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Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Lovett, J. (2024). Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982. Contemporary European History, 33(1), 192-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777322000054

Population statistics reflect a nation's quality of life and accordingly have the potential to be highly politically charged, with implications for a government's legitimacy. In the Brezhnev era Soviet Union, emerging negative trends regarding life e... Read More about Turning Science into Fiction? Censoring Population Research in the Soviet Union, 1964–1982.

Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship (2022)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Tofts, A. (2022). Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship. Holocaust Studies, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2074208

This article explores the legibility of photos taken by Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. Many museums have collected private photos from survivors, and use them to illustrate Holocaust testimony. But photos and testimonies are not always neatly al... Read More about Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

“To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China (2022)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2022). “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China. Cultural and Social History, 19(3), 265-282. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2022.2069205

Contributing to a growing literature on the transnational history of ‘collaborationism’ under wartime occupation, this paper examines ‘Rural Pacification’–the counterinsurgency campaigns that were prosecuted from 1941 to 1943 in Japanese-occupied Chi... Read More about “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China.

Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia (2022)
Journal Article
Parker, L., & Maxton, R. (2022). Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia. Past and Present, 257(1), 89-133. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab037

This article investigates the archiving practices of a little-known group of Catholics in the Ottoman Empire, the Diyarbakır Chaldeans, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues for a flexible definition of archives, based not on tr... Read More about Archiving Faith: Record-Keeping and Catholic Community Formation in Eighteenth-Century Mesopotamia.

Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia (2022)
Book
Baillargeon, D., & Taylor, J. (2022). J. E. Taylor, D. Baillargeon, & J. Taylor (Eds.). Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350257023

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new int... Read More about Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia.

Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854 (2022)
Journal Article
Bates, R., & Greenwood, A. (2022). Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854. Women's History Review, 31(7), 1080-1106. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2022.2045110

Since she exploded into the public sphere in 1854 with her mission to the Crimean War, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) has been a revered historical heroine, with a presence in British commemorative culture that exceeds that of any other non-royal w... Read More about Could Nightingale get cancelled? The rise, endurance, and possible fall of Florence Nightingale in British historical culture since 1854.

Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages (2022)
Journal Article
Raven, M. (2022). Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages. Economic History Review, 75(4), 1182-1213. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13141

The medieval English wool trade was a commercial activity of huge economic importance. The historiography of the medieval wool trade, however, has focused overwhelmingly on its legitimate side. This article uses the evidence of legal proceedings pros... Read More about Wool smuggling from England's eastern seaboard, c. 1337–45: An illicit economy in the late middle ages.

Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context (2022)
Book
Skelchy, R. P., & Taylor, J. E. (Eds.). (2022). Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232310

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the... Read More about Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context.

The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway (2022)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2022). The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway. In G. Cederlöf (Ed.), The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia (26-55). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317227-2

Capitalism thrives on contracts. From recruiting workers and employees to transacting everyday business and selling commodities, the contract ideology is the absolute necessity for capitalism to function. Contracts are to ensure a regime of secure, l... Read More about The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway.

Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home (2021)
Journal Article
Bates, R., & Memel, J. G. (2021). Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79(2), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10012

The focus for this article is the approach taken by the famous British nurse and public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) to responsibility for care, with particular reference to healthcare as practised in the home. It begins by examin... Read More about Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home.

Afterword (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Afterword. In C. Heath, & R. Houghton (Eds.), Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154 (325-336). Amsterdam University Press

Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’ (2021)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2022). Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’. Political Studies Review, 20(3), 452-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211062031

This article responds to O’Hara’s ‘What Conservatives Value’. It establishes what is at stake in our debate about the adjectival nature of conservatism, and it explores the role that risk plays in conservative thinking.

Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church (2021)
Journal Article
Brooke, C. J., & Ryder, P. F. (2022). Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church. Antiquaries Journal, 102, 88-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581521000330

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
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources. South East Asia Research, 29(4), 450-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2021.1989987

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)
Journal Article
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?. International Criminal Law Review, 22(1-2), 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10099

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?.

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911. In G. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine. London: Anthem Press