Outputs (51)

Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India (2025)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (in press). Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(6),

This article examines the institution of apprenticeship in artisanal production during the second half of the British colonial rule in India (1850–1950). It proposes that apprenticeships were used strategically by various types of businesses that emp... Read More about Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India.

Ukraine in the Long Eighteenth Century: Historiographical Journeys from the Terra Incognita to a Postcolonial Future (2025)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2025). Ukraine in the Long Eighteenth Century: Historiographical Journeys from the Terra Incognita to a Postcolonial Future. Kritika, 26(2), 421-429. https://doi.org/10.1353/kri.2025.a960343

This review article discusses the research monograph The Religiosæ Kijovienses Cryptæ by Johannes Herbinius (1675): A Description of Kyiv and Its “Sacral Space” in Early Modern Multiconfessional Discourse (Lviv, 2022) by Nataliia Sinkevych, and the c... Read More about Ukraine in the Long Eighteenth Century: Historiographical Journeys from the Terra Incognita to a Postcolonial Future.

Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury (2025)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2025). Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury. Journal of Musicology, 42(2), 185-223

The eleventh-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 38 is celebrated for its remarkable monastic horologium, or star timetable, which uses the stars to determine the timing of the Night Office liturgy. Recent scholarship has confirmed... Read More about Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury.

The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2025). The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s. Intelligence and National Security, 40(1), 129-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2024.2433823

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain’s strategic role in the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia shaped the post-WWII contours and ramifications of what Winston Churchill famously dubbed the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Through its clandest... Read More about The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s.

Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover) (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover). Economic and Political Weekly, 59(35),

Holocaust art (2024)
Book Chapter
Julius, C. (2024). Holocaust art. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.1006

The category of Holocaust art has been established by asking questions, the most vital of which is whether it should be a category of art at all. In this new survey, those questions will provide the organising framework. After addressing the primary... Read More about Holocaust art.

Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools (2024)
Book Chapter
Baron, N. (2024). Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools. In Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (23-57). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54581-8_2

This chapter offers a close critical analysis of the structure, design, and content of the Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools, published in the Soviet Union in 1951. This atlas was created not merely as an instrument of geographical... Read More about Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools.

The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Cocks, H. (2024). The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain. Parliamentary History, 43(2), 207-225

Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural-ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political diffe... Read More about The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain.

Beyond Toleration: The Eastern Orthodox Church in Reformation Europe (2024)
Book Chapter
Sharipova, L. (2024). Beyond Toleration: The Eastern Orthodox Church in Reformation Europe. In H. A. Jefferies, & R. Rex (Eds.), Reformations Compared: Religious Transformations across Early Modern Europe (104-123). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009468640.006

This chapter aims to define the limits of religious toleration of the Eastern Orthodox Church in those areas of Europe which remained outside of direct Ottoman or Muscovite rule in the early modern period. The rudimentary confessional balance that ha... Read More about Beyond Toleration: The Eastern Orthodox Church in Reformation Europe.

The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, M. (2024). The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s. Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0073

This essay considers an early eighteenth-century quarrel about the geographical dimensions of Paris and London. The dispute involved representatives of the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris and the Royal Society in London. The three participants—... Read More about The scale of two cities: the geographies of Paris and London in the 1720s.

Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 (2024)
Journal Article
Goddard, R., & Smalley, G. (2024). Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2299035

This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materials to investigate the financial management of the fra... Read More about Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546.

Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy (2023)
Book Chapter
Piana, P., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2023). Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy. In R. Cevasco, V. Pescini, & R. Hearn (Eds.), Situating foodways and foodscapes: Dalla tavola al terreno (237-260). Genova University Press

Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2024). Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 2, 181-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russian rural family life in literary and in scholarly accounts, and are predominantly framed as able, ski... Read More about Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village.

Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education (2023)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Mills, G. (2024). Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education. Holocaust Studies, 30(1), 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2249296

Based on a sample of the most commonly used textbooks and online teaching resources, we find that photos play a central but deeply problematic role in Holocaust education in the UK. The impact of photos on a generation of ‘primarily visual learners’... Read More about Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education.

The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’ (2023)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2024). The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’. Journal of American Studies, 58(1), 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000324

Between 1895 and 1916, a Conference on International Arbitration met annually at Lake Mohonk, New York, seeking to implement arbitration as a substitute for war. This article considers the aims, effects, and limitations of these conferences, includin... Read More about The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’.

Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India (2023)
Book Chapter
Gust, O. (2023). Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India. In S. Goldsmith, S. Haggerty, & K. Harvey (Eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment (122-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027256

This essay focuses on ideas of the body in the published and unpublished letters of four British women – Jane Smart, Jemima Kindersley, Eliza Fay and Catherine Mackintosh – who wrote from India between 1742 and 1812. Situating these elite, British wo... Read More about Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India.

Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S., & Cowan, F. (2023). Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia. Russian Review, 82(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12497

This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower-class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower-c... Read More about Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
Journal Article
Atkin, W. (2023). Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945. Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.31902

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France (2022)
Book Chapter
Chang, T. (2022). Le Jeu du monde: Games, Maps, and World Conquest in Early Modern France. In A. Vanhaelen, & B. Wilson (Eds.), Making Worlds: Global Invention in the Early Modern Period, edited by Bronwen Wilson and Angela Vanhaelen (201-236). University of Toronto Press and UCLA Clark Memorial Library series

Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation? (2022)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2022). Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?. In C. Dyer (Ed.), Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and its Historians (51-72). Boydell Press