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(2) ‘German Women and the Triumph of Hitler’, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 48 March, 1976), No.1 (demand publication), revised version reprinted in Comrades and Sisters, June 1987).
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(5) ‘Bourgeois Feminists and Women Socialists in Germany 1894-1914: Lost Opportunity or Inevitable Conflict?’, Women’s Studies International Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4 (July 1980), pp. 355-76 (revised version reprinted in Comrades and Sisters, June 1987).
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(9) ‘Epidemics and Revolutions: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Europe’, Past and Present 120 (August, 1988), pp. 121-47. Reprinted in Terence Ranger and Paul Slack (eds.), Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence (Past and Present Publications, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 149-173; paperback edition 1995). French version ‘Epidémies et Révolutions. Le choléra dans l’Europe du xixe siècle’, iJean-Pierre Bardet et.al., (eds.), Peurs et terreurs face à la contagion. Choléra, tuberculose, syphilis xixe-xxe siècles (Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris, 1988), pp. 106-135.
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(11) ‘Justice Seen, Justice Done? Abolishing Public Executions in 19th-Century Germany’, History Today, Vol. 46, No. 4 (April, 1996), pp. 20-25.
(12) ‘Germany’s Convict Exports’, History Today, Vol. 47, No. 11 (Nov. 1997), pp. 11-17.
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(15) ‘What is European History? Reflections of a Cosmopolitan Islander’, European History Quarterly, 40 (2010), August 2010, pp. 593-605.
(16) ‘The Journal of Contemporary History and it Editors’, Journal of Contemporary History, 50 (4), October 2015, pp. 710-37.
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