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Text and Topos: British Travellers to Real‐and‐Imagined Classical Sites, c. 1560–1820

History, Volume 110, Issue 393, Page 588-605, December 2025.
Abstract Early‐modern British travellers to the Mediterranean often understood their journeys through the lens of classical texts and culture. Historians sometimes explain this as an imaginative phenomenon: travellers’ preconceptions shaped by classical knowledge guided their subsequent comprehension and activity.
PAUL STOCK
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The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 509-524, December 2025.
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as
Mascha Hansen
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Exploring Orientalism and Moral Ambiguity in William Beckford’s Vathek

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
William Beckford's Vathek (1786) is a significant piece in the Orientalist literary genre. It combines beautiful Eastern art with deep questions about morality and the mind.
Abbas Jaafar Mutar
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Becoming Religious as an Education of Attention

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 279-290, September 2025.
ABSTRACT A vast literature in the social scientific study of religion demonstrates that religious people are made not born. More specifically, researchers have shown that becoming religious is something that people must learn how to do. Adding to this well‐established focus on the socialization of religious subjects, I argue that becoming religious ...
Daniel Winchester
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 561-575, July 2025.
Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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PART I: THE STORY

, 2022
Parliamentary History, Volume 41, Issue S1, Page 1-163, October 2022.
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“Lost in Flowers & Foolery”: A Gendered Reading of the 9th Earl of Devon’s Flower Watercolors

Arts
William Courtenay, 3rd Viscount Courtenay and 9th Earl of Devon (1768–1835), has been most remembered for his romantic relationship with author and slave owner, William Beckford (1760–1844), which scandalized London society in 1784. However, the 9th Earl’
James Thomas Stewart
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Serving Colony, Christ, and Country: The Political Career of Levinus Keuchenius*

Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 126-145, February 2025.
Abstract This article explores the career of Levinus Keuchenius to elaborate on how democratic governance lay at the heart of negotiating imperial power, as well as who belonged in the Dutch political community. Throughout his career, Keuchenius balanced being a colonial expert with his faith as orthodox Calvinist.
Lauren Lauret
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War Captivity as a Contact Zone: The Case of British Prisoners of War on Parole in Napoleonic France

History, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 488-520, December 2024.
Abstract The existing scholarship on Napoleonic captivity tends to focus on French prisoners of war held in Britain at the time. This article seeks to help redress this gap by drawing upon a range of English and French sources to investigate how British captives on parole experienced displacement in Napoleonic France during up to eleven years of their ...
ELODIE DUCHÉ
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