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Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968 (2011)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2011). Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 22(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2011.549741

Recent decades have seen growing historical interest in “second rank” officials who, whilst they do not play a leading role in government or political movements, can influence the way decisions are shaped and executed. At the same time, the interest... Read More about Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968.

Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London (2011)
Journal Article
MERRITT, J. F. (2011). Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London. Historical Journal, 54(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x10000555

Studies of the rise of London's vestries in the period to 1640 have tended to discuss them in terms of the inexorable rise of oligarchy and state formation. This article re-examines the emergence of the vestries in several ways, moving beyond this tr... Read More about Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London.

Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968 (2010)
Journal Article
Jones, M., & Young, J. W. (2010). Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968. Journal of Strategic Studies, 33(6), 847-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2010.498284

This article investigates the little-known plans formulated by Harold Wilson's Labour government to deploy Polaris submarines in the Indo-Pacific region. The scheme was first proposed in 1965 as a response to several problems faced by British policy-... Read More about Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968.

'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41 (2010)
Journal Article
Merritt, J. (2010). 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41. English Historical Review, CXXV(512), 35-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep408

While historians have long appreciated the political and cultural importance of the famous Covent Garden development of the 1630s, they have neglected one of its remarkable features, namely the building of an entirely new church combined with the cre... Read More about 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41.

John Freeman, 1969–71 (2009)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2009). John Freeman, 1969–71. In M. F. Hopkins, S. Kelly, & J. W. Young (Eds.), The Washington Embassy: British Ambassadors to the United States, 1939–77 (169-188). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234543_10

At less than two years duration, the ambassadorship of John Freeman was the second shortest covered by this book. It took place, too, in a singularly uneventful period in Anglo-American relations, between the dramas of 1967–68 — when the devaluation... Read More about John Freeman, 1969–71.