All Outputs (25)

Harold Nicolson and Appeasement (2014)
Book Chapter

Harold Nicolson is remembered for many aspects of a remarkably varied life. The son of a Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, he became a successful diplomat himself, with a role in shaping the 1919 Paris peace settlement. He served as fa... Read More about Harold Nicolson and Appeasement.

The British Brand of Anti-Imperialism: Information and Propaganda in South Arabia at the End of Empire (2014)
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The merchant (2014)
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The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England (2014)
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Bede and the Future (2014)
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Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective (2014)
Journal Article

This work compares the health cooperatives fêted in Maoist China in the 1960s to the New Rural Medical Co-operative Scheme (NRCMS) that has been operating in China since 2002. Organizational and ideological similarities between the old and new co-ope... Read More about Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective.

"A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914 (2014)
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The relationship of twentieth-century democracies to the explicit employment of fear and intimidation within their own national borders was an ambivalent one. On the one hand, police and judicial officials, responding to perceived public outcry or th... Read More about "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914.

Bede's History of the Future (2014)
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Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (eds.), Winning while losing: civil rights, the conservative movement and the presidency from Nixon to Obama (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, $79.95. Pp. 304; 978-0-8130-4908-3) (2014)
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From the strange death to the odd afterlife of Lutheran England (2014)
Journal Article

Research on the relationship between England and Protestant Germany during the sixteenth century has recently experienced a revival. A significant area of concentration for confessional interests among Lutherans a century ago, Anglo-German relations... Read More about From the strange death to the odd afterlife of Lutheran England.

David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9 (2014)
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David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK. His work is examined here to provide an in-depth look at the practice of diplomacy and the role of the ambassador as diplomatic actor.This thorough... Read More about David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9.

The cultural and land use implications of the reappearance of the wild boar in North West Italy: A case study of the Val di Vara (2014)
Journal Article

Ethics and Anglo-German Relations during the Wars of Religion (2014)
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Conservative leaders, coalition, and Britain's decision for war in 1914 (2014)
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Conservative leaders may have had a decisive impact on the decision by the Liberal government to enter the Great War in August 1914. In a seminal article of 1975 Keith Wilson argued that their readiness to fight ‘cut the ground … from beneath the fee... Read More about Conservative leaders, coalition, and Britain's decision for war in 1914.

The Great War and Urban Crisis: Conceptualizing the Industrial Metropolis in Japan and Britain in the 1910s (2014)
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Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England (2014)
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It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’,... Read More about Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England.

The Cooperative Firm: a Non-capitalist Model for the Occupy Movement (2014)
Book Chapter

Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 (2014)
Journal Article

This article considers Robert Peel’s role in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828. Traditionally overshadowed by the larger campaign to secure catholic emancipation in 1829, the repeal legislation assumes importance in Peel’s political... Read More about Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828.

Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire (2014)
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The history of the Habsburg Empire in the post-Napoleonic era is frequently approached from the perspective of its various component nationalities. These were traditionally portrayed in the historiography as engaged in more-or-less open struggle with... Read More about Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire.

Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom (2014)
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Three new cities were created in conjunction with Her Majesty the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012: Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph. They were the winners of a competition which had no clear rules, no transparency and no proper feedback. T... Read More about Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom.