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This roundtable explores four historical episodes in the history of state–university relations in the United States. In doing so, it addresses issues that also figure prominently in present-day debates, including questions of academic freedom and free speech, the state's role in research funding as well as the international features of higher education. Convened by the journal's editor, the roundtable features individual contributions from four historians, each of whom focuses on a particular document and moment in time: a 1912 report from the US Commissioner of Education, Philander Claxton, that indicated a shift towards an internationalization strategy (Charlotte Lerg); a 1915 statement on academic freedom by the American Association of University Professors (Tomás Irish); Vannevar Bush's 1945 report on Science – the Endless Frontier (Christopher Loss); and a ‘Joint Statement on Rights and Freedoms of Students’ from 1967 (Kate Ballantyne). Taken together, these pieces point to a wider question – namely the role and public value that different political and academic actors attribute to academic research and higher education – and to the institutions and individuals that are engaged in it.

Lucy Parsons was one of the most famous radical orators of the United States, but little has been written about her visit to Britain. This article investigates Parsons's lecture tour of Britain in the winter of 1888, based on an invitation from the Socialist League to address meetings to commemorate the Haymarket Affair and tour the country to speak more broadly about the labour movement and working conditions in America. It considers the political lecture tour as a tool to conduct revolutionary activism at a crucial time in the development of the British socialist movement, while also understanding Parsons as a transnational anarchist activist and speaker in her own right. A widowed Black working-class woman activist of few means who navigated stages and territories which did not tend to welcome women of any colour, Parsons employed different rhetorical strategies to get her revolutionary message to as wide an audience as possible. Notwithstanding her pioneering role in crossing the Atlantic to deliver revolutionary propaganda to British audiences, in the political history of Black America Parsons remained a complicated and sometimes divisive figure for prioritizing issues of class over race. Nonetheless, over more than six decades on the political stage, Parsons was an extraordinary figure who articulated counter-hegemonic notions of internationalism.

The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration. An earlier approach to the papacy by Alexios’ predecessor, Michael VII, has also been highlighted. One piece of evidence has been neglected, however. According to Benzo of Alba, as early as 1062, Emperor Constantine X sent a letter to the anti-pope Honorius II in which oblique mention is made of the liberation of Jerusalem. This document has usually been regarded as a fabrication designed to advance Benzo's own agenda. By contrast, this article considers whether Benzo's text might in fact be his rendering of a genuine Byzantine letter, full of errors and misunderstandings, but retaining elements of the original. On that basis, three areas in which the 1062 embassy may be of significance will be explored: Constantine X's response to the changing situation in Italy during the 1060s, Byzantine attempts to link ecclesiastical reconciliation to an anti-Norman alliance, and a possible early example of exploitation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre to bring in aid against new enemies in the east. On the basis of the last point, it will be suggested that Byzantine involvement in the genesis of the First Crusade may have begun over thirty years before it was launched.

Daniel Laqua, ‘History in the Making: News from the Editors’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 290–7. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70019

Surya Bowyer, Shreya Gupta, Liberty Paterson and Niti Acharya, ‘State of the (Future) Field: The History of Collecting and Its Institutions’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 298–325. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13434

Zoe Cormack, ‘The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 326–45. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13439

Peter Overlack, ‘Wedge Politics: The Japanese Factor in Germany's Asian Policy, 1895–1914’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 346–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13435

Yiannos Katsourides and Eleni Evagorou, ‘Mobilizing Underground: The Case of the Cypriot Communist Party AKEL in Colonial Cyprus (1955–59)’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 364–92. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13442

Patrick A. Nyathi, ‘Exploring Forced Removals and Dispossession in the Dukuduku Forest, KwaZulu Natal, before and after 1994’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 393–412. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13438

Sarah Holland, David Ingledew, Sarah Longair and Tracey Loughran, ‘History Academics Working with Schools: Insights from the UK’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 413–27. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70015

Laura O'Brien, Revisiting the Radical Revolution? A Review of the Exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire (Musée Carnavalet, Paris)’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 428–34. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70018

Nigel Saul, ‘Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford and Duke of Ireland (1362–1392). The Rise and Fall of a Royal Favourite. By James Ross’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 435–6. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70005

Jenni Hyde, ‘Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England. By Richard Rastell with Andrew Taylor’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 437–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70010

Matthew Woodcock, ‘Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading: Essays by Lisa Jardine and Others. Edited by Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper, and William Sherman’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 439–40. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13447

Alex Beeton, ‘Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England. By Samuel Fullerton’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 441–2. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13433

Thomas Parkinson, ‘Colonising Disability: Impairment and Otherness across Britain and Its Empire, c.1800–1914. By Esme Cleall’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 443–4. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13446

Jeremy Black, ‘Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London. By Amy Helen Bell’, History, 110/391 (2025), p. 445. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70002

Craig Gerrard, ‘How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War. By Kimmo Rentola’, History, 110/391 (2025), pp. 446–8. h

This Forum piece highlights the value of collaborations between history academics and schools. It is based on recent work within History UK, an organization that promotes the interests of historians working within UK higher education, and it also highlights recent work within the Historical Association (HA). As school–university collaborations offer multiple opportunities, the article brings together different perspectives, including two case studies. The first case study summarizes experiences from an HA Teacher Fellowship that formed part of a wider project on ‘The People of 1381’, with school-focused activities complementing other forms of public engagement. The second case study discusses how research and university-based teaching on ‘Objects of Empire’ generated school sessions aimed at Year 8 students. Following on from these two specific examples, the Forum piece presents insights into how different forms of schools-related activities developed public impact, as defined by, and captured in, the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF).

The recent exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris marked the first exhibition on the subject of the French Revolution since the museum reopened in 2021 after a five-year period of renovation. Examining politics, culture and everyday life in the tumultuous ‘Year Two’ of the French Revolution, Paris 1793–1794 revisits the contested legacy of the revolution's radical phase.

In October 2024, the management of History: The Journal of the Historical Association moved to a team based at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne. This editorial outlines plans for the journal, including some that are already reflected in contributions to the present edition. Moreover, it situates this ongoing work within broader contexts, both in terms of the institutional settings for history teaching and research in the United Kingdom and with regard to the Historical Association's aspiration to promote engagement with the past in multiple ways.