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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.
Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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The Amazon Refashioned: Théroigne's Riding Habit and Women's Political Uniforms in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1793

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 125-148, March 2025.
Abstract This article examines the dress of female civic rights activist Théroigne de Méricourt and its political significance in Revolutionary Paris. The first section discusses the symbolism of her iconic scarlet riding habit. The second section explores the role of equestrian fashions in Théroigne's strategy of self‐fashioning as a political actor ...
Valerio Zanetti
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Shorter treatise on creed by the Syrian Jacobite enlightener John Ibn al-Ghurayr in the National library of Russia [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
The article examines a shorter treatise of Anti-Calvinist orientation about the confession (especially on the Eucharist) compiled on the 1st of October, AD 1671, by the outstanding guardian of written heritage of the Syrian Jacobite community of Damascus
Serge Frantsouzoff
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Allan's A‐list: The Subscription List to Allan Ramsay's Poems of 1721

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 3-28, March 2025.
Abstract The new and first complete edition of the works of Allan Ramsay (1684–1758) in six volumes is beginning to draw renewed attention towards this important poet. This essay examines one of the key unexamined puzzles of his career: how an Edinburgh wigmaker apparently without any advantage of birth and connexions succeeded in gathering an ...
Murray Pittock
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Catherine Hutton's Travel Diary (1779)

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 47-70, March 2025.
Abstract The only diary the author Catherine Hutton (1756–1846) is known to have kept is her travel diary, written in 1779 at the age of 23, in which she describes staying with various members of her extended family and friends while travelling around the Midlands.
Anna Baula, Mark Philp
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Anglo–Dutch financial connections and contrasts in the late eighteenth century: The Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 credit crisis

The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 152-178, February 2025.
Abstract We examine the Amsterdam phase of the 1772–3 financial crisis using the British experience in the same episode as comparative context. We conclude that, notwithstanding some direct exposures by Amsterdam institutions to the principals of the London crisis, the main linkage between the two outbreaks was the requirement for cash margin on loans ...
Stein Berre, Paul Kosmetatos
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François Coppée’s Les Jacobites (1885). A Play Within a Large Network of Scottophilia, Ossianophilia and Celtophilia

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Picturesque and sublime Scotland, enhanced by legendary narratives, travel stories and tales of all kinds, has attracted and fascinated poets and artists for centuries.
Danièle Berton-Charrière
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Introduction: Exile and Innovation☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 8-25, February 2025.
Abstract The early modern period was an age marked by the forced migration and displacement of social groups and individuals around the world. Huguenots, conversos, Catholics, cavaliers, Jacobites, and French emigrés alike fled or were expelled from their homes and communities.
Annalisa Nicholson, Christophe Gillain
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Exile in Barbary: English‐speaking expatriates, biblical theology, and mercantile ethics in the seventeenth‐century Maghreb☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 81-103, February 2025.
Abstract During the seventeenth century, thousands of English‐speaking Protestants went to the Maghreb as captives, diplomats, traders, and travellers. Distant from the guiding and controlling hands of monopoly trading companies and the established churches, and placed under various pressures by non‐Christian neighbours, colleagues, and captors, these ...
Nat Cutter
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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History

History, Volume 110, Issue 389, Page 88-111, January 2025.
Abstract A member of the Communist Party for thirty‐four years, and a key participant in the post‐War Communist Party Historians’ Group, Lionel Munby (1918–2009) is not among that Group's best‐known historians. Yet arguably he was more typical of its membership and outlook.
MARK GOLDIE
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