Sheryllynne Haggerty starts Leverhulme Fellowship
November 20, 2019
This year, courtesy of support from a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, Dr. Sheryllynne Haggerty will be working on a new monograph tentatively titled “Merchants and Managers; Sojourners and Slaves.” Her goal is to produce the first in-depth examination of the lives of ordinary Jamaican people at the start of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). A rare …
David Robinson’s new article on the mutual constitution of European and Imperial history
October 20, 2019
This month, we highlight David Robinson’s article, “Morals, Manners, and Marriage: Domestic Discourse in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- century Italy and Britain,” which appeared in the January issue of the Journal of British Identities. David writes: “this paper has emerged from my PhD research, which compares British travel accounts of India with those of Italy, from around …
Deserters from the British Civil Wars
January 18, 2019
Historians have long been interested in the huge numbers of vagrants who trod the roads of early modern England, David Appleby writes, and whether the ‘rogue’ literature of the time genuinely reflected (or incited) a widespread panic about such travellers. Their enquiries have fed into a wider debate which seeks to understand how communities grappled …
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