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Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland (2021)
Journal Article
Leonardi, C., Storer, E., & Fisher, J. (2021). Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland. Political Geography, 90, Article 102442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102442

African borderlands – such as those between South Sudan, Uganda and Congo – are often presented by analysts as places of agency and economic opportunity, in contrast to hardened, securitized borders elsewhere. We emphasize, however, that even such re... Read More about Geographies of unease: Witchcraft and boundary construction in an African borderland.

“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises (2021)
Journal Article
Rutter, N., Hasan, E., Pilson, A., & Yeo, E. (2023). “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069211019595

Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood thr... Read More about “It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises.

Paperwork as Commodity, Corruption as Accumulation: Land Records and Licences in Colonial Myanmar, c.1900 (2021)
Book Chapter
Saha, J. (2021). Paperwork as Commodity, Corruption as Accumulation: Land Records and Licences in Colonial Myanmar, c.1900. In R. Kroeze, P. Dalmau, & F. Monier (Eds.), Corruption, Empire and Colonialism in the Modern Era (293-315). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0255-9_11

In conceptualising the role played by paperwork in the history of corruption, historians of empire have uncovered the social lives of written documents. Studies have revealed an intrinsic duality to their use. They were the basis of colonial surveill... Read More about Paperwork as Commodity, Corruption as Accumulation: Land Records and Licences in Colonial Myanmar, c.1900.

The Evidence of Hearsay in Criminal Proceedings from Late Renaissance France (2021)
Journal Article
Hamilton, T. (2022). The Evidence of Hearsay in Criminal Proceedings from Late Renaissance France. Renaissance Studies, 36(3), 377-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12761

This article argues that Renaissance legal culture provided a robust means of evaluating the epistemological status of rumour, informed by the Roman law of proof. In order to do so, the article explores the meaning of hearsay evidence in criminal pro... Read More about The Evidence of Hearsay in Criminal Proceedings from Late Renaissance France.

State trials and the rule of law under the later Stuarts (2021)
Book Chapter
Taylor, S., & Harris, T. (in press). State trials and the rule of law under the later Stuarts. In B. Cowan, & S. Sowerby (Eds.), The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart and Early Hanoverian England (24-49). Boydell Press

Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow (2021)
Book Chapter
Gameson, R. (2021). Writing at Wearmouth-Jarrow. In C. Breay, & J. Story (Eds.), Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and connections. Four Courts Press

When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain (2021)
Journal Article
Strange, J. (2021). When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The History of the Family, 26(2), 214-235. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602x.2021.1897028

Histories of human-animal companionship have expanded in recent years but studies of British pet keeping prior to the twentieth century have been skewed towards the middle and upper classes. Such models risk establishing middle-class values and pract... Read More about When John met Benny: class, pets and family life in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Bara and Viala, or Virtue Rewarded: The Memorialization of Two Child Martyrs of the French Revolution (2021)
Journal Article
Perna, A. (2021). Bara and Viala, or Virtue Rewarded: The Memorialization of Two Child Martyrs of the French Revolution. French History, 35(2), 192-218. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/craa071

This article explores the commemoration of republican child martyrs Joseph Bara and Joseph-Agricol Viala, in Year II (1793–4), during the French Revolution. It compares the official interpretation of their deaths with the subsequent appropriation of... Read More about Bara and Viala, or Virtue Rewarded: The Memorialization of Two Child Martyrs of the French Revolution.

Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser. Die oströmische Monarchie in der ausgehenden Spätantike (2021)
Book
Viermann, N. (2021). Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser. Die oströmische Monarchie in der ausgehenden Spätantike. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110711356

Focusing on the rule of Heraclius (610–643), this study examines the development of the Byzantine monarchy at the threshold between antiquity and the Middle Ages. It shows how the reigning Emperor responded to the domestic and external political chal... Read More about Herakleios, der schwitzende Kaiser. Die oströmische Monarchie in der ausgehenden Spätantike.

Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D., Mateos, G., Munns, D. P., & Suárez-Díaz, E. (2021). Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 51(2), 169-178. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.169

This special issue, “Revealing the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project,” highlights the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project at the University of Michigan, a program of civilian nuclear research established after World War II that also memorialized Michig... Read More about Special Issue Introduction: Historical Peculiarity and the Order of the Phoenix.

Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project (2021)
Journal Article
Martin, J. D. (2021). Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 51(2), 179-208. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2021.51.2.179

The Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project at the University of Michigan was an unusual specimen of the post–World War II nuclear research initiative. Its origins were modest; it sprang from a student-led effort to construct a living war memorial—a missio... Read More about Science in the Age of Invincible Surmise: Nuclear Optimism and the Michigan Memorial–Phoenix Project.