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Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659: by Imogen Peck, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, xiv + 232 pp.,£60 (hardback), ISBN 9780198845584 (2023)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (2023). Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659: by Imogen Peck, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, xiv + 232 pp.,£60 (hardback), ISBN 9780198845584. Cultural and Social History, 20(3), 462-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2023.2210866

The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523: by Christopher Elrington, Gloucestershire Record Series, 36, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2021, xii + 207 pp., £30 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-91373-504-3 (2023)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (2023). The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523: by Christopher Elrington, Gloucestershire Record Series, 36, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 2021, xii + 207 pp., £30 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-91373-504-3. Midland History, 48(1), 118-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182521

Introduction (2022)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I., Blake, M., Sargent, A., & Tomkins, A. (2022). Introduction. In Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham

‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century (2022)
Journal Article
Atherton, I. (2022). ‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2022.2126237

In 1677 John Duncalf, a Staffordshire labourer, fell ill after falsely swearing that he had not stolen a bible. He was visited by droves as he lay helpless, the flesh of his legs and arms mysteriously rotting away until they dropped off and he died.... Read More about ‘John Duncalf the man that did rott both hands & leggs’: Chronicle of a Death Retold in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars (2018)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2018). Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars. In Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (23 - 39). https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526124807.003.0002

Twentieth-century practices of battlefield preservation construct war graves as sites of memory and continuing commemoration. Such ideas, though they have led archaeologists in a largely fruitless hunt for mass graves, should not be read back into th... Read More about Battlefields, Burials and the English Civil Wars.

Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields (2014)
Book Chapter
Atherton, I. (2014). Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields. In England's Fortress New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax (95 - 119)

The act of horse breeding in the early modern period was generically identified as a 'Gentlemen's Recreation', and treatises on the subject of rural sport and rural management, such as Nicholas Cox's The Gentleman's Recreation, often bore that title.... Read More about Remembering (and forgetting) Fairfax's Battlefields.