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We’re excited to announce the Histories Best PhD Thesis Award! 📅Application deadline: 31 May 2026 🎊Winner announcement: 31 July 2026 🥇The Prize: 🔸CHF 1000; 🔸An electronic certificate; 🔸A voucher to waive the Article Processing Charges 🔗brnw.ch/21wVczL

🚢 The coast of the Kingdom of Seville held strategic importance on the Med–Atlantic route, attracting fleets & merchant nations. This article explores how Genoese consuls in Seville defended their nation’s interests amid maritime conflicts. 🔗 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVoNk

🥛 #Pulque, a traditional Mexican fermented drink with deep #cultural & #ethnographic roots, was sacred to pre-Columbian civilizations. This review explores its production, symbolism, & evolving role in modern Mexico. 🌵✨ 📖 Read more: brnw.ch/21wVvhg

🔍 New study traces the ideological ties between Max Nordau, Ignác Goldziher & A.S. Yahuda—unpacking modern Jewish identity, Zionism & Sephardism at the turn of the 20th c. 📖 brnw.ch/21wVQmZ #Zionism #JewishHistory #Sephardism #ArabJewishRelations

📢 Call for Submissions This issue invites humanities and social sciences research exploring how #memory and #trauma studies have reshaped and been reshaped by #women’s and #FeministHistory and by cultural studies since the 1990s. 📖 brnw.ch/21wVZdW

⚽ New ethnographic study on #MelbourneCroatiaFans (MCF), a passionate Croatian–Australian ultras group supporting #MelbourneKnights in Victoria’s second-tier league, explores identity, community, & resilience amid club’s exclusion from the A-League. 📖brnw.ch/21wW3kb

🇺🇳 On 10 Dec 1948, the #UN adopted the #UniversalDeclarationofHumanRights — a groundbreaking moment in history. Though seen as timeless now, #HumanRights were a new concept then. This paper explores political & religious shifts that shaped human rights. brnw.ch/21wW5C4

🕯️ #WebCemeteries are transforming how we remember the dead, turning monologic obituaries into dialogic, communal memorials. New paper explores their untapped value for #SportHistorians. 📖 brnw.ch/21wW71u

🔸New study explores #RacialMixing in 18th-century St. Augustine & New Orleans through #BaptismalRecords of #AfroDescendants. 🔍Using a critical intersectionality lens, it reveals how race, gender & legal status shaped inequality. 📖 brnw.ch/21wW72m

🔥Did you know #SpontaneousHumanCombustion, today scientifically discredited, was considered a legitimate medical entity in Europe beginning in the 17th century? This study traces how #SpanishMedicalDiscourse evolved—from exposure to debate to rejection. 📖brnw.ch/21wWo5H

💥MDPI hosted the first-ever #MDPISummit in Germany. 🔗brnw.ch/21wWrSZ 🤝Among the many valuable exchanges, our Managing Editor had the wonderful opportunity to meet with our Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Matteo Valleriani, and Section Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Helge Wendt.

🔸 The Virgin Mary’s image grows prominent in 12th-13th century Albigensian Crusade texts. 📚 Comparing Historia Albigensis, Chronica, & Canso de la Crozada reveals how authors used Mary differently against #Cathars. Dive in: brnw.ch/21wWvGV

🔸 The 20-year #Indonesia occupation of #EastTimor sparks debate in #GenocideStudies—genocide or not? This article challenges the concept of genocide itself, revealing its limits within global legal systems rooted in #imperialism. 📖 Read more: brnw.ch/21wWE13

🔸New article explores #PenalPhilosophy through the lens of early Christian monastic traditions. From #PenitentialRituals to modern prisons, it critiques punishment using a theological metanarrative, moral ontology & the reality of sin. 📖 Read: brnw.ch/21wWLCw

👋🏻Meet us at the 2025 Annual Meetings, hosted by the SBL and the AAR! 📅22 to 25 November 2025 🌎Hynes Convention Center, in Boston, MA, USA If you plan to attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth #️⃣6️⃣3️⃣0️⃣. 🔗brnw.ch/21wWPMV.

📌 #Postcolonialism has shaped #InternationalRelations for decades, challenging mainstream IR and connecting with #nonWesternIR perspectives. This article presents a historical categorization of postcolonial interventions on world #politics. 📖 Read more: brnw.ch/21wX004

📑 This paper explores #ColonialUrbanism in the Americas, showing how the City of Mexico fused #Castilian planning with the spatial logic of #MexicoTenochtitlan. A paradigm of hybrid urbanism shaped #SpanishAmerica. 🌎🏛️ 📖 Read more: brnw.ch/21wX04d

New research revisits #AmericanPrisons’ labour history, challenging the view that early prison rebellions were “apolitical.” A microhistory of the 1932 Attica strike shows inmates brought their own #PoliticalPragmatism shaped by interwar crime networks. 📖 brnw.ch/21wXa14

☀️ Before #Galileo, could sunspots be seen? Pinhole cameras & rare naked-eye views hinted at them centuries earlier, but the #SpörerMinimum (1460–1550) delayed their discovery. This study revisits early solar observations from Florence to modern times. 🔭 brnw.ch/21wXohv

This paper examines the post-#WWII era of rapid #EconomicGrowth, driven by the #MarshallPlan, #Keynesian policies, tech advances & trade. It also explores #WelfareState expansion, #EconomicInequalities, social tensions & the seeds of 1970s instability. 📖 brnw.ch/21wXyWy