Outputs (437)

Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production (2025)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (in press). Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production. Modern British History,

In the 1920s and 1930s, many British manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. In part, this was a response to an increasingly competitive market for branded household commodities, in which visitors were off... Read More about Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production.

Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India (2025)
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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.

A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964 (2025)
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Greenwood, A., Hornsey, R., & Ingram, H. (in press). A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964. Journal of Pacific History,

In 1944, Boots The Chemists, the UK's leading retail pharmacy chain, opened a store in Suva, Fiji. It lasted less than twenty years. The brief and troubled history of this store – hitherto untold – reveals a great deal about imperialist retail cultur... Read More about A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964.

Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China (2025)
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Taylor, J. E. (in press). Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,

Captain of the Roving Bandits was a three-act play first performed in Yan’an in 1938. Written by Wang Zhenzhi, it was designed to remind audiences about the threats posed by “traitors” (hanjian), and the need for resistance fighters to behave in an u... Read More about Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China.

Ukraine in the Long Eighteenth Century: Historiographical Journeys from the Terra Incognita to a Postcolonial Future (2025)
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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.

Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface (2025)
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Darby, P. (2025). Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface. Early Medieval Europe, 33(2), 244-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12764

In c.738, Saint Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737-764). The letter is written in an allusive style and... Read More about Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface.

Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew (2025)
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Cardwell, S. (2025). Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew. Early Medieval Europe, 33(2), 183-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12762

This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of W... Read More about Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew.

Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: Rethinking Christian Authority in Early Islamic Palestine (2025)
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Parker, L. (2025). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: Rethinking Christian Authority in Early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, 4(1), 28-70. https://doi.org/10.3366/jlaibs.2025.0040

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.

Tracing an Archive: The Mackintosh Archive in Familial and Colonial Context (2025)
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Gust, O. (2025). Tracing an Archive: The Mackintosh Archive in Familial and Colonial Context. Genealogy, 9(2), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy9020034

This article focuses on the genealogy of the Mackintosh archive, showing how subjects are interpellated through archival networks that span imperial and metropolitan sites, linking people, ideas, knowledge and material resources. By tracing the Macki... Read More about Tracing an Archive: The Mackintosh Archive in Familial and Colonial Context.

Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967 (2025)
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Rawcliffe, D. (2025). Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2480653

The Anglo–Chinese relationship reached a nadir during the Cultural Revolution and the Hong Kong 1967 Leftist Riots. The burning of the British Mission in Beijing and the subsequent hostage crisis further exacerbated the tensions. In response to these... Read More about Cold War Diplomatic Surveillance: The British Government, the Chinese Mission, and the Aliens Order, August–November 1967.