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Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii (2018)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2018). Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (77-100). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls (2018)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2018). The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls. Medieval Worlds, 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s137

This article examines the style and rhetoric of a fourteenth-century treatise written against the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. The treatise addresses thirty-five extracts from the Mirror which are refuted as errors. Rather than... Read More about The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls.

Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2018). Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War. Twentieth-Century China, 43(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2018.0017

This paper explores the fate of a southern Fujianese opera (liyuanxi) play that was reformed over the course of the early 1950s and eventually made into the first full-length film to be produced in southern Fujianese dialect (Minnanyu) in the People'... Read More about Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War.

Public Opinion (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Public Opinion. In The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0227

Public opinion is a notoriously slippery concept, but it has long been understood that it wields at least some influence on diplomacy. Over several centuries, conceptions of public opinion have evolved. Longstanding perceptions of public opinion as i... Read More about Public Opinion.

Édouard Daladier (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Édouard Daladier. In The Encyclopedia of DiplomacyWiley

“The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2019). “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain. Women's History Review, 28(1), 111-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1457126

In May 1935, the British manufacturer Boots launched ‘Number Seven’, a premium range of skin-care products sold via its nationwide network of chain-store chemists. Using material from the Boots Archive, this paper traces the early history of Number S... Read More about “The modern way to loveliness”: middle-class cosmetics and chain-store beauty culture in mid-twentieth-century Britain.

Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876 (2018)
Journal Article
Kwan, J. (2018). Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876. Historical Journal, 61(4), 991-1015. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X17000486

This article investigates the potential influence of the newly formed Imperial Germany on Transylvanian Saxon politics. The Saxons were German-speaking settlers with long traditions of local autonomy and political privileges within the kingdom of Hun... Read More about Transylvanian Saxon politics and imperial Germany, 1871-1876.

John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2019). John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973. Journal of Urban History, 45(3), 557-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218765465

Focusing on the collaboration between Mayor John Lindsay and business advocacy group the Association for a Better New York (ABNY), this article illustrates the utility of public and elite anxieties over street crime in legitimizing new, privatized mo... Read More about John Lindsay, the Association for a Better New York, and the privatization of New York City, 1969-1973.

Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon (2018)
Journal Article
Gehring, D. S., & Freeman, T. S. (2018). Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(4), 746-767. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002204691700272X

Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon’s Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon’s martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of... Read More about Martyrologists without Boundaries: The Collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon.

Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774 (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, J., & Haggerty, S. (2019). Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774. Essays in Economic and Business History, 37(1), 1-42

Historians have increasingly been using network and narrative analysis as a means by which to explore their data. By doing so, they are able to explore how actors of interest used their relationships to undertake business and economic endeavors, and... Read More about Avoiding “musty mutton chops”: the network narrative of an American merchant in London, 1771-1774.

Early Medieval Genoa (2018)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (in press). Early Medieval Genoa. In C. Beneš (Ed.), A companion to Medieval Genoa. Brill

The earliest coherent written documentation for Genoa in the early medieval period is from the latter part of the tenth century. Charters documenting the property transactions of several local churches (notably San Siro and Santo Stefano) reveal that... Read More about Early Medieval Genoa.

What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, S. (2019). What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war. Business History, 61(6), 942-970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1434146

This article argues that an embryonic futures market was present in Liverpool during the Anglo-American war. The analysis of a previously unseen dataset of printed Prices Currents has facilitated not only a price series of raw cotton prices, but an i... Read More about What’s in a price? the American raw cotton market in Liverpool and the Anglo-American war.

Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, S., & Seymour, S. (2018). Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s. Slavery and Abolition, 39(4), 642-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2018.1429190

This paper examines the claims of Eric Williams and the more recent Legacies of British Slave-Ownership projects regarding the influence of enslavement in the building of Britain and its empire through a multi-generational study of a leading British... Read More about Imperial careering and enslavement in the long eighteenth-century: the Bentinck family, 1710-1830s.

Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763 (2018)
Journal Article
Haggerty, S. (2018). Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763. International Journal of Maritime History, 30(1), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871417745742

Privateering has often been portrayed as a particularly risky business. Some historians have posited that it was undertaken only by disreputable merchants, whilst others have argued that profits would not have been made if systems of control had been... Read More about Risk, networks and privateering in Liverpool during the Seven Years War, 1756-1763.

Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 (2018)
Book Chapter
Harvey, E. (2018). Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940. In J. Evans, P. Betts, & S. Hoffmann (Eds.), The Ethics of Seeing: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (79-107). Berghahn

This chapter examines the immense photographic effort undertaken by the Nazi regime to document the resettlement of different 'ethnic German' minorities from eastern and south-eastern Europe in the period 1939-41 and asks what propaganda messages can... Read More about Documenting Heimkehr: Photography, Displacement and 'Homecoming' in the Nazi Resettlement of the Ethnic Germans, 1939-1940.