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"The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990 (2016)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2016). "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990. Historische Sozialforschung = Historical social research / Zentrum fur Historische Sozialforschung, Koln in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Informationszentrum Sozialwissenschaften, Bonn, 41(1), 91-110. https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.91-110

© GESIS. This article employs the concept of risk as a lens through which to explore discursive constructions of the nature of coal mining and coal miners in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on a diverse primary source base, ranging from songs... Read More about "The death of sympathy." Coal mining, workplace hazards, and the politics of risk in Britain, ca. 1970-1990.

Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger (2016)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2016). Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 24(1), 99-125. https://doi.org/10.1353/earl.2016.0009

The Life of Martha, the mother of the sixth-century stylite Symeon the Younger, has been almost completely neglected in modern scholarship. Yet the text possesses considerable historical interest as evidence for the contested development of a cult, a... Read More about Paradigmatic Piety: Liturgy in the Life of Martha, Mother of Symeon Stylites the Younger.

Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (2016)
Journal Article
Allwork, L. (2016). Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 10,

Reflecting on the research process for Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (HRNT), which explores and analyzes the significance of the European and global politics of the commemoration of the Holocaust and Nazi-era crimes... Read More about Interrogating Europe's voids of memory: trauma theory and Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational.

Shared Experience Workshop Report (Part II): Reflections on University and Community Research Partnerships (2016)
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Allwork, L. Shared Experience Workshop Report (Part II): Reflections on University and Community Research Partnerships

On 19th September 2016, university and community participants in research projects funded by the Centre for Hidden Histories convened for a ‘Shared Experience Workshop’ at Derby Riverside Centre. The day was organised by Impact Fellow, Dr Larissa All... Read More about Shared Experience Workshop Report (Part II): Reflections on University and Community Research Partnerships.

‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century (2016)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (in press). ‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Landscape History, 37(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2016.1249723

Pine trees were frequently depicted and celebrated by nineteenth century English artists and travellers in Italy. The amateur artist and connoisseur Sir George Beaumont was horrified to discover in 1821 that many Roman stone pines were being felled a... Read More about ‘Saved from the sordid axe’: representation and understanding of pine trees by English visitors to Italy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party (2016)
Journal Article
Badcock, S. (2016). Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/22102388-00900008

This article explores the place of individuals, ideologies and personal and political networks in shaping the larger political landscape in revolutionary Russia. The shape and culture of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (psr) will be at the heart of... Read More about Personal and political networks in 1917: Vladimir Zenzinov and the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

The winter fens (2016)
Book Chapter
Lambert, R. A. (2016). The winter fens. In M. Harrison (Ed.), Winter: an anthology for the changing seasons. Elliott & Thompson Limited

Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects (2016)
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Allwork, L. Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects

On 19th September 2016, academic and community participants in research projects funded by the Centre for Hidden Histories convened for a ‘Shared Experience Workshop’ at Derby Riverside Centre. The day was organised by Impact Fellow, Dr Larissa Allwo... Read More about Shared Experience Workshop and the Impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories Research Projects.

Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43 (2016)
Journal Article
Beckett, J. (in press). Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43. Midland History, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1226361

The Nottingham workhouse case was a test of the resolve both of the Poor Law Commissioners appointed to administer the post-1834 New Poor Law, and of the strength of the Whig interest in the town’s municipal and parliamentary elections. All eyes were... Read More about Politics and the implementation of the New Poor Law: the Nottingham workhouse controversy, 1834-43.

Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply? (2016)
Book Chapter
Seymour, S., & Haggerty, S. (2016). Strategic Objective 11A. Assess the position of the Derwent Valley cotton industry in terms of the Empire, the slave trade and the pressures of global demand and supply?. In D. Knight (Ed.), The Derwent Valley: the valley that changed the world: Derwent Valley Mills world heritage site research framework, 87. Derwent Valley Mills Partnership

Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort (2016)
Journal Article
Harvey, E. (2016). Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 26, 149-173. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440116000098

Foreign labour was an essential resource for the Nazi war economy: by September 1944, around six million civilian labourers from across Europe were working in the Reich. Any initial readiness on the part of the peoples of Nazi-occupied Europe to volu... Read More about Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort.

Autumn migration (2016)
Book Chapter
Lambert, R. A. (2016). Autumn migration. In M. Harrison (Ed.), Autumn: an anthology for the changing seasons. Elliott & Thompson Limited

Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte (2016)
Journal Article
Arnold, J. (2016). Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 42(2), https://doi.org/10.13109/gege.2016.42.2.266

This article traces the cyclical trajectory of the British coal miner from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. Within less than one generation, the miner turned from doomed industrial proletarian to self-assured embodiment of the future back to doomed pr... Read More about Vom Verlierer zum Gewinner – und zurück: der Coal Miner als Schlüsselfigur der britischen Zeitgeschichte.