How can historians of small spaces and cities focus on local events and issues and at the same time carry on conversations with peers in a disciplinar... [more]
Building on recent works that question a simplistic, White narrative of the history of academic oral history, this article focuses on the labors of Bl... [more]
Recently several anthropological and sociological studies have interpreted technologies as cultural choices that are determined as much by local perceptions and the social context as any material constraints or purely functional criteria. Using the exampl
Tin glazes contain SnO2 particles, with a diameter similar to the wavelength of visible light, which are responsible for glaze opacification. In this paper a theoretical model to explain the optical behaviour of these glazes is developed. This model is te
In recent years, a few papers have addressed the palaeogenetic analysis of cultural, historical and archaeological artefacts. We provide an overview of the individual published articles and then describe the results we had in the framework of a palaeogene
British-born Dr Edward Waldegrave Wardley (MRCSL, 1842) is an unacknowledged pioneer in the history of mental health care in Australia. Between 1857 and 1872, he assisted in the development of a policy of non-restraint across lunatic asylums in New South
This article examines the treatises and law reports of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the Attorney General under Elizabeth I and later, Chief Justice of the courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench. The article juxtaposes Coke's expressions of the common l
As Shanghai industrialised, its Chinese and European residents suffered the scourge of coal-powered cities: smoke. Air pollution became a multi-sensory reality. Residents could see, smell, feel and taste the smoke that shrouded the city. Inspired by anthr
Patients who have previously undergone coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) were prone to death anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that spiritual well-being and appropriate coping strategies may mitigate the harmful effects of death anxiety
Unlike their northern counterparts, the kingdoms of southern Ethiopia have received little attention by archaeologists. Their relatively late emergence and absence of literacy may explain this lack of interest. However, they have much to offer to better u
Throughout the twentieth century, several women artists have photographically interpreted not only the destruction during World War II, the Yugoslav Wars of the first half of the 1990s, and/or their aftermaths, but other types of crises since the period o
This article investigates the Victorian reception of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and the collision of literary criticism with political commentary. Bronte's novel has always had a reputation for being politically troublesome, but no one seems to
Archaeologists routinely create backdirt during excavation, but it is rarely acknowledged and remains surprisingly undertheorized. In this paper, we treat backdirt as a uniquely archaeological product that is socially constructed and guided by culturally
The paper considers historical lingua francas and standard language ideology from the framework of 'language history from below'. Although some work has been devoted to mixed forms of language in studies of standardisation, little attention has been pai
This arti cle explores col lec tive mem o ries about lost farms in New York City's water shed. It argues that farms taken by emi nent domain for two water sup ply res er voirs came to sym bol ize lost rural and agri cul tural life ways in the twen ti eth
The history of medical bibliography is considered an exclusive prerogative of research for historians of bibliography, historians of book and libraries but not a matter of interest to medical historians. Actually, it represents a high-level potential rese
This article discusses the idea of distant reading and explores the ways in which it can be conducted in research. It focuses especially on how distant reading can contribute to the study of cultural history, which is often regarded as a domain of close r