Business in Pictures: Representations of Railway Enterprise in the Satirical Press in Britain 1845–1870*This article was first presented as a paper at the ‘British History, 1815–1945’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research in 2003. I am grateful for comments received on that occasion, and I also wish to thank Hugh Cunningham, Emily Payne and Charlotte Sleigh for their remarks on subsequent drafts. Many of the cartoons consulted for this article were located with the aid of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent. My research was funded by an Economic History Society Postdoctoral Fellowship held at the Institute of Historical Research, 2002–3.

By Taylor James  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 111-145

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Resurrecting by Numbers in Eighteenth-Century England*I wish to thank Alexandra Cook, Lorraine Daston, Marina Frasca Spada Gianna Pomata, Skuli Sigurdsson, Fernando Vidal, and especially Joseph Berkovitz, Colin Jones and Simon Schaffer for helpful comments and suggestions. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and at the Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Northumbria at Newcastle. For support, I am grateful to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Wellcome Trust.

By Dacome Lucia  

Past and Present, Vol. 193, Iss. 1, 2006-11 ,pp. : 73-110

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Goodbye to Waldensianism?*Earlier versions of this article were presented at the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King’s College, London, and the Medieval Research Seminar, University of Sheffield. I am grateful to the audiences for their comments, to John Arnold, Gabriel Audisio, Euan Cameron, Anne Hudson, Martyn Lawrence, Grado Merlo, Georg Modestin and Lucy Sackville for their comments and responses to queries, and to John Bossy above all for his help.

By Biller Peter  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 3-33

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‘Abolishing Superstition with Sedition’? The Politics of Popular Iconoclasm in England 1640–1642I am grateful to Margaret Aston, Amanda Flather, Anthony Milton, Keith Wrightson, and to participants at the Early Modern British History Seminar, Cambridge, the Early Modern Seminar, Sheffield, and the Colloquium on British Studies, Yale, for comments on earlier versions of this article. Above all, I must thank Dan Beaver and Laura Lunger Knoppers, whose congenial invitation to present a paper on ‘Contesting Sacred Space’ in the series ‘Space, Landscape, Property’ at Pennsylvania State University gave me the necessary push to bring this work towards completion.

By Walter John  

Past and Present, Vol. 183, Iss. 1, 2004-05 ,pp. : 79-123

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Nature, Culture and Conservation in France and her Colonies 1840–1940Parts of this article were presented at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in April 2001; the French Cultural History Workshop, Humanities Center, Stanford University in October 2001; and at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London in February 2002. I very much benefited from the comments that I received in these venues. I also wish to thank Laura Lee Downs, Colin Jones, Herman Lebovics and Sanjay Subrahmanyam for their helpful comments on earlier drafts. This work was supported financially by grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and by an Izaak Walton Killam Fellowship in 2001–2.

By Ford Caroline  

Past and Present, Vol. 183, Iss. 1, 2004-05 ,pp. : 173-198

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