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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published
All articles in the issue can be accessed here:

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via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

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Cover of the August 2025 issue of the history journal Past & Present. Cover has bands of red and grey with the journal's name, bibliographical details and the titles of the articles in the issue and the names of the authors picked out in white text
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On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England"

by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)

#OpenAccess

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Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664–687 in England*
Abstract. Bede and other authors describe a destructive wave of plague sweeping across Britain and Ireland in the period 664–87. In the decades around and
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November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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New blog: "Austerity and Food Assistance"

In this post Samantha Iyer @fordham.edu) reflects upon her recent Past & Present article in the context of the current US federal government shutdown

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Austerity and Food Assistance - Past and Present
by Dr. Samantha Iyer (Fordham University) The United States’s food stamp program is under attack again—again. The current government shutdown has left the nearly 42 million people who rely on the prog...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598"

by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

#OpenAccess

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Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598*
Abstract. On the eve of his invasion of Korea that launched the Imjin War (1592–8), the Japanese military hegemon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, held a spectacular h
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November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Thank you to our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social for having made Dr. Banks' article currently free to read
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Congradulations Daniel Banks, recent @eui-eu.bsky.social PhD graduate, on the award of the Italian Historical Society's Modern History Article prize for “Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860” forthcoming with us:

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Forthcoming Past & Present Article Awarded the Society for Italian Historical Studies Modern History Article Prize - Past and Present
by the Past & Present editoral team Past and Present was delighted to learn that Dr. Daniel F. Banks has been awarded the Society for Italian Historical Studies’ Modern History Article Prize for his f...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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From the current issue: “Viewpoint: Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe”

by ‪@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social‬ (‪@orieloxford.bsky.social‬/@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬) and Claire Judde de Larivière (Université de Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès)

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Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe
What is late medieval popular politics?1 In recent decades there has been a revival of works on revolts and rebellions, which has led to a reconsideration
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November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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fantastic virtual issue!
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Our latest virtual issue on: "Immobility"

curated by 2023-25 @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social, Malika Zehni and Lamin Manneh

Can be read below and is free to access:

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Immobility
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November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article:

"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue

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2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Our latest virtual issue on: "Immobility"

curated by 2023-25 @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social, Malika Zehni and Lamin Manneh

Can be read below and is free to access:

academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...
Immobility
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November 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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New on advance access: "Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c.1700–1760"

by Tawny Paul (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c.1700–1760*
Abstract. This article investigates the relationship between government liquidity, personal credit, and state practices in eighteenth-century Britain, draw
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November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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From the current issue: Viewpoint: “Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium”
by Ilya Maude and ‪@maroulix.bsky.social‬ (@universityofleeds.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

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Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium*
Abstract. This article uses case studies from Byzantium to demonstrate a new trans framework for gendered historical analysis that recognizes identity as b
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October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)
October 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

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Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*
Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr
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October 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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New on advance access: "Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans"

by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans*
Abstract. This article examines what happened to the ‘abandoned land’ of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in
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October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”

by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬)

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October 28, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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cjapieters.bsky.social
I added this useful article (published w/ @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) on electoral violence between 1832-1914 to the modern British history papers I teach and am very happy with how students have used it - it really helps them nuance a linear historiography doi.org/10.1093/past...
Electoral Violence in England and Wales, 1832–1914*
Abstract. This article analyses over 19,000 articles from newspapers and parliamentary commission reports to reveal endemic electoral violence in England a
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October 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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From the current issue: “Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes”

by Bill Mihalopoulos

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Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes*
Abstract. While covering the same ground as recent scholarship on the emancipatory potential of the Maria Luz incident, this article takes a radical depart
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October 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A major intervention on a highly sensitive issue, the politics of rape in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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From the current issue: “Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World”

by Christopher M Florio (Hollins University)

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October 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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On advance access: "(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History"

by Emily Bridger (@uoearchhist.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History*
Abstract. South Africa is a country known for its high rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Historical research demonstrates that such issues are not
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October 22, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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On advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"

by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome*
Abstract. The modernism debate in the historiography of nationhood and nationalism has fizzled out to a curious détente: the idea that nationhood and natio
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October 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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From the current issue: “A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis”

by Henrietta Harrison (‪@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social‬/‪@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis*
Abstract. Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors w
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October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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From the current issue: “Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450”

by Ron Mordechai Makleff (Middlebury College)

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Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450*
Abstract. By the thirteenth century, confederations of communes in western Europe were claiming important legal, political and military prerogatives for th
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October 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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From the current issue: “Viewpoint: Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe”

by ‪@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social‬ (‪@orieloxford.bsky.social‬/@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬) and Claire Judde de Larivière (Université de Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès)

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe
What is late medieval popular politics?1 In recent decades there has been a revival of works on revolts and rebellions, which has led to a reconsideration
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 AM