France and the British Isles from 1640 to 1789

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Jettot ◽  
Vincent Meyzie
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Large Time ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Time Span ◽  
British History ◽  
English Channel ◽  
British Isles ◽  
British Case ◽  
National Approach

Among many, one the Atlantic history’s achievements has been to reconnect the metropolis to their colonial territories. There is still much work to be done, notably in France where the scholarship has for long been divided between the ancient regime specialists and the colonial historians. John Pocock’s Atlantic Archipelago has been instrumental in the creation of a new British history, which looks out to the open seas. But in retrospect, the Atlantic turn also helps to form a new understanding of the relations between France and Britain. The notion of otherness that has been famously used by Linda Colley to describe the Anglo-British enmities was first used to describe relations between the Europeans and non-Europeans in a colonial context. Furthermore, connected and transnational histories that have been applied to the Atlantic are now put to good use to Franco-British case. Comparisons between bordering regions appear to be at least as significant as national entities. The growth of a more European outlook is also having an impact on the old Franco-British couple. Relocated in a wider continental context, their relations are no longer described as the long and straight duel dating back from the Middle Age. As the limits of a strictly national approach became more apparent, more attention has been dedicated to the cultural transfers and the multifaceted circulation of individuals and knowledge. While the existence of hostile sentiments was beyond doubt, there was a wide gamut of transactions that united the French, the English, the Irish, and the Scottish in one way or another. As for the large time span, it starts with two major political upheavals, the first British Revolution and the Fronde and ends with the Industrial and the French Revolutions, the famous “dual Revolution” vindicated by E. Hobsbawm, which could be felt from both sides of the English Channel up to the French Revolution. Although 1640 and 1789 are no longer seen as definitive watershed, they still constitute a convenient time frame to elaborate on a very dynamic subject.

Liberty, Property and Popular Politics

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
British History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Thomas Paine ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
The University

Few scholars can claim to have shaped the historical study of the long eighteenth century more profoundly than Professor H. T. Dickinson, who, until his retirement in 2006, held the Sir Richard Lodge Chair of British History at the University of Edinburgh. This volume, based on contributions from Dickinson's students, friends and colleagues from around the world, offers a range of perspectives on eighteenth-century Britain and provides a tribute to a remarkable scholarly career. Dickinson's work and career provides the ideal lens through which to take a detailed snapshot of current research in a number of areas. The book includes contributions from scholars working in intellectual history, political and parliamentary history, ecclesiastical and naval history; discussions of major themes such as Jacobitism, the French Revolution, popular radicalism and conservatism; and essays on prominent individuals in English and Scottish history, including Edmund Burke, Thomas Muir, Thomas Paine and Thomas Spence. The result is a uniquely rich and detailed collection with an impressive breadth of coverage.

Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Questier
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Spiritual Authority ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Dynastic Politics ◽  
Public Politics

This volume deals with royal dynastic politics during the post-Reformation period. The royal succession and the business of marriage into other royal and princely families were central to public politics. But the Reformation raised questions in some parts of Europe about how far hereditary right was necessarily the key to deciding the path of the succession, and whether other issues might not be taken into account in identifying where and with whom royal power should be located and whether the sovereign should, under certain circumstances, have to make concessions to particular readings of spiritual authority. In that context, the claim here is not only that the conventional historiography on the Reformation in the British Isles fits, as it obviously does, into that account of dynastic politics but also that the substantial archival and printed records relating to post-Reformation Catholicism of various kinds can be reintegrated into mainstream versions of English and British history during the period.

scholarly journals VI—On the Cause of the Depression and Re-Elevation of the Land During the Glacial Period

1882 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 457-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Glacial Period ◽  
English Channel ◽  
British Isles

In England the ice seems to have been heaviest in Wales and the N.W., and lightest on the East and S.E., where it appears to have thinned off altogether, and the evidence of depression corresponds with this. If we draw a line from Dover to Anglesea, we find proof of great submergence in Wales, decreasing to zero as we approach the English Channel. and Prof. Hughes of Cambridge, in a recent paper “On the Evidence of the Later Movements of Elevation and Depression in the British Isles,” read before the Victoria Institute, says: “As we trace these movements north to the borders of the mountains, we find evidence of greater sinking and greater elevation.”

Accessions to Repositories 2000

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-226
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
British Isles ◽  
National Register ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Historical Manuscripts ◽  
E Mail

The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts (HMC) in its annual Accessions to Repositories exercise collects information relating to manuscript accessions from over 200 repositories and record offices throughout the British Isles. This information is then edited and used to produce a number of thematic digests which are distributed for publication in a wide range of learned journals and news sheets, as well as being published in full on the Commission's website (http://www.hmc.gov.uk). It is also added to the computerised indices to the National Register of Archives (NRA), which the Commission maintains as a central collecting point for information concerning the location of manuscript sources for British history outside of the public records. The NRA, which includes over 42,000 unpublished lists of archives, can be consulted in our public search room at Quality House, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1HP, whilst the indices to the NRA are also available via the HMC website. The Commission's staff will also answer limited and specific enquiries by post, fax (020 7831 3550) and e-mail: [email protected] should note that dates for records in this digest are given when known, but that these are covering dates which are not necessarily intended to indicate the presence of records for all intervening years. Records have been included in the digest regardless of whether the deposit has yet been fully listed, and readers are advised to check with the staff of the relevant repository as to whether this, or any other factors, may prohibit availability for research.

Gravity measurements in the English Channel

1952 ◽  
Vol 139 (896) ◽  
pp. 426-447 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Channel ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Gravity Measurements ◽  
Made In

In 1948 gravity measurements were made in a submarine at forty-three stations in the English Channel and at Portland, Devonport, Gosport and Cherbourg. There are also five stations in the area at which measurements were made in 1946. The anomalies are shown to be compatible with an interpretation of existing knowledge of the Mesozoic geology of the Channel basin provided that reasonable assumptions are made. An area of strong negative anomalies off the French coast in the Cherbourg-Le Havre area extends about half-way across the Channel. These must be explained by intracrustal masses. The anomalies show the same trend to positive values in the west as is found in the British Isles and northern France.

Ireland and France in 1848

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (96) ◽  
pp. 493-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. Petler
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
New Age ◽  
English Channel ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Revolution Of 1848 ◽  
The French Revolution

It has long been recognised that the French revolution of 1848 had a profound effect on the rest of Europe. The overthrow of the Orleans monarchy and the establishment of the second republic were seen as heralding the dawn of a new age. Established governments, most of which had recognised that the Continent was approaching a period of crisis, anxiously expected the spread of the revolutionary contagion and the outbreak of a major European war, whilst the discontented elements found encouragement and inspiration from the events in Paris. In Great Britain the reaction to the events across the English Channel reflected this trend. This is the beginning', noted one member of the cabinet, recalling 1792; who will live to see the end?' The Chartists were jubilant, declaring that the time was now ripe to achieve their demands.

Signs of Crisis, Fin-de-Siècle Doldrums, of Middle Age?

1994 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Field
Keyword(s):  
Energy Level ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Labor History ◽  
The State ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Basic Form ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Better Than

The New Labor History has, unexpectedly but inevitably, become middleaged. The mirror shows the same basic form, though more capacious and less taut than before. But the energy level is definitely lower; some of the enthusiasm is gone; newer, younger groups on the street have more “élan and purpose,” and are more fired up and politically engaged. There's pride in past achievements, of course, and plenty of consolation that the stuff now being turned out is better than ever.But the air contains a whiff of panic, an infectious sense that the best days are gone. Even the “oldfashioned” history, once so disdained, now seems to have redeeming points. Like Lord Melbourne in his dotage, labor historians wish they could be as sure of anything as they once were of everything. Marxism down the tubes, class stripped of its explanatory force, Lefebvre's French Revolution gathering dust, E. P. Thompson under attack. Where will it all end? Some blame an excess of theory for making the mind spin and the stomach queasy; they prescribe a strong dose of exercise in the archives. Others have begun to pin their hopes on the state or counsel premature retreat into institutions.

scholarly journals Multistage optimal homotopy asymptotic method for the K(2,2) equation arising in solitary waves theory

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (Spec. issue 2) ◽  
pp. 199-205
Author(s):  
Shah Ali ◽  
Imtiaz Ahmad ◽  
Hanaa Abu-Zinadah ◽  
Khedher Mohamed ◽  
Hijaz Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotic Method ◽  
Large Time ◽  
Approximate Analytical Solution ◽  
Variational Iteration Method ◽  
Time Span ◽  
Numerical Comparison ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Modern Physics ◽  
Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method ◽  
Linear Problems

The paper is concern to the approximate analytical solution of K(2,2) using the multistage homotopy asymptotic method which are used in modern physics and engineering. The suggested algorithm is an accurate, effective, and simple to-utilize semi-analytic tool for non-linear problems, and in this manner the current investigation highlights the efficiency and accuracy of the method for the solution of non-linear PDE for large time span. Numerical comparison with the variational iteration method and with homotopy asymptotic method shows the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method.

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