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2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Newman

'Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London' reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England’s capital. In 1655 White Londoners began advertising in the English-speaking world’s first newspapers for enslaved people who had escaped. Based on the advertisements placed in these newspapers by masters and enslavers offering rewards for so-called runaways, this book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies of individual "freedom-seekers", this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts as well as detailing the likely routes and networks they would take to gain their freedom. The book demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. An unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain’s colonial past.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian W.D. Dalziel ◽  
Lawrence A. Lawver

ABSTRACT The original location and tectonic setting of the prominent Paleocene dike swarm in the British Isles are reconstructed for a “tight fit” of the North Atlantic region prior to any Cenozoic opening of the ocean basin between Greenland and Europe. The present-day northwest-southeast–oriented swarm originally trended toward southern Greenland and the locations of magmatic rocks of comparable age along the eastern and western margins of Greenland and approximately the position of the Iceland hotspot at 70–60 Ma in a “fixed hotspot” model. This raises the possibility that the northeast-southwest–oriented extensional stress field in which the dikes and associated central igneous complexes were emplaced may have been generated by impingement on the base of the lithosphere by a rising plume beneath present-day West Greenland. It is speculated, on the basis of seismic tomography and three-dimensional modeling, that the Paleocene igneous activity in the British Isles may have resulted from flow of a hot “finger” of upper mantle outward from the plume, perhaps controlled by preexisting lithospheric structures and the distant location of a second Paleocene volcanic province in central Europe.


2022 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 105516
Author(s):  
Michael I. Bird ◽  
Jordahna Haig ◽  
Sean Ulm ◽  
Christopher Wurster

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Kitchener ◽  
Alan Leslie ◽  
Peter Leonard
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A study of populations of Tournefort’s Willowherb, Epilobium tetragonum L. subsp. tournefortii (Michalet) Lév., a non-native taxon naturalised in Cambridgeshire, revealed the presence of plants which on the basis of their morphology were attributed to hybrids with native willowherbs Epilobium parviflorum Schreb. (Hoary Willowherb), Epilobium tetragonum L. subsp. tetragonum (Square-stalked Willowherb) and Epilobium hirsutum L. (Great Willowherb). Details of distinguishing characters are given. The hybrid taxa have not previously been recorded as such in the British Isles.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Richard Huzzey ◽  
Henry Miller

Abstract Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This article assesses the significance, variety, and context of petitioning to the Imperial Parliament from both the British Isles and the colonies. To do so, we present new data drawn from more than one million petitions sent to the House of Commons in the period from 1780 to 1918, alongside qualitative research into a wider range of petitions to other metropolitan sources of authority. This range permits us to assess how colonial subjects across the empire demanded attention from Westminster and what the practice of petitioning reveals about the British self-image of parliamentary scrutiny and equality before the law.


2021 ◽  
pp. 132-147
Author(s):  
Dominic Perring

This chapter describes London’s later Flavian architectural development, elements of which may have marked and celebrated the political maturity of the city. London’s first forum was probably built around the time of Agricola’s long governorship of Britain. Circumstantial evidence suggests that this building was erected c. AD 79/80. It could have accompanied the grant of formal urban status and the creation of the institutions of local self-government, although this remains uncertain. The contents of a legal judgement inscribed on a writing tablet suggests that London did not hold autonomous status in AD 76. Other public buildings and works included large public baths, one probably built c. AD 84 that has alternatively been identified as part of the governor’s palace. London may have benefitted from the architectural patronage of the emperor Domitian, executed on his behalf by the procurator, intended to grace Britain’s capital city following the completion of the conquest of the British Isles.


2021 ◽  
pp. 311-337
Author(s):  
Christine Jackson

The final decade of Herbert’s life was dominated by the breakdown in relations between Charles I and the English Parliament and the outbreak of civil war throughout the British Isles. Chapter 14 traces Herbert’s support for Charles’s military campaigns against the Scots and his cautious support for the king in parliamentary debate in the House of Lords in 1642 which led to his brief imprisonment. It explores his decision to avoid involvement in civil war preparations and hostilities during 1642–3 and his refusal to accept a royalist garrison for Montgomery Castle and surrender of the strategically important fortress to a parliamentary army in 1644. It examines Herbert’s political and constitutional views and considers to what extent he genuinely supported the political agenda of either king or Parliament and whether his behaviour was typical of the nobility. It presents his perceived treachery within its wider political context, places him among the growing number of noblemen who switched their allegiance to Parliament during 1644 and 1645, and acknowledges his success in convincing Parliament of his loyalty and securing repossession of Montgomery Castle. It examines Herbert’s continuing commitment to writing and publishing academic treatises and considers the purpose of his autobiography and Latin advice poem. It explores Herbert’s declining health, parliamentary attendance, visit to Paris, and relations with friends and family during his final years and ends with his much discussed deathbed drama in August 1648.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Goodman ◽  
Enrico Crema ◽  
Francis Nolan ◽  
Emma Cohen ◽  
Robert Foley

Accents, along with other cultural features including shared place of origin, helped to increase the number of people with whom an individual could signal cooperative tendencies (Cohen, 2012). Yet as groups became larger and underwent continued fission and fusion, signals of group membership may have become more important to reduce the risk of infiltration (Foley, 2004). We would expect, as the risk of imposters grew along with group size, for signals of group membership to become more complex, and for true group members to become adept at recognising false signals (McElreath et al., 2003). Here we are exploring how well people who speak naturally in 7 specific regions of the British Isles detect mimicry of their own accent. Our findings suggest that individuals are better than chance at detecting accent-mimicry of their own native accents, supporting this evolutionary account.


2021 ◽  
pp. 53-98
Author(s):  
Cathleen Sarti
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