Laughter and the Comic in the Soviet Film Comedy of the 1960s-1970s by Salnikova Ekaterina V.

“…The author of the article notes the influence of the research of Russian folklorists and cultural historians on the interpretation of the 20th century art and captures the humanitarian trend towards searching for primarily archetypal situations and images in contemporary art, Soviet film comedy included. …”
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TINJAUAN SEJARAH TERHADAP NASKAH DAN TEKS KITAB PENGETAHUAN BAHASA, KAMUS LOGAT MELAYU JOHOR PAHANG RIAU LINGGA KARYA RAJA ALI HAJI by Ellya Roza

“…Kingdom of Riau in the 19th century recognized by many historians as the center of culture and intellectual development. …”
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Events of Prut Campaign according to Reports of English Diplomat Charles Whitworth to Secretary of State S. John by S. S. Kolegov

“…The relevance of the study is due to the fact that at present relations between the Russian Federation and Turkey have entered a new stage of development, which means that the history of their contacts cannot but attract the attention of historians. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that earlier researchers paid little attention to how foreign observers assessed the events of the Prut campaign. …”
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Origin and Development of Higher Professional Education System in Russia: Problem of Periodization by V. N. Mamyachenkov

“…The scientific novelty of the work is seen in the fact that it explores a problem relatively poorly developed by historians of science, formulates possible reasons for this, as well as criticizes the existing models of periodization of the Russian HPES. …”
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Revision of the sources; critical analysis of Greek narratives of the death of Cyrus II by Esmaeil Sangari, Milad Heydari, Javad Choupaniyan

“…The most important sources which provide a clear picture of his life, are the Greek historians’ works and their posterities’ in the next periods. …”
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Background conditions to the outbreak of the First World War by Choucri, Nazli

“…Our intent is not to improve upon the historical accounts of a period which has been ably investigated by distinguished historians such as Sidney Fay and Luigi Albertini, nor to reopen old controversies about national responsibility and war guilt. …”
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Mathematical semantics: a dual history? 1965-1975 by Loh, Yi Fong

“…In concluding, I discuss how my historical account and its historiography sheds light on the history of computer science, especially with regard to the history of formal methods that mathematical semantics is a part of how historians can bring technical and sociohistorical perspectives into closer conversation with each other.…”
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Nature for the nation: locating the natural world in Meiji discourses on nation-building by Lew, Jean Zhi Jun

“…Current historiography on the natural world in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) primarily focuses on exploring reconfigurations to the broad concept of “nature,” and demonstrating how these reconfigurations occurred in the sociopolitical context of nation-building of the time. Yet, in doing so, historians often neglected material conceptions of nature and how these conceptions were also renegotiated throughout the Meiji period. …”
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A war in all but name: expanding the timeline of conflict in the Malayan emergency by Ho, Benjamin

“…The Malayan Emergency to this day remains a highly contentious and politicized conflict, in which historians, governments, and those who fought in it are eager to make sense of it all. …”
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The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland by Smith, Janet

“…Finally it offers further evidence to challenge the claim made by some historians that all British Victorian feminists were imperialist in nature.…”
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Containing Eve’s daughters? The education, fashioning and socialisation of women within three elite households of the West Country c. 1525-1660. by Bowness, C

“…It encourages local historians to conduct further research, on individual women, in their own regions, to provide further evidence to refute claims that elite women received little or no education in early modern England.…”

The life of nuns: love, politics, and religion in medieval German convents by Lähnemann, H, Schlotheuber, E

“…<p>In the Middle Ages half of those who chose the religious life were women, yet historians have overlooked entire generations of educated, feisty, capable and enterprising nuns, condemning them to the dusty silence of the archives. …”

Commerce and experience in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean : the market dynamics, commercial culture and naval protection of English trade to Aleppo by Dickie, T

“…It is intended for economic historians with an interest in market exchange.</p> <p>In the Introduction, I review the historiography of commerce and, principally, the interaction between centres of international trade in western Europe and other regions of the world. …”

Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London? by Humphries, J, Leunig, T

“…Perhaps the most fruitful use of height in historical analyses may turn out to be as an explanatory variable; at the very least such a research strategy provides anthropometric historians with further opportunities.…”

Pierre de Belloy (c. 1550-1611): politics, polemic, and political thought during the French wars of religion by Innes, M

“…Although Belloy is known to historians as a theorist of absolute kingship, his writing on obedience and resistance is more notable for its manipulation of Étienne de la Boétie’s La servitude volontaire than for any theory of sovereignty within it. …”

'Ambushed by victory': allied strategy on how to win the First World War by McCrae, M

“…The abrupt ending of the war has obscured historians' understanding of coalition warfare in the First World War, as they have not sufficiently considered the serious planning that took place for 1919.…”

Feigned madness in the Greco-Roman world by Hamnett, G

“…The corpus is dominated by sources from the early Imperial Period (from the end of the first century BCE to the end of the second century CE), which was a time of political transformation characterised by some ancient historians as a period of deliberate deception, hypocrisy and loss of freedom. …”

The political career of Sir Francis Burdett by Hodlin, C

“…</p> <p>The thesis argues that Burdett was not a wildly inconsistent politician, a view shared by contemporaries and historians, but was the very model of an early eighteenth century country gentleman. …”

Toponymic strata in Ancient Nubian placenames in the Third and Second Millenium BCE: a view from Egyptian records by Cooper, J

“…</p> <br/> <p>This article attempts to make a contribution not so much to the location of toponyms in ancient Nubia, as is the preoccupation of most philologists and historians, but rather outline the various linguistic strata of toponyms present in ancient Nubia and what they tell us about the linguistic history of the Middle Nile. …”

Pierre de L'Estoile and his world in the wars of religion, 1546-1611 by Hamilton, T

“…It argues that the story of his life and times is the history of the civil wars in the making. While historians and literary scholars depend on L’Estoile’s diaries as an essential source of information, citing him as a mere passive observer, this thesis instead explores his subjectivity and interprets a wide range of hitherto unseen or neglected manuscript evidence that situates him in the Parisian society of royal office-holders and demonstrates his significance in the republic of letters. …”