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Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story (2018)
Book

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this book explores how these refugees made sense of... Read More about Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story.

Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018)
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Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was inven... Read More about Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.

Willibald Steinmetz / Michael Freeden / Javier Fernández-Sebastián (eds.): Conceptual History in the European Space (2018)
Journal Article

The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article

The general court of the Agenais is an example of the diverse forms of semi-autonomous regional assemblies which emerged in the high-medieval Languedoc. They were identified and examined most convincingly by Thomas Bisson. However, the origins of the... Read More about The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade.

Emotions and the British government’s decision for war in 1914 (2018)
Journal Article

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest among international historians in the impact of emotions on foreign policy decisions, as part of a broader movement usually known as the ‘emotional turn.’ This is associated with findings, from the fiel... Read More about Emotions and the British government’s decision for war in 1914.

Household Knights, Chamber Knights and King’s Knights: The Development of the Royal Knight in Fourteenth-Century England (2018)
Journal Article

The fourteenth century witnessed a considerable change in the way in which knights were retained in royal service in England. The system of retaining ‘household knights’, which had been in operation since at least the twelfth century, gave way to a n... Read More about Household Knights, Chamber Knights and King’s Knights: The Development of the Royal Knight in Fourteenth-Century England.

The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article

This article considers the emergence of the Chaldaean (East Syrian Catholic) Church in the 1550s, a topic of considerable relevance for scholars of eastern Christianity and of Counter-Reformation Catholicism alike. The Chaldaeans seem to present a pa... Read More about The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century.

Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910) (2018)
Journal Article

Written in the backdrop of the emerging official discourse around occupational skill training in contemporary India, this article returns to the past to explain how the meanings of skill and skill training were produced through the interaction of the... Read More about Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910).

"The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain (2018)
Journal Article

This article explores the cultural dynamics of branding and mass consumption in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on Penguin Books’ cartoon mascot, which appeared on all of the firm's paperback covers and in-store promotional material fr... Read More about "The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain.

‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions (2018)
Journal Article

This article examines a particular set of texts in an early fifteenth-century religious anthology composed by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton. Together with other religious prose and verse, Thornton copied a number of Middle English and Latin... Read More about ‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions.

The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair? (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 University of Birmingham. This article re-considers Nottingham’s role in the events immediately preceding the Pentrich Rebellion of 9–10 June 1817, as well as its reaction on the night of the Rebellion and during its aftermath. It does so in l... Read More about The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair?.

Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy) (2018)
Journal Article

This paper explores the value of landscape and topographical art for understanding contemporary landscapes of the Val d’Aosta, NW Italy. The region became very popular with British tourists in the early nineteenth-century and several amateur and prof... Read More about Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy).

'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference (2018)
Journal Article

Historical assessments of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference, like its 1899 predecessor, are usually framed in verdicts of success or failure. Although some specialist accounts rightly portray the Hague meetings as both successful and important, most an... Read More about 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference.

Reviewed work: Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia. By Richard Moss. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017 (2018)
Journal Article

'Die Inszenierung der expandierenden "Volksgemeinschaft": Offizielle Fotos der "Heimkehr" deutscher Minderheiten ins Reich, 1939-1941' (2018)
Book Chapter

This contribution examines the propaganda effort relating to the resettlement of ethnic German minorities from the point of view of generating a vision of an expanding "national community".

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
Journal Article

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article

This paper contributes new evidence and a new perspective to the study of the religious heresy known as Waldensianism in the high-medieval Languedoc, and its relationship to both orthodox authority and the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Although they were outlawed... Read More about ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade.

'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War (2018)
Working Paper

This working paper chronicles the development of the construction of a methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the AHRC’s First World War Engagement Centres. It will show how through evalu... Read More about 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War.

Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921 (2018)
Journal Article

The 1915 Simpson Report made public health recommendations for Nairobi that were heralded as ground-breaking. Of particular interest to the colonial authorities was Professor Simpson’s suggestion to racially segregate Nairobi to prevent diseases said... Read More about Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921.

Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialised production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan (2018)
Book Chapter