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.

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). Abingdon: 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.

Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children (2019)
Journal Article
Worthen, H., McDonagh, B., & Capern, A. (2019). Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children. Women's History Review, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2019.1696414

This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It examines the family arrangements of Lord Emmanuel Scroop whose marriage to Elizabeth Manners was childless. The research sets out to uncover Lord Scro... Read More about Gender, property and succession in the early modern English aristocracy: the case of Martha Janes and her illegitimate children.

A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War (2019)
Journal Article
Macleod, J., & Inall, Y. (2020). A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War. Mortality, 25(1), 48-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2019.1611752

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In the wake of the First World War a set of commemorative traditions were invented that were met with a huge public response and were repeated in every subsequent November. These... Read More about A century of Armistice Day: memorialisation in the wake of the First World War.

More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England (2019)
Journal Article
Aston, J., Capern, A., & McDonagh, B. (2019). More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England. Urban history, 46(4), 695-721. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000142

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2019Â. This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-ut... Read More about More than bricks and mortar: Female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England.