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Eleanor Davies and the New Jerusalem (2014)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. L. (2014). Eleanor Davies and the New Jerusalem. In J. A. Chappell, & K. A. Kramer (Eds.), Women during the English Reformations: Renegotiating Gender and Religious Identity (91-114). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465672_6

Eleanor Davies was a great believer in historical moments. In her first work—A Warning to the Dragon and All His Angels of 1625-she told readers that “The Lord is at the Dore.”1 This immanence of God made her watchful and purposeful, reading the sign... Read More about Eleanor Davies and the New Jerusalem.

Iron and the Parisi : socio-economic and ritual aspects of the iron industry in Roman East Yorkshire, UK (2014)
Book Chapter
Halkon, P. (2014). Iron and the Parisi : socio-economic and ritual aspects of the iron industry in Roman East Yorkshire, UK. In B. Cech, & T. Rehren (Eds.), Early Iron in Europe (203 - 214). Editions Mergoil

This article presents a case study concerning the prodcution and consumption of iron in a tribal region of Roman Britain. In addition to such economic factors, th role of iorn within society, particularly in the religion and ritual of the region will... Read More about Iron and the Parisi : socio-economic and ritual aspects of the iron industry in Roman East Yorkshire, UK.

Beresford’s Lost Villages: a website dedicated to the study of deserted medieval settlement (2014)
Journal Article
Fenwick, H. (2014). Beresford’s Lost Villages: a website dedicated to the study of deserted medieval settlement. Medieval settlement research, 29, 56-59

This report presents an overview of the website entitled ‘Beresford’s Lost Villages’, accessible at www.dmv.hull.ac.uk. The website is built around a database of deserted settlements and associated evidence. The rationale behind the website is to pr... Read More about Beresford’s Lost Villages: a website dedicated to the study of deserted medieval settlement.

King John and royal control in Ireland: Why William de Briouze had to be destroyed (2014)
Journal Article
Veach, C. (2014). King John and royal control in Ireland: Why William de Briouze had to be destroyed. English Historical Review, 129(540), 1051-1078. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu221

This article re-examines King John’s persecution and eventual destruction of his former friend, William de Briouze, a signal example of John’s tyranny on the eve Magna Carta. Approaching the episode from the transnational perspective of the two men i... Read More about King John and royal control in Ireland: Why William de Briouze had to be destroyed.

The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2014)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2014). The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In K. Burrell, & K. Hörschelmann (Eds.), Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States : Societies on the Move (148-172). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137267290

This chapter shows how spatial practices of security and intervention, as well as the spatial implications of post-socialism discussed elsewhere in this book, have produced novel mobilities in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the outbreak of war in 1992 and... Read More about The view from the back of the warrior: Mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Indians, Europeans, and the struggle for Empire in 18th Century North America (2014)
Book Chapter
Ray, K. (2014). Indians, Europeans, and the struggle for Empire in 18th Century North America. In C. G. Frentzos, & A. S. Thompson (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of American military and diplomatic history: the colonial period to 1877. Routledge Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315817347-16

As the War of Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War) concluded in 1713, English writer Daniel Defoe commented that the war represented significant danger to British interests in the western Atlantic. Cognizant of the value of trade in that part of the... Read More about Indians, Europeans, and the struggle for Empire in 18th Century North America.

Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980 (2014)
Journal Article
Ramsden, S. (2015). Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980. Contemporary British History, 29(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2014.951338

Historians' interest in the ways locality shapes and constrains working-class culture has until recently tended to end with the post-war demise of the ‘traditional working-class communities’ thought to have coalesced in British industrial localities... Read More about Remaking working-class community: sociability, belonging and “affluence” in a small town, 1930-1980.

The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973 (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2014). The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973. Asian Affairs, 45(3), 425-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2014.951567

It is widely recognised that the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’ fluctuated following the Second World War. A “Persistent rivalry” was especially evident in policy towards the Middle East and its oil. Immediately after the war, the American att... Read More about The Anglo-American 'special relationship' and the Middle East, 1945-1973.

Progressivism and Native Identities (2014)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2014). Progressivism and Native Identities. In G. D. Smithers, & B. N. Newman (Eds.), Native diasporas: Indigenous identities and settler colonialism in the Americas (273-296). University of Nebraska Press

Turnier und Kulturtransfer: Das Carrousel Friedrichs II. von Preußen und die Neudefinition königlicher “Größe“ im Zeitalter der Aufklärung (2014)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2014). Turnier und Kulturtransfer: Das Carrousel Friedrichs II. von Preußen und die Neudefinition königlicher “Größe“ im Zeitalter der Aufklärung. In M. Wrede (Ed.), Die Inszenierung der heroischen Monarchie. Frühneuzeitliches Königtum zwischen ritterlichem Erbe und militärischer Herausforderung (287-316). De Gruyter Oldenberg. https://doi.org/10.1524/9783486781076.287

'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825 (2014)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2014). 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825. International Journal of Maritime History, 26(3), 471-488. https://doi.org/10.1177/0843871414543445

© The Author(s) 2014. During the Napoleonic War, the Royal Navy grew to an unprecedented size, but with the return of peace it dispensed with the services of an also unprecedented 124,000 men. By 1818, around 90% of commissioned officers were unemplo... Read More about 'These peaceable times are the devil': Royal Navy officers in the post-war slump, 1815-1825.

Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century (2014)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2014). Progressivism and Native American Self-Expression in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth century. In G. D. Smithers, & B. N. Newman (Eds.), Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Setller Colonialism in North America (273-296). University of Nebraska Press

This book chapter opens a broad and rewarding analytical window into late nineteenth and early twentieth century identity struggles by introducing the idea of equalling Native American Indian persistence with Native American Indian resistence.

Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness (2014)
Book
Porter, J. (2014). Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness. Bison books

"In Native American Environmentalism the history of indigenous peoples in North America is brought into dialogue with key environmental terms such as "wilderness" and "nature." The conflict between Christian environmentalist thinking and indigenous v... Read More about Native American environmentalism: Land, spirit and the idea of wilderness.

Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history (2014)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2015). Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history. Rethinking History, 19(3), 409-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642529.2014.909674

This paper evaluates the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as an exercise in public history. Public events have been widely identified within the study of nationalism as festivals that attempt to reinforce national identity and belong... Read More about Beyond the island story? the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games as public history.

Reshaping the field: building restorative capital (2014)
Journal Article
Green, S., Johnstone, G., & Lambert, C. (2014). Reshaping the field: building restorative capital. Restorative justice, 2(1), 43-63. https://doi.org/10.5235/20504721.2.1.43

Restorative justice is best known as an alternative approach for dealing with crime and wrongdoing. Yet as the restorative movement has grown it is increasingly being deployed in different arenas. Based on a two-year study funded by the UK National L... Read More about Reshaping the field: building restorative capital.

Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2014). Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War. Contemporary British History, 28(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2014.930348

Britain's attempt to distance itself from Israel as London sought to conciliate the Arab world in the aftermath of the Six-Day War has entered the historiography of Anglo-Israeli relations. A neglected aspect of the development of British policy towa... Read More about Centurions and Chieftains : tank sales and British policy towards Israel in the aftermath of the Six Day War.

Zeremonielle Sattelzeit? Überlegungen zu einer Neuverortung der symbolischen Kommunikation am Ende der Frühen Neuzeit (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Biskup, T. (2012, September). Zeremonielle Sattelzeit? Überlegungen zu einer Neuverortung der symbolischen Kommunikation am Ende der Frühen Neuzeit. Presented at Öffentliche Tagung des Interdisziplinären Zentrums zur Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklärung, Potsdam

Friedrich II. "der Große" wird häufig zitiert, um den "Niedergang" frühneuzeitlichen Zeremoniells im 18. Jahrhundert zu belegen: Er gilt bis heute als roi-philosophe, dessen verächtliche Äußerungen zu "barockem" Zeremoniell auf einen grundsätzlichen... Read More about Zeremonielle Sattelzeit? Überlegungen zu einer Neuverortung der symbolischen Kommunikation am Ende der Frühen Neuzeit.

The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research (2014)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2014). The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research. International Peacekeeping, 21(1), 91-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2014.899123

The international organizations involved in peacebuilding, democratization and peacekeeping in the Yugoslav successor states have employed thousands of locally recruited workers as project officers, language intermediaries and support staff. This mak... Read More about The Local Workforce of International Intervention in the Yugoslav Successor States: 'Precariat' or 'Projectariat'? Towards an Agenda for Future Research.

Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2014). Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta. Journal of Mediterranean studies, 23(1), 113-124

The political contest in Malta at the end of empire involved not merely the British colonial authorities and emerging nationalists, but also the powerful Catholic Church. Under Archbishop Gonzi’s leadership, the Church took an overtly political stanc... Read More about Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta.