Past & Present Latest Issue Published
No 218; the latest issue of Past & Present for February 2013 has been published.
Founded in 1952, Past & Present is widely acknowledged to be the liveliest and most stimulating historical journal in the English-speaking world. Past & Present is a British historical academic journal, which was a leading force in the development of social history. It was founded in 1952 by a combination of Marxist and non-Marxist historians. The Marxist historians included members of the Communist Party Historians Group, including E. P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, and Dona Torr.
It is published four times a year by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Past and Present Society, a British historical membership association and registered charity.
The society also publishes a book series (Past and Present Publications), and sponsors occasional conferences and appoints postdoctoral fellows.
The journal offers:
• A wide variety of scholarly and original articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world.
• Four issues a year, each containing around seven major articles plus occasional debates and review essays.
• Challenging work by young historians as well as seminal articles by internationally regarded scholars.
• A range of articles that appeal to specialists and non-specialists, and communicate the results of the most recent historical research in a readable and lively form.
• A forum for debate, encouraging productive controversy.
• The examination of particular problems and periods as well as wider issues of historical change.
In the latest issue of Past & Present for February 2013 we read:
Obituary
Eric Hobsbawm
Roy Foster
Past and Present 2013 218: 3-15
Articles
Political Mobility in the Later Roman Empire*
Alexander Skinner
Past and Present 2013 218: 17-53
From Jerusalem to Toledo: Replica, Landscape and the Nation in Renaissance Iberia*
Adam G. Beaver
Past and Present 2013 218: 55-90
Migration, Poor Relief and Local Autonomy: Settlement Policies in England and the Southern Low Countries in the Eighteenth Century*
Anne Winter and Thijs Lambrecht
Past and Present 2013 218: 91-126
Glasnost’ in Practice: Public Speaking in the Era of Alexander II*
Stephen Lovell
Past and Present 2013 218: 127-158
‘Treading Upon Fires’: The ‘Mutiny’-Motif and Colonial Anxieties in British India*
Kim A. Wagner
Past and Present 2013 218: 159-197
Exodus: The Emigration of Southern Irish Protestants During the Irish War of Independence and the Civil War*
Andy Bielenberg
Past and Present 2013 218: 199-233
‘Christian Civilization’ and the Confucian Church: The Origin of Secularist Politics in Modern China*
Ya-pei Kuo
Past and Present 2013 218: 235-264
Announcement
Past and Present 2013 218: 265
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