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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: 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). Glasgow: Scottish Jewish Archives Centre

Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial? (2018)
Book
Baker, C. (2018). Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?. United Kingdom: Manchester University Press

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects... Read More about Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?.

Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands (2018)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2018). Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands. Environmental History, 23(3), 470-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emx137

Much of the eastern seaboard of England lying between East Yorkshire and the Pevensey Levels in Kent constitutes an English Lowlands, a distinctive region characterized by large areas of marsh and fen, and a subculture borne out of the vicissitudes a... Read More about Malaria, water management, and identity in the English lowlands.

Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK (2017)
Book Chapter
Halkon, P. (2017). Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK. In I. Montero Ruiz, & A. Perea (Eds.), Archaeometallurgy in Europe IV (205-214). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

2015 marks the bi-centenary of the beginning of the excavations on the Iron Age cemetery at Arras near Market Weighton, East Yorkshire, which gave its name to the Arras Culture. Here the first chariot burials in the UK were discovered, containing iro... Read More about Putting some iron back in the Iron Age: a case study from the UK.

Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation (2017)
Book Chapter
Wall, R., & Hallett, C. E. (2017). Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation. In T. Schlich (Ed.), The Palgrave handbook of the history of surgery (153-174). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95260-1_8

Nurses played an essential role in the major developments in surgery between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. This chapter focuses on the Anglo-American world, weaving in original research with a historiographical review. Three str... Read More about Nursing and surgery: Professionalisation, education and innovation.

Von Friedrich I. zu Aman Ullah: Zeremonielle Bewegungen im urbanen Raum Berlins, 1701­-1928 (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Biskup, T. (2017). Von Friedrich I. zu Aman Ullah: Zeremonielle Bewegungen im urbanen Raum Berlins, 1701­-1928. In J. Luh (Ed.), Ein öffentlicher Ort: Berliner Schloss – Palast der Republik – Humboldt Forum. Beiträge des fünften Colloquiums in der Reihe „Kulturgeschichte Preußens – Colloquien“ vom 3. und 4. November 2016

Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Revolution von 1918 war das Berliner Schloss der zeremonielle Mittelpunkt des brandenburgisch­preußischen Staates bzw. nach 1871 des Deutschen Reichs. Der Raum zwischen den Paradekammern und der Berliner Stadtgrenze war ni... Read More about Von Friedrich I. zu Aman Ullah: Zeremonielle Bewegungen im urbanen Raum Berlins, 1701­-1928.

Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe (2017)
Book Chapter
Capern, A. (2017). Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe. In G. L. Walker (Ed.), The Invention of Female Biography (174-198). Abingdon: Routledge

This research essay is appears in a collection of essays written by the subject-expert sub-editors who worked on a three year research project with a team in New York under PI Gina Luria Walker to produce a modern multi-volume edition of Mary Hay, Fe... Read More about Mary Hays and the Imagined Female Communities of Early Modern Europe.

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39 (2017)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War : Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5_11

The First World War set in train the development of ideas and traditions that had profound implications for nations and for national identity. Whilst the British Empire grew in size at war’s end, revolution and war beset the United Kingdom, the very... Read More about Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916-39.

Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39 (2017)
Book Chapter
Macleod, J. (2017). Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39. In K. Ariotti, & J. E. Bennett (Eds.), Australians and the First World War: Local-Global Connections and Contexts (185-201). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51520-5

The First World War set in train the development of ideas and traditions that had profound implications for nations and for national identity. Whilst the British Empire grew in size at war’s end, revolution and war beset the United Kingdom, the very... Read More about Decentering Anzac: Gallipoli and Britishness, 1916–39.

Early Stuart Controversy (2017)
Book Chapter
Prior, C. W. A. (2017). Early Stuart Controversy. In A. Hiscock, & H. Wilcox (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Religion (69-83). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.6

The literature of religious controversy that appeared between 1603 and 1642 was concerned with much more than debates on predestinarian theology. Instead, it should be seen as a vital conduit for the discussion of one of the most powerful legacies of... Read More about Early Stuart Controversy.

“The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19 (2017)
Journal Article
Reeve, M. (2017). “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19. International Journal of Regional and Local History, 12(1), 42-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/20514530.2017.1353770

This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues... Read More about “The darkest town in England”: Patriotism and anti-German sentiment in Hull, 1914–19.

The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress (2017)
Journal Article
Craig, G. (2017). The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress. Social Inclusion, 5(2), 16-27. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i2.833

In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary asse... Read More about The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress.