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Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev (2017)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2018). Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(2), 278-299. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917000768

The article is based on the case study of Sister Asklipiodata, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who became a member of the monastic community in one of Kiev’s Orthodox convents in the second half of the eighteenth century. It explores the ways in wh... Read More about Of meat, men and property: the troubled career of a convert nun in eighteenth-century Kiev.

Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain (2017)
Book
Emanuel Leitao Prazeres Serem, R. (2017). Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press

Conspiracy, Coup d’état and Civil War in Seville, 1936–1939 dissects the conspiracy against the democratic Second Spanish Republic in the context of the uprising and civil war in Seville, the capital of Spain’s largest region, Andalusia, and the most... Read More about Conspiracy, Coup d'état and Civil War in Seville, 1936-1939: History and Myth in Francoist Spain.

Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis (2017)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2018). Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis. International History Review, 40(1), 206-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1357645

During the July Crisis, the United Kingdom was put under strong pressure from Russia and the latter’s ally, France, to declare it would fight alongside them. Britain had made the entente cordiale with France in 1904 and a Convention with Russia in 19... Read More about Ambassador George Buchanan and the July Crisis.

Michael Palliser (2017)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2019). Michael Palliser. In A. Holt, & W. Dockter (Eds.), Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister: Foreign Affairs from Churchill to Thatcher (97-117). Routledge

Michael Palliser was unique among the Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister, later held the highest position in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, serving as Permanent Under-Secretary (PUS) for seven years, in 1975–1982. The task of PS could be... Read More about Michael Palliser.

The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: diplomacy, political culture and sociability (2017)
Journal Article
Kwan, J. (in press). The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: diplomacy, political culture and sociability. Historical Journal, 60(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000085

On 29 November 1814, the Austrian Emperor Francis, the Russian Tsar Alexander, and the Prussian King Frederick Wilhelm, along with 6,000 others, attended a concert in Vienna's Redouten Hall; Beethoven personally conducted three of his works: the Seve... Read More about The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815: diplomacy, political culture and sociability.

Opening legations: Japan’s first resident minister and the diplomatic corps in Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Cobbing, A. (2017). Opening legations: Japan’s first resident minister and the diplomatic corps in Europe. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 28(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2017.1309874

This analysis shows how Japanese legations, first established in Europe during the 1870s, were not just symbolic gestures but played a key role in the Meiji government’s quest for international recognition. The concept of resident ambassador was unfa... Read More about Opening legations: Japan’s first resident minister and the diplomatic corps in Europe.

Public ritual and the proclamation of Richard Cromwell in English towns, September 1658 (2017)
Journal Article
Calladine, A. (in press). Public ritual and the proclamation of Richard Cromwell in English towns, September 1658. Historical Journal, 61(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000048

The requirement to proclaim Richard Cromwell lord protector in September 1658 forced town leaders to engage with an unstable political context through the production of a large-scale public event. This article examines the ceremonies used in a range... Read More about Public ritual and the proclamation of Richard Cromwell in English towns, September 1658.

Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s (2017)
Journal Article
Haase, C., & Kraiker, C.-W. (2017). Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s. German History, 35(2), 247–271. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx042

After Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik, West Germans began to accept the more permanent division of the country and rediscovered the regional fundaments of their federal political system. A catalyst for this process was provided by a massive regionalization... Read More about Rediscovering the region: the West German daily press in the 1970s.

Sex on the front: prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War (2017)
Journal Article
Hearne, S. (in press). Sex on the front: prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War. Revolutionary Russia, https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2017.1317093

Prostitution flourished during Russia’s First World War. Mass mobilisation and the displacement of millions of the empire’s population challenged the tsarist state’s ability to control both the movement and bodies of those buying and selling sex. In... Read More about Sex on the front: prostitution and venereal disease in Russia’s First World War.

The ‘black spot’ on the Crimea: venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s (2017)
Journal Article
Hearne, S. (in press). The ‘black spot’ on the Crimea: venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s. Social History, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2017.1290368

This article examines how high command in the Soviet Red Navy responded to reportedly high levels of venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the mid-1920s. Illness in the fleet posed a threat to national security, especially during the first unst... Read More about The ‘black spot’ on the Crimea: venereal diseases in the Black Sea fleet in the 1920s.

Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences (2017)
Book
Baron, N. (Ed.). (2017). Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences. Leiden: Brill

Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of chi... Read More about Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences.

Preliminary material (2017)
Book Chapter
Baron, N. (2017). Preliminary material. In N. Baron (Ed.), Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences (i-xv). Brill Academic Publishers

A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality (2017)
Journal Article
Cobbing, A. (2018). A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality. International History Review, 40(2), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1309562

In 1856, the Treaty of Paris nominally welcomed the Ottoman Empire into the Concert of Europe, but this exposed a deep fault line in international relations. Although the gesture implied full sovereign rights, it seemed incompatible with the extrater... Read More about A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality.

The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s (2017)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2017). The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s. Media History, 23(3-4), 330-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2017.1309268

This article explores the interconnections between the media in France and the emergence of a Franco-British alliance on the eve of World War Two, emphasising how newspaper, radio and newsreel coverage helped mould British perceptions of France durin... Read More about The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s.