All Outputs (39)

Interrogating Working-Class Lives: Evidence in Social History (2017)
Journal Article

Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia, by Richard Moss, Teaneck, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017 (2017)
Journal Article

‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present (2017)
Journal Article

ABSTRACT The introduction draws on the work of Raymond Williams to identify the ‘structures of feeling’ that surround the figure of the coal miner in contemporary British culture. As an analysis of the media coverage of the closure of the UK’s last... Read More about ‘Like being on death row’: Britain and the end of coal, c. 1970 to the present.

Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans (2017)
Journal Article

Historians seeking to explain the late twentieth century rightward shift of urban ethnic whites have tended to ignore the shifting meaning and content of white ethnic identity in this transition, and the utility of these changes to conservative polit... Read More about Ralph J. Perk, the “New ethnicity”, and the making of urban ethnic republicans.

Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton (2017)
Journal Article

By 1500 more than 500 written accounts of the Jerusalem pilgrimage alone had been produced in the West, and yet such works continued to be written and, increasingly, printed. How did these works retain their popularity, who was writing them and why?... Read More about Pilgrimage and travel writing in early sixteenth-century England: the pilgrimage accounts of Thomas Larke and Robert Langton.

Lewis Harcourt's Journal of the 1914 War Crisis (2017)
Journal Article

Lewis Harcourt, who was Colonial Secretary in Britain's Liberal government, from 1908 to 1915, kept a political journal for many years, some earlier parts of which have already been published. Reproduced below is the whole neat version of the journal... Read More about Lewis Harcourt's Journal of the 1914 War Crisis.

William Stillman: championing Crispi in late Victorian Britain (2017)
Journal Article

Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev (2017)
Journal Article

The article is based on the case study of Sister Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev’s Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in wh... Read More about Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev.

Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain (2017)
Book

Conspiracy, Coup d’état and Civil War in Seville, 1936–1939 dissects the conspiracy against the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the context of the uprising and civil war in Seville, the capital of Spain’s largest region, Andalusia, and the most... Read More about Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain.

Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis (2017)
Journal Article

During the July Crisis, the United Kingdom was put under strong pressure from Russia and the latter’s ally, France, to declare it would fight alongside them. Britain had made the entente cordiale with France in 1904 and a Convention with Russia in 19... Read More about Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis.

Michael Palliser (2017)
Book Chapter

Michael Palliser was unique among the Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister, later held the highest position in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving as Permanent Under-Secretary (PUS) for seven years, in 1975–1982. The task of PS could be... Read More about Michael Palliser.

Mobility, gender and empire in Maria Graham's Journal of a Residence in India (1812) (2017)
Journal Article

A book by a young lady, who probably went to India like most young ladies, to procure a husband instead of information, is a literary curiosity which we are not disposed to overlook.

The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: diplomacy, political culture and sociability (2017)
Journal Article

On 29 November 1814, the Austrian Emperor Francis, the Russian Tsar Alexander, and the Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm, along with 6,000 others, attended a concert in Vienna's Redouten Hall; Beethoven personally conducted three of his works: the Seve... Read More about The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: diplomacy, political culture and sociability.

Opening legations: Japan’s first resident minister and the diplomatic corps in Europe (2017)
Journal Article

This analysis shows how Japanese legations, first established in Europe during the 1870s, were not just symbolic gestures but played a key role in the Meiji government’s quest for international recognition. The concept of resident ambassador was unfa... Read More about Opening legations: Japan’s first resident minister and the diplomatic corps in Europe.

Public ritual and the proclamation of Richard Cromwell in English towns, September 1658 (2017)
Journal Article

The requirement to proclaim Richard Cromwell lord protector in September 1658 forced town leaders to engage with an unstable political context through the production of a large-scale public event. This article examines the ceremonies used in a range... Read More about Public ritual and the proclamation of Richard Cromwell in English towns, September 1658.

Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s (2017)
Journal Article

After Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, West Germans began to accept the more permanent division of the country and rediscovered the regional fundaments of their federal political system. A catalyst for this process was provided by a massive regionalization... Read More about Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s.

Sex on the front: prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War (2017)
Journal Article

Prostitution flourished during Russia’s First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of millions of the empire’s population challenged the tsarist state’s ability to control both the movement and bodies of those buying and selling sex. In... Read More about Sex on the front: prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War.

The Codex Amiatinus Maiestas Domini and the Gospel prefaces of Jerome (2017)
Journal Article

The ‘black spot’ on the Crimea: venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s (2017)
Journal Article

This article examines how high command in the Soviet Red Navy responded to reportedly high levels of venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the mid-1920s. Illness in the fleet posed a threat to national security, especially during the first unst... Read More about The ‘black spot’ on the Crimea: venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s.

Preliminary material (2017)
Book Chapter