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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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On Not Being Stuck: Changing Humanities in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century Britain: The Lorna Sage Lecture, 2025

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Helen Small
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 497-514, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890

Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 554-566, July 2026.
ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood.
Gabrielle McCoy
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Thinking of Melastomataceae: Revisiting Humboldt and Bonpland's Monographie des Melastomacées (1806–1823) from a historical perspective

TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract During their voyage to the Americas (1799–1804), Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland described and collected American flora, fauna, minerals and other objects. After returning to Europe, they published several works, including Monographie des Melastomacées, initiated by Bonpland to classify this complex botanical family.
Marina Ramos de Azevedo, Leopoldo C. Baratto   +1 more
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 2, Page 179-194, June 2026.
Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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Трудности перевода и локализации с древнерусского языка на материале книги «Достовѣрныя извѣстiя о Альжиръ» 1787 Difficulties of translation and localization from Old Russian based on the book "Reliable Information about Algeria" 1787

Langues & Cultures
Аннотация: Данная статья посвящена изучению трудностей перевода и локализации знаний из древнерусского языка XVIII века, который радикально отличается от современного русского языка как в способе письма, так и в частичной семантике слов.
Мохамед Рашид Милуд
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Dog Training, Keeping and Selection around 1300, Using the Example of Albertus Magnus and Petrus de Crescentiis. [PDF]

Animals (Basel), 2023
Krause H, Ganslosser U, Hohlfeld NM.
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A Tale of Enduring Myths: Buffon's Theory of Animal Degeneration and the Regeneration of Domesticated Animals in Mid-19th Century Brazil. [PDF]

J Hist Biol, 2023
Penteado DFM.
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