On advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law" by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China" by ‪@tobylinocln.bsky.social‬ #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

New on advance access: "The Jewish Refugee Family and Concerns Over Intermarriage in Australia After 1945" by Ruth Balint (@usyd-humanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Exploiting opium addiction to compel people to work on plantations. Sick stuff.

On advance access: "Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia" by Guanmian Xu (Peking University) and Shohei Okubo (Ryukoku University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

And for the longer history see James Vernon’s great piece in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

On advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion" Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access "The Political Crisis of British Keynesianism, 1973–1983" by @colmpm.bsky.social (‪@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

So grateful for this archive, the researchers, and this article

From the current issue: “Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920” by Henry B. Lovejoy (@colorado.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England" by @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social/@orieloxford.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karolina Hutková (@ox.ac.uk/LSE), Ernesto Dal Bó (UC, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Energy Policy and Climate Change in Europe during the Era of Neoliberalism" by Stephen G. Gross (@nyu.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947" by Partha Pratim Shil (@stanford.edu) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning" by Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii" by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic” by @annalunapost.bsky.social (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History" by Emily Bridger (@uoearchhist.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome" by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "The Promises and Perils of Periodization in Global History: Lessons from the Inter-War Era" by Andrew Denning (@kuhistorydept.bsky.social) and Heidi J S Tworek (University of British Columbia) doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525” by Judith M. Bennett (@usc.edu) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Wonderful to see this new @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social article by @uomsalc.bsky.social's very own @tibetcurator.bsky.social!

From the current issue: “Plague Correspondence, Trust, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon” by Abigail Agresta (George Washington University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Coinciding with the publication of our new issue No. 269 (November 2025), the latest edition of the quarterly Past and Present Society Newsletter has been sent to subscribers Have a read and subscribe here: pastpresentsoc.substack.com/p/past-and-p...

Past & Present No. 269 (November 2025) is now published All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Or by scrolling down the thread👇

On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923" by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon) doi.org/10.1093/past...

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

New blog: "Austerity and Food Assistance" In this post Samantha Iyer @fordham.edu) reflects upon her recent Past & Present article in the context of the current US federal government shutdown pastandpresent.org.uk/austerity-an...

On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598" by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Thank you to our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social for having made Dr. Banks' article currently free to read

Congradulations Daniel Banks, recent @eui-eu.bsky.social PhD graduate, on the award of the Italian Historical Society's Modern History Article prize for “Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860” forthcoming with us: pastandpresent.org.uk/forthcoming-...

From the current issue: “Viewpoint: Ordinary Politics in Late Medieval Europe” by ‪@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social‬ (‪@orieloxford.bsky.social‬/@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬) and Claire Judde de Larivière (Université de Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...

Our latest virtual issue on: "Immobility" curated by 2023-25 @ihr.bsky.social Past & Present Fellows @anastruillou.bsky.social, Malika Zehni and Lamin Manneh Can be read below and is free to access: academic.oup.com/past/pages/i...

New on advance access: "Involuntary Investors in British State-Building: Seamen’s Tickets and the Financial Revolution c.1700–1760" by Tawny Paul (@uofcalifornia.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: Viewpoint: “Transmisogyny, Ableism and Compulsory Cisness: Case Studies from Byzantium” by Ilya Maude and ‪@maroulix.bsky.social‬ (@universityofleeds.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

I am happy to share my Past & Present (@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) article (available in Open Access). It examines what happened to the "abandoned land" of Muslim refugees in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Romania after the end of Ottoman rule in 1878 and finds much post-Ottoman legal continuity. (1)

From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene” by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago) doi.org/10.1093/past...

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New on advance access: "Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans" by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social (@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879” by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬) doi.org/10.1093/past...

I added this useful article (published w/ @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social) on electoral violence between 1832-1914 to the modern British history papers I teach and am very happy with how students have used it - it really helps them nuance a linear historiography doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes” by Bill Mihalopoulos doi.org/10.1093/past...

A major intervention on a highly sensitive issue, the politics of rape in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.

From the current issue: “Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” by Christopher M Florio (Hollins University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "(Un)Remembering Sexual Violence in South African History" by Emily Bridger (@uoearchhist.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome" by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...