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Student funding and university access after the Great War : the scheme for the higher education of ex-servicemen at Aberystwyth, Liverpool, and Oxford (2020)
Journal Article
Green, L., Laqua, D., & Georgina, B. (2020). Student funding and university access after the Great War : the scheme for the higher education of ex-servicemen at Aberystwyth, Liverpool, and Oxford. British Journal of Educational Studies, 68(5), 589-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1804527

This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature on student funding and its history by drawing attention to a pioneering government initiative, launched in the aftermath of the Great War. From the winter of 1918–1919 until 1923, the Scheme f... Read More about Student funding and university access after the Great War : the scheme for the higher education of ex-servicemen at Aberystwyth, Liverpool, and Oxford.

Omission of Data in Wrigley’s “Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution” (2020)
Journal Article
Kumar, M. (2020). Omission of Data in Wrigley’s “Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution”. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 51(2), 297-299. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_c_01558

In “Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution: England and Wales,” Wrigley omits vital information from the section “Urban Growth and Agricultural Change.” Arguing that by 1800, English agriculture was able to provide not only food for the rising popul... Read More about Omission of Data in Wrigley’s “Reconsidering the Industrial Revolution”.

War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960 (2020)
Journal Article
Bronson, A. (2022). War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960. Global Intellectual History, 7(1), 65-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2020.1816840

This article explores the relationship between rumour and public opinion in Japan across the middle decades of the twentieth century. By situating Shimizu Ikutaro’s 1937 theory of rumour as ‘latent public opinion’ in comparative perspective, I show h... Read More about War and the latent public: Shimizu Ikutaro on rumours and public opinion in transwar Japan, 1937-1960.

The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082) (2020)
Journal Article
Gameson, R., Nicholson, C., & Beeby, A. (2020). The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082). Gesta, 59(2), 203-231. https://doi.org/10.1086/710024

This article examines the nature and implications of the extensive Marian texts and imagery in the mid-fifteenth-century Parisian Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082), and reports the findings from scientific investigation of the i... Read More about The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, W082).

Adjudicating the Troubles: Violence, Memory, and Criminal Justice at the End of the Wars of Religion (2020)
Journal Article
Hamilton, T. (2020). Adjudicating the Troubles: Violence, Memory, and Criminal Justice at the End of the Wars of Religion. French History, 34(4), 417-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/craa044

This article gives a new perspective on the themes of violence, memory, and criminal justice at the end of the Wars of Religion by focusing on a particularly well-documented criminal case tried by the Parlement of Paris. Previous studies of the end o... Read More about Adjudicating the Troubles: Violence, Memory, and Criminal Justice at the End of the Wars of Religion.

Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period (2020)
Book
McGuire, C. (2020). Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526143167

Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to create numerical proxies for invisible and inarticulable experiences. Measure... Read More about Measuring difference, numbering normal: Setting the standards for disability in the interwar period.

‘Becket in Horae: the commemoration of the saint in private prayer books of the later middle ages’ (2020)
Journal Article
Gameson, R. (2020). ‘Becket in Horae: the commemoration of the saint in private prayer books of the later middle ages’. Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 173(1), 143-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/00681288.2020.1778960

This article examines the ways in which Thomas Becket was commemorated in books of hours (horae) of different Uses, and explores the nature and implications of the texts and images associated with such commemorations.

Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research (2020)
Book
Martin, J. D., & Mody, C. C. (Eds.). (2020). Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research. World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/11482

This book offers a comprehensive sketch of the tools used in material research and the rich and diverse stories of how those tools came to be. We aim to give readers a sense of what tools materials researchers required in the late 20th century, and h... Read More about Between Making and Knowing: Tools in the History of Materials Research.

Scales and Balances (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (2020). Scales and Balances. In J. D. Martin, & C. C. Mody (Eds.), Between making and knowing : tools in the history of materials research (53-61). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811207631_0006

In Ancient Egyptian mythology, entry into the afterlife was secure only after the weighing of the heart (Figure 1.4.1). The gods would place the deceased’s heart on a scale opposite the feather of Maat, symbolizing the seven cardinal virtues of truth... Read More about Scales and Balances.

Tools for Characterizing Materials (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (in press). Tools for Characterizing Materials. In J. D. Martin, & C. C. Mody (Eds.), Between making and knowing : tools in the history of materials research (403-424). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811207631_0036

“If you can spray them then they are real” is the philosopher of science Ian Hacking’s pithy answer to the question of when we should believe in the existence of those microscopic entities we cannot see. Much history and philosophy of science has con... Read More about Tools for Characterizing Materials.

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D. (in press). Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. In J. D. Martin, & C. C. Mody (Eds.), Between making and knowing : tools in the history of materials research (561-569). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811207631_0049

The introduction to this section discusses how spraying things at materials can be a method for learning about their properties. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy works in a similar, but subtly different way — it induces the materials the... Read More about Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.

Introduction: Tools in Materials Research (2020)
Book Chapter
Martin, J. D., & Mody, C. C. (2020). Introduction: Tools in Materials Research. In J. D. Martin, & C. C. Mody (Eds.), Between making and knowing : tools in the history of materials research (1-12). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811207631_0001

The science of materials has contributed to changes in our civilization as pervasive as they are profound. The ways we travel, communicate, wage war, build buildings, dress, heal, play sports, read, listen to music, use energy, and care for the young... Read More about Introduction: Tools in Materials Research.