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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. 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.

'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya (2023)
Thesis
Farah, F. 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571172

My research deals with slavery and its legacies in Mombasa, Kenya. The ethnic tensions that exist today in Mombasa have their roots in two historical legacies, slavery and colonialism. Seeds of inequalities planted during those two periods still dict... Read More about 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya.

Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998 (2023)
Thesis
Grombir, F. Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4425243

In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War hundreds of thousands of migrants came to rebuild post-war Britain. The arrival of the so-called Windrush generation presented, in the words of Trevor Phillips, the irresistible rise of multi-racial... Read More about Second-Generation Voices of the Polish and Ukrainian Diaspora in Northern Britain, 1948-1998.

When Eurovision Came Out: LGBTQ+ Visibility and the Eurovision Song Contest in the “Queer 1990s” (2023)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2023). When Eurovision Came Out: LGBTQ+ Visibility and the Eurovision Song Contest in the “Queer 1990s”. QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 10(3), 59-71. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.10.3.0059

Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine (2023)
Report
Baker, C. (2023). Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine. Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool

The Heseltine Institute is marking Liverpool’s status as host city for Eurovision 2023 with a special series of policy briefings. In this first briefing of the series, Dr Catherine Baker (University of Hull) discusses some of the key themes that will... Read More about Eurovision 2023: Broadcasting Liverpool, Welcoming LGBTQ+ Communities, Honouring Ukraine.

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.

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

Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe (2023)
Book Chapter
Baker, C., & Howcroft, M. (2023). Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe. In K. Loftsdóttir, B. Hipfl, & S. Ponzanesi (Eds.), Creating Europe from the Margins: Mobilities and Racism in Postcolonial Europe (108-124). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269748-7

In 2017, Kingston-upon-Hull celebrated becoming UK City of Culture (‘Hull2017’). Organisers of the cultural mega-event hoped to restore civic pride amongst residents of Hull, which had been severely affected ever since its North Sea fishing industry... Read More about Gay Bod: Civic and LGBTQ+ Pride After Brexit in a City on the Margins of the UK and Europe.

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

Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity (2022)
Digital Artefact
Porter, J. (2022). Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity

The world is grappling with a number of widespread and indeterminate risks that we ourselves created. Perhaps the most fundamental risk to our wellbeing as the Fourth Industrial Revolution unfolds is Natural Producer Extinction- the irreversible loss... Read More about Director's Seminar: Indigenous Environmental History and Its Relevance to Future Prosperity.

Looking Forward to the Centenary of the Second World War: Lessons from 2014-2018 (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru (2022)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2022). Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru. International Affairs, 98(6), 2170-2171. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac235

Extract
Too often it is assumed that all impact from mining, upon the environment and society, is inherently bad. This is the result of a narrow focus on the power asymmetries between cash-strapped countries (and their needs) and cash-rich countries... Read More about Fighting for Andean Resources : extractive industries, cultural politics, and environmental struggles in Peru.

Transition of power: the problems of Britain’s post-imperial relationship with Malta, 1964-1971 (2022)
Journal Article
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.

Understanding and teaching Native American history: Methods and resources (2022)
Book
Ray, K., & DeSanti, B. (Eds.). (2022). Understanding and teaching Native American history: Methods and resources. University of Wisconsin Press

‘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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics (2022)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2022). The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics. In A. Dubin, D. Vuletic, & A. Obregón (Eds.), The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia (96-110). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003188933-9

This chapter explores how the author’s research into nationalism, popular culture, gender and sexuality in international politics has been able to apply the idea that the Eurovision Song Contest illustrates the idea of contestants as symbolic represe... Read More about The Molitva Factor: The Eurovision Song Contest and ‘Performing’ National Identity in World Politics.

IHR Partnership Seminar: New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cusworth, H., Porter, J., & Herlihy, L. (2022, June). IHR Partnership Seminar: New Approaches to Material Culture in Historic Houses

Using Material Culture in Historic Houses to Unlock New Research Perspectives and Methodologies: Miskito Indigenous Cultures, Mahogany and Environmental Futures.