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comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982 (2022)
Journal Article
Parr, H. (2022). comaw Staff and hms Fearless 1982. International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 43(1), 14-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683302-43010003

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 This chapter provides a previously unpublished memoir (written...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)
Journal Article
Woodward, R., Benwell, M. C., Neil Jenkings, K., Natale, E., & Parr, H. (2022). Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15(3), 261-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2078544

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
Parr, H. (2022). Remembering the Falklands war in Britain: From Division to Conviction?. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15(3), 266-283. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2022.2078543

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?.

The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4 (2013)
Journal Article
PARR, H. (2013). The British Decision to Upgrade Polaris, 1970–4. Contemporary European History, 22(2), 253-274. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777313000076

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.