Pilgrims’ Progress: The Business of the Hajj*The research and writing of this article has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. I would also like to thank the members of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University for their comments on an earlier version. An earlier version was also presented at the ‘Seascapes, Littoral Cultures, and Trans-Oceanic Exchanges Conference’ (Washington DC, 12–15 February 2003), sponsored by the American Historical Association. Peter Yurkosky prepared the map.

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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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The March to Peterloo: Politics and Festivity in Late Georgian England*I am grateful to John Belchem, Emma Griffin, Frank O’Gorman and Paul Pickering for helpful comments on earlier drafts, and to the participants of the York eighteenth-century studies seminar, the Manchester University history seminar and the ‘British History in the Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, for critical discussions. The research for this article was assisted by a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship, held at the University of Manchester, in 2000–1.

By Poole Robert  

Past and Present, Vol. 192, Iss. 1, 2006-08 ,pp. : 109-153

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The shock of the old: architectural preservation in Soviet RussiaI am grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (project grant, ‘National Identity in Russia from 1961’, 2007–2011), the Leverhulme Trust (Research Leave Scheme) and the Ludwig Fund, New College, Oxford, for financial support, and to Mark Thatcher, Marina Loskutova and Peter Waldron, as well as all the participants in the two workshops, ‘The State, Nationalism, and Historic Buildings’, held at the European University Institute, Florence, and Bocconi University, Milan, for their useful comments on earlier drafts.

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