June 6, 2023
Representations of women’s education in the eighteenth century always depict it as “superficial”. I had long imagined writing a book based on my research into this topic that would tell… READ MORE
June 1, 2023
Are you looking for a new Boydell & Brewer book this month? Check out some of the highlights published this month. Don’t forget, you can purchase any of these titles… READ MORE
May 30, 2023
For the larger towns of late medieval England, it is often possible to recreate the marketplace, its layout and attendees. However, this is a much more difficult task for the… READ MORE
May 23, 2023
Volume 1 For some reason, historians have largely seen fit to avoid the subject of African human rights and not least the 1981 African Human and Peoples’ Rights Charter. The… READ MORE
May 17, 2023
Ideas for my monograph, African Literature in the Digital Age: Class and Sexual Politics in New Writing from Nigeria and Kenya – which has just been republished in paperback –… READ MORE
May 4, 2023
Towards the end of a manuscript of illustrated Old English poetry once thought to contain works attributable to the illiterate Northumbrian labourer and eventual famed Christian songmaker, Cædmon, there is… READ MORE
May 2, 2023
The sword as a cultural artefact; the control of labour in Western Europe; the commodification of nature; a study of the turbulent period of the English and British civil wars… READ MORE
April 27, 2023
If you return home after a long absence you might, not unreasonably, hope for a warm welcome, perhaps even some cake. Unfortunately for Saint Bartholomew, the reunification with his parents… READ MORE
April 25, 2023
Austria Made in Hollywood coming out in paperback gives me the opportunity to share a fun article I read while researching the image of Austria in the United States before… READ MORE
April 19, 2023
When I’m turning pages of faded ink, written by people who died a long time ago, “time” starts to jump around. They died a long time ago—but they lived. They… READ MORE
On the “superficiality” of eighteenth-century women’s education