences with historical thinking skills during their college education and their classroom practices. The qualitative thematic analysis explores how secondary school history teachers’ beliefs and background knowledge about their subject matter influence classroom practices. It focuses on their conceptions of history and historical thinking, teaching goals, teaching methods, and instructional materials. The results revealed that teachers’ educational training and history courses significantly influence their disciplinary knowledge and teaching practices. In the quantitative phase, the findings reveal that the status of teacher experiences and efficacy with all the historical thinking skills indicators, namely, sourcing, contextualization, corroboration and explicit instruction, varies as revealed in the result section. To address this issue, the researchers suggested the need for teachers to update their professional development and incorporate historical thinking skills into classroom activities, fostering engagement and agency, and intensive training for in-service history teachers. In this preliminary phase, we use these exploratory findings and research on teachers’ conceptions of their discipline and practices of historical thinking skills to propose an interventional framework for teaching history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report provides an overview of the 17th meeting of the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group, held on Gadigal Country at the University of Sydney from 11 to 13 July 2024. The 2024 conference welcomed papers on diverse topics, but particularly encouraged contributions relating to possession and dispossession, housing histories and FIRE (Fire, Insurance, Real Estate). Over 60 papers were presented. The use of real estate, and the delineation of property as a tool of dispossession was a theme that ran through many of the papers, as was the unbuilt theme, which serendipitously threaded through presentations focused on many different cities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I reconceptualise some of the most general coordinates of the history of modern British aesthetics. My central claim is that a renewed grasp of the relationship between aesthetic sense theory and natural theology fundamentally alters our narrative of British writing on aesthetics, beauty and art. I trace an intellectual genealogy stretching from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, considering, among others, the work of Walter Charleton, Francis Hutcheson, Kames, William Paley and Thomas Chalmers. I argue that these authors can be understood in terms of a common teleological architecture I designate the ‘double teleological condition.’ In turn, I explore how commonly relayed accounts of the ascendency of associationist thought over aesthetic sense have failed to adequately capture the later philosophical interest of aesthetic sense theory. There was no eclipse of aesthetic sense, which continued to assert a profoundly important and innovative role through the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay utilises a series of oral history interviews conducted with women in West Belfast to consider the role of community nostalgia and transgenerational trauma within the post-accord landscape. It argues that nostalgia should not be dismissed as an unreliable assessor of historic communality and instead highlights its importance in understanding post-conflict community atomisation. Equally, it advocates for an understanding that nostalgic sentiments can co-exist alongside traumatic recollections and understandings of generational traumas. The simultaneous expression of these dichotomous feelings reveals the intricacies of women's collective remembrance, and the continued impact of historic traumas on present-day communities in West Belfast. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its now totemic constitutional status, Magna Carta is not explicitly mentioned in Shakespeare's history play of King John. King John has been interrogated by literary scholars for references to the charter and investigated by historians for potential oversight. Yet, often overlooked are the sporadic references to Magna Carta in nineteenth-century productions of the play. During the nineteenth century, Magna Carta's legal significance waned as clauses were removed from legislation. Its political purchase is well-documented, including its use by the Chartists, and its use in nationalist-based support for wars at the start and end of the century. What is often unheeded in legal scholarship, is the shifting cultural significance of the charter. A performance history of Shakespeare's King John exposes the different treatment of Magna Carta in productions of Shakespeare's play and related theatrical representations of the charter in popular melodrama and pantomimes in the nineteenth century. This paper uses archival material of theatre productions to interrogate the status of Magna Carta through a performance history of Shakespeare's King John in nineteenth-century London. Investigating the representations of Magna Carta in theatre productions offers a complex picture of the charter's place in the history of British constitutionalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reflects on the 75th issue of the South African Historical Journal, highlighting the evolution of the journal over time. It discusses changes in demographics, gender representation, and technical production, as well as the expansion of the journal's scope. The author also reflects on the contributions of past historians and the challenges faced in teaching history. The article emphasizes the importance of meticulous research and archival-based work in shaping historical narratives. [Extracted from the article]

The secular reforms the young Republic of Turkey launched during the interwar period were one of the most comprehensive modernization schemes in the world history. These extraordinary reforms have been considered as the sole maker of today's Turkey. The political histories, focusing on formal politics, mostly reduced the social opposition to secularism to a few well-known hapless protests and rebellions. This article, however, argues that modern Turkey was the culmination of a more complicated process in which popular opposition to these reforms also shaped politics. It reveals that the daily life of ordinary people, particularly in rural areas, was rife with the anti-secular voices and attitudes by exploring non-elite public spheres and popular discursive strategies though which anti-secular opinions and attitudes were produced and expressed. Rather than seeing them as a result of clash between secularism and religion, it emphasizes the socio-economic reasons that lead to people's negative response, primarily the loss of authority or economic advantages of some groups due to reforms. Finally this article offers that the roots of the Islamist politics of the following decades could be sought in this popular dissent, which subtly contested the secularism's hegemony in daily life during the early republic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alan Ward (1935–2014) delivered his inaugural professorial address at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, on 23 March 1988. Following his 1987 promotion to Professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1996, the lecture marked a milestone in his career, which to that point had included not only his influential study, A Show of Justice: Racial 'Amalgamation' in Nineteenth Century New Zealand (1974), but also important work on land reform in Papua New Guinea, the New Hebrides/Vanuatu, and New Caledonia. Some 35 years after its delivery and ten years after Ward's death, the Journal of Pacific History now publishes the lecture (as retrieved from his papers and transcribed by his daughter, Ingrid Ward) in its entirety. This introduction highlights key themes from the lecture in the context of Ward's career and subsequent publications that expanded on the issues raised in the speech. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eight responses, from India, Canada, the US, and Australia, highlight pedagogical issues that are raised in the essay 'Integrated Foundation Studio and Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago'. The comments includes questions of practicability, history of pedagogy, similar initiatives, and philosophic assumptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first year in art schools, academies, and departments is a perennial unsolved problem. The experiment we describe here reimagines the entire history and problematics of the foundation year all at once. Our proposal is that art history and studio instruction can be deconstructed and merged, producing a coherent first-year experience. The experiment we describe here is a collaboration between art history and studio art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in summer 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A group of middle school students, working with educators in Washington Heights, NYC, designed a school-wide oral history project as a strategy to enrich the cultural and socio-emotional well-being of our school. As part of New York State's required SEL intervention, we developed a Longitudinal Oral History Project, led by middle school students at S2, where we gathered peer-to-peer narratives about socio-emotional dynamics from middle schoolers growing up in working-class and immigrant households in times of pandemic and racial uprisings. The oral history protocol, the implementation of the interviews, the analysis, and the presentation of our results were youth-led, and compelling. Narrating rich and complex stories of joy, fear, courage, and care, our project centers the expertise of immigrant students of color, coming out of COVID-19 in the throes of early adolescence. The youth found great relief in discovering that their fears and anxieties were widespread and experienced a sense of power by influencing school policy with the compelling results of their inquiry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maps provide a valuable resource to historians and genealogists, but the neat rows of compact houses in the courtyard of the Queen Catherine pub in Ratcliff, home to four of my Irish great-great-grandparents, only hint at the living conditions of its occupants. This article draws together evidence from newspapers, archival sources, censuses, and other genealogical records to provide a conjectural reconstruction of Queen Catherine Court. The overdevelopment and overcrowding of the site resulted in it being declared unfit for human habitation in 1888, but owing to decades of laissez-faire ideology and fragmented local government, slum clearance and the provision of social housing in London had been beset by intractable problems. A flagship project of the London County Council, the Queen Catherine Court scheme was finally brought to completion in 1903 by Stepney Borough Council, marking a first in the capital's history of social housing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on Elpis Kesaratsian (1830–1913), the first Armenian female editor who founded and published the Guitar magazine (1861–63) but has been neglected in the field of Armenian history and culture studies for more than 160 years. This study sheds light on the geopolitical and historical contexts in Constantinople in the second half of the nineteenth century, the imperial censorship, the criticism regarding the magazine Guitar, the unbreakable will that the first Armenian female editor, who also acted as a writer, journalist, and translator, Elpis Kesaratsian was guided by throughout her life as a representative of a Christian national minority living in the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire. The many roles of Elpis Kesaratsian, including those of woman-editor, woman-publicist, woman-publisher, woman-book author, woman-translator, woman-lead nurse, woman-teacher that she fulfilled under the oppression and censorship of the Ottoman Empire, were revealed through investigative, biographical and comparative analyses. Our findings revealed that Elpis Kesaratsian's main goal was the improvement of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we explore contemporary regional development in a historic industrial region. Specifically, we unpack the influences of industrial history and culture, built up over several centuries, on contemporary regional development dynamics and issues. In doing so, we draw on an evolutionary perspective within economic geography and perspectives from deindustrialization studies to understand how the past shapes the present. We combine these with theories of agency to understand how key actors comprehend the industrial heritage of a place, and how this is incorporated into contemporary regional development efforts. We explore this combination of conceptual lenses through an in-depth case study of Karlskoga, in Sweden, one of the country's 'bruksorter' (mill towns) that grew up around the production of iron and steel, leading to it eventually becoming one of the largest arms manufacturing cities in Europe, home of the well-known Bofors company. However, all has not been plain sailing, and Karlskoga has experienced the challenges of de-population, industrial restructuring, and shocks to the sector upon which the town is reliant. By analysing these mixed fortunes we develop new insights into how regional development is intertwined with structural, institutional, and cultural industrial legacies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historians are in the business of engaging with actualities but also with possibilities, thinking and experiencing what we can be, what we may discern, and what we can sense and whence we come to understandings of the past. Just as the past may entail a number of actual and possible worlds that conform to our constructions, whether indexical or evaluative, similarly the possibilities of the future are 'pluriversal', multiple, interdependent, and 'globalising'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1928 the Yugoslav journal Radna Škola put forward the perplexing claim that James Liberty Tadd (1853–1917) was one of the most significant and influential American educators. Why was this otherwise unknown art educator put into transnational circulation as responsible for the perceived success of education in the United States? Following the 1898 publication of his magnum opus, New Methods in Education, Tadd enjoyed a modest international reputation, but he is little known today. Adopting an “entanglement” approach to global histories of education, this article focuses on the messy tangling together of different actors, devices, discourses, and practices involved in this transnational transit. The article argues that the most salient aspect of Tadd’s introduction to a Yugoslav educational public in the late 1920s is an educational approach that purported to be transformational in how it unlocked human potential. This is to view “potential” as an object that circulates in the world and to suggest that histories of education should include study of the ways that the uppermost possibility spaces of human experience have been understood in relation to education in different times and spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the gendered regulation of courtship by providing a legal history of the engagement ring across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Bringing the relationship between love, law, material culture and gender into dialogue, I use actions for breach of promise of marriage to trace the life path of the ring from the private world of romance to the moral theatre of law, examining how the ring functioned as tangible proof of contract, as a constraint on women's sexuality, as a legitimation of their sexual identities, and as compensation for economic losses suffered in consequences of a broken engagement. Rather than a top-down analysis of how the state orders intimate life, this is a study of the vernacular life of law: of why people began imbuing rings with legal significance and how courts came to accept their reasoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faculty-led no-confidence votes against college presidents have increased over the past decade. These votes often aim to create conditions that lead to the president’s departure. In this study, I used event history analysis to investigate the influence of faculty-led no-confidence votes on the tenure of college presidents. The analysis reveals that nearly 70% of presidents leave their positions within four semesters of a no-confidence vote. The study further explores the influence of various factors, including institutional and presidential characteristics, on the likelihood of presidential departure after no-confidence votes. The results indicate that student enrollment size is the only significant predictor, with smaller institutions more likely to experience leadership turnover following a vote. The study concludes that no-confidence votes are a powerful tool for facilitating presidential change across diverse institutional types. These findings have important implications for faculty governance bodies and boards of trustees, highlighting the need for strategic planning in response to such votes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historical fiction has long been one of television's most prominent genres. It was not until the advent of streaming TV in the 21st century, however, that the genre reached its radical feminist potential. Written, directed, produced by and starring women, contemporary women's historical fiction has exploded as both a marketable and an ideological genre. Three series - Good Girls Revolt (Amazon, 2016), Mrs. America (Hulu, 2020), and Halt and Catch Fire (AMC, 2014–17)—exemplify women's challenge to the orthodoxy of male-driven historical fiction. These three shows not only reclaim women's 20th Century American histories, but they also refute accepted conceptualizations of the genre and of History itself. Through circular storytelling, the blending of fact and fiction, and new female archetypes, these three series narrate coherent and consistent women's histories heretofore missing in popular memory. From this foundation, these series discuss, debate, and fantasize about women's lived experiences in the past, as well as commenting on the present and dreaming about the future of women's lives and desires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This discussion paper is presented to be read in three simultaneous and different modalities. At one level, it is a historiography of British Bengali women's labour power and hence an exploration of the historical constraints that vis-a-vis appear as a natural logical consequence but on closer examination performed as part of a broader structure of inequality. At another level, it intervenes, utilising the theoretical lens of Pierre Bourdieu's 'thinking tools' to inform an awareness that does not pathologize, but instead reads against the constructed layers of assumptions to foreground the social conditions that appear as social structures in diminishing Bengali women's labour power. Finally, the discussion expands the site of analysis, arguing under Sunni orthodoxy based upon the recitation, women have significant labour rights, moreover those rights have diminished in Bangladesh. At the same time, in Britain, social conditions have superseded religious limitations that have benefitted British Bengali women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pastoral station is an under-examined location space in Australia’s screen history. Using the case study of Belmont Station in far west NSW and focusing specifically on the production of television advertisements in the 1980s−1990s, this article proposes the pastoral station as a popular filming location for Australian ‘outback’ imaginaries. Furthermore, I argue that the station has embedded environmental and spatial histories that have enabled it to develop as a film-friendly screen infrastructure. Firstly, the article proposes a new approach to screen studies in Australia that draws from media infrastructures and environmental history to address previously unknown screen production histories. The article then introduces the pastoral station in line with the reoccurring aesthetics of the ‘outback’ imaginary. Finally, it examines how the environmental affordances of the station such as geography, property holdings, and in-house labour ensured a film-friendly location space. Reflecting on environmental histories, it reveals how land degradation caused by settler-colonial industries has shaped the geophysical environment, and how this has in turn shaped the ‘outback’ imaginary. Overall, the article purports that by examining how screen production is co-produced by humans and non-humans, new screen histories are illuminated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the idea of distant reading and explores the ways in which it can be conducted in research. It focuses especially on how distant reading can contribute to the study of cultural history, which is often regarded as a domain of close reading. The article argues that distant reading methods can successfully be applied in the analysis of cultural transmission in the past, where it is often essential to combine the study of textual signification with the idea of textuality as material flow. The article draws on an example from press history and especially discusses text reuse detection as a strategy for identifying textual amplification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]