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LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report (2020)
Report
Andrews, F., Catterall, P., Evans, I., Finn, M., Foxhall, K., Green, A., …Spicer, A. (2020). LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report. Royal Historical Society

A report by the Royal Historical Society's LGBT+ working group looking at LGBT+ histories and their place in university curriculums, libraries and galleries, as well as the conditions for LGBT+ historians. The report includes recommendations and reso... Read More about LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report.

Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020)
Book
Toropova, A. (2020). Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831099.001.0001

Stalin-era cinema was a technology of emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called on to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person—ranging from happiness and victorious laughter to hatred f... Read More about Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.

The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines (2020)
Journal Article
Skelchy, R. P. (2020). The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines. South East Asia Research, 28(3), 344-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2020.1803761

The article explores Christian missionary radio broadcasting as part of a wider sonic colonization of the Philippines under US colonial rule. Specifically, I explore how some post-Second World War faith-based broadcasters shaped the listening practic... Read More about The afterlife of colonial radio in Christian missionary broadcasting of the Philippines.

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688 (2020)
Book
Ward, M., & Hefferan, M. (Eds.). (2020). Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688. Palgrave Macmillan

Explores how loyalty to the British monarchs was cultivated, maintaine and expressed in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Approaches the concept of loyalty from different perspectives: from the legislature, from the government and from relig... Read More about Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688.

A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance (2020)
Journal Article
Weir, K. (2021). A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance. Journal of American Studies, 55(1), 75-101. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875820000675

The Pacific War Memorial on Corregidor Island in the Philippines was erected by the United States government to commemorate Filipino and American soldiers who had lost their lives during the Second World War. Inaugurated in 1968, it was the first Ame... Read More about A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”: The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance.

The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict (2020)
Book
MAWBY, S. (2020). The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis... Read More about The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict.

Sermons and Preaching (2020)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2020). Sermons and Preaching. In J. Coffey (Ed.), The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions: Volume I: The Post-Reformation Era, 1559-1689. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702238.001.0001

Preaching has always been central to the dissenting Protestant tradition. The fact that sermons were a crucial means of mass communication ensured that ‘hotter Protestants’ would be locked in a perpetual struggle with the ecclesiastical and political... Read More about Sermons and Preaching.

Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England (2020)
Journal Article
APPLEBY, D. (2020). Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England. Historical Research, 93(260), 286-308. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htaa011

Restoration scholars have embraced the relationship between social memory and social forgetting, although the resulting dialectic has invariably been presented as a contest between the Cavalier-Anglican establishment and the remnants of Puritanism.... Read More about Fleshing out a massacre: the storming of Shelford House and social forgetting in Restoration England.

'Every Neutral State within Reach': exaggerations of German aggression and British entry into the First World War (2020)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2021). 'Every Neutral State within Reach': exaggerations of German aggression and British entry into the First World War. International History Review, 43(2), 438-452. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2020.1754274

Recent decades have seen growing historical interest in the phenomenon of rumours, how they arise, their impact on events and what they reveal about those who circulate them. This has included a number of studies relevant to the outbreak of the First... Read More about 'Every Neutral State within Reach': exaggerations of German aggression and British entry into the First World War.

Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978 (2020)
Journal Article
Bates, R. (2021). Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42(2), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-020-09625-7

Françoise Dolto (1908-88) was a prominent French cultural figure thanks to her practice of dispensing psychoanalytically-informed child-rearing advice via the radio. From 1976 to 1978, on her show Lorsque l'enfant paraît, she responded to thousands o... Read More about Mediating Trauma and Anxiety: Letters to Françoise Dolto, 1976-1978.

‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900 (2020)
Journal Article
Baillargeon, D. (2020). ‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48(4), 654-678. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2020.1741838

This article examines the history of railway development in British Burma between 1870 until 1900. In particular, it focuses on how railways and public works projects became a key site of contestation about Burma’s prospects, value, and future during... Read More about ‘On the Road to Mandalay’: The Development of Railways in British Burma, 1870–1900.

'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England (2020)
Journal Article
Marchbank, A. (2020). 'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England. The Mediaeval Journal, 8(2),

Prayer beads have often been associated with women or a gendered form of piety, but little work has been done on exploring why this assumption has been made, or why and how the link was perpetuated. This article not only uses statistics to substantia... Read More about 'Things given and granted her': Prayer Beads and Property in Late Medieval England.

Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
Book
Hucker, D. (2020). Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle (2020)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2020). A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle. Parliamentary History, 39(1), 190-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12484

The fourth duke of Newcastle (1785-1851) is recognised as one of the most prominent peers with electoral influence in early-19 th century Britain. This article considers the way in which he deployed that influence and the purposes to which it was tur... Read More about A Great Electioneer and His Motives Reconsidered: The 4th Duke of Newcastle.