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'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

“By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914 (2019)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2020). “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914. In B. McKercher, & A. Capet (Eds.), Winston Churchill : At War and Thinking of War before 1939. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

As first lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill was at the centre of the Liberal government’s decision-making during the July crisis. The July crisis unfolded quickly. Britain’s preoccupation for most of the month was Ireland, where civil war threa... Read More about “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914.

Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives (2019)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2019). Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives. Journal of Risk Research, 22(9), 1101-1115. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569101

On the 25 October 2011 the River Magra in the far east of the Italian region of Liguria flooded with catastrophic effects, killing thirteen people and causing millions of euros in damage. Managing such an extreme episode is very hard, as local policy... Read More about Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives.