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Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Read more: Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of FranceThis interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: From William Still’s Underground Railroad Records to Digital Analysis
Jeremy Mennis and Nilgun Anadolu-Okur trace the journey of William Still’s 19th century Underground Railroad records into their 21st century digital forms.
Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids
Tales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…
Celebrating Libraries, Archives and Natural History
Discover a cross-journal special feature from Library & Information History and Archives of Natural History.
Trade Tariffs, Compass Petroglyphs and Early Modern Maritime Trade in Shetland
Douglas Cawthorne on the mystery of the maritime petroglyph and its possible use in North Sea trade networks
The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Véronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Burying the Millet System: A New Understanding of the Ottoman Arrangements with Non-Muslims
Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.
The Orange Order: A Global History
A Q&A with author Patrick Coleman on researching the Orange Order across 230 years and multiple continents.
A country built with diasporas and immigrants
How have diasporas and migrants contributed to the rise of the US as a great political, economic, scientific, and cultural power?
Demystifying the role of Ottoman bureaucrats in occupied Western Anatolia at the dawn of ethnic violence and destruction
Umit Eser explores authoritarianism in post-Ottoman geographies by investigating the origins of organised violence and ethnic cleansings at the beginning of the twentieth century