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Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978 (2020)
Journal Article
Bates, R. (2021). Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(2), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09625-7

Françoise Dolto (1908-88) was a prominent French cultural figure thanks to her practice of dispensing psychoanalytically-informed child-rearing advice via the radio. From 1976 to 1978, on her show Lorsque l'enfant paraît, she responded to thousands o... Read More about Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978.

‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900 (2020)
Journal Article
Baillargeon, D. (2020). ‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48(4), 654-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741838

This article examines the history of railway development in British Burma between 1870 until 1900. In particular, it focuses on how railways and public works projects became a key site of contestation about Burma’s prospects, value, and future during... Read More about ‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900.

'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England (2020)
Journal Article
Marchbank, A. (2020). 'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England. The Mediaeval Journal, 8(2),

Prayer beads have often been associated with women or a gendered form of piety, but little work has been done on exploring why this assumption has been made, or why and how the link was perpetuated. This article not only uses statistics to substantia... Read More about 'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England.

Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
Book
Hucker, D. (2020). Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians.

The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834 (2020)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2020). Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834. Parliamentary History, 39(1), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12485

© 2020 The Author. Parliamentary History published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Parlimentary History Yearbook Trust. When Melbourne replaced Grey in 1834 he looked to recruit men with experience to join his government. He enlisted Sir Joh... Read More about Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834.

A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle (2020)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2020). A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle. Parliamentary History, 39(1), 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12484

The fourth duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) is recognised as one of the most prominent peers with electoral influence in early-19 th century Britain. This article considers the way in which he deployed that influence and the purposes to which it was tur... Read More about A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle.

‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18 (2020)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2020). ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18. Twentieth Century British History, 31(4), 503–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046

The study of the state's interventionist role on the home front, and the increased regulation of minority groups in particular, have become an important component to our historical understanding of how modern British society changed during the First... Read More about ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18.

Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls (2020)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2020). Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 63, 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.118197

This article examines how Marguerite Porete defended her ideas in her mystical treatise The Mirror of Simple Souls, which along with its author was condemned as heretical in 1310. Most scholarship has focussed on the final sixteen chapters of the Mir... Read More about Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.