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A Council at War: Whickham Urban District Council 1939-45 (2019)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.