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The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019)
Book
Balzaretti, R. (2019). The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.5.106307

This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and economic aspects of the transformation of the Roman world in one of its major centres. Its main theme is the role of monastic communities in this... Read More about The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan.

'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014 (2019)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2020). 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014. Urban History, 47(2), 292-310. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000555

The article proceeds from the observation that in the contemporary British cultural imagination, the figure of the coal miner tends to be presented as the embodiment of anti-urban and organicist qualities that in continental Europe are more commonly... Read More about 'That rather sinful city of London': the coal miner, the city and the country in the British cultural imagination c. 1969-2014.

The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course (2019)
Journal Article
Humphrey, M., Umbach, M., & Clulow, Z. (2019). The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course. Journal of Political Ideologies, 24(2), 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2019.1589958

The analysis of ideology at the vernacular level requires access to peer-to-peer political discussions amongst non-specialists. It is in these discursive exchanges that political views are articulated, refined, and revised. Such exchanges are, howeve... Read More about The political is personal: an analysis of crowd-sourced political ideas and images from a Massive Open Online Course.

Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema (2019)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2020). Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema. Journal of Contemporary History, 55(1), 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009418820111

Cinema had long been hailed by Bolshevik party leaders as a crucial ally of the Soviet mass enlightenment project. By the mid-1920s, however, Soviet psychologists, educators and practitioners of ‘child science’ (pedology) were pointing to the grave e... Read More about Science, medicine and the creation of a ‘healthy’ Soviet cinema.

Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917 (2019)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2019). Travel to Siberian exile, 1905-1917. In Mobility in the Russian, Central and East European Past, 32-45. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

“By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914 (2019)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2020). “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914. In B. McKercher, & A. Capet (Eds.), Winston Churchill : At War and Thinking of War before 1939. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

As first lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill was at the centre of the Liberal government’s decision-making during the July crisis. The July crisis unfolded quickly. Britain’s preoccupation for most of the month was Ireland, where civil war threa... Read More about “By God, I will make them fight!” Winston Churchill and Britain’s decision for war in 1914.

Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives (2019)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2019). Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives. Journal of Risk Research, 22(9), 1101-1115. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569101

On the 25 October 2011 the River Magra in the far east of the Italian region of Liguria flooded with catastrophic effects, killing thirteen people and causing millions of euros in damage. Managing such an extreme episode is very hard, as local policy... Read More about Crossing the River Magra in the “land of broken bridges”: risk in early nineteenth-century travel narratives.

The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy (2019)
Journal Article
Daddow, O., Gifford, C., & Wellings, B. (2019). The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy. Political Research Exchange, 1(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/2474736X.2019.1643681

Drawing on newly released archival material, this article reassesses Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 Bruges speech, widely depicted to have instigated Britain's drift towards Brexit. It opens by giving an essential recap of the main contents of the speech.... Read More about The Battle of Bruges: Margaret Thatcher, the Foreign Office and the Unravelling of British European Policy.

Edward III’s household knights and the Crécy campaign of 1346 (2019)
Journal Article
HEFFERAN, M. (2019). Edward III’s household knights and the Crécy campaign of 1346. Historical Research, 92(255), 24-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12250

The knights of the royal household were of central importance to medieval warfare. Their contributions to the wars of Edward III have, however, received only limited attention from historians. This article uses the Crécy campaign of 1346, the largest... Read More about Edward III’s household knights and the Crécy campaign of 1346.

Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story (2018)
Book
Umbach, M., & Sulzener, S. (2018). Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00784-3

Between the 1933 Nazi seizure of power and their 1941 prohibition on all Jewish emigration, around 90,000 German Jews moved to the United States. Using the texts and images from a personal archive, this book explores how these refugees made sense of... Read More about Photography, Migration and Identity: A German-Jewish-American Story.

Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (2018)
Book
Umbach, M., & Humphrey, M. (2018). Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68566-3

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was inven... Read More about Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept.

The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 62, 61-82. https://doi.org/10.1484/J.NMS.5.116550

The general court of the Agenais is an example of the diverse forms of semi-autonomous regional assemblies which emerged in the high-medieval Languedoc. They were identified and examined most convincingly by Thomas Bisson. However, the origins of the... Read More about The general court of the Agenais revisited: an innovation of the Albigensian Crusade.

Emotions and the British government’s decision for war in 1914 (2018)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2018). Emotions and the British government’s decision for war in 1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 29(4), 543-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2018.1528778

Recent years have witnessed increasing interest among international historians in the impact of emotions on foreign policy decisions, as part of a broader movement usually known as the ‘emotional turn.’ This is associated with findings, from the fiel... Read More about Emotions and the British government’s decision for war in 1914.

Household Knights, Chamber Knights and King’s Knights: The Development of the Royal Knight in Fourteenth-Century England (2018)
Journal Article
Hefferan, M. (2019). Household Knights, Chamber Knights and King’s Knights: The Development of the Royal Knight in Fourteenth-Century England. Journal of Medieval History, 45(1), 80-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2018.1551811

The fourteenth century witnessed a considerable change in the way in which knights were retained in royal service in England. The system of retaining ‘household knights’, which had been in operation since at least the twelfth century, gave way to a n... Read More about Household Knights, Chamber Knights and King’s Knights: The Development of the Royal Knight in Fourteenth-Century England.