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One British Archive: A Monumental Task: The Archival Potential of Graveyards 一个英国档案：一个巨大的任务：墓地的档案潜力

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10131

James Johnson

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Imperial Politics, the Dominions, and the Irish Question, 1907–21 帝国政治、自治领和爱尔兰问题，1907 - 1921

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10178

John C. Mitcham

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One British Archive: The Weather Extremes in England's Little Ice Age Database 英国档案馆：英国小冰河期极端天气数据库

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-02-06 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10187

Madeline Bassnett

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“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain “这个邪恶制度的无意识津贴”？19世纪英国的女性奴隶与赔偿

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10185

Hannah Young

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Assembling Home in the Mission Field: Evangelical Periodical Culture in Britain and Tahiti, ca. 1790s–1830s 在宣教场聚集家园：英国和塔希提的福音期刊文化，约1790 - 1830年代

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10179

Kate Tilson

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From Amputee to Author: Shadrack Byfield and the Making of a War of 1812 Veteran 《从截肢者到作家：沙德拉克·比菲尔德与1812年战争老兵的成长》

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-19 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10169

Eamonn O'Keeffe

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Paddy Ashdown’s Third Way: The Liberal Democrats and the Politics of the 1990s 帕迪·阿什当的《第三条道路：自由民主党与20世纪90年代的政治》

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2026.10297

Peter Sloman

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FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World. “Called It Macaroni”: A British Queer History of the American Revolution 论坛:1776。来自英国世界的观点。《叫它通心粉》：美国革命的英国酷儿史

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2026.10298

Charles Upchurch

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Rethinking the Language of Chartism 重新思考宪章的语言

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2025-11-24 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10140

Peter Gurney

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Sick Leave of Customary Tenants in Late Medieval England 中世纪晚期英格兰传统佃户的病假

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Journal of British Studies Pub Date : 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2025.10130

Grace Owen, A. T. Brown, Tudor Skinner

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