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Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2020). Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India. Past and Present, 246(1), 149-190. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz035

This article examines the emergence of mass letter-writing in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial north India, a region marked by the growth of an unprecedented labour mobility, postal expansion, vernacular print, and workers' l... Read More about Letters of the Labouring Poor: The Art of Letter Writing in Colonial India.

Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England (2019)
Journal Article
MERRITT, J. (2020). Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 35(6), 693-714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2019.1673805

This article presents a rethinking of the nature and functions of voluntary military organizations in early modern England. Where previous scholarship has concentrated on their potential military significance and links with political puritanism, this... Read More about Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England.

The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945 (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2019). The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945. History of Photography, 43(3), 284-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2019.1662604

This paper explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. It demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political and c... Read More about The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945.

Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West (2019)
Book Chapter
LUTTON, R. (2019). Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West. In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages (129-153). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004409422_009

From the eleventh century onward, there was an increasing preoccupation in Western Christianity with Christ’s humanity and suffering body. This “Christocentric turn” was not just towards the bloodied human body of Christ but also towards his human na... Read More about Devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus in the Medieval West.

The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India (2019)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2019). The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 42(5), 823-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1653162

This article investigates Dalits’ dreams and desires for education in the United Provinces by examining hitherto unexplored records of the American Methodist Church missionaries and the Arya Samaj from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie... Read More about The ‘Untouchable School’: American Missionaries, Hindu Social Reformers and the Educational Dreams of Labouring Dalits in Colonial North India.

"Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories (2019)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2019). "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories. Journal of Asian Studies, 78(4), 789-808. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911819000561

Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the le... Read More about "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories.

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2019)
Book
Gunn, S., & Townsend, S. (2019). Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan. Bloomsbury Publishing

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their prin... Read More about Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan.

The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s (2019)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2020). The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 50(2), 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/psq.12580

This paper excavates the relationship between the presidency and an emergent white, European ‘ethnic’ identity politics during the 1970s. Rather than a response to cultural drift or backlash politics, presidential efforts to harness ‘ethnic’ identity... Read More about The Historical Presidency : “An Ethnic Presence in the White House?”: Ethnicity, Identity Politics, and the Presidency in the 1970s.

County and Community in Medieval England (2019)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2019). County and Community in Medieval England. English Historical Review, 134(569), 777–820. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cez187

The following are two typical 'county community' petitions from the first half of the fourteenth century, presented in the parliaments of 1322 and 1344 respectively: 1. To our lord the king and to his council, the community of the county of Lincolnsh... Read More about County and Community in Medieval England.

Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532 (2019)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2019). Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532. Journal of British Studies, 58(3), 494-518. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.4

This article examines English women who were engaged in wholesale long-distance or international trade in the later Middle Ages. These women made up only a small proportion of English merchants, averaging about 3 to 4 percent of the mercantile popula... Read More about Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532.

Trust: Business networks and the borough court (2019)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2019). Trust: Business networks and the borough court. In R. Goddard, & T. Phipps (Eds.), Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250-1500 (176-99). Boydell and Brewer

Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church (2019)
Journal Article
Sharipova, L. (2020). Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church. Historical Journal, 63(2), 267-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000219

The article examines the enduring phenomenon of double monasticism, the type of religious organisation, whereby a single monastic unit combined a male and a female communities that followed the same rule, recognised the authority of the same superior... Read More about Kinship, property relations, and the survival of double monasteries in the Eastern Church.

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany (2019)
Book
Harvey, E., Hürter, J., Umbach, M., & Wirsching, A. (Eds.). (2019). Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754859

Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. This volume sheds fresh light on this issue by showing the different ways in whic... Read More about Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany.

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. 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.