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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (2022)
Book
Parker, L. (2022). Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865175.001.0001

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch explores the authority of a holy man and its limitations in times of crisis, with a particular focus on the little-studied Antiochene stylite Symeon the Younger. Symeon the Younger (c.521–92) lived... Read More about Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History.

Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2199651

This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement–the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later... Read More about Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya.

The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege (2022)
Book Chapter
Raven, M. (2022). The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege. In J. Bothwell, & J. Hamilton (Eds.), Fourteenth Century England XII. Boydell Press

A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries) (2022)
Book Chapter
Taylor, C. (2022). A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries). In M. Benedetti, & E. Cameron (Eds.), A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages (35-77). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420410_004

The expression above was attributed to Pérégrine Gasc, an inquisitorial deponent of Moissac, a town in the diocese of Cahors and the medieval county of Quercy, in 1244. She is referring to her experience of Waldensians in the town of Toulouse and... Read More about A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries).

“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991) (2022)
Journal Article
Lovett, J. (2023). “The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991). Nationalities Papers, 51(4), 888-907. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.27

This article shows how the Soviet government perceived higher birth rates in Central Asia as a threat to national identity and the stability of the USSR. The issue of demographic change was complex, and concerns about differential fertility between r... Read More about “The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991).

Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Lovett, J. (2024). Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982. Contemporary European History, 33(1), 192-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777322000054

Population statistics reflect a nation's quality of life and accordingly have the potential to be highly politically charged, with implications for a government's legitimacy. In the Brezhnev era Soviet Union, emerging negative trends regarding life e... Read More about Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982.

Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship (2022)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Tofts, A. (2022). Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship. Holocaust Studies, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2074208

This article explores the legibility of photos taken by Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Many museums have collected private photos from survivors, and use them to illustrate Holocaust testimony. But photos and testimonies are not always neatly al... Read More about Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Gust, O., Ng, F., Evans, E., Knox, E., Townsend, E., Yeo, C., & Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552 (2022)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2022). On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552. In T. Krstić, & D. Terzioğlu (Eds.), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries (429-450). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243586-017

“To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China. Cultural and Social History, 19(3), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2069205

Contributing to a growing literature on the transnational history of ‘collaborationism’ under wartime occupation, this paper examines ‘Rural Pacification’–the counterinsurgency campaigns that were prosecuted from 1941 to 1943 in Japanese-occupied Chi... Read More about “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China.