The all‐consuming mess of leaving the EU
(2023)
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comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Combatant memoirs are a valuable source for historians of conflict in general and of the Falklands War in particular, revealing experiences of war that would otherwise be beyond recovery. This chapter provides a previously unpublished memoir (written... Read More about comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982.
Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War (2022)
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This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvina... Read More about Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War.
Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction? (2022)
Journal Article
This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, th... Read More about Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?.
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper (2018)
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European integration (2018)
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The attitudes and policies of the Labour party towards Britain’s participation in supranational European integration cannot be understood in isolation. The paradox of Britain’s membership of the EEC/EC/EU 1 is that it is an issue about which many, ev... Read More about European integration.
Representations of grief and the Falklands War (2015)
Book Chapter
National Interest and the Falklands War (2014)
Book Chapter
Was Britain’s decision to use military action in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War guided by concerns for Britain’s ‘national interest’? This chapter seeks to answer this question by surveying the events of the crisis and exploring the reasons British... Read More about National Interest and the Falklands War.
Patrick Reilly, 1965–68 (2013)
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Sir D’Arcy Patrick Reilly’s tenure at the British embassy was dominated from mid-1966 by Britain’s second application for membership of the European Economic Community (EEC) and, unfortunately for the Ambassador, by his relationship with Britain’s th... Read More about Patrick Reilly, 1965–68.
The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4 (2013)
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This article adopts a political approach to examine the reasons why Edward Heath's government wanted to upgrade Polaris and the reasons why they did so by way of a programme called Super Antelope, to improve the front-ends of the missiles against Sov... Read More about The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4.