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‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present (2017)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (in press). ‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present. Contemporary British History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2017.1401476

ABSTRACT The introduction draws on the work of Raymond Williams to identify the ‘structures of feeling’ that surround the figure of the coal miner in contemporary British culture. As an analysis of the media coverage of the closure of the UK’s last... Read More about ‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present.

Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans (2017)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2019). Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans. Journal of American Studies, 53(2), 449-477. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817001803

Historians seeking to explain the late twentieth century rightward shift of urban ethnic whites have tended to ignore the shifting meaning and content of white ethnic identity in this transition, and the utility of these changes to conservative polit... Read More about Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans.

Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton (2017)
Journal Article

By 1500 more than 500 written accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage alone had been produced in the West, and yet such works continued to be written and, increasingly, printed. How did these works retain their popularity, who was writing them and why?... Read More about Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton.

Lewis Harcourt's Journal of the 1914 War Crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2018). Lewis Harcourt's Journal of the 1914 War Crisis. International History Review, 40(2), 436-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1387164

Lewis Harcourt, who was Colonial Secretary in Britain's Liberal government, from 1908 to 1915, kept a political journal for many years, some earlier parts of which have already been published. Reproduced below is the whole neat version of the journal... Read More about Lewis Harcourt's Journal of the 1914 War Crisis.

Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev (2017)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2018). Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(2), 278-299. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917000768

The article is based on the case study of Sister Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev’s Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in wh... Read More about Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev.

Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain (2017)
Book
Emanuel Leitao Prazeres Serem, R. (2017). Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Conspiracy, Coup d’état and Civil War in Seville, 1936–1939 dissects the conspiracy against the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the context of the uprising and civil war in Seville, the capital of Spain’s largest region, Andalusia, and the most... Read More about Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain.

Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2018). Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis. International History Review, 40(1), 206-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1357645

During the July Crisis, the United Kingdom was put under strong pressure from Russia and the latter’s ally, France, to declare it would fight alongside them. Britain had made the entente cordiale with France in 1904 and a Convention with Russia in 19... Read More about Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis.