Hannah Ewence
Hannah Ewence
Institution: Department of History and Archaeology, Exton Park Campus, University of Chester, Parkgate Road, CH1 4BJ, UK
Email: h.ewence@chester.ac.uk
Abstract Between 1900 and 1939, Jewish Londoners departed the East End for the suburbs. Relocation, however, was not always the result of individual agency. Many Jews became the object of institutional strategies to coerce and persuade them to disperse away from inner-city areas. Simultaneous to this was the emergence of a dominant pro-suburban rhetoric within and beyond Jewish cultural circles, w...
2 years ago
Alfie Banks
Alfie Banks
Institution: University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Email: hab1g17@soton.ac.uk
This article examines the ‘afterlife’ or posthumous reputation of Warren Hastings, one of the most important and controversial figures in the foundation of British India. Exploring a wide range of sources, it argues that Hastings was a symbolic figure through which generations of imperial commentators vented the political and moral concerns of their own day. Accordingly, it uses his afterlife ...
2 years ago
Meenakshi Malhotra
Meenakshi Malhotra
Institution: HansrajCollege, University of Delhi, India
Email: meenakshi.chat@gmail.com
The article explores aspects of Hinduism in some writings by British writers E.M.Forster and Edward Thompson in the early twentieth century, and tries to read nuance into the Orientalist project of mapping India. Unlike some writers like Kipling who wrote in the period of high imperialism and created colonial and racial stereotypes, Forster and Thompson seem to be aware of the complexities of Hind...
2 years ago
Elisabeth Santos
Elisabeth Santos
Institution: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernanbuco, Brazil.
Email: elisabeth.csantos@ufpe.br
Purpose – The purpose of this article is to conduct a systematic review of the literature on business history and management history in specialized journals in the area. Design/methodology/approach – We conducted a systematic review of the literature in the journals: Business History, Business History Review, Journal of Management History, and Management & Organizational History, between 201...
2 years ago
Hege Leivestad
Hege Leivestad
Institution: Stockholm University, Stockholm 106 91, Sweden; Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Oslo 0316, Norway
Email: hege.leivestad@socant.su.se
When the Ever Given became stuck in the Suez Canal, the megaship was carrying 18,300 rectangular, steel boxes on her back. In the weeks and months after the incident, the concealed contents of the shipping containers – stuck in legal limbo – captured global attention. Technologically developed in the years after the Second World War, the standardized shipping container has featured as one of t...
2 years ago
When Australian economist Ross Garnaut proposed to increase the commercial kangaroo industry in 2008, it started a national debate on the supposed edibility of kangaroos. Campaigns against the commercial kangaroo industry and hesitance amongst many consumers to eat kangaroo reflect concerns about viewing kangaroos as food. This article explores the reactions and challenges that originate from the ...
2 years ago
Bettina Bildhauer,
Bettina Bildhauer
Institution: University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
Email: bmeb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Sharra Vostral
Sharra Vostral
Institution: Purdue University, Indiana, USA
Email: svostral@purdue.edu
In January 2021, Scotland became the first country in the world to make universal access to free period products a legal right, an initiative which attracted extraordinary international attention. This introduction outlines what is indeed new and ground-breaking about this law from the perspective of the history of menstruation, and what merely continues traditional and widespread conceptions, pol...
2 years ago
Koh Hwee
Koh Hwee
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
Email: chkoh@history.ucla.edu
Abstract In the 1690s, Ottoman bureaucrats reformed the sprawling postal system, a vital communications infrastructure that undergirded imperial power. Despite the expanding monitoring capacity that resulted, a constant shortage of horses regularly left couriers stranded for days and delayed official correspondence. This essay investigates this paradox and draws on a series of fifty-one Ottoman im...
2 years ago
Bryan Roby
Bryan Roby
Institution: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Email: robyb@umich.edu
In the wake of Israeli Black Panther activism in the mid-1970s, the Arab League invited Mizrahi (AfroAsian) Jews, especially those in Israel, to return to their homeland. Some Israelis used the invitation as an opportunity to highlight the extent of anti-Mizrahi discrimination by departing for the Arab world. Albeit small in number in comparison to thosewho left Israel for other destinations, thos...
2 years ago
Daniel Feather
Daniel Feather
Institution: Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
Email: d.j.feather@ljmu.ac.uk
This article discusses the establishment of a British Council presence in South Africa through the appointment of a cultural advisor at the British High Commission in 1958. It analyses the role of cultural advisor, what policymakers hoped to achieve by creating it, and why they were initially hesitant about establishing a British Council presence in South Africa. The article will highlight how the...
2 years ago
