Lotharingia and East Francia: Marriage as a Political Instrument? – Kings and nobles arranged marriages for their daughters in order to form or strengthen po- litical alliances. Historical writers of the tenth century interpreted the relations of the Ottonian kings Henry I and Otto I with the Lotharingian dukes Giselbert and Conrad the Red in t…[Read more]

Recent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]

This is a thoroughly researched and readable book that provides a glimpse of life in western New South Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the eyes of a woman, Rachel Kennedy (1845-1930). The book is a wonderful contribution to female biography and regional community history, and illustrates the precarity of life for women…[Read more]

Journal article about the organization of the music chapel at the royal monastery Descalzas in Madrid during the 18th century

Studiy about the role of music at the court of Alfonso X

The subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]

Focussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]

Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]

(Re-)constructing the lineage of one lesser-gentry family in eastern Lancashire (from the thirteenth-century Oldham family to their sale of Werneth Hall), this study – utilising wills, inventories, deeds, parish registers, and other archives – surveys the Cudworths’ socio-political, religious, and educational interests, as well as their wider ass…[Read more]

Socio-economic roles and family life from the late-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century are explored in this study of one non-gentry (yeomanry) family in eastern Lancashire: the Stansfields’ genealogy is (re-)constituted – utilising wills, inventories, parish registers, and other archives – against the broader background of their kinship rel…[Read more]

Some of the complexities of inheritance practices are studied through the example of one non-gentry (yeomanry) family in eastern Lancashire: this study – using wills, parish registers, and other archives – (re-)constructs the Cudworths’ genealogy, and examines their familial ties, socio-economic roles, and disposition of property within local and…[Read more]

Surveying the many figures of local, regional, and national importance – ranging across medical, legal, business, military, religious, political, and academic spheres – who have contributed to the work of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society during the past thirteen decades, this summary offers the first complete listing (since 194…[Read more]

Within this chapter I evaluate the still unfolding evolution of digital resources in the case of museum and archive practice related to Nagasaki and their suitability in assisting in the task of teaching the difficult history of the atomic bombing. Memorial museums do exist to convince, and to assist the public in recalling public and collective…[Read more]

21 अप्रैल 2010 की रात को हरियाणा के हिसार जिला के मिर्चपुर में दबंग जाट समुदाय ने दलितों की बस्ती में लगा दी थी। इस अग्निकांड में 70 साल के बुर्जुग और उनकी अपंग बेटी जिंदा जला दिया गया था। उसके बाद मिर्चपुर के दलितों को गांव छोड़कर भागना पड़ा था।

अध्येता प्रमोद रंजन ने जुलाई, 2012 में मिर्चपुर का दौरा किया। वे जिला मुख्यालय हिसार में मिर…[Read more]

People who reach the highest positions in the Indian Army come from the upper castes. In the army, the fight for supremacy also goes on within them on the basis of caste. In 2012, the controversy regarding General VK Singh was the result of a similar caste war. These trends at the highest level of the military are dangerous for India’s security.

The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

यह लेख जनवरी 2012 में द्विभाषी पत्रिका फारवर्ड प्रेस में प्रकाशित हुआ था। लेख में भारत में यूपीए की तत्कालीन सरकार की पिछड़ा वर्ग से संबंधित नीतियों की आलोचना की गई है। लेख में बताया गया है कि किस प्रकार कांग्रेस अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग के निर्धारित आरक्षण को निर्मूल बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा है।

This article was published in January 2012. The article criticized the policies of the then UPA government in India related to backward classes. The article describes how the Congress is trying to eradicate the prescribed reservation for the Other Backward Classes.

भारत की हिंदुत्ववादी ताकतों के निशाने पर राम के बाद कृष्ण आएंगे। अनेक संगठन इसके लिए सक्रिय हैं। फरवरी, 2012 में प्रकाशित इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किस प्रकार न्यायालय के फैसले के जरिए इसकी पृष्ठभूमि बनाई गई है।

After Ram, Krishna will come under attack from Hindutva forces in India. Hindutva organizations are active in this direction. This article, published in February 2012, explains how the background has been created through the court’s decision.