Outputs (613)

‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914 (2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). ‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914. Mariner's Mirror, 110(2), 190-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2331916

For more than a century and a half, apprenticeship was of fundamental importance to the recruitment and training of British seafarers. From the introduction of compulsory apprenticeship in 1703, through the removal of compulsion in 1850 and up to the... Read More about ‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914.

Reframing ‘the Anarchy’: Castles, Landscapes and Society in Twelfth-Century Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (2024)
Thesis
Prescott, R. Reframing ‘the Anarchy’: Castles, Landscapes and Society in Twelfth-Century Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4617818

The reign of King Stephen, c. 1135-54, was condemned by nineteenth-century historians as a period of anarchy and castles have often been seen as a cause or symptom of its instabilities. Although many aspects of Stephen’s reign have been reappraised i... Read More about Reframing ‘the Anarchy’: Castles, Landscapes and Society in Twelfth-Century Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.

Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront (2024)
Book
Williams, R. (2024). Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront. Kent State University Press

Tabernacles in the Wilderness discusses the work of the United States Christian Commission (USCC), a civilian relief agency established by northern evangelical Protestants to minister to Union troops during the American Civil War. USCC workers saw in... Read More about Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront.

Challenging Continuity: The policies of the East India Company and the Government of India towards Russia in the era of the Great Game, 1838-1880​ (2024)
Thesis
Slack, J. Challenging Continuity: The policies of the East India Company and the Government of India towards Russia in the era of the Great Game, 1838-1880​. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4866098

This thesis argues that the Indian Mutiny of 1857, which resulted in the East India Company’s replacement as the Government of India by the direct rule of the British Government, represented a major turning point in the Great Game. It challenges the... Read More about Challenging Continuity: The policies of the East India Company and the Government of India towards Russia in the era of the Great Game, 1838-1880​.

Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023 (2024)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2024). Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023. British Council

Foreword:
This report tells the story of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023, when the UK found itself as host on behalf of the 2022 winners Ukraine, due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country in 2021. As the UK’s 2022 entry Sam Ryder put it... Read More about Culture, place and partnership: the cultural relations of Eurovision 2023.

Soft power, cultural relations and conflict through Eurovision and other mega-events: a literature review (2024)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2024). Soft power, cultural relations and conflict through Eurovision and other mega-events: a literature review. British Council

First paragraph:
This literature review explores the significance of the Eurovision Song Contest for soft power strategies and cultural relations activities, especially at times of conflict and international aggression.

Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research (2023)
Report
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Burgess, G., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2023). Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research. British Council

About this research
In May 2023, Liverpool and the BBC hosted the Eurovision Song Contest on Ukraine’s behalf. This was the first time since 1980 that Eurovision has not been hosted in the previous winning country, and the first time a winner has e... Read More about Eurovision 2023 Cultural Relations Snapshot: A snapshot from the forthcoming cultural relations, soft power and shared values research.

Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions (2023)
Thesis
Baker, J. Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500549

In 1986, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, received a letter from a former child migrant called Mary, who had been deported to Australia at the age of six. Mary pleaded with Humphreys to help her be reunited with her birth family.... Read More about Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions.

University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba (2023)
Journal Article
Harvey, C. (2023). University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba. The Canadian Historical Review, 104(4), 467-493. https://doi.org/10.3138/chr-2023-0004

Whether leased or sold, Indigenous land provided the endowment capital for new universities in the nineteenth century. Many institutions of higher learning – including the universities of Toronto and Manitoba – began as large-scale landowners. By 182... Read More about University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba.

Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Porter, J. (2023, November). Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change. Presented at Resilience and Reconstruction Workshop at the Centre for Culture & the Mind, University of Copenhagan

Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change (date tbc, event from 30 November to 1 December 2023)

Joy Porter has been invited to speak at the ‘Resilience and Reconstruction Workshop at the Centre for Culture & the Mind’, University of... Read More about Contemplating Post-Traumatic Futures: Ecology and Technological Change.