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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.

Document Number Five: Elections and Tutelary Politics in Uganda, 1967–1971 (2023)
Journal Article
Willis, J. (2023). Document Number Five: Elections and Tutelary Politics in Uganda, 1967–1971. The English Historical Review, 138(590-591), 281-306. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead080

In July 1970, Uganda’s President Milton Obote published – under his own name – a plan for a new system of single-party elections. Obote presented ‘Document Number Five’, as it was called, as a radical solution to a profound problem. Africa’s national... Read More about Document Number Five: Elections and Tutelary Politics in Uganda, 1967–1971.

Women and the Rwandan gacaca courts: gender, genocide and justice (2023)
Journal Article
Brewer, B. (online). 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.

The birth of cool: Heat and air-conditioning in the history of Wuhan, 1950–2020 (2023)
Journal Article
Courtney, C. (2023). The birth of cool: Heat and air-conditioning in the history of Wuhan, 1950–2020. Urban Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231153512

This article examines the impact of air-conditioning on the history of Wuhan, a Chinese city famed for the oppressive heat of its summers. It draws upon oral history testimony, ethnographic research, and written sources, to argue that air-conditionin... Read More about The birth of cool: Heat and air-conditioning in the history of Wuhan, 1950–2020.