Archaeology and History: Recent submissions
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‘I am almost the middle-class white man, aren’t I?’: elite women, education and occupational trajectories in late twentieth-century Britain
(Routledge, 13 October 2023)This paper makes a major intervention in the historiography of elites through analysis of the experience of women occupational elites born in post-war Britain. The paper draws on a new set of oral history interviews recently ... -
Dengie, Ythancaestir and Othona: the early medieval landscape context of St Peter-on-the-Wall
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More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia.
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 October 2023)Indigenous societies are known to have occupied the Amazon basin for more than 12,000 years, but the scale of their influence on Amazonian forests remains uncertain. We report the discovery, using LIDAR (light detection ... -
‘It’s the party that counts’? The rise of Labour and the image of the woman politician at English elections, c.1929-50
(Wiley, 2023)This article uses election addresses to consider how the early women parliamentary candidates sought to make their case to English voters. It then explores the insights that Mass Observation’s election surveys offer into ... -
Venetian «Averages» between East and West. Risk Management and Transaction Costs in the Early Modern Mediterranean
(Società Editrice il Mulino, 3 August 2023)Between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, Averages played an important (and neglected) role within Venetian maritime trade and shipping, as they functioned both as risk management tools and as a mechanism for the ...