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Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S., & Cowan, F. (2023). Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia. Russian Review, 82(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12497

This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower-class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower-c... Read More about Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia.

The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution (2023)
Journal Article
Serém, R. L. (2023). The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution. Journal of Contemporary History, 58(3), 377–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231167332

This article reappraises General Queipo de Llano's authoritarian rule in Seville during the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). Queipo's murderous regime has long attracted scholarly attention, but very little research has been devoted to other aspects of hi... Read More about The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution.

Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship (2023)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., Mold, A., & Wardle, H. (2023). Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship. Lancet, 401(10370), 18-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2822%2902579-X

Professional sport has been criticised for its role as a vehicle to market addictive products or services. Despite the harmful health effects on society, football audiences are inured to seeing sponsors of such products not only on pitch-side hoardin... Read More about Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship.

Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean (2022)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2022). Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean. English Historical Review, 137(589), 1662-1692. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead002

This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal... Read More about Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean.

The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 (2022)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2022). The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(4), 611-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2143108

The decision to send the British Expeditionary Force to France has been much discussed from the perspective of its long-term military-strategic background. Yet where the eventual decision to despatch the Force in August 1914 is concerned, limited att... Read More about The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914.

The Revolution on the Volga (2022)
Book Chapter
BADCOCK, S. (2023). The Revolution on the Volga. In G. Swain, C. Alston, M. C. Hickey, B. Kolonitsky, & F. Schedewie (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

While revolutionary narratives often focus on Petrograd as the seat of political power, and more broadly on urban and military arenas, this chapter explores the lived experience of revolution in the Volga region, around 1500 kilometres from Petrograd... Read More about The Revolution on the Volga.