Retrospectives | 2
Spring 2013
From the Editor
This second edition of Retrospectives has taken a lot of work, on many
different levels. I would like to personally thank everyone who contributed to making it a success: our authors and reviewers, the executive board and the many individuals who gave us help and advice. A
special thank you must go to our Head of Department, Maria Luddy,
who contributed not only moral support, but also funding and the
wonderful note above. We must also thank the Early Modern Forum
for their generous funding too. We could not have published this edition without all of the support we have received, and we are extremely grateful for it.
We have a variety of articles this issue, from numerous authors and
institutions. We start with Angela Ranson of the University of York
discussing John Foxe and the early modern English Church, and
then move to Jennifer Crane of the University of Warwick writing
about the evacuation of children during WWII. We continue the
WWII theme with Niall MacGalloway, of St Andrews, who looks at
the official British policy towards the Italian Resistance movement.
We then move to Restoration France and conspiracies with Stewart
McCain of Oxford. The final two articles, by Caitlin Scott of Warwick and Will Riddington of Cambridge, deal with contraception and
birth control in the seventeenth century, and the rhetoric of the
American anti-abortion crusade in the twentieth century, respectively. We also have a book review from Adam Timmins of Loughborough University.
As always, thank you for reading and we hope you enjoy the articles.
If you have any interest in participating in any capacity, as an author
or a reviewer, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Collin Lieberg
Editor and Founder, Retrospectives
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