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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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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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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The Body and Socialism: Dora Russell in the 1920s*Amy Black, Kathryn McPherson, Chris Waters and Martin Francis offered invaluable comments on earlier drafts and much encouragement, for which I am deeply grateful. I would also like to thank Marcus Collins, Stephen Heathorn, Deborah Gorham and Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska for suggesting particular references, and the archivists of the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, and the Bertrand Russell Archive, Hamilton, for their assistance. Financial support for research was generously provided by the Institute of European Studies, Toronto, and the European Commission.

By Brooke Stephen  

Past and Present, Vol. 189, Iss. 1, 2005-11 ,pp. : 147-177

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