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Re-Orienting Whiteness: A New Agenda for the Field
Since whiteness studies made its dramatic entrance into the U.S. academy in the early 1990s it has generated tremendous scholarly output. Monographs...
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The More Things Change: Isabella and Mortimer, Edward III, and the Painful Delay of a Royal Majority (1327–1330)
Until quite recently, the historical image of Edward III’s minority has been overwhelmingly negative. Perhaps part of this view lies in the perennial...
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The Minority of Henry VI, King of England and of France
A king’s minority is the antithesis of personal kingship. By a considerable margin, Henry VI is the youngest monarch ever to mount the English or...
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Her Kingdom’s Wife: Mary I and the Gendering of Regal Power
In her accession proclamation, issued July 19, 1553, Mary I announced to her subjects the arrival of the first woman to possess and inhabit the...
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Monarchy: Crowns and Contexts, Thrones and Dominations
We are sometimes told, by those who believe that their prime scholarly task is to study ‘history from below’, that it is a mistake to concern...
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The Vacuum Filled: The Triennial Act of 1641
A new constitutional balance. The benefits of guaranteed assemblies: the core proposition of parliamentarianism. The significance of parliamentary...
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Toward a Historiography of Reagan and the 1980s: Why Have We Done Such A Lousy Job?
I finished writing my book Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s in the spring of 2004.1 I received the copyedited manuscript back...
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The Gynecocracy Debate
The publication of The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women did not go unanswered; rather quickly after Elizabeth’s...
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A Queen Undone: Justifications of Deposition, Resistance and Imprisonment
By the end of June 1567, Bothwell had fled from the mainland of Scotland, and Mary found herself imprisoned on an island, tightly guarded and with...
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Introduction
On 24 September 1562, Thomas Randolph, the English ambassador to Scotland, rested himself at a table in Aberdeen with parchment, ink and quill before...
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Kee** the News British: the BBC, British United Press and Reuters in the 1930s
In May 1931 the news agency British United Press (BUP) offered to supply the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) with their overseas news wire...
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Torture, Inquisition, Medievalism, Reality, TV
The interest of the American and British public in the practice of torture, in the wake of Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, and the still somewhat secret...
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‘Indian Sisters! … Send your husbands, brothers, sons’: India, Women and the First World War
For the young, impressionable Maria Bibikova from Russia, the war was charged with Oriental romance. At the beginning of the war, she set off,...
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1910–1953: The Shadow of History
Between the early 1860s and 1918 various groups of variously dedicated people worked to bring women the right to vote in Great Britain. Although...