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Urban Revolt, Citizenship and Town Politics (2023)
Book Chapter
Liddy, C. D. (in press). Urban Revolt, Citizenship and Town Politics. In P. Lantschner, & M. Prak (Eds.), Cambridge Urban History of Europe, Volume II: Medieval and Early Modern. Cambridge University Press

How should we understand the politics of the pre-modern European town? One way in which we might try to answer this open-ended question is to narrow its terms: did urban politics have its own dynamics, or did it embody wider historical forces? Some s... Read More about Urban Revolt, Citizenship and Town Politics.

The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters (2023)
Journal Article
Woodhead, C. (2023). The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters. The Seventeenth Century, https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2023.2223569

Among highly-educated Ottomans letter-writing was not simply a means of practical communication but an art in itself and a significant aspect of Ottoman literary culture. Collections of exemplary letters from the seventeenth century survive in consid... Read More about The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters.

The household accounts of Marie, duchess of Anjou. A criticial edition of Archives Nationales KK 241 Les comptes de l’hôtel de Marie, duchesse d’Anjou (1365-1366): Édition critique du ms. Archives nationales, KK 241 (2023)
Journal Article
Graham-Goering, E. (2023). The household accounts of Marie, duchess of Anjou. A criticial edition of Archives Nationales KK 241 Les comptes de l’hôtel de Marie, duchesse d’Anjou (1365-1366): Édition critique du ms. Archives nationales, KK 241. Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l’Ouest, 130(2), 307-343. https://doi.org/10.4000/abpo.8485

This critical edition of Marie de Bretagne's Hotel Account (National Archives, KK 241) pays tribute not only to the expertise of Michael Jones as a prolific editor of archival material relating to the Breton ducal family, but also to his fundamental... Read More about The household accounts of Marie, duchess of Anjou. A criticial edition of Archives Nationales KK 241 Les comptes de l’hôtel de Marie, duchesse d’Anjou (1365-1366): Édition critique du ms. Archives nationales, KK 241.

Public Meetings, Respectable Requisitions, and Popular Politics in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1769–1850 (2023)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R. (2023). Public Meetings, Respectable Requisitions, and Popular Politics in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1769–1850. The English Historical Review, 138(590-591), 185-221. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead006

This article examines the practice of ‘requisitioning’ public meetings in Great Britain and Ireland. These written requests to office-holders emerged in Ireland and then Great Britain, following bitter contests over the authenticity and authority of... Read More about Public Meetings, Respectable Requisitions, and Popular Politics in Great Britain and Ireland, c.1769–1850.

Opposing Memories: Contest and Conspiracy over 1970s Romania (2023)
Journal Article
Koranyi, J. (2023). Opposing Memories: Contest and Conspiracy over 1970s Romania. East Central Europe, 50(1), 37-59. https://doi.org/10.30965/18763308-50010003

The history of Romanian dissidence during the Cold War often seems rather barren. Yet, as this article demonstrates, the legacy of Romanian opposition to Cold War communism is vexed with conflicts over ownership in a fragmented circle of late Cold Wa... Read More about Opposing Memories: Contest and Conspiracy over 1970s Romania.

Tomb Sweeping Festival Activity: Memorial to the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle (清明节纽卡斯尔拜祭北洋水师水兵墓) (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine
Yu, J. (2023). Tomb Sweeping Festival Activity: Memorial to the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle (清明节纽卡斯尔拜祭北洋水师水兵墓). [Chinese Headline New Media-UK（华人头条-英国）]

This article presents the practice of holding a memorial ceremony for the five Beiyang Fleet sailors who unfortunately died in Newcastle Elswick (in 1881 and 1887) when collecting cruisers ordered by the Qing government at Armstrong Factory. This art... Read More about Tomb Sweeping Festival Activity: Memorial to the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery in Newcastle (清明节纽卡斯尔拜祭北洋水师水兵墓).

The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History (2023)
Journal Article
Liburd, L. (2023). The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History. The Political Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923x.13259

This article addresses the field of British political history's blind spot when it comes to race. Where modern British political historians are comfortable approaching politics in ‘high’ and ‘popular’ forms as well as in terms of ideas, institutions... Read More about The Politics of Race and the Future of British Political History.

Testimonies in Historiography and Oral History (2023)
Book Chapter
Saupe, A., & Roche, H. (2023). Testimonies in Historiography and Oral History. In S. Jones, & R. Woods (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture (65-90). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13794-5_4

This chapter gives an overview of the ways in which testimony has been used by historians, and the ways in which it has influenced the development of new historiographical methods. Above all, the authors explore the different contextual frameworks wi... Read More about Testimonies in Historiography and Oral History.

Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy (2023)
Book Chapter
Bronson, A. (2023). Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy. In S. Avenell (Ed.), Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History: A Handbook (47-64). Japan Documents / Amsterdam University Press

How did the public opinion poll become a symbol of democracy and shape postwar political culture? This chapter addresses this question through the dynamic relationship among the Allied Occupation, the Japanese government and polling experts during th... Read More about Arguing with Public Opinion: Polls and Postwar Democracy.

Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice (2023)
Journal Article
Brewer, B. (2023). Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice. Journal of Modern African Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x22000404

This article examines the gacaca trials of women accused of perpetrating the Rwandan genocide, asking whether and how ideas about their gender impacted their defences, testimonies and experiences as defendants. It uses court reports of the trials of... Read More about Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice.