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The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/past
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published
All articles in the issue can be accessed here:

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via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

Or by scrolling down the thread👇
Cover of the August 2025 issue of the history journal Past & Present. Cover has bands of red and grey with the journal's name, bibliographical details and the titles of the articles in the issue and the names of the authors picked out in white text
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 8h
From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene”

by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago)

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Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene*
Abstract. On 11 December 1967, a large earthquake devastated the village of Koynanagar in Maharashtra, western India. Many blamed the new Koyna hydroelectr
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 1d
New on advance access: "Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon"

by Owain Lawson (Lehigh University)

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Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon*
Abstract. Between 1951–55, the US Bureau of Reclamation conducted research in Lebanon to plan a hydroelectric and irrigation scheme using Lebanon's largest
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 1d
Welcome to @maggieross95.bsky.social our 7,000th follower on Bluesky
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d
From the current issue “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879”

by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬)

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Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879*
Abstract. This article argues that the microhistorical analysis of one specific industrial enterprise offers a useful perspective from which to study local
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 2d
"What was at Stake in the Maria Luz Incident"?

In this new blog Bill Mihalopolous, explores the key points about the context and ramifications of the court case made in his recent article for the journal, and considers it's resonance into the 21st Century

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What Was at Stake in the Maria Luz Incident - Past and Present
by Dr. Bill Mihalopoulos My recent article “Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the liminal legal status of Chinese indentured labourers and Japanese licensed prostitutes” in Past & Present No. 268 (A...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 5d
From the current issue: “Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes”

by Bill Mihalopoulos

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Dame Janet Nelson was the first female President @royalhistsoc.org (2000-04) and is the subject of 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', also edited by Alice Rio, and published in 'Transactions of the RHS' earlier this year.

Available Open Access bit.ly/4nyYx2k #Skystorians
First page of the journal article: 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles' with full abstract: "This collection gathers thirteen contributions by a number of historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to pick their favourite article by her and say a few words about it for an event held in her memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London. We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these pieces seemed to add up to a useful retrospective on Jinty’s work, its wider context, and its impact on the field over the decades. We hope that, for those who know her work well already, this may be an opportunity to remember some of her classic (and a few less classic) articles, while at the same time serving as an accessible introduction to her research for anyone who knew her without necessarily knowing about her field, as well as for a new and younger generation of readers."
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 6d
On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923"

by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon)

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Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923*
Abstract. Political violence in Europe in 1917–23 has typically been associated with the destabilizing impact of the First World War. However, some forms o
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 6d
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)

by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)

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Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*
Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 7d
On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England"

by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge)

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 8d
On advance access: "Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 1900"

by Thoralf Klein (@lborouniversity.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 1900
Abstract. In the summer of 1900, at the height of the Boxer War, the European and North American press began to spread the story that all the Western forei
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 9d
From the current issue: “Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World”

by Christopher M Florio (Hollins University)

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Oxford Academic @oxfordacademic.bsky.social · 10d
Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present, scholars highlight how immobility shapes both lives and legacies: oxford.ly/46BpxXI

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Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present.
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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 11d
Quarantine is one of these institutions whose date of creation barely means anything, it took the best part of 3 centuries for the Itlalians to make it work somewhat, interesting to see a similar dynamic at play at the same time across the Algero-Provençal basin!
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 19d
On advance access: "Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon"

by Abigail Agresta (George Washington University)

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon*
Abstract. Starting in the fifteenth century, European city governments began to respond to the threat of plague by introducing quarantine measures, which p
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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 12d
I should still be frantically preparing to welcome our new first years next week, but instead I'm finishing my week by reading this. And I don't regret it, even though I know I'm going to have to open my laptop on Sunday as a result! #skystorians
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
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Matthew Kelly @matthewjkelly.bsky.social · 12d
A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.

Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 12d
This sounds excellent. I look forward to reading
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
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Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 12d
Looking forward to reading this!
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 12d
V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
doi.org
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 12d
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"

by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 13d
From the current issue “A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis”

by Henrietta Harrison (‪@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social‬/‪@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬)

#OpenAccess

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A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis*
Abstract. Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors w
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 14d
We're pleased to be supporting "Fons: Primordal Origins From Myth to Archaeology"

At @magdalenecollege.bsky.social 5 - 6 November 2025

Programme and registration:

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Programme and Registration for Fons: Primordial Origins from Myth to Archaeology - Past and Present
Received from Dr. George Brocklehurst (School of Advanced Study, University of London) Dates: 5 – 6 November 2025 Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge CB3 0AG Programme (as of 22 September 2025) Reg...
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 14d
From the current issue: “Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450”

by Ron Mordechai Makleff (Middlebury College)

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Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450*
Abstract. By the thirteenth century, confederations of communes in western Europe were claiming important legal, political and military prerogatives for th
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 16d
On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598"

by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598*
Abstract. On the eve of his invasion of Korea that launched the Imjin War (1592–8), the Japanese military hegemon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, held a spectacular h
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 19d
On advance access: "Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon"

by Abigail Agresta (George Washington University)

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon*
Abstract. Starting in the fifteenth century, European city governments began to respond to the threat of plague by introducing quarantine measures, which p
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