All Outputs (32)

'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014 (2019)
Journal Article

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 diabolical Cato-Street plot': the Cato Street conspiracy, 1820 (2019)
Journal Article

Three Nottingham rebels in the age of reform, c.1800-1832 (2019)
Journal Article

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article

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.

The Formation of the Liberal Generation in Austria, c1830-1861: Education, Revolution and State Service (2019)
Book Chapter

Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema (2019)
Journal Article

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.

Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917 (2019)
Book Chapter

“By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914 (2019)
Book Chapter

As first lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill was at the centre of the Liberal government’s decision-making during the July crisis. The July crisis unfolded quickly. Britain’s preoccupation for most of the month was Ireland, where civil war threa... Read More about “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914.

Architecture and Politics in the Palace of Westminster, 1399 to the Present (2019)
Journal Article

Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives (2019)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Edward III’s household knights and the Crécy campaign of 1346 (2019)
Journal Article

The knights of the royal household were of central importance to medieval warfare. Their contributions to the wars of Edward III have, however, received only limited attention from historians. This article uses the Crécy campaign of 1346, the largest... Read More about Edward III’s household knights and the Crécy campaign of 1346.