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The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions (2014)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2014). The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions. International History Review, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.820777

During 1968-69, members of the United Nations, meeting in the Legal Committee of the General Assembly, negotiated a Convention on Special Missions, sometimes known as the New York Convention, setting out the privileges and immunities of ad hoc embass... Read More about The United Kingdom and the negotiation of the 1969 New York Convention on Special Missions.

Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands (2014)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2014). Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands. History Compass, 12(1), 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12123

In contrast to the robust state of research on female Catholic monasticism in Central and Western Europe, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, the history of Orthodox and Greek Catholic convents in the Balkans and Eastern Europe remains a largely unchart... Read More about Spare Ribs? Early Modern Female Monasticism in the East Slavic Lands.

‘States not Governments’: Reforming Britain’s Practice on Diplomatic Recognition, 1973-1980 (2014)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2014). ‘States not Governments’: Reforming Britain’s Practice on Diplomatic Recognition, 1973-1980. Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/1871191X-12341268

The subject of recognition is basic to the way in which relations are conducted between states: they cannot easily communicate if they do not recognize one another’s existence. The question is also a difficult one in international law because, in pra... Read More about ‘States not Governments’: Reforming Britain’s Practice on Diplomatic Recognition, 1973-1980.

Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405 (2014)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2014). Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405. English Historical Review, 129(538), https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu117

In the second half of the fourteenth century, petitioners hoping to secure royal grace began addressing the king in an increasingly obsequious and ostentatious manner. A strong historiographical tradition is now established which regards this develop... Read More about Kingship, parliament and the court: the emergence of "high style" in petitions to the English crown, c.1350-1405.