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The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte (2020)
Journal Article
Robb, J., Chesson, M. S., Forbes, H., Foxhall, L., Foxhall-Forbes, H., Lazrus, P. K., …Yoon, D. (2021). The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25(1), 14-44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-020-00543-x

The high mountains of the Mediterranean are often considered as refuges of ancient traditions, particularly of pastoralism and brigandage. Is this image true? This paper reports the first systematic archaeological research on Aspromonte, Southern Cal... Read More about The Twentieth Century Invention of Ancient Mountains: The Archaeology of Highland Aspromonte.

"The End of the Vietnam War and the Rise of Human Rights" (2020)
Book Chapter
Keys, B. (2020). "The End of the Vietnam War and the Rise of Human Rights". In A. D. Moses, M. Duranti, & R. Burke (Eds.), Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Birth of Global Human Rights Politics (360-374). Cambridge University Press

Arabic Philology at the Seventeenth-Century Mughal Court. Saʿd Allāh Khān’s and Shāh Jahān’s Enactments of the Sharḥ al-Radī (2020)
Journal Article
Bahl, C. D. (2020). Arabic Philology at the Seventeenth-Century Mughal Court. Saʿd Allāh Khān’s and Shāh Jahān’s Enactments of the Sharḥ al-Radī. Philological Encounters, 5(2), 190-222. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10004

Persian narrative sources provide a colorful picture of Mughal courtly life, but in order to zoom in on cultural practices one has to turn to the artefacts of cultural pursuits. This article studies one specimen of the empirical treasure trove of Ara... Read More about Arabic Philology at the Seventeenth-Century Mughal Court. Saʿd Allāh Khān’s and Shāh Jahān’s Enactments of the Sharḥ al-Radī.

Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship (2020)
Journal Article
Roche, H. (2020). Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship. History of Humanities, 5(1), 165-177. https://doi.org/10.1086/707697

This case study will take Volker Losemann’s recently published collection of essays titled Clio und die Nationalsozialisten and the (often far from complimentary) reception of his groundbreaking work on classics in the Third Reich since the 1970s as... Read More about Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly Habitus-Forming, Professional Amnesia, and Postwar Engagement with Nazi Classical Scholarship.

One British Thing: A Manuscript Recipe Book, ca. 1690–1730 (2020)
Journal Article
Bouchard, J. B., & Herbert, A. E. (2020). One British Thing: A Manuscript Recipe Book, ca. 1690–1730. Journal of British Studies, 59(2), 396-399. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.283

A single eighteenth-century British manuscript recipe book, bound in parchment decorated with gold tooling, can tell us an enormous amount about Britain's gastronomic and imperial ambitions. That is because this book, now known by its call number, V.... Read More about One British Thing: A Manuscript Recipe Book, ca. 1690–1730.

Collective Security or Colonial Revolution? The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire, Anticolonialism, and the Popular Front (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, T. (2021). Collective Security or Colonial Revolution? The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire, Anticolonialism, and the Popular Front. Twentieth Century British History, 32(3), 325-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaa008

The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire was emblematic of the deep divisions within the British socialist movement over the inseparable issues of fascism, war, capitalism, and colonialism. One grouping, around the Communist Party, the Labour Left, an... Read More about Collective Security or Colonial Revolution? The 1938 Conference on Peace and Empire, Anticolonialism, and the Popular Front.

The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914 (2020)
Journal Article
Miller, H. (2021). The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914. Historical Journal, 64(2), 332-356. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x20000035

Through an examination of the women's suffrage movement, this article reassesses the place of petitioning within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British political culture. While critical of their Victorian predecessors’ reliance on petit... Read More about The British Women's Suffrage Movement and the Practice of Petitioning, 1890-1914.

‘American Art in Moscow 1959 and the Cold War Politics of the Public.’ (2020)
Book Chapter
Reid, S. E. (2020). ‘American Art in Moscow 1959 and the Cold War Politics of the Public.’. In B. Dodenhoff, B. Franzen, P. Ludwig Stiftung, & I. Ludwig Stiftung (Eds.), The cool and the cold : painting from the USA and USSR 1960–1990 : The Cool and the Cold. Painting from the USA and USSR 1960–1990. The Ludwig Collection (80-99). Walther König

The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I (2020)
Journal Article
Mears, N., & Williamson, P. (2020). The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I. History, 105(365), 201-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12971

The annual celebrations of the accession day and birthday of Queen Elizabeth I are a familiar subject in studies of her reign, yet their beginnings, status and purpose have remained uncertain. By examining revisions of the calendar of the Church of E... Read More about The ‘holy days’ of Queen Elizabeth I.

Hispania at Home and Abroad (2020)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2020). Hispania at Home and Abroad. In S. Barton, & R. Portass (Eds.), Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085). In Honour of Simon Barton (52-119). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423879_004

How do I get to early medieval Hispania, and can you meet me there? If we go looking, we can find it, but not where we might expect. More than a few contemporaries gave this some thought, and all who did so pointed to the same spot – at least at firs... Read More about Hispania at Home and Abroad.

Russian revolutionary terrorism, British liberals, and the problem of empire (1884–1914) (2020)
Journal Article
Green, L. (2020). Russian revolutionary terrorism, British liberals, and the problem of empire (1884–1914). History of European Ideas, 46(5), 633 -648. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2020.1746083

Britain in the fin de siècle was home to many significant communities of political émigrés. Among Russian revolutionaries who made London their home were Sergei Stepniak and Feliks Volkhovskii, forced to flee Russia as a result of their revolutionary... Read More about Russian revolutionary terrorism, British liberals, and the problem of empire (1884–1914).

‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Chome, N., Gonçalves, E., Scoones, I., & Sulle, E. (2020). ‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14(2), 309-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1743067

In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewed interest in spatial development plans that link mineral exploitation, transport infrastructure and agricultural commercialisation. While these development corridors have yielded complex re... Read More about ‘Demonstration fields’, anticipation, and contestation: agrarian change and the political economy of development corridors in Eastern Africa.