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Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences (2017)
Book
Baron, N. (Ed.). (2017). Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences. Leiden: Brill

Across Eastern Europe and Russia in the first half of the twentieth century, conflict and violence arising out of foreign and civil wars, occupation, revolutions, social and ethnic restructuring and racial persecution caused countless millions of chi... Read More about Displaced Children in Russia and Eastern Europe, 1915-1953: Ideologies, Identities, Experiences.

A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality (2017)
Journal Article
Cobbing, A. (2018). A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality. International History Review, 40(2), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1309562

In 1856, the Treaty of Paris nominally welcomed the Ottoman Empire into the Concert of Europe, but this exposed a deep fault line in international relations. Although the gesture implied full sovereign rights, it seemed incompatible with the extrater... Read More about A Victorian Embarrassment: Consular Jurisdiction and the Evils of Extraterritoriality.

The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s (2017)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (2017). The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s. Media History, 23(3-4), 330-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2017.1309268

This article explores the interconnections between the media in France and the emergence of a Franco-British alliance on the eve of World War Two, emphasising how newspaper, radio and newsreel coverage helped mould British perceptions of France durin... Read More about The French Media and the Forging of a Franco-British Alliance in the late 1930s.

Public opinion, the Press, and the failed Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations of 1939 (2017)
Journal Article
Hucker, D. (in press). Public opinion, the Press, and the failed Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations of 1939. International History Review, 40(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2017.1309558

For nearly 80 years, historians have debated whether the western powers or the USSR should be blamed for the failure of the Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations in 1939. This rather tired debate features here, but only in the background. Instead, these n... Read More about Public opinion, the Press, and the failed Anglo-Franco-Soviet negotiations of 1939.

Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979 (2017)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2018). Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979. British Politics, 13(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41293-017-0049-5

Since the late-1970s, scholars have been engaged in a vibrant debate about the nature of post-war British politics. While some writers have suggested that the three decades that succeeded the Second World War witnessed a bi-partisan consensus on key... Read More about Reassessing Britain’s ‘Post-war consensus’: the politics of reason 1945–1979.

Book Review: Simone Gigliotti, Jacob Golomb and Caroline Steinberg Gould (ed.), "Ethics, art and representations of the Holocaust: essays in honor of Berel Lang" (2017)
Journal Article
Allwork, L. (2017). Book Review: Simone Gigliotti, Jacob Golomb and Caroline Steinberg Gould (ed.), "Ethics, art and representations of the Holocaust: essays in honor of Berel Lang". Journal of Contemporary History, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009416688182l

Book review for the 'Journal of Contemporary History'

Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461 (2017)
Journal Article
Dodd, G. (2017). Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461. Journal of British Studies, 56(2), 225-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2017.4

In recent years, scholars have begun to look afresh at the dynamics of English “imperial” power in the late medieval period, but the extent to which the English dominions were subject to English law and legislation – and why and how these influences... Read More about Law, Legislation, and Consent in the Plantagenet Empire: Wales and Ireland, 1272–1461.

Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics (2017)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2017). Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics. Journal of Political Ideologies, 22(2), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2017.1298549

This article explores the way in which scholars of twentieth-century British politics have engaged with the concept of ideology. It begins by revisiting Michael Freeden’s seminal intervention on the subject before going on to assess the way in which... Read More about Still the stranger at the feast?: ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics.

Networking with a network: the Liverpool African Committee 1750-1810 (2017)
Journal Article
Haggerty, J., & Haggerty, S. (2017). Networking with a network: the Liverpool African Committee 1750-1810. Enterprise and Society, 18(3), 566-590. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2016.64

Historians are increasingly using networks as an analytical framework. However, recent research has stressed the inherent problems with networks, including networking institutions. We therefore have to consider why and in what ways actors do, or did,... Read More about Networking with a network: the Liverpool African Committee 1750-1810.

New evidence on the origins of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls from a forgotten Paduan manuscript (2017)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2017). New evidence on the origins of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls from a forgotten Paduan manuscript. Journal of Medieval History, 43(2), 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2017.1284690

This article examines an overlooked fifteenth-century document which attacks and refutes 35 extracts from a Latin copy of the condemned fourteenth-century work The Mirror of Simple Souls. It gives an overview of the document's origins, provenance and... Read More about New evidence on the origins of the Latin Mirror of Simple Souls from a forgotten Paduan manuscript.

Botanical relics of a lost landscape: herborising ‘upon the Cliffs about the Pharos’ in Genoa, March 1664 (2017)
Journal Article
Bruzzone, R., Watkins, C., Balzaretti, R., & Montanari, C. (2018). Botanical relics of a lost landscape: herborising ‘upon the Cliffs about the Pharos’ in Genoa, March 1664. Landscape Research, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2016.1274966

This paper uses approaches derived from historical ecology to show how knowledge can be gained about the historical and cultural value of neglected urban landscapes. We study the area around Genoa’s lighthouse and consider the long-term survival of i... Read More about Botanical relics of a lost landscape: herborising ‘upon the Cliffs about the Pharos’ in Genoa, March 1664.

Religion and the English parish (2017)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2017). Religion and the English parish. In A. Milton (Ed.), The Oxford history of Anglicanism: Volume I. Reformation and identity c.1520-1662. Oxford University Press