Roundtable-XXVI-27 (2025)
Digital Artefact
Bright, R. (in press). Roundtable-XXVI-27. [ https://hdiplo.org/to/RT26-27]

This is my introduction to the Roundtable: Stuart Ward. Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

"‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities" (2025)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (in press). "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities". The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2025.2477773

English parish registers listing baptisms, marriages, and burials are commonly source mined for curiosities, but are rarely examined holistically. Building on recent work that has seen sixteenth-century registers as records of memory, this article an... Read More about "‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: Early Modern English Parish Registers and the Memories of Local Communities".

Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901 (2023)
Book
Pretsell, D. (2023). Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17331-8

This book is a critical edition of the autobiographical case studies used by the Austro-German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing between 1883 and 1901. Forty-one individual case studies of same-sex attracted men and women, in their own words, mad... Read More about Queer Voices in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1883–1901.

The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative (2019)
Journal Article
Pretsell, D. (2020). The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative. History of Science, 58(3), 326-349. https://doi.org/10.1177/0073275319881014

The sexological research questionnaire, which became a central research tool in twentieth-century sexology, has a methodological-developmental history stretching back into mid-nineteenth century Germany.
It was the product of a prolonged, disruptive... Read More about The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative.