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Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church (2021)
Journal Article

The church of St Michael and All Angels, Averham, is largely constructed of counter-pitched rubble and has long been interpreted as being of the early Norman period. Recent archaeological investigations by the authors have revealed conclusive evidenc... Read More about Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church.

The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources (2021)
Journal Article

If there is a period in Cambodia’s history that has been overlooked and disparaged, it is certainly the republican one (1970–1975). The Khmer Republic is often viewed as a corrupt, incompetent regime–an interregnum doomed to failure. This article rev... Read More about The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources.

'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death? (2021)
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To this day, the trial of Pol Pot in July 1997 in Anlong Veng remains an underexplored topic, possibly because it is seen as a parody of justice organised by a rival Khmer Rouge faction. Images of the event show an old and fragile man who has to be s... Read More about 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?.

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
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After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter

Visiting the "Overseas Chinese": Vatican engagement with the Chinese Diaspora in Cold War Southeast Asia Asia (2021)
Book Chapter

Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (2021)
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Voice of America Chinese-dialect broadcasting and the Chinese Cultural Cold War, 1949-1953 (2021)
Book Chapter

Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared (2021)
Book Chapter

Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region (2021)
Journal Article

In this contribution I consider how Milan and its inhabitants were connected both north and south in the early medieval period. I focus on exchanges understood as giving and receiving, buying and selling, leasing and renting, but also encompassing th... Read More about Milan, Genoa and the Alps: early medieval exchanges across a region.

In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value (2021)
Journal Article

This article intervenes in the debate about the nature of conservatism. Some contributors to this debate have claimed that this ideology can be defined as an adjectival disposition. They claim, that is, that a conservative possesses an attitude towar... Read More about In The Shadows: Conservative Epistemology and Ideological Value.

Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968 (2021)
Journal Article

This article seeks to explain the transnational development of Maoism in the attempt to legitimise the Cultural Revolution and the 1967 Hong Kong Riots to Britain’s ethnic Chinese populace. Based primarily on a survey of ethnic Chinese in Britain und... Read More about Turning Over a New Leaf: The British Government, the Cultural Revolution, and the Ethnic Chinese Community in Britain, 1967–1968.

The Earldom Endowments of 1337: Political Thought and the Practice of Kingship in Late Medieval England (2021)
Journal Article

This article examines Edward III’s earldom creations of March 1337 and the endowments given to these earls by Edward III in order to support their newly acquired rank. It re-evaluates the form of these grants and the governmental processes they stimu... Read More about The Earldom Endowments of 1337: Political Thought and the Practice of Kingship in Late Medieval England.

Re-reading The Lands of Saint Ambrose (2021)
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This paper reflects on the observations made by Giuseppe Albertoni, Gianmarco De Angelis, Anna Rapetti and Igor Santos Salazar in their discussion of the book The Lands of Saint Ambrose. Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019).

Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought (2021)
Journal Article

This article makes a case that disability, particularly visual, hearing, and speech impairments, played a significant role in Scottish Enlightenment thought. Focusing on the work of Dugald Stewart, and in particular on his essay 'Some account of a bo... Read More about Disability as a Problem of Humanity in Scottish Enlightenment Thought.

Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s (2021)
Journal Article

This discussion provides the first in-depth investigation into the meaning and significance of a quite exceptional petition presented by the parliamentary Commons in the reign of Richard II. The petition survives as a unique copy in the chronicle of... Read More about Henry Knighton, the Commons and the crisis of governance in the 1380s.

The Students: Foregrounding Difference (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses ways of creating history classrooms and courses that are accessible to students who are minoritised by society, whether as a result of their heritage, gender, sexuality or class background, as well as those who face physical, e... Read More about The Students: Foregrounding Difference.

The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century (2021)
Journal Article

Due to their different doctrinal positions, the various Syriac-using Churches of the Middle East have generally been understood as rivals to each other, with separate histories that can be studied in isolation. This article argues that doctrinal diff... Read More about The Interconnected Histories of the Syriac Churches in the Sixteenth Century.

Jonas van Tol. Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560–1572. St Andrews Studies in Reformation History 12. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Pp. 284. $150.00 (cloth) (2021)
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Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence” (2021)
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Business confidence is a measure of optimism or pessimism that managers feel about the commercial prospects for their organizations. This paper uses later medieval high-value English credit data as a proxy gauge of merchants' business confidence or u... Read More about Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence”.