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Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2020). Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India. Past and Present, 246(1), 149-190. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz035

This article examines the emergence of mass letter-writing in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial north India, a region marked by the growth of an unprecedented labour mobility, postal expansion, vernacular print, and workers' l... Read More about Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India.

The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945 (2019)
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Taylor, J. E. (2019). The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945. History of Photography, 43(3), 284-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2019.1662604

This paper explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. It demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political and c... Read More about The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945.

Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England (2019)
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MERRITT, J. (2020). Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 35(6), 693-714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2019.1673805

This article presents a rethinking of the nature and functions of voluntary military organizations in early modern England. Where previous scholarship has concentrated on their potential military significance and links with political puritanism, this... Read More about Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England.

The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India (2019)
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Kumar, A. (2019). The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(5), 823-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1653162

This article investigates Dalits’ dreams and desires for education in the United Provinces by examining hitherto unexplored records of the American Methodist Church missionaries and the Arya Samaj from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie... Read More about The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India.

"Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories (2019)
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Taylor, J. E. (2019). "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories. Journal of Asian Studies, 78(4), 789-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000561

Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the le... Read More about "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories.

The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s (2019)
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Merton, J. (2020). The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 50(2), 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12580

This paper excavates the relationship between the presidency and an emergent white, European ‘ethnic’ identity politics during the 1970s. Rather than a response to cultural drift or backlash politics, presidential efforts to harness ‘ethnic’ identity... Read More about The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s.

County and Community in Medieval England (2019)
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Dodd, G. (2019). County and Community in Medieval England. English Historical Review, 134(569), 777–820. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez187

The following are two typical 'county community' petitions from the first half of the fourteenth century, presented in the parliaments of 1322 and 1344 respectively: 1. To our lord the king and to his council, the community of the county of Lincolnsh... Read More about County and Community in Medieval England.

Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532 (2019)
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Goddard, R. (2019). Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532. Journal of British Studies, 58(3), 494-518. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.4

This article examines English women who were engaged in wholesale long-distance or international trade in the later Middle Ages. These women made up only a small proportion of English merchants, averaging about 3 to 4 percent of the mercantile popula... Read More about Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532.

Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church (2019)
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Sharipova, L. (2020). Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church. Historical Journal, 63(2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000219

The article examines the enduring phenomenon of double monasticism, the type of religious organisation, whereby a single monastic unit combined a male and a female communities that followed the same rule, recognised the authority of the same superior... Read More about Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church.

'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014 (2019)
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Arnold, J. (2020). 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014. Urban History, 47(2), 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000555

The article proceeds from the observation that in the contemporary British cultural imagination, the figure of the coal miner tends to be presented as the embodiment of anti-urban and organicist qualities that in continental Europe are more commonly... Read More about 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
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Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema (2019)
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Toropova, A. (2020). Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema. Journal of Contemporary History, 55(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418820111

Cinema had long been hailed by Bolshevik party leaders as a crucial ally of the Soviet mass enlightenment project. By the mid-1920s, however, Soviet psychologists, educators and practitioners of ‘child science’ (pedology) were pointing to the grave e... Read More about Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema.

Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives (2019)
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Balzaretti, R. (2019). Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives. Journal of Risk Research, 22(9), 1101-1115. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569101

On the 25 October 2011 the River Magra in the far east of the Italian region of Liguria flooded with catastrophic effects, killing thirteen people and causing millions of euros in damage. Managing such an extreme episode is very hard, as local policy... Read More about Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives.

The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy (2019)
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Daddow, O., Gifford, C., & Wellings, B. (2019). The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy. Political Research Exchange, 1(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2019.1643681

Drawing on newly released archival material, this article reassesses Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech, widely depicted to have instigated Britain's drift towards Brexit. It opens by giving an essential recap of the main contents of the speech.... Read More about The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy.