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{"title":"Corruption, Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe: A Thousand Year History. By Jonathan R. Lyon. Cambridge University Press, 2023. xx + 417pp. £29.99.","authors":"Nicholas Vincent","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"578-579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review Essay: Memory Cultures at the Great War Centenary","authors":"PETER LEESE","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13421","url":null,"abstract":"<p> <span>Afterlives of War: A Descendants’ History</span>. <b>By</b> <span>Michael Roper</span>. Manchester University Press, <span>2023</span>. <span>xvi + 351</span>.</p><p> <span>Curating the Great War</span>. <b>Edited by</b> <span>Paul Cornish</span> and <span>Nicholas J. Saunders</span>. Routledge, <span>2022</span>. <span>xxiii + 341</span>.</p><p>Taken together, these books pose two key questions. First, what can we learn about memory formation and transmission from the rich histories of public exhibition and personal recollection gathered across the last hundred years? Second, how have the practices and politics of First World War remembering been changed by the hundredth anniversary?</p><p>The answers provide an engaging divergence. In Roper's account, there is a continual circulation between the personal, family and local, communal memory, and wider commemorative practices. In contrast, Cornish and Saunders stress the importance of the public realm, and the revealing intersection of historical research, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and politics. <i>Curating the Great War</i> is particularly engaged with the practices of museology, the materialities of conflict understood through remnants and sites, with the engagement of publics, audiences, and heritage authorities in making relevant versions of the past. Roper's study, <i>Afterlives of War</i>, is a more intimate affair. It is an ethnographic, sociological, and psychological inquiry into the nature of past making as it is experienced by descendants living with the long-term consequences of war. Roper deftly handles these personal aspects of engagement with the past. <i>Afterlives of War</i> is an absorbing, original, and persuasive meditation on ‘memory in the aftermath’.</p><p>Cornish and Saunders organise their edited collection, <i>Curating the War</i>, around three central themes. ‘Museums, Identities and the Politics of Memory’ covers First World War museology from the cessation of hostilities to the centenary. This is not a comprehensive account, but it covers a range of institutions, including some of the major nation state remembrance sites such as the Berlin Zeughaus, and the more recent Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne. Smaller local institutions also feature, such as the Priest's House Museum and Gardens in Wimborne, Dorset. Two chapters in the collection cover the history of the Imperial War Museum, during the Second World War, and during the fiftieth anniversary commemorations of 1964–8. A second section on ‘Museums and Materialities’ explores varied locations and approaches to archaeological and remembrance sites, for example, the extensively preserved heritage and traces of the Soča/Isonzo Front of 1915–17. A reflection on the confrontation fought out between Italian and Austro-Hungarian forces across an unusually high, rocky landscape that today is mostly in Slovenia. A later chapter by Boštjan Kravanja also gives an update on the material cult","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"586-592"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘A Cultivated Leader and Sensible Spokesman for Black African Views’1: Britain's Courting of KaNgwane Chief Minister Enos J. Mabuza","authors":"DANIEL J. FEATHER","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13418","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13418","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses British policymakers’ efforts to court Enos John Mabuza, Chief Minister of the self-governing South African homeland of KaNgwane, in the final years of apartheid. It contends that despite taking place nearly 30 years apart, there were striking similarities between British policy at the end of apartheid and in the era of decolonisation, particularly the efforts to build relations with moderate nationalists in an effort to maintain long-term influence. While KaNgwane was a small territory lacking in material resources, Mabuza, as a moderate Black leader working within the law to challenge apartheid, took on greater importance in the minds of British policymakers seeking a peaceful transfer of power in South Africa. This was helped by Mabuza's ability to maintain relations with a diverse range of important political actors including the South African government, KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and the African National Congress in exile. Additionally, KaNgwane's close proximity to Mozambique, which at the time was in the midst of a civil war, also gave the territory greater prominence. This article will highlight how Mabuza used these interconnecting factors to demonstrate his value as an important ‘interlocutor’ for Britain, which in turn saw him extract important resources for both the KaNgwane people and his own family, as well as a degree of protection from interference by the South African government.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"521-550"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13418","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II Through Objects. By Brandon M. Schechter. Cornell University Press, 2019. xxiv + 315 pp. $36.95.","authors":"Siobhán Hearne","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13410","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13410","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"584-585"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Powell and Pressburger's War: The Art of Propaganda, 1939–1946. By Greg M. Colón Semenza and Garrett A. SullivanBloomsbury, 2023. 271 pp. ISBN: 979-8-7651-0573-3. £90.00.","authors":"Matthew Woodcock","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13420","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13420","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"141-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Waves of Popular Contention and Democracy in Denmark, 1700–2000","authors":"FLEMMING MIKKELSEN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contrary to the dominant narrative of the historical formation of democracy in Denmark, which emphasises a smooth and gradual linear transition to democracy and modernity, this paper accentuates a discontinuous and contentious road towards democratisation. Based on quantitative and qualitative sources, this article identifies four major waves of popular mobilisation that paved the way for the introduction and expansion of political rights. The first wave of popular protest began in the 1830s and culminated in 1848 with the fall of absolutism and the transition to constitutional monarchy. The next protest wave from 1885 to 1887 arose from the so-called ‘constitutional struggle’ and mobilised hundreds of thousands of ordinary Danes and contributed to the nationalisation and parliamentarisation of the political system. The third wave unfolded around the end of the Second World War, while the hitherto last wave of popular struggle erupted in 1968 with the youth rebellion. The analysis shows that ‘democracy’ was the central issue of contention in all four protest waves and supports the main thesis that periods of intense interaction between popular protest and the state have had a decisive formative influence on the genesis and further development of Danish democracy.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"280-307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conspiracy, Congregation, Company, and Commerce in England, 1680–1688: The Narratives of Edward Massey of Braintree","authors":"EDWARD LEGON","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13417","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1683, Edward Massey, an obscure office-holder in Braintree, Essex, provided the state with one of the most explosive accounts of conspiratorial activities in England during the so-called ‘Exclusion Crisis’. Massey, a prisoner in the King's Bench, named dozens of individuals in his native Essex, as well as the West Country and London, who apparently aired seditious grievances with King Charles II and his Roman Catholic brother and heir, James, Duke of York, and compassed participation in a national plot to ensure the succession of a Protestant in the form of Charles's illegitimate son, James, Duke of Monmouth. The colourful details of the alleged conspiracy bear reproduction in this article. Nevertheless, the difficulty of crediting the most radical implications of Massey's narratives calls for a cautious assessment of their reliability and value to historians. Fortunately, additional evidence enables us to treat Massey's account as a detailed testimony of how those marginalised by the Stuarts’ post-Restoration settlements were able to mobilise behind and sustain their discontents, and the anxious secrecy and cautious trust which, amid heightened state surveillance, defined their encounters. Moreover, the article demonstrates how necessarily secretive political and religious networks mapped onto, and drew strength from, bonds which were forged in experiences of parochial administration and business, particularly the production of and trade in cloth. The result is an account of the Restoration's ‘politics of religion’ which highlights the communicative and ideological importance of the politics of local office and (inter)national trade.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"226-252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13417","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State of the Field: The New Administrative History","authors":"JONATHAN MCGOVERN,&nbsp;KIRSTY WRIGHT,&nbsp;CONNOR HUDDLESTONE","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13416","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13416","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the development of administrative history from ancient times to the present day. It explains the importance of Thomas Madox, T. F. Tout and other pioneers of administrative history in modern England and France. It also discusses the golden age of early modern administrative history (roughly 1950–1990), in which administrative methods thrived under the auspices of Sir Geoffrey Elton. The final section discusses a recent resurgence of administrative history, which some have referred to as the New Administrative History. It makes a case for the continuing importance of administrative history.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"422-444"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142225298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History. By Edward Wilson-Lee. William Collins. London, 2022. 344 pp. £25.","authors":"ANDREW NUNES","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"146-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pride of the East: Motorcycle Speedway, Transnational Encounters and Provincial Heartlands","authors":"RICHARD MILLS","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For a century, speedway has operated on a transnational basis. Its riders, competitions and machinery regularly traverse national and continental borders. The imposition of the Cold War's Iron Curtain did little to impede its growth. This article focuses on one of speedway's far-flung and diverse provincial heartlands to show how the sport generated frequent transnational and transsystemic interactions and forged deep relationships that often stood in contrast to the prevailing trends of international politics. As one of speedway's ‘entangled peripheries’, rural East Anglia owes a debt of gratitude to Australasian pioneers. From the 1950s—decades before imported talent became commonplace in football—the region welcomed Scandinavian and Eastern Bloc riders and hosted visiting clubs and national representations from across the continent. Later, East Anglia became a bridgehead for the successful assault of communist-built machinery on the Western market. These bold endeavours were not without controversy, as British riders voiced objections to foreign men and machines deemed a threat to their livelihoods. The Cold War's end accelerated existing trends and also created exciting new opportunities for itinerant East Anglians abroad. Archival material, conversations with the sport's foreign trailblazers and fans, Swedish and Czechoslovak sources, photographs and official publications serve to demonstrate speedway's enduring ability to forge unexpected ties and give voice to regions at the so-called margins of twentieth-century history.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"335-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}