Journal of British Studies
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Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
📢New in JBS!
📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner
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📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England - Volume 64
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October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England" by Grace Owen, A.T. Brown and Tudor Skinner
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 Call for Contributions 📢
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”
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New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
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The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Lost Pillar of British Political Culture: Black Constructions of British Fascism, 1930s–1970s - Volume 64
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October 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
New article out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. It's gestation began in late 2021, shortly before I started my current job teaching Black British history. It's the product of my frustrations with the way that the histories of racism & fascism in Britain are written about.
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
📢New in JBS!
📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England - Volume 64
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October 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"What is Family in an Age of Plague? The Liber Lynne and the Urban Family in Late Medieval England" by Christian D. Liddy
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🎥ICYMI
A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel.
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A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntne...
How I Wrote This with Matthew Worley
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September 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🎥ICYMI
A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntne...
A full recording of our "How I Wrote This," event with Matthew Worley is now available on our Youtube channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntne...
Join us for our second virtual discussion of "How I Wrote This". Matthew Worley will discuss his experience writing and revising "Past! Future! In Extreme!: Looking for Meaning in the 'New Romantics,' 1978-1982."
📅September 19
⏰11am ET/ 4pm BST
RSVP below
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📅September 19
⏰11am ET/ 4pm BST
RSVP below
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How I Wrote This with Matthew Worley | NACBS
Join the NACBS and the Journal of British Studies for our second virtual discussion of “How I Wrote This”. In this one-hour session, we invite an author who has published a successful and popular arti...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Join us for our second virtual discussion of "How I Wrote This". Matthew Worley will discuss his experience writing and revising "Past! Future! In Extreme!: Looking for Meaning in the 'New Romantics,' 1978-1982."
📅September 19
⏰11am ET/ 4pm BST
RSVP below
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📅September 19
⏰11am ET/ 4pm BST
RSVP below
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⬇️ So excited that this is out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social & OPEN ACCESS!
Exhibition "trophies" (a design style, not what the winner got!) have become invisible to most people who study the great world’s fairs. This is not surprising, since few people have studied them!
Exhibition "trophies" (a design style, not what the winner got!) have become invisible to most people who study the great world’s fairs. This is not surprising, since few people have studied them!
📢New in JBS!
📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
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📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
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Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power - Volume 64
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August 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
⬇️ So excited that this is out in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social & OPEN ACCESS!
Exhibition "trophies" (a design style, not what the winner got!) have become invisible to most people who study the great world’s fairs. This is not surprising, since few people have studied them!
Exhibition "trophies" (a design style, not what the winner got!) have become invisible to most people who study the great world’s fairs. This is not surprising, since few people have studied them!
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Carolyn Steedman’s recent article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, “Buying People is Wrong,” ended with an imagined coda from the kitchen. In this piece for Broadsides, Steedman explores the potential real-life inspirations for her servant’s voice.
Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...
Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...
September 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Carolyn Steedman’s recent article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, “Buying People is Wrong,” ended with an imagined coda from the kitchen. In this piece for Broadsides, Steedman explores the potential real-life inspirations for her servant’s voice.
Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...
Read the piece here: www.nacbs.org/post/a-real-...
📢New in JBS!
📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power - Volume 64
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August 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
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📗"Capturing the World: Exhibition Trophies, Ethnography, and Displays of Imperial Power" by Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social
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📢The latest batch of JBS book reviews is out now! Check out the full list at the link below.
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August 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
📢The latest batch of JBS book reviews is out now! Check out the full list at the link below.
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Just opened the @royalhistsoc.org newsletter & invite to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Sept seminar "How I Wrote This"
Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes
Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes
August 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Just opened the @royalhistsoc.org newsletter & invite to @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Sept seminar "How I Wrote This"
Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes
Now petitioning for all Friday meeting invites to come with a playlist, cocktail & frappé recipes
📢New in JBS!
📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page
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📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page
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“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 - Volume 64
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July 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page
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📗“A Bold Experiment in the Technique of Administration”: Nutrition Science and Development in the Gambia, 1946–50 by Arnaud Page
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📢New in JBS!
📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall
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📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall
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In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain - Volume 64
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July 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📢New in JBS!
📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall
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📗In Search of Ned: A Zulu Man in Mid-Victorian Britain by R.J. Knight and Esme Cleall
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📢New in JBS!
Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.
Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.
July 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
📢New in JBS!
Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.
Two new additions to our One British Archive series, exploring little-known archives of interest to scholars of British Studies. We hope that this series will expand what counts as “British” and what counts as an “archive” at a moment when the field should be adapting and expanding.
📢New in JBS!
In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective.
📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong"
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In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective.
📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Buying People Is Wrong | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Buying People Is Wrong - Volume 64
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July 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📢New in JBS!
In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective.
📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In our new Unfinished Business series, JBS editors invite scholars to revisit their earlier work in light of new scholarship and from a fresh perspective.
📗Carolyn Steedman kicks of the series with "Buying People Is Wrong"
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Urnings, in Ireland and Illinois
"It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life."
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June 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“It is only by searching far and wide, and stitching many queer fragments back together, that we can create new and often hopeful tapestries of local queer life.”
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
Next up in our #Pride month series @tomhulme.bsky.social discusses unexpected archival paths for investigating queer history.
📢JBS Hiring Book Reviews Editorial Assistants 📢
The Book Reviews Team at the Journal of British Studies seeks to hire two editorial assistants - one in Medieval Britain and one in post-1800 Britain.
Read more about the positions and application here:
www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-boo...
The Book Reviews Team at the Journal of British Studies seeks to hire two editorial assistants - one in Medieval Britain and one in post-1800 Britain.
Read more about the positions and application here:
www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-boo...
JBS Book Reviews Editorial Assistants | NACBS
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May 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📢JBS Hiring Book Reviews Editorial Assistants 📢
The Book Reviews Team at the Journal of British Studies seeks to hire two editorial assistants - one in Medieval Britain and one in post-1800 Britain.
Read more about the positions and application here:
www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-boo...
The Book Reviews Team at the Journal of British Studies seeks to hire two editorial assistants - one in Medieval Britain and one in post-1800 Britain.
Read more about the positions and application here:
www.nacbs.org/news/jbs-boo...
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire - Volume 64
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May 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗"Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940-2010," by Stefan Goebel
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940-2010," by Stefan Goebel
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940–2010 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940–2010
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May 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗"Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940-2010," by Stefan Goebel
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗"Ruins of War into Memorials of Reconciliation: Coventry Cathedral and the Dresden Frauenkirche, 1940-2010," by Stefan Goebel
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181
May 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our article 'Feeling Old in Eighteenth-Century Britain' with @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out online and OA in the JBS @thenacbs.bsky.social. It's about older people and the body and shows them having fun (as well as coping with the challenges of old age). doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.181
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2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the North American Conference on British Studies. As part of our celebration of this important milestone, we are proud to share Celebrating 75, a special collection from the Journal of British Studies.
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JBS Special Collection | NACBS
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May 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
2025 marks the 75th anniversary of the North American Conference on British Studies. As part of our celebration of this important milestone, we are proud to share Celebrating 75, a special collection from the Journal of British Studies.
www.nacbs.org/jbs-special-...
www.nacbs.org/jbs-special-...
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49
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April 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“'Paper Oathes': Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49" by William White
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain” by Stephen Brooke
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain” by Stephen Brooke
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain
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April 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain” by Stephen Brooke
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“The Death of Colin Roach and the Politics of Grief and Anger in Late Twentieth-Century Britain” by Stephen Brooke
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“ ‘A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant’: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938” by @lizegan.bsky.social
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“ ‘A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant’: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938” by @lizegan.bsky.social
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant”: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant”: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938
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April 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
📢New article out now in JBS!
📗“ ‘A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant’: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938” by @lizegan.bsky.social
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📗“ ‘A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant’: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938” by @lizegan.bsky.social
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Hello! Finally kicking off this new account! Happy to share my latest article on correspondence and the 1857 Indian Rebellion, out now with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social open access. Lots on letters, newspapers, colonial anxiety and archives in British India ✉️ 📝📫📰
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“Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death”: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Pregnant with the Interests of Life and Death”: Family Correspondence and the British Imperial News Sphere during the 1857 Indian Rebellion
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April 2, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Hello! Finally kicking off this new account! Happy to share my latest article on correspondence and the 1857 Indian Rebellion, out now with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social open access. Lots on letters, newspapers, colonial anxiety and archives in British India ✉️ 📝📫📰
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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