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Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London (2011)
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MERRITT, J. F. (2011). Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London. Historical Journal, 54(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x10000555

Studies of the rise of London's vestries in the period to 1640 have tended to discuss them in terms of the inexorable rise of oligarchy and state formation. This article re-examines the emergence of the vestries in several ways, moving beyond this tr... Read More about Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London.

Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968 (2010)
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Jones, M., & Young, J. W. (2010). Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968. Journal of Strategic Studies, 33(6), 847-870. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2010.498284

This article investigates the little-known plans formulated by Harold Wilson's Labour government to deploy Polaris submarines in the Indo-Pacific region. The scheme was first proposed in 1965 as a response to several problems faced by British policy-... Read More about Polaris, East of Suez: British Plans for a Nuclear Force in the Indo-Pacific, 1964–1968.

'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41 (2010)
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Merritt, J. (2010). 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41. English Historical Review, CXXV(512), 35-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep408

While historians have long appreciated the political and cultural importance of the famous Covent Garden development of the 1630s, they have neglected one of its remarkable features, namely the building of an entirely new church combined with the cre... Read More about 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41.

What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa (2009)
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Crozier, A. (2009). What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 64(4), 518-548. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/jrp017

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, tropical neurasthenia was a popular diagnosis for a nervous condition experienced by Europeans in the topics. Tropical neurasthenia was not psychosis or madness, but was rather an ennui or loss of “e... Read More about What Was Tropical about Tropical Neurasthenia? The Utility of the Diagnosis in the Management of British East Africa.

International Factors and the 1964 Election (2007)
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Young, J. W. (2007). International Factors and the 1964 Election. Contemporary British History, 21(3), 351-371. doi:10.1080/13619460600825931

International issues are not usually seen as having been significant to the 1964 general election result. Harold Wilson made only limited references to foreign policy and defence during the campaign, while opinion polls showed that voters saw domesti... Read More about International Factors and the 1964 Election.

French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'? (2007)
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Hucker, D. (2007). French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'?. French History, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crm060

This article challenges the received wisdom that French public opinion was infused with pacifist sentiment during the 1930s, and that this sentiment in turn contributed to the French defeat of 1940. It will suggest that French public attitudes toward... Read More about French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'?.

Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk (2002)
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Appleby, D. J. (2002). Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk. Essex Archaeology and History : Transactions of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, 3rd Series Vol. 33 (2002), 323-332

The records concerning nineteenth-century friendly societies contain such an immense volume of detailed and often intimate information that the unsuspecting researcher could easily be overwhelmed by the sheer weight of evidence. This is particularly... Read More about Combination and control: Cultural politics in the management of friendly societies in nineteenth-century Essex and Suffolk.