HistoryPub Date : 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13447
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
{"title":"Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others. Edited by Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper, and William Sherman. UCL Press, 2024. xxxi + 406 pp. £35.00","authors":"MATTHEW WOODCOCK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13447","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206642","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13443
EMILY BRADY
{"title":"Injustice in Focus: The Civil Rights Photography of Cecil Williams. By Cecil Williams and Claudia Smith Brinson. University of South Carolina Press, 2024. 256 pp. £ 33.95.","authors":"EMILY BRADY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13443","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206895","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13442
YIANNOS KATSOURIDES, ELENI EVAGOROU
{"title":"Mobilizing Underground: The Case of the Cypriot Communist Party AKEL in Colonial Cyprus (1955–59)","authors":"YIANNOS KATSOURIDES, ELENI EVAGOROU","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13442","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is the first attempt at recording and analysing the period of illegality of the Cypriot communist party AKEL (Progressive Party of the Working People) and the way it organized its clandestine mechanism during the armed struggle of the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) against the British (1955–59). This article examines AKEL's organizational adaptation to the new illegal conditions and how this was reflected in the party's ability for political mobilization. At the same time, it looks at AKEL's ability of organizational learning in relation to two factors: (a) its own capacity to adapt and, (b) its communication with other communist parties abroad. Furthermore, the article explores aspects of AKEL's organizational and political culture in this period, which remained with the party in the years that followed. In doing so, it argues first that the type of party is a crucial factor in its ability to mutate into a different organizational structure and mode of operandi; second, it claims that AKEL demonstrated a remarkable ability of organizational learning; third, the article contends that the practices adopted in this period have left a long-lasting legacy in the organizational culture of the party. This article employs a framework that allows for comparison with other communist parties, particularly those of Greece (KKE) and South Africa (SACP).</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13442","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206896","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-02-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13445
Craig Gerrard
{"title":"How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War. By Kimmo Rentola. Yale University Press. 2023. xiii + 285 pp. £25.00.","authors":"Craig Gerrard","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206894","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-01-22DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13441
Rebecca Feakes
{"title":"A Familiar Sight: ‘Dutch Type’ and the First Printer of Norwich","authors":"Rebecca Feakes","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13441","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthony Solempne, the first printer of Norwich, was among the many Dutch Protestants to flee religious persecution in the Southern Netherlands in the late 1560s and seek refuge in the Northern Provinces, France, and England. Dutch immigrants arrived in such numbers they soon formed around half the population of Norwich, the local inhabitants distinguishing themselves from the ‘otherness’ of these new arrivals by dubbing them ‘Strangers’. Solempne marketed many of his works to this growing community of displaced Dutch refugees through his use of vernacular and possibly his choice of type. This article considers how typography can embody aspects of ‘foreignness’ and familiarity on the printed page. A typographical analysis of Solempne's works forms the foundations for discussions on attributable works and the broader network of Dutch printers in England and the Continent who used a distinctive ‘Dutch type’ that would have been readily familiar to the ‘Strangers’ of Norwich. In doing so, it recognises the potential contribution of typographical studies to our understandings of ‘nationhood’ in northern Europe during the early modern period.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 390","pages":"215-226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143571370","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13439
ZOE CORMACK
{"title":"The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8","authors":"ZOE CORMACK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13439","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala. This is one of the most significant examples of a museum colluding in colonial violence to gain objects for its collection. The article re-examines the case of Holmes, drawing on new research in the British Museum's archive and with important primary documents that have not yet received scholarly attention. The analysis focuses on the museum's objectives for the Campaign, the planning process and the actions of Holmes. I argue that while the museum was complicit in the violence perpetrated at Maqdala, its relationship with the military was complex. Multiple competing agendas became increasingly apparent as the actions of Holmes were progressively militarised. The article also examines the wider institutional links to the Abyssinian Campaign, including close political relationships that are important for understanding the trajectory of events and history of the British Museum's collections. More broadly, it sheds new light on the relationship between museums and colonial-military interventions in nineteenth-century Africa, demonstrating the tensions that were inherent in these projects.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13439","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206629","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-12-24DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13438
PATRICK A. NYATHI
{"title":"Exploring Forced Removals and Dispossession in the Dukuduku Forest, KwaZulu Natal, before and after 1994","authors":"PATRICK A. NYATHI","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13438","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Government-sanctioned forced removals are a continuous theme in contemporary South Africa. This article examines four major phases of forced removals in the Dukuduku state forest – located in the Mtubatuba Municipality in northern KwaZulu Natal, South Africa – beginning in the 1930s. It places particular focus on the last phase of removals in the 1980s and 1990s, during the significant political period in South Africa in which there were talks between the liberation movements and the Nationalist government about transitioning to the new political dispensation. Land restitution efforts following the 1994 elections are explored, detailing the state's approach to addressing historical injustices related to land issues. The findings reveal that resistance was fuelled by conservationist imperatives that prioritised nature over human habitation and demonstrate that the policies of both apartheid and post-apartheid governments have contributed to the destruction of a significant portion of this unique indigenous forest over the past five decades. The article advocates for a balanced land management approach that respects historical land claims and prioritises local needs alongside environmental preservation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13438","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206966","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13437
CHRISTOPHER JOBY
{"title":"Law and Order in Exile Communities in Early Modern Norfolk","authors":"CHRISTOPHER JOBY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13437","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In November 1565, Queen Elizabeth issued Letters Patent permitting thirty textile masters from the Low Countries to settle in Norwich and practice their trade. By early 1566, two language communities, one Dutch and the other French, had been established, each with its own church. However, in the wake of the Iconoclastic Fury in the Low Countries, which began in August 1566, many Calvinists left their homes and moved to Norwich. By 1568, the number of exiles in the town exceeded 2000. This led to tensions between the exile community and local people. Alongside a raft of regulations setting limits on the exiles’ commercial activities, the local authorities asked the Dutch and French communities to elect officials to maintain order within their communities and to act as a bridge in relations with the Anglophone community. These officials, known as <i>politicke mannen</i> in Dutch and <i>hommes politiques</i> in French, were elected annually for over 150 years. This article examines how they kept order within their communities and how they maintained relations with the local authorities, above all the mayor and the town council. It does so using correspondence and two minute-books of the weekly meetings of these officials in the town's Guildhall. Furthermore, the article examines how this <i>ad hoc</i> solution to the sudden influx of migrants provided a template for the maintaining of law and order in other English towns with significant exile communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 390","pages":"227-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13437","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143571324","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13436
SUSAN MADDOCK
{"title":"Livelihoods and Liberties of Low Countries Immigrants in Late Medieval Lynn","authors":"SUSAN MADDOCK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13436","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contributes to burgeoning research on the alien population of late medieval England, that is, residents who had been born outside the realm. It focuses on the borough of Lynn – known as King's Lynn from 1536 – which was one of England's most prosperous port towns throughout the late Middle Ages. Covering the period from 1421 to 1524, during which the majority of immigrants were artisans from the Low Countries, the article traces their participation in both economic and civic life. In doing so, it places the experience of Dutch and other immigrants in Lynn within their wider historical context of alien immigration, both locally and nationally.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 390","pages":"154-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13436","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143571222","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13435
PETER OVERLACK
{"title":"Wedge Politics: The Japanese Factor in Germany's Asian Policy, 1895–1914","authors":"PETER OVERLACK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13435","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines Imperial Germany's East Asian aims within the framework of <i>Weltpolitik</i> (world policy) and political-diplomatic activity centred around Japan before the First World War. Archival sources clearly record Germany's attempts to neutralise Japan's alliance with Britain to attain its world-political goals. Attempts to woo Japan even after the outbreak of the First World War aimed to achieve a separate peace arrangement to break Entente unity, prepare the way for a separate peace with Russia and weaken Britain's global strategic position. Germany's Asian strategies become clear within the framework of Eurocentric issues, as well as the need to counteract increasing American presence in Asia. Policy was characterised throughout by a public wooing of Japan and secret attempts to weaken its position and to manipulate the United States in this process. The absence of a consistent and coherent policy meant that by 1914, it was impossible for Germany to achieve any long-term success in Asia.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206700","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}