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  • 23
    Mar

    2023

    Everything You Know About Fairies Is Wrong:...

    “In th’olde days of the king ArthourOf which that Britons speaken great honour,All was this land full fill’d with faerie …” In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath reflects that...

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  • 16
    Mar

    2023

    State Legislative Resistance

    My latest book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance demonstrates how states played a crucial role from the beginning of the republic in assessing the equilibrium...

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  • 14
    Mar

    2023

    Something’s fishy in medieval Europe

    If you cast your line in the right places medieval Europe is full of fish. “A surfeit of lampreys” reportedly killed England’s King Henry I in 1135, and Pope Martin IV (d1285) expired after...

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  • 9
    Mar

    2023

    Was anticolonial activism global?

    The office of the Union for Democratic Control, 1959. Photograph by Cyril M. Bernard. Courtesy of Miriam Bernard and Hull University Archives...

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  • 9
    Mar

    2023

    Putting Alison back in the picture

    The photograph above, taken in May 1941, shows meadows near Bemerton, Wiltshire (UK), with a girl named Alison sitting on a plank bridge across a stream. Several features would immediately catch...

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  • 27
    Feb

    2023

    How Intelligence Becomes Policy

    For four decades now, historians have lamented intelligence as the “missing dimension” of diplomatic history and international relations, the lack of relevance afforded “long-term intelligence experience...

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  • 20
    Feb

    2023

    A LONG DELAYED NEW EDITION

    I was 31 years old — or as it now seems, young —when my first book appeared in May 1972. Half a century later a second edition of The Inns of Court Under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts 1590-1640,...

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  • 10
    Feb

    2023

    How did ancient poets seize the day?

    “Carpe diem” is one of the most recognisable Latin phrases: in our day it is a popular slogan on T-shirts; millions know the words through the movie Dead Poets Society, in which the actor Robin Williams...

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