All Outputs (2)

‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’ (2020)
Journal Article
Reeve, M. (2021). ‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’. Northern History, 58(1), 129-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172X.2020.1856566

This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on t... Read More about ‘An Empire Dock’: Place Promotion and the Local Acculturation of Imperial Discourse in ‘Britain’s Third Port’.

“The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19 (2017)
Journal Article
Reeve, M. (2017). “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 12(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2017.1353770

This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues... Read More about “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19.