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Public Opinion (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Public Opinion. In The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0227

Public opinion is a notoriously slippery concept, but it has long been understood that it wields at least some influence on diplomacy. Over several centuries, conceptions of public opinion have evolved. Longstanding perceptions of public opinion as i... Read More about Public Opinion.

Édouard Daladier (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Édouard Daladier. In The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley

Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive (2018)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Ingram, H. (2018). Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive. Social History of Medicine, 31(4), 857-869. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky021

This article explores the historic records of the Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Archive, a repository of over 500,000 items chronicling the over 165-year history of Britain’s most famous pharmaceutical retailer. It introduces some of the diverse mat... Read More about Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive.

“The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2019). “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Women's History Review, 28(1), 111-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1457126

In May 1935, the British manufacturer Boots launched ‘Number Seven’, a premium range of skin-care products sold via its nationwide network of chain-store chemists. Using material from the Boots Archive, this paper traces the early history of Number S... Read More about “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain.

Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876 (2018)
Journal Article
Kwan, J. (2018). Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876. Historical Journal, 61(4), 991-1015. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000486

This article investigates the potential influence of the newly formed Imperial Germany on Transylvanian Saxon politics. The Saxons were German-speaking settlers with long traditions of local autonomy and political privileges within the kingdom of Hun... Read More about Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876.

John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2019). John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973. Journal of Urban History, 45(3), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218765465

Focusing on the collaboration between Mayor John Lindsay and business advocacy group the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), this article illustrates the utility of public and elite anxieties over street crime in legitimizing new, privatized mo... Read More about John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973.

Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon (2018)
Journal Article
Gehring, D. S., & Freeman, T. S. (2018). Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(4), 746-767. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002204691700272X

Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon’s Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon’s martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of... Read More about Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon.

Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774 (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, J., & Haggerty, S. (2019). Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774. Essays in Economic and Business History, 37(1), 1-42

Historians have increasingly been using network and narrative analysis as a means by which to explore their data. By doing so, they are able to explore how actors of interest used their relationships to undertake business and economic endeavors, and... Read More about Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774.