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The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century (2018)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (2018). The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century. The English Historical Review, 133(565), 1420-1445. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cey334

This article considers the emergence of the Chaldaean (East Syrian Catholic) Church in the 1550s, a topic of considerable relevance for scholars of eastern Christianity and of Counter-Reformation Catholicism alike. The Chaldaeans seem to present a pa... Read More about The Ambiguities of Belief and Belonging: Catholicism and the Church of the East in the Sixteenth Century.

Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910) (2018)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2019). Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910). Journal of South Asian Development, 13(3), 249-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/0973174118810050

Written in the backdrop of the emerging official discourse around occupational skill training in contemporary India, this article returns to the past to explain how the meanings of skill and skill training were produced through the interaction of the... Read More about Skilling and Its Histories: Labour Market, Technical Knowledge and the Making of Skilled Workers in Colonial India (1880–1910).

"The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain (2018)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2018). "The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain. Journal of British Studies, 57(4), 812-839. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2018.116

This article explores the cultural dynamics of branding and mass consumption in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on Penguin Books’ cartoon mascot, which appeared on all of the firm's paperback covers and in-store promotional material fr... Read More about "The Penguins are coming": brand mascots and utopian mass consumption in interwar Britain.

‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions (2018)
Journal Article
Lutton, R. (2018). ‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions. English, 67(257), 119-140. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efy021

This article examines a particular set of texts in an early fifteenth-century religious anthology composed by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton. Together with other religious prose and verse, Thornton copied a number of Middle English and Latin... Read More about ‘...but have you read this?’: dialogicity in Robert Thornton’sHoly name devotions.

The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair? (2018)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2018). The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair?. Midland History, 43(2), 208-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2018.1522464

© 2018 University of Birmingham. This article re-considers Nottingham’s role in the events immediately preceding the Pentrich Rebellion of 9–10 June 1817, as well as its reaction on the night of the Rebellion and during its aftermath. It does so in l... Read More about The Pentrich Rebellion – A Nottingham Affair?.

Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy) (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy). Landscape History, 39(2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2018.1534460

This paper explores the value of landscape and topographical art for understanding contemporary landscapes of the Val d’Aosta, NW Italy. The region became very popular with British tourists in the early nineteenth-century and several amateur and prof... Read More about Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy).

'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference (2018)
Journal Article
HUCKER, D. (2019). 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference. Peace and Change, 44(1), 5-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12322

Historical assessments of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference, like its 1899 predecessor, are usually framed in verdicts of success or failure. Although some specialist accounts rightly portray the Hague meetings as both successful and important, most an... Read More about 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference.

'Die Inszenierung der expandierenden "Volksgemeinschaft": Offizielle Fotos der "Heimkehr" deutscher Minderheiten ins Reich, 1939-1941' (2018)
Book Chapter
Harvey, E. (2018). 'Die Inszenierung der expandierenden "Volksgemeinschaft": Offizielle Fotos der "Heimkehr" deutscher Minderheiten ins Reich, 1939-1941'. In D. Schmiechen-Ackermann, M. Buchholz, B. Roitsch, & C. Schröder (Eds.), Der Ort der "Volksgemeinschaft" in der deutschen Gesellschaftsgeschichte (353-374). Schöningh. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657786480_024

This contribution examines the propaganda effort relating to the resettlement of ethnic German minorities from the point of view of generating a vision of an expanding "national community".

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria. Rural History, 29(2), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade. French History, 32(3), 327-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry065

This paper contributes new evidence and a new perspective to the study of the religious heresy known as Waldensianism in the high-medieval Languedoc, and its relationship to both orthodox authority and the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Although they were outlawed... Read More about ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade.

'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War (2018)
Working Paper
Allwork, L. 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War

This working paper chronicles the development of the construction of a methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the AHRC’s First World War Engagement Centres. It will show how through evalu... Read More about 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War.

Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921 (2018)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Topiwala, H. (2018). Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky060

The 1915 Simpson Report made public health recommendations for Nairobi that were heralded as ground-breaking. Of particular interest to the colonial authorities was Professor Simpson’s suggestion to racially segregate Nairobi to prevent diseases said... Read More about Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921.

Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham (2018)
Book
R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow, & P. Skinner (Eds.), (2018). Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham

This volume represents a comprehensive survey of recent work in medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies of other regions and major historical transitions in Europ... Read More about Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham.

German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research (2018)
Book
J. Hürter, & E. Harvey (Eds.), (2018). German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research

This volume presents the latest in German research on Hitler ased on selected articles translated from the leading contemporary history journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Additionally, it includes new commentaries by renowned experts from... Read More about German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research.

Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii (2018)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2018). Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (77-100). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls (2018)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2018). The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls. Medieval Worlds, 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s137

This article examines the style and rhetoric of a fourteenth-century treatise written against the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. The treatise addresses thirty-five extracts from the Mirror which are refuted as errors. Rather than... Read More about The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls.