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Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
Book
Hucker, D. (2020). Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle (2020)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2020). A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle. Parliamentary History, 39(1), 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12484

The fourth duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) is recognised as one of the most prominent peers with electoral influence in early-19 th century Britain. This article considers the way in which he deployed that influence and the purposes to which it was tur... Read More about A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle.

Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834 (2020)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2020). Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834. Parliamentary History, 39(1), 205-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12485

© 2020 The Author. Parliamentary History published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. on behalf of Parlimentary History Yearbook Trust. When Melbourne replaced Grey in 1834 he looked to recruit men with experience to join his government. He enlisted Sir Joh... Read More about Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons: The Case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham By-Election, 1834.

‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18 (2020)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2020). ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18. Twentieth Century British History, 31(4), 503–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046

The study of the state's interventionist role on the home front, and the increased regulation of minority groups in particular, have become an important component to our historical understanding of how modern British society changed during the First... Read More about ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18.

Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls (2020)
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Trombley, J. L. (2020). Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 63, 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.118197

This article examines how Marguerite Porete defended her ideas in her mystical treatise The Mirror of Simple Souls, which along with its author was condemned as heretical in 1310. Most scholarship has focussed on the final sixteen chapters of the Mir... Read More about Self-Defence and Its Limits in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls.

Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham (2020)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2020). Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham. Midland History, 45(1), 75-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2020.1712078

It is well known that Nottingham was one of the most densely built and overcrowded towns in Victorian England. Following the enclosure, 1845-65, green spaces, including public parks, had to be provided in the new suburbs. This article looks at the cr... Read More about Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham.

Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India (2019)
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Kumar, A. (2020). Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India. Past and Present, 246(1), 149-190. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz035

This article examines the emergence of mass letter-writing in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial north India, a region marked by the growth of an unprecedented labour mobility, postal expansion, vernacular print, and workers' l... Read More about Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India.

Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England (2019)
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MERRITT, J. (2020). Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 35(6), 693-714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2019.1673805

This article presents a rethinking of the nature and functions of voluntary military organizations in early modern England. Where previous scholarship has concentrated on their potential military significance and links with political puritanism, this... Read More about Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England.

The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945 (2019)
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Taylor, J. E. (2019). The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945. History of Photography, 43(3), 284-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2019.1662604

This paper explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. It demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political and c... Read More about The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945.

Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West (2019)
Book Chapter
LUTTON, R. (2019). Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West. In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (129-153). Leiden /Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409422_009

From the eleventh century onward, there was an increasing preoccupation in Western Christianity with Christ’s humanity and suffering body. This “Christocentric turn” was not just towards the bloodied human body of Christ but also towards his human na... Read More about Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West.

The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2019). The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(5), 823-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1653162

This article investigates Dalits’ dreams and desires for education in the United Provinces by examining hitherto unexplored records of the American Methodist Church missionaries and the Arya Samaj from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie... Read More about The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India.

"Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2019). "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories. Journal of Asian Studies, 78(4), 789-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000561

Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the le... Read More about "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories.

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2019)
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Gunn, S., & Townsend, S. (2019). Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their prin... Read More about Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan.

The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s (2019)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2020). The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 50(2), 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12580

This paper excavates the relationship between the presidency and an emergent white, European ‘ethnic’ identity politics during the 1970s. Rather than a response to cultural drift or backlash politics, presidential efforts to harness ‘ethnic’ identity... Read More about The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s.

County and Community in Medieval England (2019)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2019). County and Community in Medieval England. English Historical Review, 134(569), 777–820. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez187

The following are two typical 'county community' petitions from the first half of the fourteenth century, presented in the parliaments of 1322 and 1344 respectively: 1. To our lord the king and to his council, the community of the county of Lincolnsh... Read More about County and Community in Medieval England.