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Lionel Munby, Marxism, and Local History
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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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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The Vice-governor in the system of the administrative elite of steppe regions in the West Siberian and Steppe General-Governorships in the second half of the XIX–beginning of XX century [PDF]
The article analyzes the position of Vice-governor in the system of administrative elite of Akmola, Semipalatinsk and Semirechensk regions of the Russian Empire.
E. I. Mikhailenko
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Abstract In 1683, Edward Massey, an obscure office‐holder in Braintree, Essex, provided the state with one of the most explosive accounts of conspiratorial activities in England during the so‐called ‘Exclusion Crisis’. Massey, a prisoner in the King's Bench, named dozens of individuals in his native Essex, as well as the West Country and London, who ...
EDWARD LEGON
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Who in the world are the Heruli?1
The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity.
Salvatore Liccardo
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Problèmes méthodologiques de la transmission des savoirs scientifiques et techniques d'hier et d'aujourd'hui La Section du XIXe siècle du CHAN apporte son concours au séminaire du Centre de recherche en histoire des sciences et des techniques ...
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Interrogating diversity: Feminism and the destructuration of Australian board appointment practices
Abstract Research Question/Issue How have social movements influenced the diversity of Australian corporate leadership? Although board diversity is crucial for corporate governance, the research in this topic is bifurcated between studies examining interlocking directorates and the presence of boardroom gender diversity.
Claire Wright +3 more
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Prosobab is an open access, online prosopography of Babylonia (c. 620–330 BCE) with information on some 21,000 persons attested in 5000 cuneiform tablets. We have extracted all the Prosobab data from a database dump and converted it into two formats that
Heidi Jauhiainen, Tero Alstola
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As eleições e o perfil social das vereações de Penela na Época Moderna (1640-1834)
This article aims to analyze the social profile of Penela’s municipal officers, to evaluate the changes that occurred between 1640 and 1834 and to observe its articulation with the ruling electoral systems.
Cristóvão Mata
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The Norwich Exile Community and the Dutch Revolt
Abstract A recent trend in historiography on the Dutch Revolt is to examine the role of transnational networks and how the positions and practices that exiles developed outside the Low Countries contributed to the Revolt and helped to shape the confessional landscape of the emerging Dutch Republic.
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
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