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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.

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.

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.

Dock Development, 1778-1914 (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. (2017). Dock Development, 1778-1914. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (117-144). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph:
Hull owes its existence to water transport. Located at the mouth of the River Hull, where the deep-water channel of the Humber sweeps along its north bank, it is a natural transhipment point, and although the town (as it is properly... Read More about Dock Development, 1778-1914.

The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2017). The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (145-177). Liverpool University Press

First paragraph:
When the results of the 2011 UK Census were made public in 2013 the BBC’s Six O’Clock News ran a live television broadcast from the city to herald a remarkable transformation – Hull was now home to a migrant population of 12,000 Eur... Read More about The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.

Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Byrne, J., & Ombler, A. (2017). Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (270-301). Liverpool University Press

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At the close of the Second World War, as the port-city of Hull faced the challenge of rebuilding an urban fabric shattered by wartime bombing, its maritime industries prepared to return to business as usual. Hull’s trawl fishery an... Read More about Memory on the waterfront in late twentieth-century Hull.

William Papper (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilcox, M. William Papper (Vignette). In D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, E. Salter, & D. Starkey (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

William Colbeck (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). William Colbeck (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

Opening paragraph:
People from Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire played a significant role in the ‘Heroic Age’ of Antarctic Exploration (1897-1922). Clements Markham, the President of the Royal Geographical Society, who envisaged and oversaw the... Read More about William Colbeck (Vignette).

The Bounty (Vignette) (2017)
Book Chapter
Robinson, R. (2017). The Bounty (Vignette). In D. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place. Liverpool University Press

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The shipbuilding firm owned by the Blaydes family built the Bethia in their North End Yard on the River Hull, close to their base at Blaydes House, High Street (now Hull University’s Maritime Historical Studies Centre). The Bethia... Read More about The Bounty (Vignette).