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Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover) (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover). Economic and Political Weekly, 59(35),

Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (in press). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies,

This article seeks to reassess monasticism within Abbasid Palestine, arguing that monasteries experienced decline and insecurity in the eighth and ninth centuries. It focuses on the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas by Leontios of Damascus, arguing that L... Read More about Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine.

Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools (2024)
Book Chapter
Baron, N. (2024). Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools. In Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (23-57). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54581-8_2

This chapter offers a close critical analysis of the structure, design, and content of the Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools, published in the Soviet Union in 1951. This atlas was created not merely as an instrument of geographical... Read More about Visualizing Stalinist Space: The 1951 Geographical Atlas of the USSR for Secondary Schools.

The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Cocks, H. (2024). The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain. Parliamentary History, 43(2), 207-225

Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural-ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political diffe... Read More about The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain.

A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970 (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2024). A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970. Contemporary British History, 38(3), 404-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2024.2341135

Most ethnic Chinese living and working in Britain in the late 1960s were from Hong Kong’s New Territories. Many of these British migrants blamed the Hong Kong government for importing cheap foodstuffs and driving farmers off the land to build new inf... Read More about A successful transnational cold war intervention?: revisiting the Heung Yee Kuk’s “goodwill” tour of Britain’s Chinatowns, 1967–1970.

Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2024). Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet?. Journal of British Studies, 62(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.181

Review porducts. Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
GUST, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists, and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might tha... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Gust, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain.

Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 (2024)
Journal Article
Goddard, R., & Smalley, G. (2024). Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2299035

This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materials to investigate the financial management of the fra... Read More about Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546.

Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England (2023)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2023). Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 67, 85-117

By the start of the fourteenth century the petition was established as one of the most important modes of communication between towns and cities on the one hand, and the English crown on the other. Petitions underscored the need of urban communities... Read More about Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England.

Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England (2023)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2023). Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England. English Historical Review, 138(593), 705-743. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead153

The late medieval period was an important phase in the history of political communication in England, as more people than ever before became involved in debates about royal governance. The first half of the fourteenth century, however, has been relat... Read More about Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England.