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]

(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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

Assyrian imperialism is closely associated with the practice of mass deportation. This practice has been explained by recourse to many different motivations. But can we hope to pinpoint the logic informing deportation rather than merely identifying its advantages? This paper surveys the evidence of deportation in the Levant in the period 745–620 B…[Read more]

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

After the Seven Years War German petty courts increasingly felt obliged to justify their very existence. Therefor members of the reigning dynasties developped strategies to represent themselves as ›enlightened‹ rulers. Especially for non-reigning princesses, practice and patronage of the fine arts – theatre, music, landscape gardening, liter…[Read more]

Teaching the Holocaust in School. Greek particularities. The Why

21 मई 2012 को हरियाणा के भगाना (भगाणा) गांव में दबंग जाति के लोगों से विवाद के बाद दलित-पिछड़े परिवारों के 52 से ज्यादा परिवारों को अपना गांव छोड़ने पर मजबूर होना पड़ा था। विवाद की शुरूआत शामलात जमीन पर कब्जा हटवाने को लेकर हुई थी। दबंग समुदाय ने उनका हुक्का पानी बंद कर दिया था। इस घटना के 2 साल बाद 23 मार्च 2014 को भगाना गांव की धानुक समुदाय क…[Read more]

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

Freemasonry has traditionally been seen as a key influence in the rise of the Bourgeoisie, since it allegedly subdued social boundaries and behavioural norms of the Ancien Régime. This paper, however, argues that the masonic lodges at least in the smaller German court towns, adopted various elements of court society – organizational structures, my…[Read more]

जीतन राम मांझी, एक भारतीय राजनेता और बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री हैं। वो राजनीतिक पार्टी जनता दल (यूनाइटेड) के नेता के तौर पर 23वें मुख्यमंत्री रहे। मांझी बिहार राज्य में दलित समुदाय के तीसरे मुख्यमंत्री रहे। 20 फरवरी 2015 को उन्होनें मुख्यमंत्री पद से इस्तीफ़ा दे दिया। यह पुस्तक उनके व्यक्तित्व और उनके कार्यों पर आधारित है।
बहुजन…[Read more]