All Outputs (7)

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.

Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions (2023)
Thesis
Baker, J. (2023). Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500549

In 1986, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, received a letter from a former child migrant called Mary, who had been deported to Australia at the age of six. Mary pleaded with Humphreys to help her be reunited with her birth family.... Read More about Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions.

Through the Balkans to Christchurch: Southeast Europe and global white nationalist historical mythology (2023)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (in press). 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. 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.

The Dangerous Myth-making in The Banshees of Inisherin (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Porter, J. (2023). The Dangerous Myth-making in The Banshees of Inisherin

Ireland’s history and its relationship to Great Britain and Northern Ireland is too important to forget via the portrayal within a film like The Banshees of Inisherin. After all, if we choose to forget a hard lesson learned about power and war in one... Read More about The Dangerous Myth-making in The Banshees of Inisherin.

Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places. by Gerald F. Reid (2023)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2023). Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places. by Gerald F. Reid. Western Historical Quarterly, Article whad027. https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad027

Gripping, freshly unearthed research often reads like a detective story. This example of superb sleuthing is no exception. Gerald Reid has taken a second look at a figure buried under narratives from the past and gifted to readers a revealing, painst... Read More about Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places. by Gerald F. Reid.

Powerful Inversion (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Porter, J. (2023). Powerful Inversion

Review of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America Pekka Hämäläinen W.W. Norton 538pp £30

Fear and Weakness (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Porter, J. (2023). Fear and Weakness. London

Joy Porter applauds a powerful new book that emphasises Indigenous agency within the story of North American colonisation. Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen WW Norton, 592 pages, £30