All Outputs (400)

Victorian travellers, Apennine landscapes and the development of cultural heritage in eastern Liguria, c. 1875-1914 (2011)
Journal Article

This article, which focuses on Italian Apennine landscapes in the northern region of Liguria, investigates late nineteenth-century travel from the perspective of historical ecology. It argues that travellers' observations and reflections can be rich... Read More about Victorian travellers, Apennine landscapes and the development of cultural heritage in eastern Liguria, c. 1875-1914.

‘God forbid it should come to that’: the feud between Colonel Molesworth and Major-General O'Brien in Portugal, 1663 (2011)
Journal Article

‘No more Hoares to Paris’: British foreign policymaking and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935 (2011)
Journal Article

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 prompted a major European crisis. This article applies the main theories of foreign policy analysis to the British Government’s handling of this crisis. It argues that bureaucratic politics existed, but h... Read More about ‘No more Hoares to Paris’: British foreign policymaking and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935.

Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond (2011)
Journal Article

David Owen entered the House of Commons as member for Plymouth in 1966. He became a junior minister under Harold Wilson by 1968 and quickly established himself as a leading figure of the Labour right. From 1977 to 1979 he was Britain's youngest post-... Read More about Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond.

Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968 (2011)
Journal Article

Recent decades have seen growing historical interest in “second rank” officials who, whilst they do not play a leading role in government or political movements, can influence the way decisions are shaped and executed. At the same time, the interest... Read More about Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968.

Review Article: Nationalism and All That: Reassessing the Habsburg Monarchy and its Legacy (2011)
Journal Article

Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London (2011)
Journal Article

Studies of the rise of London's vestries in the period to 1640 have tended to discuss them in terms of the inexorable rise of oligarchy and state formation. This article re-examines the emergence of the vestries in several ways, moving beyond this tr... Read More about Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London.

Small boroughs and the manorial economy: Enterprise zones or urban failures? (2011)
Journal Article

Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968 (2010)
Journal Article

This article investigates the little-known plans formulated by Harold Wilson's Labour government to deploy Polaris submarines in the Indo-Pacific region. The scheme was first proposed in 1965 as a response to several problems faced by British policy-... Read More about Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968.

Surviving recession: English borough courts and commercial contraction, 1350-1500 (2010)
Book Chapter

'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41 (2010)
Journal Article

While historians have long appreciated the political and cultural importance of the famous Covent Garden development of the 1630s, they have neglected one of its remarkable features, namely the building of an entirely new church combined with the cre... Read More about 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41.

“A Right Sort of Man”: Gender, Class Identity, and Social Reform in Late-Victorian Britain (2010)
Journal Article

John Freeman, 1969–71 (2009)
Book Chapter

At less than two years duration, the ambassadorship of John Freeman was the second shortest covered by this book. It took place, too, in a singularly uneventful period in Anglo-American relations, between the dramas of 1967–68 — when the devaluation... Read More about John Freeman, 1969–71.

“Some Punishment Should Be Devised”: Parents, Children, and the State in Victorian London (2009)
Journal Article

What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa (2009)
Journal Article

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, tropical neurasthenia was a popular diagnosis for a nervous condition experienced by Europeans in the topics. Tropical neurasthenia was not psychosis or madness, but was rather an ennui or loss of “e... Read More about What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa.

'The Summit is Dead. Long Live the European Council': Britain and the Question of Regular Leaders' Meetings in the European Community, 1973-1975 (2009)
Journal Article

Richard II and the Fiction of Majority Rule (2008)
Book Chapter

For Thomas Walsingham, one of the first occasions when Richard II revealed the true nature of his rule came in the Summer of 1383 when, accompanied by his new queen, he went on a “shrine-crawl” of the eastern counties, imposing himself and his househ... Read More about Richard II and the Fiction of Majority Rule.

The Queer (Spatial) Economies of The Lavender Hill Mob (2008)
Journal Article

International Factors and the 1964 Election (2007)
Journal Article

International issues are not usually seen as having been significant to the 1964 general election result. Harold Wilson made only limited references to foreign policy and defence during the campaign, while opinion polls showed that voters saw domesti... Read More about International Factors and the 1964 Election.

‘Everything is made of atoms’: the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London (2007)
Journal Article