Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (406)

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany (2019)
Book
Harvey, E., Hürter, J., Umbach, M., & Wirsching, A. (Eds.). (2019). Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754859

Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. This volume sheds fresh light on this issue by showing the different ways in whic... Read More about Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany.

The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019)
Book
Balzaretti, R. (2019). The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.5.106307

This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and economic aspects of the transformation of the Roman world in one of its major centres. Its main theme is the role of monastic communities in this... Read More about The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan.

'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2020). 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014. Urban History, 47(2), 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000555

The article proceeds from the observation that in the contemporary British cultural imagination, the figure of the coal miner tends to be presented as the embodiment of anti-urban and organicist qualities that in continental Europe are more commonly... Read More about 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema (2019)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2020). Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema. Journal of Contemporary History, 55(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418820111

Cinema had long been hailed by Bolshevik party leaders as a crucial ally of the Soviet mass enlightenment project. By the mid-1920s, however, Soviet psychologists, educators and practitioners of ‘child science’ (pedology) were pointing to the grave e... Read More about Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema.

Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917 (2019)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2019). Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917. In Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past (32-45). London: Routledge