The Estonian-language University of Tartu, which opened in the late autumn of 1919, was to become both the educational temple of Estonia and its main research centre. To confirm this principle, the University of Tartu Act adopted in 1925 explicitly prescribed that the task of the University, in addition to providing higher education, was also to promote scholarship in general, especially in regard to Estonian life, and to bring science closer to the people. In addition to the University’s various research institutions, academic societies operating at the university also played a vital role in promoting that ‘scholarship in general, especially in regard to Estonian life’. In total, thirty-seven academic societies were founded at the University of Tartu between 1920 and 1939. Of these, the most important in terms of scholarly activity were the Academic Historical Society (1920), the Academic Mother Tongue Society (1920), the Academic Agricultural Society (1920), the Academic Society of Religious Studies (1921), the Academic Forestry Society (1921), the Academic Veterinary Society (1922), the Academic Medical Society (1922), the Academic Philosophical Society (1922), the Academic Chemistry Society (1923), the Academic Economics Society (1923), the Academic Law Society (1924), the Academic Literary Society (1924), the Academic Herbal Science Society (1924), the Academic Folklore Society (1925), and the Academic Mathematics Society (1926). In addition to the above, it is also necessary to mention the scientific organisations that had already previously been operating in connection with the University – especially the Learned Estonian Society (1838), the Estonian Naturalists’ Society (1853), and the Estonian Literary Society (1907). This article focuses on the activities of the Academic Historical Society, which was founded at the initiative of Arno Rafael Cederberg, in the years 1920–28, and on its goals and achievements in the context of the development of Estonian historical science. Cederberg was not convinced that the foundation of Estonian historical science could be based only on research conducted at the university. As such, he decided to found the first Estonian Academic Historical Society right after his arrival in Tartu in the early 1920s. While the primary goal of this society was to get students interested in history, particularly Estonian history, the society quickly developed into the centre of Estonian historical science. He started hosting conferences where young Estonian historians and students, as well as experienced scholars, were able to present their research. In 1922, the Society began awarding a scholarship each year to 5–10 students so they could spend the summer holiday in particular regions gathering oral reports from the local population. This method was used to catalogue all of Estonia within a decade. In 1922, the Academic Historical Society started publishing Estonia’s first reputable historical scholarly journal cal
爱沙尼亚语的塔尔图大学于1919年深秋开学,它将成为爱沙尼亚的教育殿堂和主要研究中心。为了确认这一原则,1925年通过的《塔尔图大学法》明确规定,大学的任务除了提供高等教育外,还要促进一般的学术研究,特别是关于爱沙尼亚人生活的学术研究,并使科学更接近人民。除了该大学的各种研究机构外,该大学的学术团体在促进“一般学术,特别是关于爱沙尼亚生活的学术”方面也发挥了至关重要的作用。1920年至1939年间,塔尔图大学总共成立了37个学术团体。其中,在学术活动方面最重要的是学术历史学会(1920年)、学术母语学会(1920年)、学术农业学会(1920年)、宗教研究学会(1921年)、学术林业学会(1921年)、学术兽医学会(1922年)、学术医学学会(1922年)、学术哲学学会(1922年)、学术化学学会(1923年)、学术经济学会(1923年)、学术法学学会(1924年)、学术文学学会(1924年)、学术草药学会(1924年)、学术民俗学会(1925年)和学术数学学会(1926年)。除上述外,还有必要提到以前已经与大学有联系的科学组织- -特别是爱沙尼亚学术协会(1838年)、爱沙尼亚自然主义者协会(1853年)和爱沙尼亚文学协会(1907年)。这篇文章的重点是学术历史学会的活动,它是在阿尔诺拉斐尔Cederberg的倡议下成立的,在1920-28年,在爱沙尼亚历史科学发展的背景下,它的目标和成就。Cederberg不相信爱沙尼亚历史科学的基础只能建立在大学进行的研究上。因此,他在20世纪20年代初抵达塔尔图后,就决定建立第一个爱沙尼亚学术历史学会。虽然该学会的主要目标是让学生对历史,特别是爱沙尼亚历史感兴趣,但该学会很快发展成为爱沙尼亚历史科学的中心。他开始举办会议,年轻的爱沙尼亚历史学家和学生,以及经验丰富的学者,能够展示他们的研究。1922年,该协会开始每年向5-10名学生颁发奖学金,让他们在暑假期间到特定地区收集当地居民的口头报告。这种方法被用来在十年内对爱沙尼亚全境进行分类。1922年,学术历史学会开始出版爱沙尼亚第一本著名的历史学术期刊《爱沙尼亚历史期刊》。该杂志每季度出版一次,内容包括学术文章、重要的考古发现、杰出的芬兰和斯堪的纳维亚历史学家简介、对理论问题的一般性讨论以及对研究论文和出版物的评论。Cederberg还帮助协调了爱沙尼亚历史科学进一步发展的几项重要任务。从20世纪20年代中期开始,爱沙尼亚历史书目和爱沙尼亚传记词典在学术历史学会的支持下发布,以及一系列版本和来源出版物。从20世纪20年代末开始,Cederberg还领导了《爱沙尼亚国史》(the estonia National History)的广泛写作工作。正如爱沙尼亚共和国档案的组织和国立大学爱沙尼亚和北欧历史研究方案的发展一样,在Ceder-berg的倡议下成立的学术历史学会及其各种出版物对爱沙尼亚历史的协调和发展具有决定性的重要性。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-19DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X22000334
Tania Shew
Abstract The first two decades of the twentieth century saw the development of a meaningful transnational movement to employ birth strikes in the fight for women's rights. In an Anglo-American context, this movement was intimately tied to the women's suffrage campaign. It was led by a network of suffragists, Neo-Malthusians, and birth control campaigners who shared literary and personal ties which allowed their ideas to criss-cross the Atlantic between 1911 and 1920. Although the transatlantic birth strike was never implemented on a significant scale, explaining its almost total absence within existing historiography, this article uses a gendered intellectual history framework to piece together the ideas behind the movement which, the article argues, disrupt established understanding of Neo-Malthusianism and socialist-feminism within intellectual histories. Support for birth striking was predicated on faith in the power of working-class collective action, scrutiny of the economic exploitation of both productive and ‘reproductive’ workers, and a corresponding mistrust in the efficacy of state involvement with these issues. The birth strikers wove together strands from collectivist, individualist, socialist, and feminist thought, undermining traditional historiographical depictions of binaries between socialism and suffragism and collectivism and individualism in early twentieth-century political thought.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X21000844
Jennifer Crane
Abstract This article examines a niche space: youth clubs created by small voluntary organizations for ‘gifted children’ in 1970s and 1980s Britain. It asks how individualism shaped everyday life and demonstrates how youth culture was much broader than just the permissiveness that dominates the literature. Gifted children are currently missing from accounts of modern Britain, which focus on mainstream educational categories. Yet, including them in our analysis provides new insights into the diversity of youth cultures that existed in these decades. Drawing on new uncatalogued archives, and centrally poetry, letters, and stories from young people themselves, the article shows that conservative and radical visions co-existed. Young people shaped their own culture, subverting and challenging ideas of themselves as distinctive future leaders.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X2200022X
Luca Scholz
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X22000310
Kate Law
Abstract Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case-study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1986, LWAA were comprised of a dedicated nucleus of activists, and were concerned with imbuing international solidarity with a tangible meaning. To LWAA, solidarity had a quantifiable basis that could be articulated through the collection of material aid and the raising of funds. The first attempt to ‘gender’ the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, this article argues for the importance of reconceptualizing women's activism, whilst also reflecting on the ‘value’ ascribed to their political engagement. As the example of LWAA shows, by organizing from an ‘autonomous outside position’, the group did so as a prosaic reaction to the realities of working with a masculinist movement. Furthermore, as is shown, while the movement may have been united by a commitment to anti-racism, matters of sexual equality were certainly understood as secondary, and were seen – on both the national and local level – as an unwanted interpolation. In a broader sense then, the article also reflects on the ‘problem’ of gender in progressive social movements.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X22000309
Brodie Waddell
Abstract Beginning in 1689, England was struck by not one but three economic shocks. First, the war against France – Europe's greatest military power – attracted swarms of hostile warships and privateers that heavily damaged English maritime trade, while military expenses also led to a doubling of the tax burden. Second, wartime conditions and government mismanagement sparked a currency crisis in 1695–7 that halted much domestic commerce and caused a run on the recently founded Bank of England. Third, William III's reign brought rapid inflation in the cost of the necessities of life, especially food and fuel, which resulted in prolonged widespread hunger from 1693 onwards. Yet, these hardships have rarely received more than a passing mention in political histories of the Glorious Revolution and do not fit easily into the narratives of economic expansion in the later Stuart period. Close analysis of these ‘hard times’ demonstrates the limits of histories that emphasize long-term developments over short-term crises. Using evidence from a wide range of local and national archives, this article shows the impact of these shocks on the lives of ordinary people.
从1689年开始,英国遭受了不止一次而是三次经济冲击。首先,对法国的战争——欧洲最强大的军事力量——吸引了大量敌对的军舰和私掠船,严重破坏了英国的海上贸易,同时军事开支也导致税收负担增加了一倍。其次,战争条件和政府管理不善引发了1695年至1697年的货币危机,导致国内大部分商业活动暂停,并导致最近成立的英格兰银行(Bank of England)出现挤兑。第三,威廉三世的统治带来了生活必需品价格的快速通货膨胀,尤其是食物和燃料,这导致了从1693年开始的长期大范围饥荒。然而,这些困难在光荣革命的政治史上很少被提及,也不容易融入斯图亚特王朝后期经济扩张的叙述中。对这些“艰难时期”的仔细分析表明,强调长期发展而非短期危机的历史存在局限性。本文利用大量来自地方和国家档案的证据,展示了这些冲击对普通人生活的影响。
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Pub Date : 2022-11-17DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X22000279
Callan Davies
Abstract This article recognizes the significance of commercial entertainment producers in early modern England operating outside of London. In doing so, it offers fresh methodological approaches for understanding pre-modern social status. I explore the geographical and social places of independent bearwards – individuals who kept bears for the commercial sport of baiting. Regional figures involved in entertainment production have been little explored and left behind frustratingly few biographical details. Yet three generations of one family – the Whitestones of Ormskirk in Lancashire (1610s through the 1630s) – do leave substantial surviving documentary evidence about their activities, assets, and networks. I use the Whitestones's probate inventories and wills and their and their neighbours’ court depositions and petitions to offer for the first time a holistic appraisal of the material, economic, and cultural circumstances of the bearward. By stepping inside the households and communities of several generations of independent entertainment producers, we can appreciate their complex and variable social status and the role of commercial recreation in social mobility. I finish by considering the human–animal relationships that underpinned the bearward's place in early modern England, offering fresh evidence of bears’ living arrangements and a theoretical framework for discussing their exploitation in the blood sport industry.
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