Outputs (406)

Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 (2014)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2014). Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828. Parliamentary History, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12096

This article considers Robert Peel’s role in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828. Traditionally overshadowed by the larger campaign to secure catholic emancipation in 1829, the repeal legislation assumes importance in Peel’s political... Read More about Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828.

Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire (2014)
Journal Article
Laven, D., & Parker, L. (2014). Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire. Modern Italy, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2013.871417

The history of the Habsburg Empire in the post-Napoleonic era is frequently approached from the perspective of its various component nationalities. These were traditionally portrayed in the historiography as engaged in more-or-less open struggle with... Read More about Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire.

Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article

Three new cities were created in conjunction with Her Majesty the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012: Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph. They were the winners of a competition which had no clear rules, no transparency and no proper feedback. T... Read More about Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom.

The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions (2014)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2014). The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions. International History Review, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.820777

During 1968-69, members of the United Nations, meeting in the Legal Committee of the General Assembly, negotiated a Convention on Special Missions, sometimes known as the New York Convention, setting out the privileges and immunities of ad hoc embass... Read More about The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions.

Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands (2014)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2014). Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands. History Compass, 12(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12123

In contrast to the robust state of research on female Catholic monasticism in Central and Western Europe, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, the history of Orthodox and Greek Catholic convents in the Balkans and Eastern Europe remains a largely unchart... Read More about Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands.

‘States not Governments’: Reforming Britain’s Practice on Diplomatic Recognition, 1973-1980 (2014)
Journal Article

The subject of recognition is basic to the way in which relations are conducted between states: they cannot easily communicate if they do not recognize one another’s existence. The question is also a difficult one in international law because, in pra... Read More about ‘States not Governments’: Reforming Britain’s Practice on Diplomatic Recognition, 1973-1980.

The Glorious Revolution, Parliament and the Making of the First Industrial Nation (2014)
Book Chapter
Beckett, J. (2014). The Glorious Revolution, Parliament and the Making of the First Industrial Nation. In Parliament, Politics and Policy in Britain and Ireland, c.1680-1832, (36-53). (1). Wiley Blackwell

Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405 (2014)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2014). Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405. English Historical Review, 129(538), https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu117

In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this develop... Read More about Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405.

The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69 (2013)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2013). The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69. In J. W. Young, E. G. Pedaliu, & M. D. Kandiah (Eds.), Britain in Global Politics Volume 2 (139-158). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313584_8

One of Saki Dockrill’s most significant publications was her monograph, Britain’s Retreat from East of Suez.1 In this, the first archival study of the subject, she set Britain’s reassessment of its defence priorities in a broad context, looking not o... Read More about The US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez, 1961–69.

Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon (2013)
Journal Article
Darby, P. (2013). Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon. Early Medieval Europe, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12024

In Bede's lifetime (c. 673–735) the churches at Wearmouth-Jarrow were richly decorated with panel paintings from Rome. This essay examines the significance that those paintings held for Bede and his community, and it reveals the strategies that Bede... Read More about Bede, iconoclasm and the Temple of Solomon.