History Research: Recent submissions

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    • The Grail of original meaning : uses of the past in American constitutional theory 

      Kidd, Colin Craig (2016-12) - Journal article
      Originalist jurisprudence, which enjoins a faithful adherence to the values enshrined in the late eighteenth-century Constitution, has become a prominent feature of contemporary American conservatism. Recovering the original ...

    • Taqizadeh and European civilisation 

      Ansari, Ali Massoud (2017-07-13) - Journal article
      The leading Iranian intellectual and nationalist Hasan Taqizadeh has been roundly condemned by posterity for his call to Iranians to embrace European civilisation in its entirety without qualification or compromise. Taqizadeh ...

    • Training the virtuoso: John Aubrey’s education and early life 

      Williams, Kelsey Jackson (2012) - Journal article
      John Aubrey's contributions to antiquarianism and archaeology helped to shape the development of several disciplines in English scholarship. This paper looks at the educational milieu that produced his pioneering work, ...

    • Science for Children 

      Fyfe, Aileen (Thoemmes Continuum, 2003-01-15) - Scholarly text
      Facsimile reprints, with scholarly introductions, of: Aikin and Barbauld, Evenings at Home (1792-96); [S. Clark], Peter Parley's Wonders of the Earth, Sea and Sky (1837); [C. Williams] Wonders of the Waters (1842); [S.W. ...

    • Calculating Time and the End of Time in the Carolingian World, c.740-820 

      Palmer, James Trevor (2011-12) - Journal article
      The hopes and fears associated with the imminence of apocalypse acted as catalysts for a number of significant changes in history. Relevant patterns of behaviour are not, however, always consistent. This paper examines the ...