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IHR Conference Series
Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and beyond
Medieval Londoners
edited by Jack Daniel Webb, Roderick Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen and William Tantam
Essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline Barron Edited by Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer
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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
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Medieval Londoners: Essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline M. Barron Edited by Elizabeth A. New and Christian Steer IHR Conference Series
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978-1-908857-65-1 (pb), 220pp, £25
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978-1-908857-66-8 (epub), £20
978-1-912702-14-5 (hb), 400pp, £40
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978-1-912702-17-6 (epub), £32
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February 2020
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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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October 2019
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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Civilian Specialists at War: The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War the British Public, Christopher Phillips 1932–53 Edward Owens
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RHS New Historical Perspectives Series
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978-1-909646-94-0 (hb), 444pp, £50
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May 2020
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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. 4
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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Cinemas and CinemaGoing in the United Kingdom: Decades of Decline, 1945–65 Sam Manning RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-912702-34-3 (hb), 250pp, £50 978-1-912702-35-0 (pb), 250pp, £35 978-1-912702-38-1 (epub), £20 978-1-912702-37-4 (Kindle), £20 978-1-912702-36-7 (PDF) 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. sas.ac.uk/publications
Masculinity on the Grand Tour Sarah Goldsmith RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-909646-94-0 (hb), 300pp, £50 978-1-909646-98-8 (pb), 300pp, £35 978-1-909646-96-4 (epub), £20 978-1-912702-24-4 (Kindle), £20 978-1-912702-25-1 (PDF) November 2020
The Grand Tour, a customary trip of 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.
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Glasgow’s Sugar Aristocracy in the BritishAtlantic world, 1776-1838 Stephen Mullen RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-909646-77-3 (hb), 300pp, £50 978-1-912702-33-6 (pb), 300pp, £35 978-1-909646-93-3 (epub), £20 978-1-909646-78-0 (PDF) November 2020
The wealth generated both directly and indirectly by Caribbean slavery had a major impact on Glasgow and Scotland. Glasgow’s Sugar Aristocracy is the first book to directly assess the size, nature and effects of this. West India merchants and plantation owners based in Glasgow made nationally significant fortunes, some of which boosted Scottish capitalism, as well as the temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands. This book adds much needed nuance to the argument in a Scottish context; revealing methods of repatriating wealth from the Caribbean as well as mercantile investments in industry, banking and land and philanthropic initiatives.
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Individuals and Institutions in Medieval Scholasticism Edited by Antonia Fitzpatrick and John Sabapathy RHS New Historical Perspectives Series Institute of Historical Research Available Open Access 978-1-912702-26-8 (hb), 300pp, £50 978-1-912702-27-5 (pb), 300pp, £35 978-1-912702-28-2 (epub), £20 978-1-912702-29-9 (Kindle), £20 978-1-912702-30-5 (PDF) May 2020
How did intellectuals shape their institutions and how were their institutions shaped by them in return? The 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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Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) Refashioning history for the twentieth century Edited by Caroline A. Barron and Joel T. Rosenthal
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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Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America Edited by Linda Newson
A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism? Debating the Legacy of the Sandinista Revolution
Institute of Latin American Studies
Edited by Hilary Francis
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978-1-908857-62-0 (pb), 350pp, £25
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May 2020
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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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February 2020
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
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Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Creative spaces: urban culture and marginality in Latin America
Edited by Peter Wade, James Scorer and Ignacio Aguilo
Edited by Niall H.D. Geraghty and Adriana Laura Massidda
Institute of Latin American Studies
Institute of Latin American Studies
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978‑1‑908857‑55‑2 (pb), 232pp, £25
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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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May 2019
Latin American cities are some of the most densely populated in the world. How have the fringes of these bustling cityscapes produced and informed art, film, political organisations and urban policy? Originally viewed as spaces of deprivation and violence, the urban margins were later romanticised as spaces of opportunity and popular empowerment. These sites now constitute an important part of the collective imaginary like never before. The essays in this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and assess the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The volume draws on research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, ranging from cultural and urban studies to architecture and sociology. 9
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Unweaving The Odyssey: Barbara Köhler’s Niemands Frau
Urban Microcosms (1789–1940) Edited by Margit Dirscherl and Astrid Köhler
Rebecca May Johnson
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978‑0‑85457‑266‑3 (pb), 282pp, £25
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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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July 2019
Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department stores, are typically located in city centres. Others, such as parks, are less quintessentially metropolitan, whilst harbours or beaches are often located on the peripheries of cities or outside them altogether. All are part of a network of nodes establishing connections in and beyond the city. Together, they shape and inflect the infrastructure of modern life. By introducing the concept of urban microcosm into social, cultural, and literary studies, this interdisciplinary volume challenges the widely held assumption that city life is evenly spread across its spaces. Sixteen case studies focus on selected urban microcosms from across Europe between 1789 and 1940, and examine the external appearance, representation, histories, and internal rules of these organizational structures and facilities. In so doing, they contribute to an understanding of modernity, and of the impact of the dynamics of urban life on human experience and intersubjectivity.
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Women and the Law Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett
Legal Records at Risk: Women and the Law A strategy for Safeguarding Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett OBserving Law our Legal Heritage Clare Cowling OBserving Law 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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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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The Victoria History of Herefordshire: Colwall
The Victoria History of Shropshire: Wem
James Bowen
Judith Ann Everard and James Bowen
VCH Shorts
VCH Shorts
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Institute of Historical Research
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978-1-912702-08-4 (pb), 190pp, £16
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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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The township of Wem lies on the North Shropshire Plain, about nine miles north of Shrewsbury. The centre of a much larger medieval manor and parish, the township consists of the small medieval market town and its immediate rural hinterland. It was thrust onto the national stage in 1642 when Parliamentarians defeated a Royalist attack and held the town for the duration of the Civil War. The ‘great fire’ of 1677 then destroyed most of the medieval buildings in the town centre, leading to its predominantly Georgian and Victorian appearance today. The decline in agricultural employment and the withdrawal of services and industries from small market towns like Wem in recent decades is a challenge, met by the advantage of the railway station to residents who work elsewhere but choose the town as a place to live.
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HARWICH, DOVERCOURT AND PARKESTON IN THE 19TH CENTURY Andrew Senter
Andrew Senter
The Victoria History of Essex: Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston in the 19th century Andrew Senter
Thou Shalt Forget: indigenous sovereignty, resistance and the production of cultural oblivion in Canada
VCH Shorts
Pierrot Ross-Tremblay
Institute of Historical Research
Human Rights Consortium
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The book provides an overview of the development of areas such as education, religion, public health with a strong focus on Harwich’s maritime history. The borough of Harwich, including the parish of Dovercourt, lies in the far north east corner of Essex. Its coastal location as a natural harbour at the mouth of the Orwell river dictated that Harwich had a prominent role as a port and naval base from the 14th century onwards. In the 19th century Harwich retained its military function, particularly during the Napoleonic and Crimean wars. The port declined economically as a result of losing the continental packet service in the 1830s, but it was rejuvenated by the opening of the railway in 1854. Dovercourt grew as a residential area and seaside resort in the second half of the 19th century, although the rest of the parish retained much of its traditional agricultural character.
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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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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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The Afterlife of Apuleius Edited by C. Boidin, R. Mouren and O. Pedeflous BICS Supplement 140 Institute of Classical Studies 978-1-905670-88-8 (hb), 230pp, £70 April 2020
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 fifteenth 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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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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Warburg Institute
978‑1‑908590‑54-1 (pb), 316pp, £45 January 2018
Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The 12 papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the 11th century AD). One central theme is the Arabic reception of Greek figures who worked on medicine or medical topics, including Hippocrates, Aristotle and Galen. Several of the luminaries of philosophy in the early Islamic world are also studied, including Abū Bakr al-Rāzī, al-Fārābī, and Avicenna. Conversely, the volume also includes research on the use of philosophical ideas in medical authors, including Άlī ibn Ridwān. Attention is also given to the connections between medicine and Islamic theology (kalām). As a whole, the book provides both a survey of the kinds of work being done in this relatively unexplored area, and a springboard for further research.
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The concept of the book: the production, progression and dissemination of information
Radical collections: re-examining the roots of collections, practices and information professions
Edited by Cynthia Johnson
Edited by Jordan Landes and Richard Espley
Institute of English Studies
Senate House Library
978-0-9927257-4-7 (pb), 158pp, £25
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January 2019
978-1-913002-00-8 (pb), 120pp, £15
What is the purpose and essence of a book? If we push the definition of a ‘book’ beyond the traditional form of the codex to encompass cuneiform tablets, papyri, as well as the printed and digital book, we discover that its functionality is as potent and diverse as human endeavour. Featuring contributors from a wide range of disciplines such as art history, medieval studies, ancient Near Eastern history, information management and the history of the book, this ambitious new release explores the biography of the concept of the book, and its function across millennia.
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?
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Envisioning global LGBT human rights: (neo) colonialism, neoliberalism, 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. sas.ac.uk/publications
We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture Edited by David Dabydeen, Maria del Pilar 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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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 Reviews in History Published by the Institute of Historical Research ISSN: 1749-8155 www.history.ac.uk/reviews 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 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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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 offices 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
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Book Launch
Induction Week 27 September 2019 , 10–3pm
Windrush Voices: Memories and Performances across the Generations
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16 November, 2-4pm
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Pop-up Bookshop 2–11 December 2019, Tuesday–Saturday, 10–3pm (closed for lunch 1pm)
Join us for the launch of Memory, Migration & (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean & Beyond published under the Institute of Latin American Studies imprint.
Classics Library foyer, 3rd floor, Senate House Exhibition
‘ Small may be beautiful, but it isn’t particularly easy’: A Pocket History of the Athlone Press 28 November–13 December 2019 Room 101, 1st floor, Senate House Did you know the University of London has a long and fascinating publishing history dating back to 1908? Athlone Press was The University of London’s publishing house between 1948 before its untimely closure in 1978.
Told through moving oral history, this free event is being held in collaboration with the Being Human Festival to celebrate the Windrush legacy. Join speakers including Dr Lez Henry (University of West London), Mr Gee (poet and radio presenter) and Lainy Malkani (BBC writer and broadcaster) in conversation with Joyce Trotman on her experiences of migrating from Guyana and teaching in London’s East End during the 1960s. To RSVP, please see the Being Human website: https://beinghumanfestival.org/
It boasted ground-breaking and radical authors, such as art historian Ernst Gombrich and pioneering female astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gasposchkin. Come and visit our free winter exhibition to find out more.
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