Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen by Rory Muir
Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period.
The programme for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" is now available on our website.
🎙 Anita Buhin was invited by the Transformative Podcast (RECET) to talk about so-called #galebovi ('seagulls') in socialist #Yugoslavia and various economic, cultural and social aspects of this phenomenon, typical for the broader #Mediterranean region and the development of mass #tourism.
The galebovi were local young men who engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with foreign tourists.
📖 As a result of his doctoral research at the IHC, Diogo Duarte has published an article on #Anarchism, #PublicOrder and #SocialHousing in Portugal in the first half of the 20th century.
🆕 Congratulations to Joana Dias Pereira and Rui Henriques, who were awarded the 2023 António Sérgio Cooperation and Solidarity Prize, in the Lusophone Studies and Research Category, for their book on the history of mutualism in former Portuguese colonies. 🎊
📖 2023's second issue of #HoST — Journal of History of Science is now online. The theme is "Social History of Science and Historiography: Where are We in Brazil?".
⏳ The call for papers for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" ends tomorrow, 15 December!
📅 The meeting will take place via Zoom on 14-15 March 2024.
🆕 Eight new research contracts were awarded to the IHC under by the FCT: six in the Junior Researcher category and two in the Assistant Researcher category, which will result in five new members joining the Institute. 🥳
📘 Massimo Asta and Pedro Ramos Pinto edited the book "The Value of Work since the 18th Century. Custom, Conflict, Measurement and Theory".
With examples ranging across several centuries and different parts of the globe, it shows how wages are influenced by the specific organization and processes of work, conflict and power, social status and hierarchies between workers, etc.
This book delves into the less tasteful history of a drink now considered quintessentially British. It tells the story of how, carried on the backs of the cruelty of slavery and illicit opium smuggling, it flowed into the cups of British society as an enchanting beverage.
🗣 The call for papers for the international congress "Commoning: Common Resources, Associationism and Networks of Reciprocity throughout History" is ongoing.
The meeting will take place via Zoom on 14 and 15 March 2024.
Nicholas Breton: Four of the Clocke - a detailed description of life through the day in #earlymodern England From Fantasticks, 1626
Read by Peter Kenny