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Harold Nicolson and Appeasement (2014)
Book Chapter
Young, J. W. (2014). Harold Nicolson and Appeasement. In M. H. Murfett (Ed.), Shaping British Foreign and Defence Policy in the Twentieth Century: A Tough Ask in Turbulent Times, 136-158. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137431493_8

Harold Nicolson is remembered for many aspects of a remarkably varied life. The son of a Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, he became a successful diplomat himself, with a role in shaping the 1919 Paris peace settlement. He served as fa... Read More about Harold Nicolson and Appeasement.

The merchant (2014)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2014). The merchant. In S. Rigby, & A. Minnis (Eds.), Historians on Chaucer : the General prologue to the Canterbury tales. Oxford University Press

The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England (2014)
Book Chapter
Dodd, G. (2014). The Clerical Chancellors of Late Medieval England. In M. Heale (Ed.), The Prelate in England and Europe, c. 1300 - c. 1560, (17-49). York Medieval Press/Boydell and Brewer

Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective (2014)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Bernardi, A. (2014). Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective. Asia Pacific Business Review, 20(3), 356-378. doi:10.1080/13602381.2014.922820

This work compares the health cooperatives fêted in Maoist China in the 1960s to the New Rural Medical Co-operative Scheme (NRCMS) that has been operating in China since 2002. Organizational and ideological similarities between the old and new co-ope... Read More about Old and new Rural Co-operative Medical Scheme in China: the usefulness of a historical comparative perspective.

"A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914 (2014)
Book Chapter
Auerbach, S. (2014). "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914. Transnational Penal CulturesRoutledge

The relationship of twentieth-century democracies to the explicit employment of fear and intimidation within their own national borders was an ambivalent one. On the one hand, police and judicial officials, responding to perceived public outcry or th... Read More about "A Holy Panic": Race, Surveillance and the Origins of the War on Drugs in Britain, 1915-1914.

Bede's History of the Future (2014)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2014). Bede's History of the Future. In P. Darby, & F. Wallis (Eds.), Bede and the Future, 115-138. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (eds.), Winning while losing: civil rights, the conservative movement and the presidency from Nixon to Obama (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, $79.95. Pp. 304; 978-0-8130-4908-3) (2014)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (in press). Kenneth Osgood and Derrick E. White (eds.), Winning while losing: civil rights, the conservative movement and the presidency from Nixon to Obama (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014, $79.95. Pp. 304; 978-0-8130-4908-3). Journal of American Studies, 48(4), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814001522

From the strange death to the odd afterlife of Lutheran England (2014)
Journal Article
Gehring, D. S. (2014). From the strange death to the odd afterlife of Lutheran England. Historical Journal, 57(3), 825-844. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X13000599

Research on the relationship between England and Protestant Germany during the sixteenth century has recently experienced a revival. A significant area of concentration for confessional interests among Lutherans a century ago, Anglo-German relations... Read More about From the strange death to the odd afterlife of Lutheran England.

David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9 (2014)
Book
YOUNG, J. (2014). David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9. Bloomsbury Academic

David Bruce (1898-1977) was a prominent American diplomat, who served in France, Germany, and the UK. His work is examined here to provide an in-depth look at the practice of diplomacy and the role of the ambassador as diplomatic actor.This thorough... Read More about David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador in London, 1961-9.

Ethics and Anglo-German Relations during the Wars of Religion (2014)
Book Chapter
GEHRING, D. (2014). Ethics and Anglo-German Relations during the Wars of Religion. In D. Wendebourg, & A. Ryrie (Eds.), Sister Reformations II: Reformation and Ethics in Germany and in England / Schwesterreformationen II: Reformation und Ethik in Deutschland und in Englan (299-323). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck

Conservative leaders, coalition, and Britain's decision for war in 1914 (2014)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2014). Conservative leaders, coalition, and Britain's decision for war in 1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 25(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2014.907061

Conservative leaders may have had a decisive impact on the decision by the Liberal government to enter the Great War in August 1914. In a seminal article of 1975 Keith Wilson argued that their readiness to fight ‘cut the ground … from beneath the fee... Read More about Conservative leaders, coalition, and Britain's decision for war in 1914.

Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England (2014)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2014). Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England. History, 99(335), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12052

It has long been recognized that many late medieval bishops were heavily involved in secular government. Scholars have tended to characterize these activities in fairly general terms, labelling those who chose to serve the crown as ‘administrators’,... Read More about Reason, conscience and equity: bishops as the king's judges in later Medieval England.

Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828 (2014)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2014). Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828. Parliamentary History, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12096

This article considers Robert Peel’s role in the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828. Traditionally overshadowed by the larger campaign to secure catholic emancipation in 1829, the repeal legislation assumes importance in Peel’s political... Read More about Peel's other repeal: the Test and Corporation Acts, 1828.

Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire (2014)
Journal Article
Laven, D., & Parker, L. (2014). Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire. Modern Italy, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2013.871417

The history of the Habsburg Empire in the post-Napoleonic era is frequently approached from the perspective of its various component nationalities. These were traditionally portrayed in the historiography as engaged in more-or-less open struggle with... Read More about Foreign rule?: transnational, national, and local perspectives on Venice and Venetia within the “multinational” empire.

Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom (2014)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (2014). Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom. Urban History, 41(4), 705-720. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926813001053

Three new cities were created in conjunction with Her Majesty the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012: Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph. They were the winners of a competition which had no clear rules, no transparency and no proper feedback. T... Read More about Inventing and reinventing the modern city: the 2012 city status competition in the United Kingdom.