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Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan (2024)
Journal Article
Abbashar, A. (2024). Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan. African Historical Review, 55(2), 105-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2024.2432176

This article interrogates the late colonial and postcolonial evolution of Sudan’s security sector, trade unions, and professional associations. Specifically, this article is concerned with how Sudan’s police and army responded to trade professional a... Read More about Decolonising Security, Epistemic Disobedience, and Revolutionary Change in Sudan.

‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship (2024)
Journal Article
Strahl, H. C. (2025). ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship. Journal of Medieval History, 51(1), 55-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2024.2436042

The eight complete contemporary accounts of the 1120 wreck of the White Ship offer a unique opportunity to study emotions, remembrance and the writing of recent history in twelfth-century Anglo-Norman society. This essay analyses and compares Orderic... Read More about ‘Compassion Alone Moved Me to Tell This Story’: Orderic Vitalis on the Wreck of the White Ship.

Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility (2024)
Book Chapter
Brown, A. T. (2024). Robin Hood: Social Hierarchy and Social Mobility. In S. H. Rigby (Ed.), Historians on Robin Hood: The Outlaw's Legend in the Later Middle Ages. Boydell & Brewer

The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England (2024)
Book Chapter
Crosbie, B. (2024). The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England. In M. Cannon, & L. Tisdall (Eds.), Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z. London University Press

Adulthood is surprisingly hard to locate in histories of eighteenth-century England. The historiography might be dominated by those between childhood and old age, but this reflects an unconscious bias in which the middle stage of life is an implicit... Read More about The Rising Generation and the Fogram: Locating Adulthood in Eighteenth-Century England.

“The Royal Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”: Human Difference and Biocultural Empire in the Nineteenth Century (2024)
Book Chapter
Saha, J. (2024). “The Royal Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”: Human Difference and Biocultural Empire in the Nineteenth Century. In A. Burton, R. Mawani, & S. Frost (Eds.), Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds (135-156). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350454231.ch-5

Imagine two men conversing on the deck of a steamer headed for England in the early summer of 1886. Perhaps the ship had just navigated the Suez Canal and their conversation takes place under the warm Mediterranean sun. One of the men is an engineer... Read More about “The Royal Sacred Hairy Family of Burmah”: Human Difference and Biocultural Empire in the Nineteenth Century.

Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2024). Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. British Journal for the History of Science, 57(4), 645-649. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087424001031

It has been thirty years since the end of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Those decades have been marked by single-party dominance under the African National Congress (ANC), and the expansion of democratic rights and public goods like ed... Read More about Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state..

Physics Envy (2024)
Journal Article
Martin, J. (in press). Physics Envy. Centaurus,

The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving (2024)
Journal Article
Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (2025). The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving. The English Historical Review, 140(602), 71-102. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae205

Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popul... Read More about The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving.