Past and Present Newsletter May 2025
Featuring the latest articles from the Past & Present journal and news and updates including events funded by the Past and Present Society.
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Issue No. 267 (May 2025)
The Political Economy of Seigneurial Lordship in Flanders, c.1250–1570
by Frederik Buylaert , Thijs Lambrecht , Klaas Van Gelder , Kaat Cappelle, pp. 3 - 47 (open access)
Shaking Hands and the Politics of Touch in Early Modern England
by John Walter, pp. 48 - 79 (open access)
‘Pirates’, Potentates, and Merchant Petitioning in the Early Nineteenth Century Straits Settlements
by Scott Connors, pp. 80 - 114 (open access)
Jewish Networks Between The Persian Gulf and Palestine, 1820–1914
by Eirik Kvindesland, pp. 115 - 153 (open access)
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914
by Luke Blaxill , Gidon Cohen , Gary Hutchison , Patrick M Kuhn , Nick Vivyan pp. 154 - 210 (open access)
Saving, Inheritance and Future-Making in 1940s Kenya
by Christian Velasco , Justin Willis, pp. 211 - 241 (open access)
Agricultural Workers, Tenant Farmers, and the Midcentury U.S. Welfare State: A View from the Lower Mississippi Valley
by Samantha Iyer, pp. 242 - 275
AIDS and the End of the Soviet Union
by Siobhán Hearne, pp. 276 - 309 (open access)
Latest advance access articles
Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England
by Tom Johnson (open access)
Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain
by Karolina Hutková , Ernesto Dal Bó , Lukas Leucht , Noam Yuchtman (open access)
Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism
by Stephen G. Gross
Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947
by Partha Pratim Shil (open access)
Society news and funded events
Upcoming funded events
Registration and programme for “Trans Sainthood in Translation, ca. 400–1500”
22 - 23 May 2025, German Historical Institute London, general attendance via Zoom
Programme and registration for “Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain”
10 - 11 June 2025, Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick
Programme and Registration for “The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India”
3 - 4 July 2025, Jenny Lind Building, University of Worcester
Programme and Registration for “How Sciences End”
11 - 12 July 2025, Radcliffe Humanities Building, University of Oxford
Reflections upon recent funded events
Reflections Upon Governing the Global Economy in the Twentieth Century
by Robert Yee
Unpacking Jewish Dis/Connections: A Mediterranean Journey of Memory, Identity, and Mobility
by Dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah
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