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Re-evaluating English personal naming on the eve of the Conquest: Re-evaluating English personal naming (2018)
Journal Article
Chetwood, J. (2018). Re-evaluating English personal naming on the eve of the Conquest: Re-evaluating English personal naming. Early Medieval Europe, 26(4), 518-547. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12298

Between 850 and 1150, the names of the people of England underwent a fundamental transformation. The old Germanic system of dithematic naming was replaced by a system of indivisible names in which a diminishing number of names became shared by an inc... Read More about Re-evaluating English personal naming on the eve of the Conquest: Re-evaluating English personal naming.

Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses. Disasters, 43(2), 221-239. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12312

A warming climate and less predictable weather patterns, as well as an expanding urban infrastructure susceptible to geophysical hazards, make the world an increasingly dangerous place, even for those living in high‐income countries. It is an opportu... Read More about Remaking the world in our own image: vulnerability, resilience and adaptation as historical discourses.

Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 1(3), 363-381. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848618789381

The notion of ‘disaster justice’, that is that governments have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable seems premised on a particular conception of the state that conforms to a Western liberal democratic model. Indeed, the failure of the state to... Read More about Blame, responsibility and agency: ‘Disaster justice’ and the state in the Philippines.

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffmann, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain (224 - 234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959-26

The growth of migrant studies since the early 1970s has filled significant lacuna in the historiography of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of transmigrant historiography in the UK has followed a very different p... Read More about The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain.

'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945 (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J., & McCarthy, A. (2018). 'New' Jews in Scotland since 1945. In T. M. Devine, & A. McCarthy (Eds.), New Scots: Scotland's Immigrant Communities since 1945. Edinburgh University Press

The Operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo (The Evacuation of Dunkirk), 26 May–4 June 1940 (2018)
Thesis
Raffal, H. (2018). The Operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo (The Evacuation of Dunkirk), 26 May–4 June 1940. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4508185

Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of over 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940, has been widely studied there has, however, been little analysis of the Royal Air Force and Luftwaffe’s operations during the evacuation. This... Read More about The Operations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during Operation Dynamo (The Evacuation of Dunkirk), 26 May–4 June 1940.

The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2018). The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain. In J. Craig-Norton, C. Hoffman, & T. Kushner (Eds.), Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes (224-234). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315159959

The growth of migrant studies since the early 1970s has filled significant lacuna in the historiography of Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of transmigrant historiography in the UK has followed a very different p... Read More about The development of transmigrant historiography in Britain.

Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies (2018)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2018). Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies. Interventions : international journal of postcolonial studies, 20(6), 759-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1492954

The black Dutch feminist Gloria Wekker, assembling past and present everyday expressions of racialized imagination which collectively undermine hegemonic beliefs that white Dutch society has no historic responsibility for racism, writes in her book W... Read More about Postcoloniality without race? Racial exceptionalism and south-east European cultural studies.

Festkultur (2018)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2018). Festkultur. In J. Jacob, & J. Süßmann (Eds.), Das 18. Jahrhundert. Lekikon zur Antikerezeption in Aufklärung und Klassizismus. J. B. Metzler

Being dialogic with the pragmatic literacies of late medieval England (2018)
Journal Article
Salter, E. (2018). Being dialogic with the pragmatic literacies of late medieval England. English, 67(257), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efy023

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the English Association. This article uses last will and testaments from several regions of England as a major source of evidence for the ways that the majority of medieval peopl... Read More about Being dialogic with the pragmatic literacies of late medieval England.

Henry II and the ideological foundations of Angevin rule in Ireland (2018)
Journal Article
Veach, C. (2018). Henry II and the ideological foundations of Angevin rule in Ireland. Irish Historical Studies, 42(161), 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2018.6

The English invasion of Ireland is of central importance to the interconnected histories of Britain and Ireland. Yet there is still disagreement over the agency of its ultimate sponsor, King Henry II. This article argues that from the very beginning... Read More about Henry II and the ideological foundations of Angevin rule in Ireland.

Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80 (2018)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. L. (2018). Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80. In J. Clare (Ed.), From republic to restoration: legacies and departures (102-123). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526107510.00012

This chapter analyses early-modern English women writers and the number and patterns of their publication of religious and secular texts between 1640 and 1680. The chapter’s focus is on the impact of the English Civil War and Cromwellian Republic on... Read More about Visions of monarchy and magistracy in women’s political writing, 1640– 80.

A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2018). A staging post to America - Jewish migration via Scotland. In K. Collins, A. Newman, & B. Wasserstein (Eds.), Two hundred years of Scottish Jewry (301-326). Scottish Jewish Archives Centre