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The Language of the Past (2016)
Book
Wilson, R. (2016). The Language of the Past. Bloomsbury Publishing

The Language of the Past analyzes the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak o... Read More about The Language of the Past.

A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory (2016)
Journal Article
Martinez Dy, A. C., Marlow, S., & Martin, L. (2017). A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory. Human Relations, 70(3), 286-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726716650730

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. This article critically analyses the manner in which intersectionality and related social positionality shape digital enterprise activities. Despite popular claims of meritocratic opportunity enactment within traditional... Read More about A Web of opportunity or the same old story? Women digital entrepreneurs and intersectionality theory.

Feedback on feedback – does it work? (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Speicher, O., & Stollhans, S. (2015, August). Feedback on feedback – does it work?. Presented at Critical CALL, Padova, Italy

It is well documented that providing assessment feedback through the medium of screencasts is favourably received by students and encourages deeper engagement with the feedback given by the language teacher (inter alia Abdous & Yoshimura, 2010; Brick... Read More about Feedback on feedback – does it work?.

Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases (2015)
Book Chapter
Kumaraswami, P. (2015). Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases. In I. Rodríguez, & M. Szurmuk (Eds.), The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature (228-242)

‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history (2015)
Journal Article
Monteith, S. (in press). ‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history. Patterns of Prejudice, 49(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2015.1103439

Imaginative sources are a rich archival store. Facts may be as slippery as the sources in which they are contained, but to limit the sources we use in building a civil rights historiography is to risk curtailing the reach and interdisciplinary scope... Read More about ‘I second that emotion’: a case for using imaginative sources in writing civil rights history.

The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. J. (2015). The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain. European Comic Art, 8(2), 83-102. https://doi.org/10.3167/eca.2015.080205

This article examines the image of the First World War in British political cartoons, from the aftermath of the conflict to the present day, as an active process of remembrance. Through an analysis of cartoons in newspapers and periodicals in Britain... Read More about The Past and Present War: Political Cartoons and the Memory of the First World War in Britain.

Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010 (2015)
Journal Article
McLelland, N. (2015). Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010

This paper examines the history of self-instructional manuals of (Mandarin) Chinese published in Britain between 1900 and 2010, one of the main ways of learning Chinese for most of the 20th century in Britain, when Chinese instruction was virtually n... Read More about Teach yourself Chinese--how? The history of Chinese self-instruction manuals for English speakers, 1900-2010.

Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain (2015)
Journal Article
Wilson, R. J. (2015). Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain. Memory Studies, 8(4), 454-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698015575174

This article examines how the memory of the First World War (1914–1918) across Britain has been structured by the use of a specific ‘war discourse’. This means of communication draws upon the vast array of words, phrases and sayings that were popular... Read More about Still fighting in the trenches: ‘War discourse’ and the memory of the First World War in Britain.