HistoryPub Date : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-12-23DOI: 10.1111/1468-229x.70076
Richard Vinen
{"title":"Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal","authors":"Richard Vinen","doi":"10.1111/1468-229x.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"183-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229x.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568379","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 : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70058
Leonardo Costantini
{"title":"Cicero: The Man and His Works. By Andrew R. Dyck. Cambridge University Press, 2025. 1117 pp. £150.","authors":"Leonardo Costantini","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"285-286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569674","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 : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-10-01DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70056
Antoni Kapcia
{"title":"Cuba's Cosmopolitan Enclaves: Imperialism and Internationalism in Eastern Sugar Towns. By Frances Peace Sullivan. University of Florida Press, 2025. 298 pp. $35.","authors":"Antoni Kapcia","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"292-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562440","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 : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70069
CRAIG GERRARD
{"title":"Stalin's Great Game: War and Neutrality, 1939–1941. By Michael Jabara Carley. University of Toronto Press, 2025. xx + 457 pp. £75.","authors":"CRAIG GERRARD","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"295-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569847","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 : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70071
PATRICK STICKLAND
{"title":"Churchill and Russia: ‘A Resolve to Persevere Through Many Differences’","authors":"PATRICK STICKLAND","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article contends that Winston Churchill's tenure as Secretary of State for War was the most consequential period for his relationship with Russia. By helping to consolidate his views on the county's geopolitical position and of communism and providing a glimpse of a nation which was capable of democracy and neither inherently Tsarist nor Soviet, those years shaped his perceptions of modern Russia more than any other period. Such views later played a role in forming Churchill's approach to Anglo-Soviet relations in the build up to the Second World War, and his insistence on co-operation with Stalin. His experience of Russia's civil war is therefore necessary for understanding his views of the Soviet Union: he judged it relative to an ideal of modern Russia. Ultimately, the article supports the conclusion that the Grand Alliance with the USSR was the result of a complex evolution in Churchill's views of Russia and international politics, rather than simply sharing a common foe.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"201-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147562941","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 : 2026-03-12Epub Date: 2025-10-16DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70062
HYEIN SHIN
{"title":"Sociability and Civic Spirit in Northern Europe: Practising Patriotism in the Age of Enlightenment. By Juliane Engelhardt. Liverpool University Press, 2024. 280 pp. £85.","authors":"HYEIN SHIN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 395","pages":"287-289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566474","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 : 2025-12-24DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70073
SOPHIE SCOTT-BROWN
{"title":"Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco-to-Moscow March, 1960–61","authors":"SOPHIE SCOTT-BROWN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70073","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the ‘Global March for Peace’ of 1960–61 – an initiative that took a group of activists from San Francisco to Moscow, crossing countries on both sides of the Cold War divide. While the general development of this march is well known, this article offers a fresh perspective in several ways. Drawing on a varied range of sources, it pays particular attention to the expectations, experiences and reflections of US activists who had strongly been involved in the march. Moreover, it uses the history of the march to examine different elements of internationalist practice and reappraises the march as an experiment in ‘grassroots diplomacy’, while also revealing the latter's intrinsic tensions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"108-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145970074","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 : 2025-09-26DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70057
ELIZABETH GOODWIN
{"title":"‘That Profession and Habit that None Other Be of Within this Realm’: The Battel Hall Retable, Visual Culture and Intersections of Community Identity in a Late Medieval English Convent","authors":"ELIZABETH GOODWIN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Battel Hall Retable – created around the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century and once belonging to the Dominican nuns of Dartford Priory – offers a rare glimpse into the visual lives of late medieval English nuns, inviting an insight into the intersections of communal identities for these women religious. This article builds on scholarship that has predominantly addressed Dartford's textual history, and of the piety and experiences within female monastic communities more widely, by exploring the intersections of English, female and Dominican spiritual identities for the community within, reflected by and provoked by this visual culture. It argues that the iconography, the specific portrayal of the figures and the potential positioning of the altarpiece speak to the engagement of these women with key facets of their identities, partially forming and enhancing a community identity that enabled them to withstand the Dissolution of the Monasteries.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"30-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145987307","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 : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70039
Olisa Godson Muojama
{"title":"Germans in Nigeria during the First World War: From Traders to Enemy Subjects","authors":"Olisa Godson Muojama","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on extensive archival research in Berlin and Ibadan, this article makes an original contribution to the growing body of research that acknowledges the global features of the First World War. The article explores this wider subject by examining the wartime position and treatment of German civilians in Nigeria. In recent decades, there has been growing interest in wartime measures against enemy subjects, but developments in West Africa have attracted little scholarly attention thus far. The article begins by analysing German activities in the region before 1914, highlighting the prominent role of German merchants in the regional economy. It then traces various measures that the British colonial authorities adopted upon the outbreak of the war, as well as noting concerns about the role of German propaganda in provoking social and political unrest in Nigeria. The article covers the initial wartime restrictions on German companies as well as the internment and subsequent removal of German subjects from British West Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"90-107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145970088","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 : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70053
MINCHUL KIM
{"title":"Jean-Baptiste Say and the Political Economy of Republican Utopia in Revolutionary France","authors":"MINCHUL KIM","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article offers a fresh analysis of <i>Olbie</i> (1798), a frequently overlooked essay by the French author and economist Jean-Baptiste Say (1767–1832). It positions <i>Olbie</i> as a central text for comprehending Say's political thought and situates it within the wider historical context, in particular French republicanism during the 1790s. In doing so, the article argues against interpretations that read <i>Olbie</i> as a pioneer in placing economics before morals and politics. Instead, this article stresses the eighteenth-century understandings of ‘political economy’ that integrated economy and morals. Say's story of Olbios, on this reading, is a testament to the binding presence of eighteenth-century and French revolutionary political economy that considered <i>mœurs</i> as the primary factor connecting and controlling the politics and economics of a society conceived as an organic body. <i>Olbie</i>, then, is a republican version of political economy, a society of an exquisite system of non-monetary rewards and punishments to establish and maintain republican <i>mœurs</i> through a hierarchy of merit and virtue. Placed in its historical context, <i>Olbie</i>’s incentive-design approach does not represent the first case of its kind, nor is it purely economic in nature. Instead, it embodies revolutionary republicanism that draws on a utopian form, trying to depict an ideal republic, one intended to provide a more practical framework for addressing the challenges faced by reformers in the 1790s. In conclusion, this article underscores the rich ideological tapestry woven into Say's <i>Olbie</i>, shedding light on its historical position within the broader landscape of political and economic thought during the French Revolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"111 394","pages":"54-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145969654","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}