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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.

A cooking pot lit by fire (2023)
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Gasper, G. E. M., & Tanner, B. K. (2023). A cooking pot lit by fire. Astronomy and Geophysics, 64(1), 1.36-1.37. https://doi.org/10.1093/astrogeo/atac091

Recent research into the records of eclipses in the Chronicle of the English monk, Gervase of Canterbury, has indicated that an entry for the year 1187 C.E. may contain a description of solar prominences being visible during the total eclipse of that... Read More about A cooking pot lit by fire.

The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - c. 1550): Text and Paratext, Codex and Context (2023)
Book
Small, G., Gameson, R., Wijsman, H., Beth Winn, M., Perez-Simon, M., Velissariou, A., …de Blieck, E. (2023). The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - c. 1550): Text and Paratext, Codex and Context. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.tcc-eb.5.118224

A collaborative investigation of one of the best-known works of late medieval European literature, the Franco-Burgundian collection of short stories known as the Cent Nouvelles nouvelles. Modelled loosely on Boccaccio’s Decameron and incorporating el... Read More about The Cent Nouvelles nouvelles (Burgundy-Luxembourg-France, 1458 - c. 1550): Text and Paratext, Codex and Context.

We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities (2023)
Journal Article
Yeo, E., Pilson, A., Rutter, N., & Hasan, E. (2023). We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231180166

"Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics (2023)
Journal Article
Johnson, M. (2023). "Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics. Journal of British Studies, 62(3), 739 - 766. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.233

The spectacular collapse of the Liberal Party in Britain has often been regarded as the result of a crisis in Liberal values, supposedly provoked by the unprecedented militarization of British society during the Great War. However, this interpretatio... Read More about "Send a Soldier to Parliament": Ex-servicemen, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Great War in Liberal Electoral and Parliamentary Politics.

Un 'cas exécrable' devant le Parlement de Paris à la fin des guerres de Religion (1599-1600) (2023)
Journal Article
Hamilton, T. (online). Un 'cas exécrable' devant le Parlement de Paris à la fin des guerres de Religion (1599-1600). Criminocorpus (Revue), https://doi.org/10.4000/criminocorpus.12196

[French] Jugé par les magistrats du Parlement de Paris entre 1599 et 1600, cet exceptionnel procès révèle les dynamiques locales des violences à la fin des guerres de Religion ainsi que les réponses judiciaires faites aux victimes. L’initiative de l’... Read More about Un 'cas exécrable' devant le Parlement de Paris à la fin des guerres de Religion (1599-1600).

Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond (2023)
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Williamson, P. (2023). Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 74(2), 325-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046922002032

The nomination of Hensley Henson as bishop of Hereford in 1917 provoked a famous ecclesiastical controversy, the ‘Hereford scandal’, which threatened a split within the Church of England and a crisis between the Church and the State. The point of con... Read More about Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond.

The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928 (2023)
Journal Article
Williamson, P. (2023). The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928. Journal of British Studies, 62(2), 445-475. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.174

In 1919, a parliamentary act reconstructed the relations between the British state and the Church of England. The passage of this act had considerable constitutional, political, ecclesiastical, and religious significance, and it is best understood by... Read More about The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928.

Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises. Edited by DavidThackeray and RichardToye. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xiii, 327 pp. £99.99. ISBN 97830304666633. (2022)
Journal Article
Lloyd‐Jones, N. (2022). Electoral Pledges in Britain since 1918: The Politics of Promises. Edited by DavidThackeray and RichardToye. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. xiii, 327 pp. £99.99. ISBN 97830304666633. Parliamentary History, 41(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-0206.12626

Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001) (2022)
Book Chapter
Gasper, G. E. (2022). Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001). In S. Niskanen, & J. Willoughby (Eds.), Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online. Routledge

Sir Richard Southern is famous for his biographies of St Anselm of Canterbury and Robert Grosseteste, for his long meditation on medieval universities, humanism, and scholasticism, his early and still influential The Making of the Middle Ages, a surv... Read More about Professor Sir Richard W. Southern (1912-2001).

Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History (2022)
Journal Article
Craig, D. (2022). Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History. Intellectual History Review, 33(1), 101-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2022.2148324

This essay argues that the “republicanism versus liberalism” debate that came to prominence in the 1980s – especially in the historiography of the birth of the United States – was largely an artificial construction made possible by the recent genealo... Read More about Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History.