Outputs (415)

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages (2022)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2022). Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages. Law and History Review, 40(4), 747-788. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0738248022000311

The process of law enforcement helped to shape the state in the Middle Ages. This article uses an extensive array of court records to provide the first detailed account of royal efforts to police the illegal export of wool in mid-fourteenth century E... Read More about Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages.

Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor (2022)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2022). Book review: Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Indian Economic and Social History Review, 59(3), 403-406. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194646221109927

Juned Shaikh, Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021, 227 pp.

'Gladiators for women'? : The British miners, muscular masculinity and the struggle for workplace rights 1977 to 1984/85 (2022)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2022). 'Gladiators for women'? : The British miners, muscular masculinity and the struggle for workplace rights 1977 to 1984/85. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 18(3), 510-534. https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-2382

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (2022)
Book
Parker, L. (2022). Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865175.001.0001

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch explores the authority of a holy man and its limitations in times of crisis, with a particular focus on the little-studied Antiochene stylite Symeon the Younger. Symeon the Younger (c.521–92) lived... Read More about Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History.

Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2199651

This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement–the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later... Read More about Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya.

The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege (2022)
Book Chapter
Raven, M. (2022). The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege. In J. Bothwell, & J. Hamilton (Eds.), Fourteenth Century England XII. Boydell Press

A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries) (2022)
Book Chapter
Taylor, C. (2022). A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries). In M. Benedetti, & E. Cameron (Eds.), A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages (35-77). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420410_004

The expression above was attributed to Pérégrine Gasc, an inquisitorial deponent of Moissac, a town in the diocese of Cahors and the medieval county of Quercy, in 1244. She is referring to her experience of Waldensians in the town of Toulouse and... Read More about A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries).

“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991) (2022)
Journal Article
Lovett, J. (2023). “The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991). Nationalities Papers, 51(4), 888-907. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.27

This article shows how the Soviet government perceived higher birth rates in Central Asia as a threat to national identity and the stability of the USSR. The issue of demographic change was complex, and concerns about differential fertility between r... Read More about “The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991).

Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Lovett, J. (2024). Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982. Contemporary European History, 33(1), 192-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777322000054

Population statistics reflect a nation's quality of life and accordingly have the potential to be highly politically charged, with implications for a government's legitimacy. In the Brezhnev era Soviet Union, emerging negative trends regarding life e... Read More about Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982.

Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship (2022)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Tofts, A. (2022). Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship. Holocaust Studies, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2074208

This article explores the legibility of photos taken by Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Many museums have collected private photos from survivors, and use them to illustrate Holocaust testimony. But photos and testimonies are not always neatly al... Read More about Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship.