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Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events (2025)
Journal Article
Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (2025). Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events. International Journal of Cultural Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2025.2521115

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) uniquely exhibits features of both sporting and cultural events. Its tradition of awarding hosting rights to the previous year’s winning broadcaster has persisted even as its scale has approached that of sporting and... Read More about Bridging the ‘sport/culture silo’: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events.

Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey (2025)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2025). Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey. In T. Beasley-Murray, W. Bracewell, & M. Murawski (Eds.), Anti-Atlas: Critical Area Studies from the East of the West (213-218). UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800087811

In this essay, YouTube music videos operate as one of those grey areas
between the closely policed borders of the Greater Europe described above: a space where Black and Serbian hip-hop artists collaborate in narratives that suggest a transnational... Read More about Crni Srbi and Ron Holsey.

Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation (2025)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (online). Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2025.2465985

The Chanak crisis of September-October 1922 brought the British government to the brink of international warfare. Although Britain observes 11 November 1918 as the end of the First World War, perhaps it is Chanak that truly marks the end of Britain’s... Read More about Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation.

The Humber Outport: Lloyd’s Register in the Port of Hull since c.1760. (2025)
Thesis
Wright, S. (2025). The Humber Outport: Lloyd’s Register in the Port of Hull since c.1760. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5089139

For over 260 years, Lloyd’s Register has worked to preserve life and property at sea. Throughout that time, the Society has maintained an active presence in its outports, one being Hull. By taking the uncharted connections between Lloyd’s Register an... Read More about The Humber Outport: Lloyd’s Register in the Port of Hull since c.1760..

The impact of impact: an invitation to philosophise (2025)
Journal Article
Brauer, R., Björn, I., Burgess, G., Dymitrow, M., Greenman, J., Grzelak-Kostulska, E., Pöllänen, P., & Williams, T. (in press). The impact of impact: an invitation to philosophise. Minerva, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-024-09558-8

This position paper argues for the introduction of a philosophy of research impact, as an invitation to think deeply about the implications of the impact agenda. It delves into the transformative influence of prioritising the end-product of the resea... Read More about The impact of impact: an invitation to philosophise.

The Two Norths: Identity and Hybridity in Yorkshire and Northumberland, 1066-1215 (2024)
Thesis
Cook, A. (2024). The Two Norths: Identity and Hybridity in Yorkshire and Northumberland, 1066-1215. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5088043

This study uses two baronial families: the de Lacy Barons of Pontefract and de Vescy Barons of Alnwick as a lens through which to examine wider identity within the regions. Previous work has generally taken a wider focus on the whole region, or over... Read More about The Two Norths: Identity and Hybridity in Yorkshire and Northumberland, 1066-1215.

Petuaria: Finding its Place in Roman Britain (2024)
Thesis
Farley, J. (2024). Petuaria: Finding its Place in Roman Britain. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5077741

The site of Roman occupation under modern Brough on Humber, now identified as Petuaria, has drawn the attention of archaeologists for centuries. Over the course of investigations and writings on the site, there has been a multitude of theories create... Read More about Petuaria: Finding its Place in Roman Britain.

From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland (2024)
Journal Article
Veach, C. (2024). From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland. English Historical Review, Article ceae210. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210

This article offers a new way of framing the English conquest of Ireland by focusing on the development of a kingdom of Ireland both before and after the invasion of 1169. It thus spans the historiographical divides that tend to partition Irish histo... Read More about From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland.

A Skilled English Tradesman and the Early International Diffusion of Steamboat and Railway Technology: The life and career of William Harman (1804–1890), a study of individual adaptability and mobility (2024)
Journal Article
Robinson, R. (2024). A Skilled English Tradesman and the Early International Diffusion of Steamboat and Railway Technology: The life and career of William Harman (1804–1890), a study of individual adaptability and mobility. Mariner's Mirror, 110(4), 441-455. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2408174

Mobile British artisans played a key role in the global diffusion of industrialization, taking their skills to Continental Europe and the USA. While research in recent decades among those who might be classed as minor innovators or tweakers has incre... Read More about A Skilled English Tradesman and the Early International Diffusion of Steamboat and Railway Technology: The life and career of William Harman (1804–1890), a study of individual adaptability and mobility.

‘For the Betterment of the Industry’: The establishment and work of the White Fish Commission, 1936–1939 (2024)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2024). ‘For the Betterment of the Industry’: The establishment and work of the White Fish Commission, 1936–1939. Mariner's Mirror, 110(4), 456-476. https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2024.2408175

Between the wars, the British fishing industry faced an invidious economic climate. Costs rose, over-fishing and falling prices depressed incomes, and structural faults that had mattered little in the years of growth prior to 1914 became serious hand... Read More about ‘For the Betterment of the Industry’: The establishment and work of the White Fish Commission, 1936–1939.

Croatian Veteran Masculinities and Exclusive Narratives: Points of Identification With the “Myth of the Homeland War” in the 2010s (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C., & Touquet, H. (2025). Croatian Veteran Masculinities and Exclusive Narratives: Points of Identification With the “Myth of the Homeland War” in the 2010s. In P. Schulz, B. Hamber, & H. Touquet (Eds.), Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice (208-227). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003519522

A generation after the end of the Croatian War of Independence, transitional justice advocates had hoped Croatian society would be able to separate individual and organizational responsibility for war crimes from the moral significance of a war of se... Read More about Croatian Veteran Masculinities and Exclusive Narratives: Points of Identification With the “Myth of the Homeland War” in the 2010s.

Conscription and the British World (2024)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2024). Conscription and the British World. In J. Mann, & B. Zielinski (Eds.), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (79-94). Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20648

A key concern in Carl Bridge’s work has been to explore the relationship between the Dominions and the British Empire, frequently drawing comparisons through the lens of wartime. Through a series of articles, conferences and an edited book exploring... Read More about Conscription and the British World.

The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America (2024)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2024). The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America. Oxford Art Journal, 47(2), 223-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcae013

This article examines the photographic representation of Angelo Herndon, a Black Communist who was arrested in 1932 in Atlanta through seldom-used Georgian anti-insurrection legislation. Herndon (aged 19) endured many months in jail and faced 18-20 y... Read More about The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America.

Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s (2024)
Thesis
Li, W. Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867124

“The analogies between women and flowers have a long history in sex ideology” (Pollock: 2007: 106). Yet queer readings of flowers are sometimes different from heterosexual and patriarchal perspective. Some gender-queer artists have refused to see flo... Read More about Queer Flowers: Queer Erotics, Mourning, and Utopias in the Art of Flowers from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2024). Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans. In C. Baker (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (1-27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162-1

The introduction surveys the sociopolitical contexts surrounding historic and contemporary popular music in the Balkans. It explains the complexities of ‘popular music’ and other related terms in defining the field of study, including the problems of... Read More about Introduction: Thinking Politically with Popular Music of the Balkans.

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2024)
Book
Baker, C. (Ed.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject area... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans.

What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2024). What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection. In C. Baker (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (500-512). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162-39

This chapter situates ‘Balkan’ popular music within a global politics of identity and difference and gives an example of how to use social and cultural theory to develop a research agenda, by reviewing how scholars of popular culture in the region ha... Read More about What is this ‘Balkan’ in Balkan Popular Culture?: Stuart Hall’s Sociology of Popular Culture, Identity and Race through Analogy and Connection.

The child subjects of British settler colonialism in Canada, c.1830 - 1950 (2024)
Thesis
Holding Brown, J. The child subjects of British settler colonialism in Canada, c.1830 - 1950. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867030

Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (online). Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution. Middle Eastern Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2024.2368600

There is a growing consensus that the end of empire did not necessarily equate with a severing of imperial ties. Some historians have even argued that there was a shift from formal to informal empire in Britain’s relations with the emerging Gulf Stat... Read More about Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution.

Transitions and Continuities in Petitioning in Early Modern England (2024)
Book Chapter
Waddell, B., & Worthen, H. (2024). Transitions and Continuities in Petitioning in Early Modern England. In R. Huzzey, M. Janse, H. Miller, J. Oddens, & B. Waddell (Eds.), Petitions and Petitioning in Europe and North America: From the Late Medieval Period to the Present. Oxford University Press