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The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain (2024)
Journal Article
Hugh Ray Easton (1906-1965) was a leading mid-twentieth century British designer of stained-glass windows. His works combined neo-baroque style with an aesthetic that was attuned to glamour in contemporary media such as film and homoerotic physique m... Read More about The art of Hugh Easton and the stained-glass closet in post-war Britain.
New Wave Women: Paying Attention to Brenda and Doreen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (2024)
Journal Article
Scholarship in British film history has tended to suggest that the female characters in New Wave films are marginalised, dismissively associated with the trappings of consumer culture, and responsible for the ultimate containment of their ‘Angry Youn... Read More about New Wave Women: Paying Attention to Brenda and Doreen in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus (2024)
Journal Article
Eschewing the symbolic in favour of commitment to the unmediated replication of exactly that which is actually observed, Hunter’s attitude to the images in his Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus embraces a juridical ideal of scientific representation... Read More about Windows on the Womb and Guiding Trains of Light: Figuring the Real in Plate XXVI of William Hunter's Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus.
'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack (2024)
Journal Article
This article intervenes in debates about whether public-facing social media enable the rapid spread of hate speech, or whether these platforms can offer valuable opportunities to contest it. Advancing scholarship on ‘networked counter-publics’ and re... Read More about 'Hypocrite!' Affective and argumentative engagement on Twitter, following the Christchurch terrorist attack.
The “Longest Hatred” Explained: Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Antisemitism (2024)
Journal Article
Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution (2024)
Journal Article
This article documents the creation and distribution of a new sample pack, Instruments INDIA, as an intervention against systemic orientalist practices observable within the marketing, branding and production of non-Western instrument sample packs. T... Read More about Responding to misrepresentation: Sample pack creation, branding and distribution.
Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834 (2024)
Journal Article
This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing, or unskilled tasks like oakum picking, yet the man... Read More about Bricks, brick-making, and the economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750-1834.
The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008 (2024)
Journal Article
This article contributes to understanding how civil nuclear power shaped post-war British history through studying opposition to nuclear energy in Scotland. Over the second half of the twentieth century, pessimistic assessments challenged the optimis... Read More about The making of anti-nuclear Scotland: activism, coalition building, energy politics and nationhood, c.1954-2008.
Afterword (2023)
Book Chapter
This afterword to the Ideas section starts by considering the role of ‘contact zones’, which are places of accumulation and organisation of differential knowledge that were already pronounced in early historical periods. However, from the expansion o... Read More about Afterword.
Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs (2023)
Journal Article
Since the academic year 2021-22, a project has been underway to innovate assessment in History Individual Study Project modules at Keele. This includes a second-year dissertation preparation module, and the final-year dissertation. In the context... Read More about Developing Innovation in Assessment in History ISPs.
Preface (2023)
Book Chapter
Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution (2023)
Journal Article
Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother (2023)
Journal Article
This paper examines the dynamics of one hashtag, #hellobrother, shared on Twitter following the Christchurch terror attack on 15th March 2019. It was analysed as part of a larger study #Contesting Islamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Med... Read More about Transnational In-Group Solidarity Networks in the Case of #Hellobrother.
VANESSA SMITH. Toy Stories: Analyzing the Child in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2023)
Journal Article
‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This (2023)
Book Chapter
Halfway through Markovits’ novel about a scheme to regenerate Detroit’s neighbourhoods, the narrator, Greg Marnier (known as Marny), returns from his girlfriend’s apartment in the snow. On Mack Avenue, he starts to feel “scared” and reflects on “the... Read More about ‘The world seemed very large around me’: Urban Regeneration and the Sublime in Benjamin Markovits’s You Don’t Have to Live Like This.
The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence (2023)
Book Chapter
This chapter examines Daniel Defoe’s use of letters, both within printed works that adopt an epistolary format such as The Complete English Tradesman (1725–7) and his personal correspondence with politicians and other associates. The chapter reveals... Read More about The Style of Defoe’s Correspondence.
The Celebrated Daniel De Foe (2023)
Book Chapter
The story of Daniel Defoe’s publication, from his death in 1731 to the mid-twentieth century, shows three things that have been inadequately acknowledged in accounts of his posthumous reputation. First, his writings were extensively republished, and... Read More about The Celebrated Daniel De Foe.