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"The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia (2025)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (in press). "The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia. In M. P. Romaniello, A. K. Smith, & T. Starks (Eds.), A Frozen State: Experiencing Cold in Russian History and Culture. University of Toronto Press

Punishment, like pain, is “filtered through the cultural norms of both sufferer and observer.” As such, its experience is profoundly subjective. To get at this, this chapter’s three sections draw on both published accounts written by exiles and trav... Read More about "The cold and snow reign”: Cold and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia.

Herbert Samuel’s ‘Formula’ for British Entry into the Great War (2025)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2025). Herbert Samuel’s ‘Formula’ for British Entry into the Great War. International History Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2543255

In recent decades, several historians have argued that Herbert Samuel had a significant role in British policy-making during the 1914 war crisis, especially on 1–2 August, when weeks of tension between Austria-Hungary and Serbia ended in a continenta... Read More about Herbert Samuel’s ‘Formula’ for British Entry into the Great War.

The Guardian Angels: Anticrime Activism and “Popular Neoliberalism” in Crisis-era New York City (2025)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2025). The Guardian Angels: Anticrime Activism and “Popular Neoliberalism” in Crisis-era New York City. Journal of Social History, Article shaf054. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaf054

Recent historical scholarship has begun to explore the agency of grassroots actors in the ascent of neoliberalism in late twentieth century New York, uncovering a history of neoliberalism “from the bottom up”. This article builds upon this scholarshi... Read More about The Guardian Angels: Anticrime Activism and “Popular Neoliberalism” in Crisis-era New York City.

The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD (2025)
Journal Article
CARDWELL, S. (in press). The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD. Nottingham Medieval Studies,

This paper challenges the idea that St Patrick had little influence beyond Ireland before the tenth century. By surveying evidence for the spread of Patrick’s name, story and writings in Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian and Carolingian Francia (c.... Read More about The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD.

Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production (2025)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (in press). Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production. Modern British History,

In the 1920s and 1930s, many British manufacturers opened their factories to hundreds of thousands of ordinary consumers. In part, this was a response to an increasingly competitive market for branded household commodities, in which visitors were off... Read More about Factory Tourism in Inter-war Britain: The Spectacular Construction of Social-Democratic Mass Production.

Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India (2025)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (in press). Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(6),

This article examines the institution of apprenticeship in artisanal production during the second half of the British colonial rule in India (1850–1950). It proposes that apprenticeships were used strategically by various types of businesses that emp... Read More about Producing Artisans: Apprenticeship and Skill Training in Colonial India.

A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964 (2025)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., Hornsey, R., & Ingram, H. (in press). A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964. Journal of Pacific History,

In 1944, Boots The Chemists, the UK's leading retail pharmacy chain, opened a store in Suva, Fiji. It lasted less than twenty years. The brief and troubled history of this store – hitherto untold – reveals a great deal about imperialist retail cultur... Read More about A British Chain Store Out of Place: Boots The Chemists in Suva, Fiji, 1944-1964.

Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China (2025)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (in press). Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,

Captain of the Roving Bandits was a three-act play first performed in Yan’an in 1938. Written by Wang Zhenzhi, it was designed to remind audiences about the threats posed by “traitors” (hanjian), and the need for resistance fighters to behave in an u... Read More about Captain of the Roving Bandits: “Collaborationist” theatre and the pacification of “red drama” in Japanese-occupied China.