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‘[R]eally Acted in Persia’: Counsel, Regicide and Restoration in John Denham, the Sophy (1642) and Robert Baron, Mirza (1655)
Persia’s renowned adherence to the divine right of kings made it a useful point of reference for arguments regarding the taking up of arms against...
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Katherine of Valois: The Vicissitudes of Reputation
Katherine of Valois is probably better known as the wife of Owen Tudor than as the queen of Henry V. She was queen of England for less than two years...
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Individual, Free Association and Common Ownership: The British Co-operative Movement and Political Ideology
Cooperatism is a social movement whose political categorisation is still problematic. This is particularly true in Great Britain where it has long...
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Social Networks and Hypnotic Influences
Like most Victorian physicians, the New Hypnotists were all highly socially active. This was partly out of scientific and professional curiosity and...
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Post-Hypnotic Suggestion: WWI and Beyond
With the coming of the First World War, the New Hypnotists saw the full acceptance of hypnotism and the therapeutic use of suggestion on a massive...
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“Complex Spiritual Ideas”: Edwards, the Spiritual Sense, and Scripture
Like Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards’ biblical practices and religious experientialism formed amid momentous transformations in philosophy, biblical...
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The Coronation
The coronation for Queen Elizabeth occurred on January 15, 1559. It was difficult to find a bishop, since all of them were Catholic, who was willing...
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A “Careful Examination of All Kind of Phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the End of the Nineteenth Century
What does psychical research teach us about the development of control strategies, not only in terms of improved experimental settings but also as...
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Introduction
This chapter offers an introduction to Owenite socialism, outlining the broad philosophy of the movement, its organisation, and sociology. I then...
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The State of the Literature
This chapter will explore interpretations of the relationship between Owenite socialism and religion, interpretations which differ in their...
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Introduction: The Imagined Empire
The introductory chapter asks what ‘Perse’ or Persia meant to the English reader in the early sixteenth century, suggesting that it already had a...
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Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Harold Wilson and James Callaghan: Personal Diplomacy, Friendship and US-UK Relations in the 1970s
Ruminating on the role played by people and individual statesmen in sha** global history, US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once remarked, in...
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Combat Trauma in Pre-modern Europe: An Introduction
The Introduction will outline the topic of combat stress in pre-modern history, establish the research context, and, in particular, offer a critical...
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Charles Darwin, Richard Owen, and Natural Selection: A Question of Priority
No single author presented Darwin with a more difficult question about his priority in discovering natural selection than the British comparative...
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Norfolk County Asylum: Moral Management and the Asylum Band
One of the earliest County lunatic asylums, the Norfolk asylum offers key opportunities for investigating the practice of moral management, and the...
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Sperm-Force: Naturphilosophie and George Newport’s Quest to Discover the Secret of Fertilization
This paper analyses the forgotten concept of “sperm-force” proposed by George Newport (1803–1854). Newport is known for his comprehensive microscopic...
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Things About a Highly Strung Evangelist, 1818–1838
About the family farm, boarding school, and chapel, the young Richard Congreve encountered conflicting social outlooks. He faced the radical thinking...
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UK Policy Towards Sporting Contact with South Africa, 1977 to 1994
This chapter analyses British policy towards sporting contact with South Africa after the signing of the Gleneagles Agreement in 1977. It explains...
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Owenite Religion as a Socialist Religion
This chapter will describe how the Owenite project of re-imagination of the nature of religion, and their broader project of religious reform,...
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Seeking Protection: Objects of Power
There were other objects that had a pervasive and well-documented history of apotropaic usage in early modern and modern buildings, placed in and...