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Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories (2022)
Journal Article
Jordanova, L. (2022). Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 32, 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/s008044012200007x

Portraits and biographies play a central role in engaging non-specialists with the past, and hence invite careful scrutiny. Major enterprises, such as the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Dictionary of National Biography, in both its origi... Read More about Portraiture, Biography and Public Histories.

The Picture of (Mental) Health: Images of Jewish ‘Unaccompanied Children’ in the Aftermath of the Second World War (2022)
Journal Article
Clifford, R. (2022). The Picture of (Mental) Health: Images of Jewish ‘Unaccompanied Children’ in the Aftermath of the Second World War. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15(2), 133 - 156. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2065123

This article uses photographs of a group of child Holocaust survivors – the so-called ‘Lingfield children’ from the Weir Courtney care home in Lingfield, Surrey – to explore how images of survivor children were deployed in the early postwar period. I... Read More about The Picture of (Mental) Health: Images of Jewish ‘Unaccompanied Children’ in the Aftermath of the Second World War.

Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918 (2022)
Journal Article
Huzzey, R., & Miller, H. (2022). Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918. Journal of British Studies, 61(2), 261-289. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2021.185

Petitioning was a common form of protest, request, or expression across the British Empire, and historians of colonial rule and resistance have often drawn on petitions as sources to investigate particular controversies. This paper assesses the signi... Read More about Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, c. 1780-1918.

From theory to praxis in genocide education: to what extent are IHRA guidelines reflected in the opinions and classroom experiences of independent-school educators? (2022)
Journal Article
Adamson, D. (2023). From theory to praxis in genocide education: to what extent are IHRA guidelines reflected in the opinions and classroom experiences of independent-school educators?. Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History', 29(2), 197-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2022.2058726

This research project explores the extent to which historic guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust (provided by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)) align with the experiences of practising independent-school teachers in the... Read More about From theory to praxis in genocide education: to what extent are IHRA guidelines reflected in the opinions and classroom experiences of independent-school educators?.

Islam in Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy (2022)
Book Chapter
Jäckh, T., & Engl, R. (2022). Islam in Medieval Sicily and Southern Italy. In R. Tottoli (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, 2nd. edition (36-54). Routledge

Multiculturalism and Power Relations: Reframing Norman Sicily (2022)
Book Chapter
John, A., & Jäckh, T. (2022). Multiculturalism and Power Relations: Reframing Norman Sicily. In V. Skiba, N. Jaspert, & B. Schneidmüller (Eds.), Norman Connections. Normannische Verflechtungen zwischen Skandinavien und dem Mittelmeer

Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism (2022)
Journal Article
Saha, J. (2022). Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 32, 177-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080440122000044

What effect did British imperialism in Myanmar have on frogs? And, given that the lives of these small amphibian creatures were rarely ever recorded or preserved in archival collections, how might we find out? Sceptical readers may also wish to take... Read More about Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism.

On Accumulation and Empire (2022)
Journal Article
Saha, J. (2022). On Accumulation and Empire. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 50(3), 417-442. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2022.2057745

In recent decades, accumulation has become a curiously neglected concept in imperial history. Despite this, it remains a powerful heuristic for understanding the drives, dynamics, and effects of modern imperialism. Juxtaposing early Marxist conceptua... Read More about On Accumulation and Empire.

Ever closer union? Unification, difference, and the 'Making of Europe', c.950-c.1350 (2022)
Journal Article
Scales, L. (2022). Ever closer union? Unification, difference, and the 'Making of Europe', c.950-c.1350. The English Historical Review, 137(585), 321-361. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceac061

The article explores the relationships between the universal and the particular in high medieval Europe. It notes the enduring appeal of views of the period as being marked by an increasingly unified ‘European’ culture and explains their modern salie... Read More about Ever closer union? Unification, difference, and the 'Making of Europe', c.950-c.1350.

Jewishness, antiquity and civilization (2022)
Journal Article
Stammers, T. (2022). Jewishness, antiquity and civilization. Journal of the History of Collections, 34(3), 427-440. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhac006

Alfred Mond (1868–1930), 1st Baron Melchett, was a towering figure in early twentieth-century politics and economics, but his significance as an art collector has never been acknowledged. Like his brother, Robert, he has been overshadowed by the stat... Read More about Jewishness, antiquity and civilization.

The Transnational Life and Death of Peter Kropotkin, 1881-1921: Terrorism, the Anarchist Body, and the Russian Revolution (2022)
Journal Article
Green, L. (2022). The Transnational Life and Death of Peter Kropotkin, 1881-1921: Terrorism, the Anarchist Body, and the Russian Revolution. Anarchist Studies, 30(1), 83-119. https://doi.org/10.3898/as.30.1.04

Peter Kropotkin’s life was not only transnational because of his movements. Kropotkin existed as an imagined figure in the sphere of transatlantic anglophone print culture. This imagined Kropotkin was both representative of and contributed to British... Read More about The Transnational Life and Death of Peter Kropotkin, 1881-1921: Terrorism, the Anarchist Body, and the Russian Revolution.

‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus (2022)
Journal Article
Bellis, R. T. (2022). ‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus. British Journal for the History of Science, 55(2), 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087422000024

William Hunter's anatomical inquiry employed all of his senses, but how did his personal experiences with the cadaver become generalized scientific knowledge teachable to students and understandable by fellow practitioners? Moving beyond a historiogr... Read More about ‘The object of sense and experiment’: the ontology of sensation in William Hunter's investigation of the human gravid uterus.

Continuities in State-Society Interactions across Broad Spatio-temporal Realms: Gong Tingxian as Both an Author of Popular Medical Texts and an Imperial Medical Secretary in Early Modern China (2022)
Journal Article
Aricanli, S. (2022). Continuities in State-Society Interactions across Broad Spatio-temporal Realms: Gong Tingxian as Both an Author of Popular Medical Texts and an Imperial Medical Secretary in Early Modern China. Social History of Medicine, 35(1), 302-322. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab036

Medical popularisation in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century China has been understood within the context of the state’s retreat from medicine. This article points to ongoing state-societal continuities and thus suggests that the process wa... Read More about Continuities in State-Society Interactions across Broad Spatio-temporal Realms: Gong Tingxian as Both an Author of Popular Medical Texts and an Imperial Medical Secretary in Early Modern China.

Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–90 (2022)
Journal Article
Graham-Goering, E. (2022). Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–90. Historical Research, 95(268), 172-195. https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htab041

While ceremonial progresses and civic entries have been understood primarily through the lens of urban–royal relationships, they were also occasions for the political engagement of the rural elite. A case study of the homages performed by southern Fr... Read More about Aristocratic involvement in Charles VI’s royal progress in Languedoc, 1389–90.

A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning (2022)
Journal Article
Gasper, G. E., & Tanner, B. K. (2022). A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning. Weather, 77(7), 232-234. https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4144

We describe an entry in a twelfth century monastic chronicle, compiled and composed by Gervase of Canterbury (c. 1145–c. 1210), which gives a credible description of ball lightning. It predates the earliest known report of the phenomenon from England... Read More about A Marvellous Sign and A Fiery Globe: A Medieval English Report of Ball Lightning.