Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist, historian and novelist, was also a talented populariser. …”
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«The history cannot be rewritten, it can be added...» by Yu. Z. Kantor

“…Yulia Zorakhovna Kantor St. Petersburg historian, doctor of historical sciences, museologist and journalist, well-known expert on the history of international relations on the eve and during the Second World War, the author of the most complete and well-known biography of the red marshal M. …”
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G. P. FEDOTOV ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN GOVERNING ELITE by E. M. Amelina

“…The article analyses the transformation of the Russian management elite from the point of view of the famous Russian historian, sociologist and philosopher G. P. Fedotov (1886–1951). …”
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Le Musée européen des copies de Charles Blanc comme « pendant » du Louvre by Elisa Rodríguez Castresana

“…The project, mainly imagined by the French art historian and director of the École des beaux-arts Charles Blanc, was opened in April 1873 and remained open barely nine months. …”
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Historia pública y enseñanza de la historia by Nancy Palacios-Mena, Sandra Rodríguez-Ávila, Olga Yanet Acuña Rodríguez

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Biophoty: The Biofilm in Biography Theory by Joanny Moulin

“…It begins by looking back to a debate going on in the 1970s and 1980s about whether film was a suitable medium for historiography and historical research, contrasting the reluctance of some American and British researchers like Robert Rosenstone, Ian Jarvie and Belén Vidal with French historian Marc Ferro’s engagement in favour of the use of cinema in history studies, and his contention that “history on film has become a force”. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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Writing, rewriting and revisiting the Cold War in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle. Poland 1980-81 (1984) by Jean Du Verger

“…While history is an account of events the playwright, like the historian, is nevertheless left speculating on the gaps and cracks that separate the actual experience from the recollection of the events under consideration. …”
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1874-1875: The Birth of a Fashion Heritage Consciousness in France by Maude Bass-Krueger

“…One year later, the historian and archaeologist Jules Quicherat (1814-1882) published the first popular book about French dress history, l'Histoire du costume en France depuis les temps reculés jusqu'à nos jours (Hachette, 1875). …”
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A neo-positivist theory of scientific change by Michael Bycroft, James Poskett

“…Historians of science appear to agree on two things. …”
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Monograph review: Kabytov P.S., Fedorova N.A. «Professor Ivan Mikhailovich Ionenko: personality and time» (Kazan: Izdatel’stvo Kazanskogo universiteta, 2024, 224 p.) by V. A. Tyurin, M. M. Leonov

“…Ionenko is a prominent Kazan historian, one of the founders of the study of the events of 1917 in the Volga region, a specialist in the field of agrarian history, head of the Department of History of the USSR at Kazan State University. …”
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«He Confessed Christ…»: Reflecting on biography of priest Vasily Infantiev by S. G. Sizov

“…This article is an analytical review of the monograph by the historian A. V. Sushko «Life, ministry and feat of the priest Vasily Feofanovich Infantiev». …”
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Solo Songs by Count Julijan Pejačević in the Našice Local History Museum by Andrea Rakitić

“…Although he is remembered primarily as a royal chamberlain and family historian, he was also a pianist and a composer. His musical oeuvre consists of at least 70 works (though some sources would point to far more), including solo songs and piano pieces, most of which are today lost due to a plethora of reasons concerning the history of the Pejačević family library. …”
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Interpretation of H. Beecher-Stowe’s ideas in the novel “Uncle Tom’s cabin” in the context of G.M. Fredrikson’s concept of “romantic racism” by Elena G. Zueva, Illaria-Regina K. Lukhneva

“…The aim of this study is to study the monograph “The Black Image in the White Mind” by American historian George M. Fredrickson, which has not been thoroughly examined by domestic researchers before. …”
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Un établissement pénitentiaire singulier dans «l’archipel punitif» de l’armée française en Algérie : L’établissement des fers de Douera puis de Bône (1855-1858) by Nadia Biskri

“…Although these centers of detention did not last more than three years, this place of punishment for deviants to the military order has proven for the historian to be a real observatory of a penitentiary experiment in a colonial situation. …”
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Die Filistynse plaag in 1 Samuel 5-6: medies-teologiese verlarings

“…We thus consider that the 1st century AD Jewish-Roman historian, Josephus, was correct when he stated that the Philistine epidemic was dysentery: bacillary dysentery is a disease caused by a micro-organism which spreads from person to person by way of oral-faecal infection in a situation where there is poor hygiene, as was probably the case in 11th century BC Philistia. …”
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L’ombre du Condor by Franck Gaudichaud

“…If one looks today, with the historian's eyes, the South Cone at the end of the sixties and seventies and then, by continuation, turns a page of some years to fix the same part of the world, the report is very clear: the Latino-American subcontinent passed, in general, from a phase of important social mobilization and politicisation, rise of revolutionary parties and organizations, elections of left or progressive populists governments developing a dynamic of rupture with imperialism, to a generalized backward movement of the working class organizations, an era of state-controlled political violence, the massive reduction of liberty of expression, the physical and ideological destruction of the militants and revolutionary movements, the setting up of neoliberal capitalistic economic models. …”
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Ondina Valla, une « championne du fascisme » aux Jeux olympiques de Berlin (1936) by Suzy Toson

“…Above all, by rethinking the 1936 Olympics through Ondina Valla’s own experience, in particular by studying photographs and testimonies from the athlete collected afterwards, this portrait allows us to examine central issues in the study of the relationship between society and totalitarian regimes: the impact of fascist ideology on Ondina Valla’s development and identity, and the way in which she was able to appropriate, in the words of historian Alf Lüdtke, the world shaped by fascist dictatorship.…”
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Finding provenance, seeking context by Peter Mark

“…If, therefore, one assumes that some of the works were produced in the northern range of ‘Sape’ occupation, present-day Guinea-Bissau, it then becomes advisable for the art historian to compare these ivories with the rich corpus of wood sculpture made by the groups whose ancestors belonged to or lived adjacent to the northern ‘Sapes’. …”
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L’empire de l’imaginaire : la fin du monde et son rapport à l’histoire dans l’œuvre de Lucian Boia by Aurélien Portelli

“…The imaginary of the end of the world is one of the main keys to understanding the work of Lucian Boia. For this historian, the narratives of the end of the world refer, beyond their obvious differences, to the same archetypal structures, which he essentially associates with the imaginaries of divination and escape. …”
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