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Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? (2024)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2024). Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet?. Journal of British Studies, 62(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.181

Review porducts. Amy Edwards. Are We Rich Yet? The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. 384. $29.95 (cloth).

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain (2024)
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Gust, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain. Gender and History, 36(1), 112-129. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth‐ and early‐nineteenth‐century Britain.

Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain (2024)
Journal Article
GUST, O. (2024). Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12769

The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists, and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might tha... Read More about Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain.

Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 (2024)
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Goddard, R., & Smalley, G. (2024). Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2299035

This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materials to investigate the financial management of the fra... Read More about Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546.

Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England (2023)
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Dodd, G. (2023). Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 67, 85-117

By the start of the fourteenth century the petition was established as one of the most important modes of communication between towns and cities on the one hand, and the English crown on the other. Petitions underscored the need of urban communities... Read More about Town and Crown: Self-Representation and Signification in Fourteenth Century England.

Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England (2023)
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Raven, M. (2023). Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England. The English Historical Review, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead153

The late medieval period was an important phase in the history of political communication in England, as more people than ever before became involved in debates about royal governance. The first half of the fourteenth century, however, has been relat... Read More about Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): Conflict, the Politics of Kingship, and the Political Public in Fourteenth-Century England.

Waiting to die? Old age in the late Imperial Russian village (2023)
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Badcock, S. (2023). Waiting to die? Old age in the late Imperial Russian village. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S008044012300021X

This article seeks to contribute to our understandings of old age in historical context through its focus on the experiences of and perceptions about older people in late Imperial Russian villages. Elderly people feature as an integral part of Russia... Read More about Waiting to die? Old age in the late Imperial Russian village.

Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education (2023)
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Umbach, M., & Mills, G. (2024). Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education. Holocaust Studies, 30(1), 47-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2249296

Based on a sample of the most commonly used textbooks and online teaching resources, we find that photos play a central but deeply problematic role in Holocaust education in the UK. The impact of photos on a generation of ‘primarily visual learners’... Read More about Teaching with images: opportunities and pitfalls for Holocaust education.

The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain (2023)
Journal Article
Cocks, H. (in press). The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain. Parliamentary History,

Late-Victorian and Edwardian Popular Conservatism is now mainly seen as a cultural-ideological form, and this article aims to reconstruct one aspect of this ethos by focusing on the use of sport, especially horse racing, as a means of political diffe... Read More about The Sporting Paper and the Culture of Popular Conservatism in Edwardian Britain.

Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia (2023)
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Badcock, S., & Cowan, F. (2023). Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia. Russian Review, 82(4), 649-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12497

This article demonstrates widespread engagement of lower-class people with the written word in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Russian Empire, in rural and urban locales, in homes, workplaces, and social spaces. We explore how lower-c... Read More about Lower-Class Reading in Late Imperial Russia.

The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution (2023)
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Serém, R. L. (2023). The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution. Journal of Contemporary History, 58(3), 377–397. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231167332

This article reappraises General Queipo de Llano's authoritarian rule in Seville during the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). Queipo's murderous regime has long attracted scholarly attention, but very little research has been devoted to other aspects of hi... Read More about The Viceroyalty of General Queipo de Llano in Seville During the Spanish Civil War: A Dialectic of Violence and Destitution.

Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship (2023)
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Greenwood, A., Mold, A., & Wardle, H. (2023). Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship. Lancet, 401(10370), 18-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736%2822%2902579-X

Professional sport has been criticised for its role as a vehicle to market addictive products or services. Despite the harmful health effects on society, football audiences are inured to seeing sponsors of such products not only on pitch-side hoardin... Read More about Unhealthy histories: sports and addictive sponsorship.

Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
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Taylor, J. E. (2022). Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2199651

This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement–the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later... Read More about Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya.

Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean (2022)
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Auerbach, S. (2022). Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean. English Historical Review, 137(589), 1662-1692. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead002

This article builds on the work of Walter Rodney, Thomas Holt, Gad Heuman, Diana Paton, and others who have investigated the complexities of post-slavery societies in the Caribbean. It addresses the dynamics of resistance and the re-working of legal... Read More about Of Rights and Riots: Indenture and (Mis)Rule in the Late Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean.

The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914 (2022)
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Young, J. W. (2022). The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(4), 611-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2143108

The decision to send the British Expeditionary Force to France has been much discussed from the perspective of its long-term military-strategic background. Yet where the eventual decision to despatch the Force in August 1914 is concerned, limited att... Read More about The Asquith Cabinet and the Decision to Send an Expeditionary Force to France in 1914.

Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland (2022)
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Raven, M. (2023). Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland. Northern History, 60(1), 2-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2022.2142184

The international wool trade was an important part of Northumberland’s economy in the fourteenth century, and participation in it was central to the working lives of many local merchants. However, in the mid-fourteenth century the wool trade was subj... Read More about Wool Smuggling and the Royal Government in Mid-Fourteenth Century Northumberland.