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Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
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Parker, L. (2016). Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 24(1), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2016.0009

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.

"The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990 (2016)
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Arnold, J. (2016). "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990. Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research / Zentrum fur Historische Sozialforschung, Koln in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn, 41(1), 91-110. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.91-110

© GESIS. This article employs the concept of risk as a lens through which to explore discursive constructions of the nature of coal mining and coal miners in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on a diverse primary source base, ranging from songs... Read More about "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990.

Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (2016)
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Allwork, L. (2016). Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 10,

Reflecting on the research process for Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (HRNT), which explores and analyzes the significance of the European and global politics of the commemoration of the Holocaust and Nazi-era crimes... Read More about Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational.

‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century (2016)
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Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (in press). ‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Landscape History, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2016.1249723

Pine trees were frequently depicted and celebrated by nineteenth century English artists and travellers in Italy. The amateur artist and connoisseur Sir George Beaumont was horrified to discover in 1821 that many Roman stone pines were being felled a... Read More about ‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party (2016)
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Badcock, S. (2016). Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/22102388-00900008

This article explores the place of individuals, ideologies and personal and political networks in shaping the larger political landscape in revolutionary Russia. The shape and culture of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (psr) will be at the heart of... Read More about Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43 (2016)
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Beckett, J. (in press). Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43. Midland History, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1226361

The Nottingham workhouse case was a test of the resolve both of the Poor Law Commissioners appointed to administer the post-1834 New Poor Law, and of the strength of the Whig interest in the town’s municipal and parliamentary elections. All eyes were... Read More about Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43.

Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort (2016)
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Harvey, E. (2016). Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 26, 149-173. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440116000098

Foreign labour was an essential resource for the Nazi war economy: by September 1944, around six million civilian labourers from across Europe were working in the Reich. Any initial readiness on the part of the peoples of Nazi-occupied Europe to volu... Read More about Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort.

Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte (2016)
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Arnold, J. (2016). Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.266

This article traces the cyclical trajectory of the British coal miner from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Within less than one generation, the miner turned from doomed industrial proletarian to self-assured embodiment of the future back to doomed pr... Read More about Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte.

Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967 (2016)
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Cocks, H. (2016). Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967. Social History, 41(3), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2016.1180899

The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public m... Read More about Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967.

Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948) (2016)
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Balzaretti, R. (2016). Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948). Early Medieval Europe, 24(2), 185-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12140

Hugh of Arles, King of Italy between 926 and 947, has come to be regarded as one of the more successful kings of Italy in the tenth century. The evidence of his charters supports this conclusion, showing how effectively he managed to insert members o... Read More about Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948).

'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain (2016)
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COCKS, H. (2016). 'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 27(2), 171–194. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hww008

The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We ca... Read More about 'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain.

The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form (2016)
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Hornsey, R. (2016). The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form. cultural geographies, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572600

For a decade from the late 1990s, the A-Z London street atlas became a recurrent motif within art works and popular media texts. This essay collates and explores these cultural responses to the atlas, to consider what this might reveal about the affe... Read More about The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form.

Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815 (2016)
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Gaunt, R. A. (2016). Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815. Midland History, 41(1), 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159856

© 2016 University of Birmingham. This article explores Nottingham's ambivalent attitude to the battle of Waterloo, which concluded hostilities between England and France in June 1815. It poses a contrast between Nottingham's muted reaction to Waterlo... Read More about Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815.

The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana (2016)
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Mawby, S. (2016). The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana. History, 101(344), 84-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12156

The Labour Party’s ambivalent attitude to anticolonial nationalism is well known but its place in the conflicts between the party’s revisionists and the left has been less fully elaborated, while the influence of British trade unions in the formation... Read More about The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana.

Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden (2016)
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Mawby, S. (2016). Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden. Labor History, 57(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1140622

The promulgation in 1960 of a new Industrial Relations Ordinance in Aden was a singular event in the history of British decolonisation because it made many forms of strike action illegal. Earlier initiatives to liberalise trade union law in the colon... Read More about Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden.

Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879 (2016)
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Kwan, J. (2016). Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879

This article aims to investigate the viewpoint of the Austro-German liberal movement – both ideologically and practically – towards the arguments for Bohemian state rights made by the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech political parties... Read More about Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879.