Outputs (406)

Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (in press). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies,

This article seeks to reassess monasticism within Abbasid Palestine, arguing that monasteries experienced decline and insecurity in the eighth and ninth centuries. It focuses on the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas by Leontios of Damascus, arguing that L... Read More about Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine.

Unanimity, Anonymity and Immunity: Thomas Haxey and the Form of the Common Petition in Fourteenth-Century England (2024)
Book Chapter
Dodd, G. (2024). Unanimity, Anonymity and Immunity: Thomas Haxey and the Form of the Common Petition in Fourteenth-Century England. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford University Press

An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–41 (2024)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2024). An Unknown Survey in the Memoranda Roll of the English Exchequer, 1340–41. Notes and Queries, Article gjae067. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjae067

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.

Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960 (2024)
Book Chapter
Merton, J. (in press). Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960. In J. Campbell, & V. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge History of Crime in America. Routledge

A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970 (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2024). A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970. Contemporary British History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2024.2341135

Most ethnic Chinese living and working in Britain in the late 1960s were from Hong Kong’s New Territories. Many of these British migrants blamed the Hong Kong government for importing cheap foodstuffs and driving farmers off the land to build new inf... Read More about A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970.

A British Road To Socialism? Die Kommunistische Partei Großbritanniens und der große Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85 (2024)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (in press). A British Road To Socialism? Die Kommunistische Partei Großbritanniens und der große Bergarbeiterstreik 1984/85. Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung,

Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India. (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Upal Chakrabarti. Assembling the Local: Political Economy and Agrarian Governance in British India. American Historical Review, 129(1), 253-254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad526

Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2024). Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet?. Journal of British Studies, 62(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.181

Review porducts. Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
GUST, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists, and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might tha... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.