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Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2023). Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

What was daily life like for old people in Russian villages at the turn of the twentieth century? Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russian rural family life in literary and in scholarly accounts, and are predominantly framed as able, ski... Read More about Waiting to Die? Old Age in the Late Imperial Russian Village.

Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education (2023)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Mills, G. (2024). Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education. Holocaust Studies, 30(1), 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2249296

Based on a sample of the most commonly used textbooks and online teaching resources, we find that photos play a central but deeply problematic role in Holocaust education in the UK. The impact of photos on a generation of ‘primarily visual learners’... Read More about Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education.

The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’ (2023)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2024). The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’. Journal of American Studies, 58(1), 39-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875823000324

Between 1895 and 1916, a Conference on International Arbitration met annually at Lake Mohonk, New York, seeking to implement arbitration as a substitute for war. This article considers the aims, effects, and limitations of these conferences, includin... Read More about The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895-1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an ‘International Mind’.

Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India (2023)
Book Chapter
Gust, O. (2023). Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India. In S. Goldsmith, S. Haggerty, & K. Harvey (Eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment (122-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027256

This essay focuses on ideas of the body in the published and unpublished letters of four British women – Jane Smart, Jemima Kindersley, Eliza Fay and Catherine Mackintosh – who wrote from India between 1742 and 1812. Situating these elite, British wo... Read More about Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India.

Bede the scholar (2023)
Book
Darby, P., & MacCarron, M. (Eds.). (2023). Bede the scholar. Manchester University Press

Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world. Demonstrating the centrality of the Bible to... Read More about Bede the scholar.

Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia (2023)
Journal Article
Badcock, S., & Cowan, F. (2023). Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia. Russian Review, 82(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12497

This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower-class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower-c... Read More about Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia.

The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution (2023)
Journal Article
Serém, R. L. (2023). The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution. Journal of Contemporary History, 58(3), 377–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231167332

This article reappraises General Queipo de Llano's authoritarian rule in Seville during the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). Queipo's murderous regime has long attracted scholarly attention, but very little research has been devoted to other aspects of hi... Read More about The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution.

Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship (2023)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., Mold, A., & Wardle, H. (2023). Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship. Lancet, 401(10370), 18-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2822%2902579-X

Professional sport has been criticised for its role as a vehicle to market addictive products or services. Despite the harmful health effects on society, football audiences are inured to seeing sponsors of such products not only on pitch-side hoardin... Read More about Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship.

Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean (2022)
Journal Article
Auerbach, S. (2022). Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean. English Historical Review, 137(589), 1662-1692. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead002

This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal... Read More about Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean.

The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 (2022)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2022). The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(4), 611-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2143108

The decision to send the British Expeditionary Force to France has been much discussed from the perspective of its long-term military-strategic background. Yet where the eventual decision to despatch the Force in August 1914 is concerned, limited att... Read More about The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914.

The Revolution on the Volga (2022)
Book Chapter
BADCOCK, S. (2023). The Revolution on the Volga. In G. Swain, C. Alston, M. C. Hickey, B. Kolonitsky, & F. Schedewie (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

While revolutionary narratives often focus on Petrograd as the seat of political power, and more broadly on urban and military arenas, this chapter explores the lived experience of revolution in the Volga region, around 1500 kilometres from Petrograd... Read More about The Revolution on the Volga.

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland (2022)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2023). Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland. Northern History, 60(1), 2-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2022.2142184

The international wool trade was an important part of Northumberland’s economy in the fourteenth century, and participation in it was central to the working lives of many local merchants. However, in the mid-fourteenth century the wool trade was subj... Read More about Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland.

Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II (2022)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2022). Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II. Journal of Medieval History, 48(5), 631-663. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2022.2131601

The Modus tenendi parliamentum has long perplexed scholars. For over a century they have battled to make sense of its 26 chapters, which purport to describe the centuries-old traditions, functions and processes of the English parliament. A number of... Read More about Parliament, politics and protocol: the Modus tenendi parliamentum and the settlement of the realm under Edward II.