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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.

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.