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Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration (2015)
Journal Article
Merritt, J. (2016). Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 67(1), 122-138. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046914002000

While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey--an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority--h... Read More about Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration.

Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945 (2015)
Journal Article
Umbach, M. (2015). Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945. Central European History, 48(3), 335-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938915000783

Copyright © Central European History Society of the American Historical Association 2015. This article explores the significance of photography and photo-album making as practices that many Germans used to record their lives during the Third Reich. M... Read More about Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945.

Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (2015)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Harvey, E. (2015). Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History. Central European History, 48(3), 287-299. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000893891500076x

In the introduction to this special issue on photography and German history, we outline current research on using both professional and amateur or snapshot photography to elucidate problems in 20th-century German history. We argue that an approach is... Read More about Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History.

An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness (2015)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2015). An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness. Russian Review, 74(4), 665-683. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12053

© 2015 The Russian Review. This article excavates the coentanglement of happiness and duty in Stalinist discourse by examining Soviet films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin (1934) and Mikhail Kalatozov's Valerii C... Read More about An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness.

Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850 (2015)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2015). Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850. Rural History, 26(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793315000023

This article considers the Dukeries estates of north Nottinghamshire in the hey-day of aristocratic power and prestige, from the mid-Georgian to the mid-Victorian period. It poses a contrast between visitors’ impressions of the area as one of constan... Read More about Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850.

“Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England (2015)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (in press). “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England. Law and History Review, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248015000280

One of the most striking changes in the penal culture of fin-de-siècle Europe was England's reform of adjudication and punishment. In this “de-moralization of criminality,” the system began to shed its punitive sentencing, which often saw minor offen... Read More about “Beyond the pale of mercy”: Victorian penal culture, police court missionaries, and the origins of probation in England.

Politician or Poet? The 6th Lord Byron in the House of Lords, 1809–13 (2015)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2015). Politician or Poet? The 6th Lord Byron in the House of Lords, 1809–13. Parliamentary History, 34(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12139

Lord George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale, is known internationally as, perhaps, the most famous Romantic poet of his generation. His work continues to be read across the globe. As a peer (succeeding to the title following the death of hi... Read More about Politician or Poet? The 6th Lord Byron in the House of Lords, 1809–13.

‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979 (2015)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2016). ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979. Political Studies, 64(1_suppl), 156-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9248.12210

Recent descriptions of British Conservatism have often identified the defence of inequality as one of its core ideological features. By drawing upon Michael Freeden's morphological conception of ideologies, this article will challenge such descriptio... Read More about ‘For We Shall Prejudice Nothing’: Middle Way Conservatism and the Defence of Inequality, 1945–1979.

The wolf in the landscape: Antonio Cesena and attitudes to wolves in sixteenth century Liguria (2015)
Journal Article
Hearn, R., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2015). The wolf in the landscape: Antonio Cesena and attitudes to wolves in sixteenth century Liguria. Rural History, 26(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793314000193

The recent reappearance of wolves in many areas of Europe has stimulated an interest in the past relationships between the species and humans in various different geographical locations and historical epochs. The image of wolves approaching and enter... Read More about The wolf in the landscape: Antonio Cesena and attitudes to wolves in sixteenth century Liguria.

British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference (2015)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2015). British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2015.1067509

This analysis provides a re-appraisal of the 1899 Hague Conference by looking more closely at how citizen activists—notably in Britain but also transnationally—used it as a forum through which to press their agenda onto politicians and diplomatists.... Read More about British peace activism and 'new' diplomacy: revisiting the 1899 Hague Peace Conference.