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Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967 (2016)
Journal Article
Cocks, H. (2016). Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967. Social History, 41(3), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2016.1180899

The common law offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals has a long though controversial history in English law. It was a charge mainly employed against obscenity, procuring prostitution, keeping a disorderly house, public indecency and public m... Read More about Conspiracy to corrupt public morals and the ‘unlawful’ status of homosexuality in Britain after 1967.

Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948) (2016)
Journal Article
Balzaretti, R. (2016). Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948). Early Medieval Europe, 24(2), 185-208. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12140

Hugh of Arles, King of Italy between 926 and 947, has come to be regarded as one of the more successful kings of Italy in the tenth century. The evidence of his charters supports this conclusion, showing how effectively he managed to insert members o... Read More about Narratives of success and narratives of failure: representations of the career of King Hugh of Italy (c.885-948).

'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain (2016)
Journal Article
COCKS, H. (2016). 'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain. Twentieth Century British History, 27(2), 171–194. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hww008

The market in what was regarded as obscene literature, 1940s and 1950s Britain was dominated by magazines containing female nudes and risqué fiction. What can we know about the readers and consumers of this type of pornography before the 1960s? We ca... Read More about 'The Social Picture of Our Own Times': Reading Obscene Magazines in 1940s Britain.

The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form (2016)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2016). The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form. cultural geographies, 23(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474015572600

For a decade from the late 1990s, the A-Z London street atlas became a recurrent motif within art works and popular media texts. This essay collates and explores these cultural responses to the atlas, to consider what this might reveal about the affe... Read More about The cultural uses of the A-Z London street atlas: navigational performance and the imagining of urban form.

Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815 (2016)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2016). Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815. Midland History, 41(1), 20-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159856

© 2016 University of Birmingham. This article explores Nottingham's ambivalent attitude to the battle of Waterloo, which concluded hostilities between England and France in June 1815. It poses a contrast between Nottingham's muted reaction to Waterlo... Read More about Nottinghamshire and the Great Peace: Reflections on the End of the Napoleonic Wars, 1814–1815.

Sir Robert Peel as Actor-Dramatist (2016)
Book Chapter
Gaunt, R. (2016). Sir Robert Peel as Actor-Dramatist. In P. Yeandle, K. Newey, & J. Richards (Eds.), Politics, Peformance and Popular Culture: Theatre and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain (216-236). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719091698.001.0001

In the early nineteenth-century, the chamber of the House of Commons was the stage upon which the theatre of national political action was played out and the cockpit of political drama between the leading personalities of the age. This chapter extend... Read More about Sir Robert Peel as Actor-Dramatist.

Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden (2016)
Journal Article
Mawby, S. (2016). Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden. Labor History, 57(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2016.1140622

The promulgation in 1960 of a new Industrial Relations Ordinance in Aden was a singular event in the history of British decolonisation because it made many forms of strike action illegal. Earlier initiatives to liberalise trade union law in the colon... Read More about Workers in the vanguard: the 1960 Industrial Relations Ordinance and the struggle for independence in Aden.

The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana (2016)
Journal Article
Mawby, S. (2016). The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana. History, 101(344), 84-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12156

The Labour Party’s ambivalent attitude to anticolonial nationalism is well known but its place in the conflicts between the party’s revisionists and the left has been less fully elaborated, while the influence of British trade unions in the formation... Read More about The limits of anticolonialism: the British Labour movement and the end of the empire in Guiana.

Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (2016)
Book
A. Greenwood (Ed.), (2016). Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. doi:10.7228/manchester/9780719089671.001.0001

collection of essays about the Colonial Medical Service of Africa in which a group of distinguished colonial historians illustrate the diversity and active collaborations to be found in the untidy reality of government medical provision. The authors... Read More about Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa.

Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises (2016)
Book
Gehring, D. (2016). D. Gehring (Ed.). Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises. Cambridge University Press, for the Royal Historical Society

This collection brings to light three accounts on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the second half of the sixteenth century. Written by two Englishmen and one Scot, these works demonstrate the depth of diplomacy as carried out by highly speci... Read More about Diplomatic Intelligence on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark during the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI : Three Treatises.

Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879 (2016)
Journal Article
Kwan, J. (2016). Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879

This article aims to investigate the viewpoint of the Austro-German liberal movement – both ideologically and practically – towards the arguments for Bohemian state rights made by the conservative Bohemian Great Landowners and Czech political parties... Read More about Austro-German liberalism and Bohemian state rights, 1861-1879.