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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.

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.

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.

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

London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war (2024)
Thesis
Dyball, R. London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706378

The modern history of London, and ultimately its transformation into a global or world city, can be told through its transformative shocks. Here, the focus will be on the Great Fire of 1666, the Great Stink of 1858, and the Blitz of the Second World... Read More about London Shocks: A comparative analysis of urban political institutions and their responses through fire, pollution, and war.

To what extent can drama, and especially verbatim theatre techniques, be used to (re) present intergenerational transgender identities in the North East of England? (2024)
Thesis
Chapman-Wilson, T. To what extent can drama, and especially verbatim theatre techniques, be used to (re) present intergenerational transgender identities in the North East of England?. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706291

This thesis examines how verbatim techniques can be used to (re) present an intergenerational participatory group of trans individuals in Newcastle upon Tyne. The representation of trans people from the cis-lens will be examined, as well as the incre... Read More about To what extent can drama, and especially verbatim theatre techniques, be used to (re) present intergenerational transgender identities in the North East of England?.

Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology (2024)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2024). Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology. In C. Baker, B. C. Iacob, A. Imre, & J. Mark (Eds.), Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (328-347). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211.00023

The chapter explores Southeast Europe’s part in global white nationalist historical mythology through the March 2019 Christchurch massacre and what it revealed about how both recent and distant histories of intercommunal violence in Southeast Europe... Read More about Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology.

Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race (2024)
Book
Baker, C., Iacob, B. C., Imre, A., & Mark, J. (Eds.). (2024). Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211

This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identi... Read More about Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race.

Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe (2024)
Book Chapter
Mark, J., Imre, A., Iacob, B. C., & Baker, C. (2024). Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe. In C. Baker, B. C. Iacob, A. Imre, & J. Mark (Eds.), Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (1-30). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211.00007

Central and Eastern Europe has long been removed from global histories of race: this introduction firstly explores the regional and global forces which have forged this capacity for disavowal, and analyses what has been long at stake in doing so. Sec... Read More about Introduction: Racial disavowals-Historicising whiteness in Central and Eastern Europe.

Lion of Love: Representations of Russian Homosexuality and Homophobia in Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2024)
Journal Article
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)
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.

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.