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Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
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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.

Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean (2022)
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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.

The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 (2022)
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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.

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland (2022)
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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.

Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II (2022)
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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.

Diagnosing the medical history of British imperialism (2022)
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Greenwood, A. (2022). Diagnosing the medical history of British imperialism. Lancet, 400(10354), 726-727. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2822%2901648-8

In the past two decades, particularly, the gross inequities and violence of British colonialism have increasingly featured within popular and academic histories. Yet despite the innumerable wrongs inherent in imperialism, surely the history of the we... Read More about Diagnosing the medical history of British imperialism.

‘The ideological tree is always green’: Norberto Bobbio and the future of ideology studies (2022)
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Blackburn, D. (2022). ‘The ideological tree is always green’: Norberto Bobbio and the future of ideology studies. Journal of Political Ideologies, 27(3), 347-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2022.2129222

This article locates Norberto Bobbio within the field of ideology studies. After historicising Bobbio’s contribution to the study of ideas, it reflects on some of the key themes that punctuated his work. In doing so, it shows how many of Bobbio’s con... Read More about ‘The ideological tree is always green’: Norberto Bobbio and the future of ideology studies.

THE LATIN PROJECT, Before the Merchant Adventurers: Building the Hall. Account Book of the Fraternity of Jesus and Mary, York, 1357–69: (York: Centre of Medieval Studies, University of York, 2021. £10. 108 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5272-9987-0). (2022)
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Goddard, R. (2022). THE LATIN PROJECT, Before the Merchant Adventurers: Building the Hall. Account Book of the Fraternity of Jesus and Mary, York, 1357–69: (York: Centre of Medieval Studies, University of York, 2021. £10. 108 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5272-9987-0). Northern History, 59(2), 304-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2022.2112005

The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.) London, UCL Press, 2021xvii+377 pp., ISBN 978 1 78735 687 0 (hbk) (£45), 978 1 78735 686 3 (pbk) (£25), 978 1 78735 685 6 (ePDF) (Open Access) (2022)
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Blackburn, D. (in press). The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s by Aled Davies, Ben Jackson and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (eds.) London, UCL Press, 2021xvii+377 pp., ISBN 978 1 78735 687 0 (hbk) (£45), 978 1 78735 686 3 (pbk) (£25), 978 1 78735 685 6 (ePDF) (Open Access). Contemporary British History, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2113389

“Bringing you the Best”: John Player & Sons, Cricket, and the Politics of Tobacco Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1969–1986 (2022)
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O'Neill, D., & Greenwood, A. (2023). “Bringing you the Best”: John Player & Sons, Cricket, and the Politics of Tobacco Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1969–1986. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 80(1), 152-184. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10022

This article explores some of the marketing strategies associated with the British tobacco industry's sponsorship of sport during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the British cigarette and tobacco manufacturer John Player & Sons and the firm's pion... Read More about “Bringing you the Best”: John Player & Sons, Cricket, and the Politics of Tobacco Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1969–1986.

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages (2022)
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Raven, M. (2022). Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages. Law and History Review, 40(4), 747-788. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0738248022000311

The process of law enforcement helped to shape the state in the Middle Ages. This article uses an extensive array of court records to provide the first detailed account of royal efforts to police the illegal export of wool in mid-fourteenth century E... Read More about Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in England, c.1337-63: Law Enforcement and the Moral Economy in the Late Middle Ages.

“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964–1991) (2022)
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Lovett, J. (2022). “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)
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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)
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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)
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Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …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.

“To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China (2022)
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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.

Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia (2022)
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Parker, L., & Maxton, R. (2022). Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia. Past and Present, 257(1), 89-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab037

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on tr... Read More about Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia.