Abigail Mansfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 359032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abigail Mansfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abigail |
| FAMILY NAME | Mansfield |
| SIGNATURE | MANSFIELD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7763-9991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Increasing inclusion for ethnic minority students by teaching the British Empire and global history in the English history curriculum
From 2020, the long-standing debate regarding the English national curriculum’s capacity to discuss issues of ethnicity and race escalated. The history subject curriculum particularly is seen as excluding ethnic minorities from an ‘Island Story’ often depicting a White Anglocentric identity disassociated with the wider world. In 2021, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report declared that secondary school education must play a central…
In the Shadow of the Gods
Journal Article In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History, by Dominic Lieven Get access In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History, by Dominic Lieven (London: Allen Lane, 2022; pp. 528. £35). Andrew Mansfield Andrew Mansfield University of Sussex, Brighton, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-9991 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical R…
The First Earl of Shaftesbury's Resolute Conscience and Aristocratic Constitutionalism
This article provides a reappraisal of the first earl of Shaftesbury (1621–83) and challenges his reputation as an unprincipled politician. Conversely, it is argued that Shaftesbury's opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’. While there was certainly elasticity in his conduct, Shaftesbury was very much the product of a political education framed during the Civil W…
King of the World. The Life of Louis XIV
The longest reigning monarch in European history, Louis XIV (1638–1715), ruled France from 1643 until his death. His reign encompassed a period of immense transformation and tumult, not only in France but also across Europe, and Louis’ pre-eminence among Europe’s monarchs proved to be a catalyst for a great deal of this change. Seen as the apotheosis of monarchical ‘absolutism’, whether real or symbolic, his power and desire to aggrandize France …
The Burgundy Circle's plans to undermine Louis XIV's “absolute” state through polysynody and the high nobility
Louis the duc de Bourgogne (1686 – 1712), grandson of Louis XIV, was briefly Dauphin of France before his premature death from measles. Advised by a group of noted former tutors and members of the court, Bourgogne’s Circle devised a range of plans to reform the French state under his future rule. Opposing the centralising model of sovereignty pursued by Louis XIV, the Circle intended to expand government, decentralise power into the provinces, re…
Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788
To reach its current position in historiography, Jacobite studies has undertaken an arduous journey from Whiggish dismissal to a begrudging acceptance in the wider fields of British and European history. This process is still ongoing, but has made considerable headway since the 1970s through the efforts of notable scholars such as Edward Corp, Eveline Cruickshanks, Bruce Lenman, Jeremy Black, J.C.D. Clark, Daniel Szechi, Paul Kleber Monod and Mur…
Aristocratic Reform and the Extirpation of Parliament in Early Georgian Britain
In 'An Essay upon Civil Government' (1722), Andrew Michael Ramsay mounted a sustained attack upon the development throughout English history of popular government. According to Ramsay, popular involvement in sovereignty had led to the decline of society and the revolutions of the seventeenth century. In his own time, Parliament had become a despotic instrument of government, riven with faction and driven by a multiplicity of laws that manifested …
Unpacking the Practice of Intellectual Assessment
Aristocratic Reform and the Extirpation of Parliament in Early Georgian Britain
In 'An Essay upon Civil Government' (1722), Andrew Michael Ramsay mounted a sustained attack upon the development throughout English history of popular government. According to Ramsay, popular involvement in sovereignty had led to the decline of society and the revolutions of the seventeenth century. In his own time, Parliament had become a despotic instrument of government, riven with faction and driven by a multiplicity of laws that manifested …
Unpacking the Practice of Intellectual Assessment
Aristocratic Reform and the Extirpation of Parliament in Early Georgian Britain
In 'An Essay upon Civil Government' (1722), Andrew Michael Ramsay mounted a sustained attack upon the development throughout English history of popular government. According to Ramsay, popular involvement in sovereignty had led to the decline of society and the revolutions of the seventeenth century. In his own time, Parliament had become a despotic instrument of government, riven with faction and driven by a multiplicity of laws that manifested …
Living with Jacobitism, 1690–1788
To reach its current position in historiography, Jacobite studies has undertaken an arduous journey from Whiggish dismissal to a begrudging acceptance in the wider fields of British and European history. This process is still ongoing, but has made considerable headway since the 1970s through the efforts of notable scholars such as Edward Corp, Eveline Cruickshanks, Bruce Lenman, Jeremy Black, J.C.D. Clark, Daniel Szechi, Paul Kleber Monod and Mur…
The Burgundy Circle's plans to undermine Louis XIV's “absolute” state through polysynody and the high nobility
Louis the duc de Bourgogne (1686 – 1712), grandson of Louis XIV, was briefly Dauphin of France before his premature death from measles. Advised by a group of noted former tutors and members of the court, Bourgogne’s Circle devised a range of plans to reform the French state under his future rule. Opposing the centralising model of sovereignty pursued by Louis XIV, the Circle intended to expand government, decentralise power into the provinces, re…
King of the World. The Life of Louis XIV
The longest reigning monarch in European history, Louis XIV (1638–1715), ruled France from 1643 until his death. His reign encompassed a period of immense transformation and tumult, not only in France but also across Europe, and Louis’ pre-eminence among Europe’s monarchs proved to be a catalyst for a great deal of this change. Seen as the apotheosis of monarchical ‘absolutism’, whether real or symbolic, his power and desire to aggrandize France …
The First Earl of Shaftesbury's Resolute Conscience and Aristocratic Constitutionalism
This article provides a reappraisal of the first earl of Shaftesbury (1621–83) and challenges his reputation as an unprincipled politician. Conversely, it is argued that Shaftesbury's opposition to both Cromwell during the Protectorate and Charles II in the Restoration was guided by a resolute ‘conscience’. While there was certainly elasticity in his conduct, Shaftesbury was very much the product of a political education framed during the Civil W…
Increasing inclusion for ethnic minority students by teaching the British Empire and global history in the English history curriculum
From 2020, the long-standing debate regarding the English national curriculum’s capacity to discuss issues of ethnicity and race escalated. The history subject curriculum particularly is seen as excluding ethnic minorities from an ‘Island Story’ often depicting a White Anglocentric identity disassociated with the wider world. In 2021, the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities report declared that secondary school education must play a central…
In the Shadow of the Gods
Journal Article In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History, by Dominic Lieven Get access In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History, by Dominic Lieven (London: Allen Lane, 2022; pp. 528. £35). Andrew Mansfield Andrew Mansfield University of Sussex, Brighton, UK [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7763-9991 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical R…
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