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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.

‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820 (2022)
Journal Article
Laven, D. (2022). ‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820. Mediterranea - ricerche storiche, 19(56), 543–564

British observers of the condition of Venice and its former territories in the post Napoleonic period were inclined to attribute the situation of the city to Austrian maladministration and the moral and economic decline of Venice after the loss of Ca... Read More about ‘Crisis’, ‘decline’ and ‘fall’ of the Serenissima: remembering Venice as a Mediterranean power in the work of historians, 1797-1820.

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.

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland (2022)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2023). Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland. Northern History, 60(1), 2-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2022.2142184

The international wool trade was an important part of Northumberland’s economy in the fourteenth century, and participation in it was central to the working lives of many local merchants. However, in the mid-fourteenth century the wool trade was subj... Read More about Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland.

Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body (2022)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2022). Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body. Technology and Culture, 63(4), 1005-1032. https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2022.0155

This article provides the first critical history of escalators on the London Underground railway and the ways their introduction reconfigured passengers’ bodies. As the Underground became a coordinated and unitary technological system, its central... Read More about Becoming "Escalator-Legged" in Interwar London: Mechanization, Habit, and the Mobile Body.

Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II (2022)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2022). Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II. Journal of Medieval History, 48(5), 631-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2022.2131601

The Modus tenendi parliamentum has long perplexed scholars. For over a century they have battled to make sense of its 26 chapters, which purport to describe the centuries-old traditions, functions and processes of the English parliament. A number of... Read More about Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II.