{"title":"The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700–1900, ed. Jon Stobart","authors":"Karen Lipsedge","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae048","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140228898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘People’s War’ in Concrete and Stone: Death and the Negotiation of Collective Identity in Second World War Britain","authors":"Lucy Noakes","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article explores ideas and feelings about the burial of the war’s dead, and their memorialisation. It investigates the relationship between a drive to remember the conflict’s dead as members of the collective wartime nation, and a desire by many of the bereaved to emphasise familial ties and the individual lives of the dead. While this was not a new concern—and had already been seen, for example, in debates about where to bury, and how to commemorate, the dead of the First World War in Britain—it gained an additional politics in the Second World War. In this conflict, ideas about the nation, about the state’s duty to its citizens and about citizens’ reciprocal duties towards the wartime state were interwoven with ideas about domestic reconstruction in the war’s aftermath. This article traces the articulation of these ideas through contemporary discussions of, and feelings about, burial and memorialisation, using these as a means of thinking about the meaning of the ‘people’s war’ both during and after the conflict.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"15 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140244957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renegotiating Citizenship through the Lens of the ‘People’s War’ in Second World War Britain","authors":"Jessica Hammett, Henry Irving","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead186","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article re-examines the importance of the ‘people’s war’ by exploring the word history of the phrase. The article shows that the term was widely used and understood on the British home front during the Second World War. Our focus is on how it provided a framework to renegotiate citizenship. Drawing on a wide range of popular newspapers, magazines and life writing, we argue that the ‘people’s war’ was a flexible concept. It was used, on the one hand, to explain extensions to the duties of citizenship and encourage participation, and, on the other, to demand a greater voice, recognition and rewards for citizens. This shaped the lived experience of wartime, and provided a language for ‘ordinary people’, as well as politicians and the press, to articulate their demands in the present and hopes for the future. We argue that the ‘people’s war’ remains an important historical concept. The process of negotiation through the lens of the ‘people’s war’ not only sheds light on wartime experience; it also suggests new ways to think through vernacular understandings of citizenship and the relationship between the people and the state, in the post-war world and beyond.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Discourse of ‘The People’s War’ in Britain and the USA during World War II","authors":"Sean Dettman, R. Toye","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 David Edgerton has argued that the term ‘people’s war’ was not much in use during World War II and that where it did occur it was used in ‘a critical and oppositional, rather than an official-celebratory’ sense. We show that Edgerton’s conclusions are an artefact of his limited source-base and narrow reading of the evidence. The phrase ‘people’s war’ was in fact used in Ministry of Information propaganda and cropped up widely in the press, leading contemporaries to comment on its overfamiliarity. But we do not merely seek to restore previous interpretations. We show the longer history of ‘people’s war’ terminology in both Britain and America. We further demonstrate how Britain’s US sympathisers, such as the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow, used this language to argue that British class barriers were breaking down, thus making the country worthy of American support. British policymakers consciously encouraged this, and there were consequences for US domestic politics too. The concept of the ‘people’s war’, then, was a contemporary Anglo-American co-production. It was not, as Edgerton wrongly suggests, an invention of the historians of the 1960s and after.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"3 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140247808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cliché to Be Avoided Like the Plague: The ‘People’s War’ in the History and Historiography of the British Second World War","authors":"David Edgerton","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The forum shows that I correctly diagnosed the place that ‘people’s war’ has in the historiography of the Second World War; that, if anything, I underestimated the grip that the connected series of beliefs about ‘people’s war’ have come to have over some historians of the British Second World War; and how difficult it is to start a conversation about framing assumptions and the nature of the historiography of the war. In this response I aim to get above the din of detail and try to understand the underlying positions being taken by the respondents. I will try to tease out their rather hidden assumptions, in order to clarify better what is at issue and at stake, thereby making a fresh attempt to take this discussion forward. I will also extend the discussion by considering works that have already rejected the conceptualisation of ‘people’s war’ defended in this forum. I hope that my original paper and the forum itself will together make the case that we need fresh ways of thinking about the British Second World War, as well as suggest that new ways are already in being and that the concept of ‘people’s war’ as currently used by many historians needs to be abandoned.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"2003 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140246506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I confini della salvezza: Schiavitù, conversione e libertà nella Roma di età moderna, by Serena Di Nepi","authors":"G. Bonazza","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140254490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640–1688, by Sarah Ward Clavier","authors":"Ronald Hutton","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"76 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Holy Roman Empire to the Land of the Tsars: One Family’s Odyssey, 1768–1870, by Alexander M. Martin","authors":"N. Kollmann","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"10 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140082051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impunity and Capitalism: The Afterlives of European Financial Crises, 1690–1830, by Trevor Jackson","authors":"Helen Paul","doi":"10.1093/ehr/ceae027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"22 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140081832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Tanto di Capuccini come di Giesuiti’: Religious Orders, Exceptionalism and the Absolution of Heretics in Early Modern Italy","authors":"Jessica M Wärnberg","doi":"10.1093/ehr/cead212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead212","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 From the first history of the Society of Jesus, written in the late sixteenth century, to modern scholarship on the order, texts by and about Jesuits have suggested that their approach to sacramental confession distinguished them from other religious groups in the eyes of the laity and ecclesiastical hierarchy. Recent histories have suggested that the particular spirituality, approach and talent of the Society’s confessors compelled popes to single out the Jesuits for privileges, empowering the Society as a papal task force in the fight against heresy. Focusing on the privilege of absolving heretics in confession, this article challenges this notion, arguing that popes empowered religious orders, including the Jesuits, for pragmatic reasons, not because of their particular charism or way of proceeding. The article compares the status and character of religious orders that emerged in the same period as the Jesuits to show that it was the Society’s scale, availability and orthodoxy that compelled popes to grant them the privilege of absolving heretics, allowing them to reconcile heretics autonomously where papal inquisitors could not. Using records from the Jesuit archive and the archive of the Roman Inquisition, the article confirms this conclusion with a case-study of privileges granted to Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries in Savoy–Piedmont at the turn of the seventeenth century. There, popes empowered both orders alike depending on practical need and availability, and despite the fact that the Capuchins had initially refused to administer the sacrament of confession.","PeriodicalId":184998,"journal":{"name":"The English Historical Review","volume":"6 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140412009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}