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Bridging the “sport/culture silo”: the Eurovision Song Contest and its lessons for sporting and cultural mega-events (2025)
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Baker, C., Atkinson, D., Grabher, B., & Howcroft, M. (online). 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.

Chanak and the memory of Gallipoli: A British crisis of cultural demobilisation (2025)
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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 impact of impact: an invitation to philosophise (2025)
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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.

From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland (2024)
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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)
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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)
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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.

The Revolutionary Symbolism of Angelo Herndon: Photography, Race, and Communism in 1930s America (2024)
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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.

Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution (2024)
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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.

Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2024)
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Baker, C. (2024). Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Historical reflections, 50(2), 61-76. https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2024.500205

Alexander Lemtov, the Russian antagonist of Netflix’s 2020 musical comedy Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, embodies and dramatizes contentions over Russian homophobia, disavowals of homosexuality in Russian entertainment, and the cons... Read More about Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga.

‘We Are Making No Sailors’: Apprenticeship and the British mercantile marine 1840–1914 (2024)
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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.

University Land Grabs: Indigenous Dispossession and the Universities of Toronto and Manitoba (2023)
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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.

Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910 (2023)
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Harvey, C. (2023). Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 261(1), 118-157. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac042

This article examines a set of public universities that opened after 1848 across California, Australasia, South Africa and Canada. It argues that these institutions, termed the ‘goldfield foundations’, owed the speed of their formation, if not their... Read More about Gold Rushes, Universities and Globalization, 1840–1910.

Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine (2023)
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Haran, B. (2023). Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine. History of Photography, 46(2-3), 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2023.2221919

On 25 March 1931 nine young African Americans were arrested in Alabama for the alleged rape of two White women, nearly lynched, sentenced to death and eventually incarcerated for years. This article examines the arrest photograph of the Scottsboro Ni... Read More about Photography in the Big Frame: Conflicting Media Uses of the 1931 Arrest Photograph of the Scottsboro Nine.

Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018 (2022)
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Macleod, J. (2022). Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018. British Journal for Military History, 8(3), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.bjmh.v8i3.1641

This is the text of a keynote presentation to the Second World War Research Group's Annual Conference in 2019. It reflects on the centenary commemorations for 1914-1918 from the perspective of a First World War historian to suggest some lessons for t... Read More about Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018.

Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971 (2022)
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Smith, S. C. (2023). Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971. Contemporary British History, 37(1), 27-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2113777

There is growing recognition that the end of formal empire did not equate with the ending of ties between the imperial power and its erstwhile dependencies. This was especially so of the ‘fortress colony’ of Malta which following constitutional separ... Read More about Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971.

‘Can I Be Gay in the Army?’: British Army recruitment advertising to LGBTQ youth in 2017–18 and belonging in the queer military home (2022)
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Baker, C. (2023). ‘Can I Be Gay in the Army?’: British Army recruitment advertising to LGBTQ youth in 2017–18 and belonging in the queer military home. Critical military studies, 9(3), 442-461. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2022.2113960

In 2017, the British Army opened its ‘This is Belonging’ recruitment campaign, aimed at groups of young people who were considered traditionally less likely to join the Army, with marketing at Pride in London aimed at LGBTQ youth. The campaign’s next... Read More about ‘Can I Be Gay in the Army?’: British Army recruitment advertising to LGBTQ youth in 2017–18 and belonging in the queer military home.

‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985 (2022)
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Wilcox, M. (2023). ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985. Journal for Maritime Research, 23(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/21533369.2022.2097855

The historiography of British distant-water fishing concentrates on the period prior to 1976 and the third ‘Cod War’ that saw British trawlers excluded from their principal fishing grounds. Little research has hitherto been done on the period afterwa... Read More about ‘Let’s make a good job of it and stay in business’: the British distant-water trawler fleet and the coastal mackerel fishery, 1975–1985.

Land Use Change in a Pericolonial Society: Intensification and Diversification in Ifugao, Philippines Between 1570 and 1800 CE (2022)
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Findley, D. M., Bankoff, G., Barretto-Tesoro, G., Hamilton, R., Kay, A. U., Acabado, S., Amano, N., Kaplan, J. O., & Roberts, P. (2022). Land Use Change in a Pericolonial Society: Intensification and Diversification in Ifugao, Philippines Between 1570 and 1800 CE. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, Article 680926. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.680926

Land use modelling is increasingly used by archaeologists and palaeoecologists seeking to quantify and compare the changing influence of humans on the environment. In Southeast Asia, the intensification of rice agriculture and the arrival of European... Read More about Land Use Change in a Pericolonial Society: Intensification and Diversification in Ifugao, Philippines Between 1570 and 1800 CE.

The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression (2022)
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Haran, B. (2022). The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression. Arts, 11(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11020045

In 1931, Fortune published an article entitled ‘American Workingman’, a survey of labor in the midst of the worsening Depression, with an emblematic composite image of hands at work to indicate the manual character and the diverse jobs of industrial... Read More about The Hands of Fortune: Margaret Bourke-White’s Magazine Photographs of Manual Work in the Early Years of the Depression.