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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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Understanding Muhammad\u27s Interaction with the Church [PDF]
, 2018 My research focuses on understanding Muhammad’s (the Islamic prophet) interaction with what he perceived to be the Christian church to find out why his understanding of Biblical narratives and theology is incorrect.
Narde, Devonte
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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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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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Scotland has always been a mongrel nation of healthy curiosities and zombie priorities [PDF]
, 2016 No abstract ...
Riach, Alan
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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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The myths of the South Sea Bubble [PDF]
, 2002 The South Sea Bubble of 1720 looms large in popular depictions of eighteenth-century Britain. But in many respects it is seriously misunderstood. This article begins by exploring mythic ‘facts’ about the events of 1720, but is also concerned to explore ...
Hoppit, J.
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 4, Page 345-363, December 2024.Abstract Through the prism of Voltaire's letters on the Quakers (1733) and John Boyle's riposte in his preface to Father Brumoy's The Greek Theatre (1759), some Shakespeare criticism of the period is shown to have drawn on issues of religious controversy, in this case, Methodist enthusiasm, to formulate some of the principal tenets of fledgling ...
Jonathan P.A. Sell
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