Henry VIII’s First Invasion of France: The Gascon Expedition of 1512
Historians have paid little attention to the Gascon expedition of 1512 in their examinations of Henry VIII’s foreign policy. This is a considerable oversight, as the 1512 campaign was Henry’s first attempt to recover his ancestral lands in France. This study offers an evaluation of England’s European relations in 1512. It provides an in-depth examination of the young king’s efforts to make his mark on the international stage, and considers how far Tudor armies were able to compete in continental warfare. The article also explores the extent to which Henry’s French ambitions in the early years of his reign differed from those of his predecessors. It argues that the Gascon expedition was a significant event, and that it provided valuable lessons for Henry’s subsequent campaigns in France.
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The Indignant Nation: Australian Responses to the Attempted Assassination of the Duke of Edinburgh in 1868
The attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, in March 1868 has featured in Australian historiography. It has done so, however, principally as a spark that lit a ‘Fenian panic’ and both underlined and intensified sectarian tensions within the colonies. This article is based on the reports of approximately 250 ‘indignation meetings’ held across the different colonies in the weeks following the attempted assassination. It argues that by examining these sources a different interpretation of the significance of the event is made possible. As a ‘cultural trauma’, which initiated a widespread discussion of the nature of the political community, the attempted assassination not only uncovered latent divisions within colonial society, but also acted as a powerful stimulus to the articulation of commonalities. While the article pays attention to the divisions—sectarian ones, but also tensions inflected with class, ethnicity and gender—its principal focus is on identifying the common themes of the responses. Foremost among these was a complex vision of the Australian ‘nation’ and its relationship to Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century. Colonial elites were faced with the challenge of redefining loyalty within the context of responsible government, and the indignation meetings provide a powerful example of the ways in which this was done.
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Friendly Foreigners: International Warfare, Resident Aliens and the Early History of Denization in England, c.1250-c.1400
The search for the origins of the process of denization in England has traditionally focused on the needs of merchants and the context of international trade, and no credible explanation has been given for why denization emerged as a recognisable Chancery form in the 1380s and 1390s. A new consideration of wartime treatment of aliens demonstrates the slow emergence, between c.1250 and c.1400, of an official policy towards lay foreigners that sought to minimise the disruptions arising in moments of national emergency and to accord rights of denizen equivalence to foreigners whose presence was profitable to the realm. In certain exceptional conditions during the 1270s and 1340s, alien residents with good connections at court could secure more developed statements of their rights as denizens. However, it was a series of events set off by the announcement of an intention to expel all French residents in 1377–78 that generated letters of protection containing specific reference to a change of allegiance, and thus established the principle that the recipient should renounce his former commitment and became a subject of the English Crown. Applied to other nationalities and outside the immediate context of war, these developments would give rise to the form known as letters of denization during the decades that followed.
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‘Love beyond colour’: the formation of interracial gay men’s intimate relationships in post-apartheid South Africa
10.1080/14608944.2014.990957
Oluwafemi Adeagbo
Oluwafemi Adeagbo
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2014.990957#abstract?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
National art and Britain made real: the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
10.1080/14608944.2014.990958
Christopher G.A. Bryant
Christopher G.A. Bryant
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2014.990958#abstract?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R