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Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries (2024)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2024). Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries. Archaeologia Aeliana, 6(3), 307-342

The Dunston Hill estate was created by the Carr (later Carr-Ellison) family, whose mercantile connections stretched from British America to the Baltic. Income from trade, agriculture, coal mining and banking
enabled the family to build and later ext... Read More about Dunston Hill, Whickham. The evolution of a country house and estate over three centuries.

Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection (2024)
Journal Article
Fraser, T. C., Sung, A. P. Y., & Chiesa, B. (online). Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection. Journal of the History of Collections, Article fhae025. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhae025

During a refurbishment project at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong in 2018, a large collection of uncatalogued artefacts was discovered. Between February and September 2021 an internal project team conducted a prel... Read More about Connected fragments: an early Hong Kong archaeological collection.

Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England (2022)
Journal Article
Pears, R. (2022). Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England. Northern History, 59(2), 194-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2022.2116743

Margaret Farrington was a single woman declared to be a lunatic in 1765 and moved with legal authority from a fashionable London residence to lodgings in her home town, Newcastle upon Tyne. Analysis of her possessions in an inventory and biographical... Read More about Margaret Farrington: Sociability and Sanity in Georgian England.

A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45 (2019)
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Pears, R. (2019). A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45. Northern History, 56(1-2), 117-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2019.1660065

This article will examine the responses to the dangers of the Second World War by a local authority in north-east England, Whickham Urban District Council. Councillors and officials received guidance from central Government, Durham County Council and... Read More about A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45.

Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs (2019)
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Casselden, B., & Pears, R. (2020). Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(2), 601-619. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000619841429

Ebooks have enthusiastically been adopted by academic libraries, viewed as a golden bullet by library professionals, resulting in efficient resource use, space saving, student satisfaction and accommodating millennial generation study habits. A small... Read More about Higher Education student pathways to ebook usage and engagement, and understanding: Highways and cul de sacs.

Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media (2019)
Journal Article
Gleghorn, M. (2019). Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media. Humanities, 8(1), Article 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/h8010050

“We’re all going to be starring in our own sit-coms, and they’ll be very strange sit-coms too, like the inside of our heads.”—J. G. Ballard, Extreme Metaphors. Ballard’s prediction about the possibility of projecting the inside of our own heads is hi... Read More about Very Strange Sit-Coms: J. G. Ballard, Psychopathology, and Online Participatory Media.

George Errington and Roman Catholic identity in nineteenth-century England. By Serenhedd James . (Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xiii + 265. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 876639 1 (2018)
Journal Article
Bush, J. (2018). George Errington and Roman Catholic identity in nineteenth-century England. By Serenhedd James . (Theology and Religion Monographs.) Pp. xiii + 265. Oxford–New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. £65. 978 0 19 876639 1. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 69(1), 204-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046917001233

Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942–1962 (2017)
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Bush, J. (2017). Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942–1962. The Downside review, 135(4), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/0012580617735778

This article examines the hitherto unexplored role of lay Catholics in the tertiary education of Polish exiles in Britain, from the early 1940s to the beginning of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. It will examine the work of the Newman Association... Read More about Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942–1962.

The priest and the parson of Hartlepool: Protestant-Catholic conflict in a nineteenth-century industrial town (2016)
Journal Article
Bush, J. (2016). The priest and the parson of Hartlepool: Protestant-Catholic conflict in a nineteenth-century industrial town. British Catholic History, 33(1), 115-134. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2016.8

This article examines the role of Protestant-Catholic conflict in the English town of Hartlepool, a hitherto unknown centre of religious conflict during the nineteenth century. It will demonstrate how a combination of unique structural forces and the... Read More about The priest and the parson of Hartlepool: Protestant-Catholic conflict in a nineteenth-century industrial town.

Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne (2015)
Journal Article
Pears, R., & Atherton, B. (in press). Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne. Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th series(44), 175-224