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Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London (2011)
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Dodd, G. (2011). Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London. Journal of Medieval History, 37(4), 397-418. doi:10.1016/j.jmedhist.2011.09.003

Thomas Favent's Historia has long been recognised as an important source for the turbulent middle years of Richard II's reign, in particular for its praise of the actions of the Lords Appellant in the Merciless Parliament of 1388. But why did Favent... Read More about Was Thomas Favent a political pamphleteer? Faction and politics in later fourteenth-century London.

Victorian travellers, Apennine landscapes and the development of cultural heritage in eastern Liguria, c. 1875-1914 (2011)
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Balzaretti, R. (2011). Victorian travellers, Apennine landscapes and the development of cultural heritage in eastern Liguria, c. 1875-1914. History, 96(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2011.00528.x

This article, which focuses on Italian Apennine landscapes in the northern region of Liguria, investigates late nineteenth-century travel from the perspective of historical ecology. It argues that travellers' observations and reflections can be rich... Read More about Victorian travellers, Apennine landscapes and the development of cultural heritage in eastern Liguria, c. 1875-1914.

‘No more Hoares to Paris’: British foreign policymaking and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935 (2011)
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Holt, A. (2011). ‘No more Hoares to Paris’: British foreign policymaking and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935. Review of International Studies, 37(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210510001646

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 prompted a major European crisis. This article applies the main theories of foreign policy analysis to the British Government’s handling of this crisis. It argues that bureaucratic politics existed, but h... Read More about ‘No more Hoares to Paris’: British foreign policymaking and the Abyssinian Crisis, 1935.

Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond (2011)
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Blackburn, D. (2011). Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond. Parliamentary Affairs, 64(4), 634-651. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsr015

David Owen entered the House of Commons as member for Plymouth in 1966. He became a junior minister under Harold Wilson by 1968 and quickly established himself as a leading figure of the Labour right. From 1977 to 1979 he was Britain's youngest post-... Read More about Facing the Future? David Owen and Social Democracy in the 1980s and Beyond.

Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968 (2011)
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Young, J. W. (2011). Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 22(1), 81-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2011.549741

Recent decades have seen growing historical interest in “second rank” officials who, whilst they do not play a leading role in government or political movements, can influence the way decisions are shaped and executed. At the same time, the interest... Read More about Ambassador David Bruce and “LBJ's War”: Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963–1968.

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.