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Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and beyond edited by Jack Daniel Webb, Roderick Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam
INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Unite, Proletarian Brothers! Memory, Migration and Radicalism and Revolution (De)colonisation in the in the Spanish Second Caribbean and Beyond Republic Edited by Jack Daniel Webb, Roderick Westmaas, Matthew Kerry RHS New Historical Perspectives Series
Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Historical Research
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In October 1934 the northern Spanish region of Asturias was the scene of the most important outburst of revolution in Europe between the early 1920s and the Spanish Civil War. Thousands of left-wing militants took up arms and fought the Spanish army in the streets of Oviedo while in the rear-guard, committees proclaimed a revolutionary dawn. After two weeks, however, the insurrection was crushed. Weaving together a range of everyday disputes and arenas of conflict, from tenant activism to strikes, boycotts to political violence, Unite, Proletarian Brothers! sheds new light on the long-debated process of ‘radicalisation’ during the Second Republic, as well as the wider questions of protest, revolutionary politics and social and political conflict in interwar Europe. sas.ac.uk/publications
February 2020
Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation furthers our understanding of the lives of migrants, and the contexts through which they lived and continue to live. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. The chapters in this book range across disciplines and time periods to present a vibrant understanding of the ever-changing interactions between Caribbean peoples and colonialism as they migrated within and between colonial contexts. At the heart of this book are the voices of Caribbean migrants themselves, whose critical reflections on their experiences of migration and decolonisation are interwoven with the essays of academics and activists.
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Masculinity on the Grand Tour Sarah Goldsmith RHS New Historical Perspectives
Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism
Institute of Historical Research
Edited by Antonia Fitzpatrick and John Sabapathy
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November 2020
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The Grand Tour, a customary trip around Europe undertaken by British nobility and landed gentry during the 17th and 18th centuries, played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining testimony written by Grand Tourists, tutors and their families, Goldsmith demonstrates that the Grand Tour educated elite young men in a wide variety of skills, virtues and masculine behaviours that extended well beyond polite society. Influenced by aristocratic concepts of honour and inspired by military leadership, elites viewed experiences of danger and hardship as powerfully transformative and therefore central to the construction of masculinity. Grand Tourists willingly tackled a variety of geographical and physical perils, scaling mountains, volcanoes and glaciers, and encountering war and disease. 4
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How did intellectuals shape their institutions and how were their institutions shaped by them in return? This volume explores the relationship between individuals and institutions in medieval scholasticism between the 12th and 15th centuries, and is intended as an important reference point for future debates on these topics, principally for medieval historians while also raising questions relevant to those working on individualisation and institutionalisation in other periods and disciplines.
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Civilian Specialists at War: Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War Christopher Phillips
Cinemas and CinemaGoing in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65
RHS New Historical Perspectives
Sam Manning
Institute of Historical Research
RHS New Historical Perspectives
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April 2020
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The evolving professional relationship between Britain’s transport experts and the military, both in peacetime and during the war, demonstrates the complex and innovative ways in which the army conceptualised industrial warfare and the role played by technical expertise in such a conflict. Civilian Specialists at War demonstrates the pioneering management techniques of a force engaged in coalition warfare on foreign soil, and sheds new light on the multiple and diverse contributions of Britain’s transport experts between 1914 and 1918.
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March 2020
Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the 20th century, with UK cinema attendance peaking in 1946 at some 1.6 billion recorded admissions. During the 1950s, a range of factors including the growth of television, led to a rapid decline in attendance. By the mid 1960s, attendances plummeted to 327 million and many cinemas shut their doors. This book traces these decades of decline, assessing cinema-going habits, the reasons for declining admissions, the opening and closure of cinemas, exhibition practices, programming and audience preferences. It emphasises the localised nature of cinema-going and argues that place was as great a determinant of cinema-going practices as other factors such as age, class and gender. 5
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The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932–53
Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline M. Barron
Edward Owens
Edited by Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer
RHS New Historical Perspectives
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The Family Firm presents the first major historical analysis of the transformation of the royal household’s public relations strategy in the period 1932–53. Beginning with King George V’s first Christmas broadcast, Buckingham Palace worked with the Church of England and the media to initiate a new phase in the House of Windsor’s approach to publicity. This book also focuses on audience reception by exploring how British readers, listeners and viewers made sense of royalty’s new media image. It argues that the monarchy’s deliberate elevation of a more informal and familycentred image strengthened the relationship between the public and the royals, and had a unifying effect on national life in the unstable years during and either side of the Second World War. 6
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Medieval Londoners were a diverse group, some born in the city, and others drawn to the capital from across the realm and from overseas. For some, London became the sole focus of their lives, while others retained or developed networks and loyalties that spread far and wide. The rich evidence for the medieval city, including archaeological and documentary evidence, means that the study of London and its inhabitants remains a vibrant field. Medieval Londoners brings together archaeologists, historians, art historians and literary scholars whose essays provide glimpses of medieval Londoners in all their variety.
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Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929): Refashioning History for the Twentieth Century Edited by Caroline Barron and Joel Rosenthal IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-909646-99-5 (hb), 346pp, £40 978-1-912702-02-2 (epub), £32 978-1-912702-32-9 (Kindle), £32 978-1-912702-03-9 (PDF) September 2019
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) was arguably the most prolific English medieval historian of the early 20th century. The son of an unsuccessful publican, he was described at his Oxford scholarship exam as ‘uncouth and untidy’; however he went on to publish hundreds of books throughout his distinguished career with a legacy that extended well beyond the academy. Tout pioneered the use of archival research, welcomed women into academia and augmented the University of Manchester’s growing reputation for pioneering research. This book presents the first full assessment of Tout’s life and work. Selected essays take a fresh and critical look at Tout’s own historical writing and discuss how his research shaped our understanding of the middle ages. The book concludes with a personal reflection on Tout by his grandson, Tom Sharp. sas.ac.uk/publications
Empty Spaces: Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History Edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating IHR Conference Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-909646-49-0 (hb), 232pp, £40 978-1-909646-50-6 (epub), £32 978-1-909646-51-3 (Kindle), £32 978-1-909646-52-0 (PDF) September 2019
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history.
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Revisiting the FalklandsMalvinas Question: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa Institute of Latin American Studies Available Open Access 978-1-908857-56-9 (pb), 232pp, £25 December 2020
Almost forty years after the Falklands, the causes and consequences of the military conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 still reverberate in a sea of feverish memory. Every aspect of the archipelago that makes up the Falkland/ Malvinas Islands (including its very name) is surrounded by complexities, controversies and antagonisms. This book combines approaches from history, political science, sociology and cultural studies, defined in a broad sense. It includes testimony from war veterans and exiles, essays on the films of Julio Cardoso, Argentine nationalism and patriotism as witnessed in contemporary literature and pedagogy. Through taking different perspectives, which cut across each other and dialogue, it moves beyond traditional approaches to the conflict based on nationalism, geopolitics or military achievements to a more expansive discussion.
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Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America Edited by Linda Newson Institute of Latin American Studies Available Open Access 978-1-908857-62-0 (pb), 350pp, £25 978-1-908857-74-3 (epub), £20 978-1-908857-73-6 (Kindle), £20 978-1-908857-75-0 (PDF) April 2020
The Jesuits’ colonial legacy in Latin America is well known. They pioneered an interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made significant contributions to the development of science and medicine. On their estates and in the missions they introduced new plants, livestock, and agricultural techniques, such as irrigation. In addition, they left a lasting legacy on the region’s architecture, art and music. The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. This volume is unique in considering not only the range of Jesuit activities but also the diversity of perspectives from which they may be approached. It includes papers from scholars of history, linguistics, religion, art, architecture, cartography, music, medicine and science.
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A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? Cultures of Anti-Racism Debating the Legacy of the in Latin America and the Sandinista Revolution Caribbean Edited by Hilary Francis Institute of Latin American Studies
Edited by Peter Wade, James Scorer and Ignacio Aguilo
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February 2020
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Nicaragua sees lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with its neighbours. In recent years, child migrants from Central America have arrived in the United States in unprecedented numbers. But whereas minors from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador make the perilous journey to the north, their Nicaraguan peers have remained in Central America. Why is Nicaragua so different? The present government has promulgated a discourse of Nicaraguan exceptionalism, arguing that Nicaragua is unique thanks to the heritage of the 1979 Sandinista revolution. This volume critically interrogates that claim, asking whether the legacy of the revolution is truly exceptional. An interdisciplinary work, the book brings together historians, anthropologists and sociologists to explore the multifarious ways in which the revolutionary past continues to shape public policy – and daily life – in Nicaragua’s tumultuous present. sas.ac.uk/publications
October 2019
Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film and art in diverse national contexts across the region. The book also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations within a broader global context and sets out the premise that the region provides valuable opportunities for thinking about anti-racism when recent political events have made ever more fragile the claims that, at least in Europe and the United States, we exist in a ‘post-racial’ world.
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‘Something for my Native Town’: Recent Discoveries and New Direction in the R.E. Hart Collection
Possible Worlds: Jorge Luis Borges’s (Pseudo-) Translations of Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka
Edited by Cynthia Johnson
Rebecca DeWald
Institute of English Studies
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Institute of Modern Languages Research
December 2020
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Based on a major exhibition at Two Temple Place in London, ‘Something for my Native Town’: Recent Discoveries and New Direction in the R.E. Hart Collection celebrates one of the finest collections of manuscripts and rare books in the north west of England. Leading scholars from the fields of the history of art, and the history of the book, examine anew the internationally important manuscripts and rare printed books in Hart’s collection, and the practice of collecting itself in the context of the waning of the industrial revolution. Copiously illustrated with colour prints, this volume marks R.E. Hart’s achievement as a collector who collected for himself, and for his community in posterity.
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December 2020
This volume re-evaluates and overturns the assumed hierarchical relationship between original text and translation via an approach that places source and target texts as equal. Combining the translation strategy of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the theoretical approaches of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, and the exponents of Possible World Theory, the author examines Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Franz Kafka’s short stories in detail. Rather than considering what may be lost in translation, this study focuses on why we insist on maintaining a border between the textual phenomena ‘translation’ and ‘original’ and argues for a mutually enriching dialogue between a text and its translation.
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Literature as Intervention: Challenging Normativity in the Writing of Elisabeth Reichert, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek Cornelia Wech Bithell Series of Dissertations 48 Institute of Modern Languages Research 978-0-85457-271-7 (hb), 260pp, £20 August 2020
This study examines how the literary works of Elisabeth Reichart, Charlotte Roche and Elfriede Jelinek challenge normativity both in their engagement with gender and sexuality and with aesthetic choices. The comparative analysis of texts published over a twentyyear period provides insights into the sociopolitical and cultural dynamics at the time of publication. It reveals the continuing relevance of feminist authorial voices to the present day, challenging the stable, normative understanding of feminism and feminist writing itself, and showing how literature can function as a form of intervention that provides a reflective space for readers to question norms in their own lives and to take the initiative to change these norms.
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Unweaving The Odyssey: Barbara Köhler’s Niemands Frau Rebecca May Johnson Bithell Series of Dissertations 47 Institute of Modern Languages Research 978-0-85457-270-0 (hb), 260pp, £20 September 2019
How has classical literature shaped culture, knowledge, the thinkable? What happens when a canonical text is translated from his gaze into her, and their, gaze(s)? These are some of the questions Barbara Köhler pursues in her modern epic poem, Niemands Frau (2007), her response to The Odyssey. This study presents the first detailed analysis of Köhler’s poem, tracing the ways in which she reinvents Homer’s text, from the claim that Niemands Frau is a form of ‘translation’ to its complex re-workings of the Homeric figures Penelope, Helen of Troy, Tiresias and Odysseus.
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A Matter of Trust: Building Integrity into Data, Statistics and Records to Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals Anne Thurston Institute of Commonwealth Studies Available Open Access 978-1-912250-34-9 (pb), 300pp, £30 978-1-912250-35-6 (PDF) December 2020
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative has the potential to ensure a future that works for everyone, from issues such as climate change, economic inequality, innovation, to sustainable consumption & peace and justice. However, each goal presents considerable challenges in terms of collecting and analysing relevant data and producing the statistics needed to measure progress. Using case studies, this book explores the challenges in assembling reliable data to address pressing development challenges.
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Mapping Crisis: Participation, Datafication and Humanitarianism in the Age of Digital Mapping Doug Specht Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-33-2 (pb), 230pp, £30 978-1-912250-37-0 (epub), £30 978-1-912250-36-3 (Kindle), £30 December 2020
The digital age throws questions of representation, participation and humanitarianism back to the fore, as machine learning, algorithms and big data centres take over the process of mapping the subjugated and subaltern. This book questions whether, as we map crises, it is the map itself that is in crisis. This book brings together critical perspectives on the role that mapping people, knowledges and data now plays in humanitarian work, both in cartographic terms and through data visualisations. Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of the poor, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around these issues, the representation of people remains questionable.
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International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa Kurt Mills Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-32-5 (pb), 322pp, £15 January 2020
Since the end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations, genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes—mass atrocities—have been explicitly illegal. When such crimes are committed, the international community has an obligation to respond: the human rights of the victims outweigh the sovereignty claims of states that engage in or allow such human rights violations. This obligation has come to be known as the responsibility to protect. In International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa, Mills develops a typology of responses to mass atrocities, investigates the limitations of these responses, and calls for such responses to be implemented in a more timely and thoughtful manner. Mills considers four cases of international responses to mass atrocities— in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and Darfur—putting the cases into historical context and analysing them according to the typology, showing how the responses interact.
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Thou Shalt Forget: Indigenous Sovereignty, Resistance and the Production of Cultural Oblivion in Canada Pierrot Ross-Tremblay Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-09-7 (pb), 264pp, £25 November 2019
What is ‘cultural oblivion’ and ‘psychological colonialism’, and how have they affected the capacity of First Nation Peoples in Canada to actively resist systematic and territorial oppression by the state? Following a decade-long research project, this new book by Pierrot Ross-Tremblay examines the erasure of the author’s own community, the Essipiunnuat, and their cultural history and heritage from Canadian public consciousness. Using extensive oral history, he conducts a genealogy of the intergenerational silence and subsequent forgetting of an uprising known as the Salmon War that occurred in the 1980s. The book queries how this impacted upon the group’s collective consent and emancipation.
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Themes in Plato, Aristotle, The Afterlife of Apuleius and Hellenistic Philosophy: Edited by C. Boidin, R. Mouren and F. Bistagne BICS Supplement 141 Keeling Lectures 2011–18 Edited by Fiona Leigh Keeling Memorial Lecture Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-905670-90-1 (hb), 250pp, £65 June 2020
The present volume collects together papers from the prestigious annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given between 2011–18. Susanne Bobzein argues that Frege plagiarised the Stoics in respect of logic, Gail Fine compares uses of doxa and episteme in the Phaedo to contemporary notions of belief and knowledge, David Sedley offers a novel interpretation of ‘safe’ causal explanation in the Phaedo, and Gábor Betegh understands the ingredients of the soul in the Timaeus. Dorothea Frede presents new considerations against a ‘particularist’ reading of Aristotle’s ethics, Lesley Brown examines the role of agreement in establishing what is just and the correctness of names in Plato, and Gisela Striker gives an analysis of the role of Stoic therapy in the good life. A. A. Long details a new reading of divinity in the Republic that reveals the Good as the essence of the divine, and Malcolm Schofield explores the tension between unfettered theoretical debate and the demand of determinacy in practical philosophy in Cicero.
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Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection of essays is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, linguistics and philology, within a wide geographical scope. The first part of the book focuses on The Golden Ass and its historical and geographical diffusion, from High Medieval Europe to early modern Mexico. The oriental connections of the book are also taken into account. The second part of the book examines the textual and visual destiny of Psyche’s story from the Apuleian fabula to allegorical retellings, in poetical or philosophical books and on stage. As the third series of essays indicates, the fortunes of the book led many ancient and early modern writers and translators to use it as a canonical model for reflections about the status of fiction. It also became, mostly around the beginning of the 15th century, a major linguistic and stylistic reference for lexicographers and neo-Latin writers: the last papers of the book deal with Renaissance polemics about ‘Apuleianism’ and the role of editors and commentators.
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The Afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides Edited by John North and Peter Mack BICS Supplement 139 Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-905670-88-8 (hb), 186pp, £70 December 2019
Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides the Athenian were the two most famous and earliest (fifth century BCE) of the Greek historians whose work survives; their subject was the wars between the Greek cities and the Persian Empire and later those between the Greek cities themselves. This book seeks to explore the reception of their writings from the Byzantine era until today, following the ups and downs of their scholarly reputations. Herodotus has at times been much despised and only recently reassessed and taken more seriously. Thucydides has been more consistently revered, even if sometimes thought narrow and boring. Today, he still attracts readers from disciplines far from the classical world. The essays in this collection range from Sir Walter Ralegh’s History of the World and Isaac Newton’s Chronology to the coming of narratology.
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Greek Large-Scale Bronze Statuary: The Late Archaic and Classical Periods Edited by Kosmas Dafas BICS Supplement 138 Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-905670-67-3 (hb), 400pp, £100 June 2019
This book presents a new study of Greek large-scale bronze statuary of the late Archaic and Classical periods. It examines the discovery, origin, style, date, artistic attribution, identification and interpretation of the surviving bronzes, and focuses in particular on their technical features and casting techniques. It contains over 170 plates of photographs and drawings to illustrate its discussion. It also places the development of the casting techniques in connection with the stylistic evolution in Greek free-standing sculpture. During the Classical period, artists preferred bronze to marble when creating their contrapposto figures. Indisputably, bronze gave particular freedom to artists in creating three-dimensional figures. Through the examination of how technical matters affect style, this book presents fresh interpretations of these important monuments of Greek art and offers a new approach in the field of Greek free-standing bronze sculpture.
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Three Lectures on Leonardo Pseudo-Galenica: The by Aby Warburg & edited by Joseph Spooner, Formation of the Galenic Eckart Marchand and Bill Sherman Corpus from Antiquity to Warburg Institute the Renaissance 978-1-908590-93-0 (pb), 60pp, £10 February 2020
Aby Warburg delivered his Lectures on Leonardo in 1899 to introduce himself as a young art historian and private scholar to the wider public in his hometown Hamburg. One hundred and twenty years later, the Warburg Institute in London publishes these texts for the first time to mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death. Fully illustrated and translated into English, the lectures give an insight into Warburg as a public speaker, concerned with conveying a complex visual argument to a non-specialist audience. Using state-of-the-art projection technologies and drawing on recent publications, Warburg discussed Leonardo’s artistic development in three steps: his training and early years in Florence, work at the Sforza court in Milan, and final years in Florence and France.
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Edited by Caroline Petit, Simon Swain and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer Warburg Institute Colloquia 34 Warburg Institute 978-1-908590-57-2 (pb), 256pp, £47 April 2020
The works of Galen of Pergamum (c. 129–216 CE) were fundamental in the shaping of medicine, philosophy and neighbouring areas of knowledge, from antiquity through to the middle ages and early modern times, across a variety of languages and cultures. Yet, as early as Galen’s own lifetime, spurious treatises crept into the body of his authentic works, in spite of his best efforts to provide the public with a catalogue of his own production (De libris propriis). For centuries, readers have used a fluid body of Galenic works, shaped by changing intellectual frameworks and social-cultural contexts. Several inauthentic works have enjoyed remarkable popularity. But this has had consequences in modern scholarship. The current reference edition (Kühn, 1821–1833) fails to distinguish clearly between authentic and inauthentic texts; many works lack any critical study, which makes navigating the corpus unusually difficult.
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This volume, containing the revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Warburg Institute in June 2012, addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. This and other related concepts conventionally assigned to the sceptical tradition are identified and explored in the activity of scholars and editors, whose varying degree of philosophical awareness does not detract from the significance of their ways of conceiving, or coping with, textual uncertainty. The methods of the history of ideas and of classical scholarship are combined in an effort to bring out the methodological assumptions of specific philological projects, editorial strategies and technical devices, as well as to track their possible overlap and interplay with patterns of thought revolving around notions such as uncertainty and conjectural knowledge. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in-depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual transmission, and relevant editorial problems, of Seneca and Lucretius, to explorations of larger debates in the area of biblical philology, with special attention paid to key figures such as Patrick Young, Richard Bentley and Anthony Collins.
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The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought Edited by Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye
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The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version Edited by W. F. Ryan and Moshe Taube Warburg Studies and Texts 7 Warburg Institute 978-1-908590-73-2 (pb), 544pp, £52.65 December 2019
The original Arabic Secret of Secrets was probably compiled from multiple sources, and dates from about the tenth century. It purports to be the advice of Aristotle to his pupil Alexander the Great on all the knowledge – political, ethical, military, medical, and occult – needed by a great king. It was translated into Latin, Hebrew, and many European languages. It has been described as one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idiosyncratic version contains major interpolations: a physiognomy by Razes and treatises on poison, sex, and asthma by Maimonides. It is known to have been in the libraries of at least two tsars and two patriarchs in the 16th and 17th centuries. This annotated edition contains a historical introduction, the text, manuscript variants, an analytical glossary, and an English translation.
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The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought Edited by Gian Mario Cao, Anthony Grafton and Jill Kraye Warburg Institute Colloquia 33 Warburg Institute 978-1-908590-56-5 (pb), 245pp, £41.60 November 2019
This volume, containing revised and expanded versions of eight papers originally presented at the workshop The Marriage of Philology and Scepticism: Uncertainty and Conjecture in Early Modern Scholarship and Thought held at the Warburg Institute in June 2012, addresses the question of uncertainty in early modern scholarship and thought. The eight papers confront an array of problems, texts, scholars and intellectual contexts, from introductory assessments of the nature of Greek scepticism, particularly in its relation to ancient grammar and medieval thought, to in-depth analyses of the semantic family of uncertainty, as well as of the notion of divination; from case studies of the textual transmission, and relevant editorial problems, of Seneca and Lucretius, to explorations of larger debates in the area of biblical philology, with special attention paid to key figures such as Patrick Young, Richard Bentley and Anthony Collins.
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Books
IBSTOCK Pamela J. Fisher
Pamela J. Fisher
w w w. v i c t or i a c ou nt y h i s t or y. a c . u k
the victoria history of leicestershire
IBSTOCK
The river Trent at King’s Mills
The Victoria County History series of paperback parish and urban histories aims to bring local research to publication as swiftly as possible, and to inspire readers to get involved with VCH ventures in their own localities. Each history makes a new contribution to the Victoria County History, which was founded in 1899 and is recognised as the greatest publishing project in local history.
The parish of Castle Donington in northwest Leicestershire lies on the south bank of the river Trent, 20 miles north-west of Leicester and 8 miles south-east of Derby. A nucleated village developed on the present site more than 1,000 years ago. A castle was built in the 1150s, and several features of a town soon developed, including a market, fair and hospital. Secondary settlements grew up alongside the Trent, by the King’s Mills and at Cavendish Bridge, the site of an important medieval ferry. Donington Park, which originated in the early 13th century as a hunting park, became a separate estate of the earls of Huntingdon in the late 16th century. Later history has been shaped by strong religious nonconformity and the growth and then decline of traditional industries in the 18th and 19th centuries. Modern transport links, including East Midlands Airport in the south of the parish, have delivered new employment opportunities. Castle Donington in the early 21st century is thriving. Many people travel in daily to work, and thousands more visit the motor-racing circuit at Donington Park and other leisure attractions each year, yet few know of the parish’s rich history. This book, the first in the Leicestershire VCH series since 1964, examines the changing patterns of landscape, landownership, working lives, social structure and religious worship in Castle Donington over the last thousand years, and includes the settlements at King’s Mills and Cavendish Bridge. It will be of interest to local residents, visitors, family and local historians.
The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Colwall
The Victoria History of Leicestershire: Ibstock
James Bowen
Pamela J. Fisher
VCH Shorts
VCH Shorts
Institute of Historical Research
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978-1-912702-07-7 (pb), 116pp, £14
978-1-912702-46-6 (pb), 190pp, £14
978-1-912702-44-2 (epub), £11
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978-1-912702-43-5 (Kindle), £11
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Colwall lies on the western slopes of the Malvern Hills, near the market town of Ledbury. The large village comprises Colwall Stone, Upper Colwall and Colwall Green. On the Herefordshire Beacon, in the south-eastern corner of the parish, is the Iron Age ‘British Camp’. Until the 19th century Colwall’s economy was predominantly agricultural, including cultivation of orchards and hops. From the mid 19th century the northern part of the parish was transformed by the development of the spa at neighbouring Malvern, and by the arrival of the railway in 1861, following the construction of tunnels under the Malvern Hills by local engineer Stephen Ballard. Mineral water from Colwall springs was bottled commercially, and in 1892 Schweppes opened a bottling plant at Colwall Stone. Colwall’s rural location, natural springs and beautiful scenery attracted visitors to the numerous inns, hotels and boarding houses.
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Ibstock is a large village 15 miles north-west of Leicester and the subject of the third VCH Short from Leicestershire. Ibstock’s character changed dramatically in the later 19th century, when the coal deposits beneath Ibstock began to be exploited. Two collieries were sunk within the parish, in 1825 and 1873, ushering in a period of rapid population growth. This was accompanied by the growth of Nonconformity, and the establishment of numerous sports teams, clubs and other societies, some encouraged by Ibstock’s Anglican, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, Wesleyan Methodist and Wesleyan Reform ministers. The former colliery brickworks continued, and Ibstock Brick, based in the parish, was one of Britain’s largest brickmakers in the early 21st century. The mines have since closed, and much of the undermined farmland has been planted with young trees from the 1990s, to become part of the National Forest.
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Books
The Clinical Legal Education Handbook Ediedt by Linden Thomas and Nick Johnson OBserving Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-16-1 (pb), 422pp, £40 978-1-911507-17-8 (PDF) May 2020
The Clinical Legal Education Handbook is intended to act as a good-practice guide and practical resource for those engaged in the design and delivery of clinical legal education programmes at university law schools. The Handbook is primarily aimed at clinics in England and Wales, but is likely to have content that is of interest to those engaged in clinics in other jurisdictions. The Handbook will offer direction on how to establish and run student law clinics and will set out guidance on both the pedagogical and regulatory considerations involved in the delivery of clinical programmes. It will also provide an introduction to the existing body of research and scholarship on Clinical Legal Education (CLE).
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Legal Records at Risk: A Strategy for Safeguarding our Legal Heritage Clare Cowling Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-14-7 (pb), 422pp, £40 978-1-911507-15-4 (PDF) September 2019
Why do so few institutions in the legal sector have professional records managers or archivists on their staff ? This book is the culmination of a three-year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales. It summarises the work of the Legal Records at Risk project and its predecessors, diagnoses the problems of preservation of archives in the legal sector in England and Wales and outlines a national strategy for such records.
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Featured publications
We Mark Your Memory: Envisioning Global LGBT Writings from the Human Rights: (Neo) colonialism, Neoliberalism, Descendants of Indenture Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar Resistance and Hope Edited by Nancy Nicol, Adrian Jjuuko, Richard Lusimbo, Nick Mulé, Susan Ursel, et al. Human Rights Consortium Institute of Commonwealth Studies Available Open Access 978-0-9931102-3-8 (pb), 370pp, £25 978-1-912250-16-5 (Kindle), £20 978-0-9931102-8-3 (PDF)
September 2018 Envisioning global LGBT human rights is an outcome of a five-year international collaboration among partners that share a common legacy of British colonial laws that criminalise same-sex intimacy and gender identity/expression. The chapters are bursting with invaluable first-hand insights from leading activists at the forefront of some of the most fiercely fought battlegrounds of contemporary sexual politics in India, the Caribbean and Africa. Authors from Canada, Botswana and Kenya examine key turning points in the advancement of SOGI issues at the United Nations, and provide critical insights on LGBT asylum in Canada. It is a book for activists and academics in a range of disciplines from postcolonial and sexualities studies to filmmaking, as well as for policy-makers and practitioners committed to envisioning, and working for, a better future. 20
Kaladeen and Tina K. Ramnarine
Institute of Commonwealth Studies 978-1-912250-07-3 (pb), 212pp, £11.99 978-1-912250-08-0 (epub), £8 April 2018
Indenture, whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony, was open to abuse from recruitment to plantation. Hidden within this little-known system of 19th- and early 20th-century labour migration are neglected stories of exploited and unfree labour under the British Empire. These include indentured histories from Madeira to the Caribbean, from West Africa to the Caribbean, and from China to the Caribbean, Mauritius and South Africa. To mark the centenary of indenture’s abolition in the British Empire (2017–20) this volume brings together, for the first time, new writing from across the Commonwealth and beyond. It is a unique and important attempt to explore, through the medium of poetry and prose, the indentured heritage of the 21st century.
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Featured publications
Women and the Law Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett
Women and the Law Susan Atkins and Brenda Hale OBserving Law Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Available Open Access 978-1-911507-10-9 (pb), 275pp, £25 978-1-911507-11-6 (epub), £15 978-1-911507-13-0 (Kindle), £15 978-1-911507-12-3 (PDF) September 2018
First published in 1984, Women and the law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. The authors examine the origins of British law’s attitude to women, trace the development of the law and ways in which it reflects the influence of economic, social and political forces and the dominance of men. They illustrate that, despite formal measures, deep-rooted problems of encoded gender inequality remain. This edition provides a timely opportunity to revisit their groundbreaking analysis and reflect on how much has changed, and how much has stayed the same.
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Radical Collections: Re-examining the Roots of Collections, Practices and Information Professions Edited by Jordan Landes and Richard Espley Senate House Library Available Open Access 978-1-913002-00-8 (pb), 120pp, £15 978-1-913002-03-9 (epub), £8 978-1-913002-02-2 (Kindle), £8 978-1-913002-01-5 (PDF) December 2018
Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge? Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling ‘radical collections’ – from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow – but a reexamination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue. This book brings together some key papers from a conference held at Senate House Library in 2017. It shines a light on pressing topical issues in library and information services to encompass selection, appraisal and accession, through to organisation and classification. Will libraries survive neoliberal marketisation? Do we have a responsibility to collect and document ‘white hate’ in the era of Trump? And how can a predominantly white LIS workforce effectively collect and tell POC histories? 21
Journals
The School of Advanced Study and its nine institutes publish a range of journals. Below you can find a list of journals and more information about how to access them. Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Published by Oxford University Press for the Institute of Classical Studies Print ISSN: 0076-0730 Online ISSN: 2041-5370 https://academic.oup.com/bics Institute of Historical Research Historical Research Published by Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research ISSN: 1468-2281 https://academic.oup.com/histres Reviews in History Published by the Institute of Historical Research ISSN: 1749-8155 www.history.ac.uk/reviews Warburg Institute Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes Published by The Warburg Institute Print ISSN: 0075-4390 Online: 2044-0014 www.ingentaconnect.com/content/warburg/jwci Institute of Modern Languages Research Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies Published by Brill/Rodopi in association with the Institute of Modern Languages Research ISSN: 1388-3720 www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=EXILE Journal of Romance Studies Published by Liverpool University Press in association with the Institute of Modern Languages Research ISSN: 1473-3536 http://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/jrs
Institute of English Studies Yeats Annual Published by Open Book Publishers in association with the Institute of English Studies ISSN: 0278-7687 www.ies.sas.ac.uk/publications/yeats-annual Institute of Latin American Studies Journal of Latin American Studies Published by Cambridge University Press, with editorial oďŹƒces at the Institute of Latin American Studies ISSN: 0022-216X www.cambridge.org/LAS Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Digital Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review Published by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ISSN: 2054-8508 journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr IALS Student Law Review Published by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ISSN: 2053-7646 Amicus Curiae: Journal of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies Published by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ISSN: 1461-2097 journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus European Journal of Law Reform Published by Eleven International Publishing in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies ISSN: 1387-2370
Francosphères Published by Liverpool University Press in association with the Institute of Modern Languages Research Print ISSN: 2046-3820 Online ISSN: 2046-3839 https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/loi/ franc
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Book Launches
Book Sale
Monarchy and the media: panel on ‘The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public’
British Association for Local History Local History Day 2020
27 February, 6–7:30pm
IHR Wolfson Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House
IHR Wolfson Suite, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House Join us for the launch of The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media & the British Public (2019) by Dr Edward Owens. We will be discussing key events in modern Royal Family history, from Edward VIII’s abdication to Meghan and Harry. How has the Royal Family handled increasing public scrutiny over the past 100 years? Dr Edward Owens, Professor Heather Jones (University College London), Professor Philip Williamson (Durham University) and Professor Jo Fox (IHR, SAS) discuss.
Events
The University of London Press hosts pop-up bookshops, events, talks and exhibitions throughout the academic year. Join us for some key events in spring 2020.
6 June, 10:15am-3pm
Join Professor Catherine Clarke, head of the new Centre for People, Places and Community (SAS) to ask the question ‘What is Local History?’. During the break there will be a discounted book sale and then the BALH Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Andrew Hopper, from the Centre for English Local History (University of Leicester), who will consider the ‘human costs of the British civil wars’.
Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean 4 May, 6–7:30pm G34, Senate House In an era of intensified racial injustice, what can Latin America and the Caribbean show us about discourses and practices of anti-racism? Join Peter Wade (Manchester), Nadia Mosquera (SAS), David Treece (King’s College) and guest speakers.
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