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Communist MP: Willie Gallacher and British communism
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The Communist Party and the New Party
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)The New Party was never at the centre of the concerns of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). However, the CPGB had to take a line on the new organisation when it was formed, and tried to use it to smear Labour and ... -
Communities, families and migration: some evidence from Cornwall
(Maney Publishing, 2007-05)Taking its cue from Pooley and Turnbull’s (1998) claim that there is no evidence of any difference in the propensity to migrate by region or settlement size, this article investigates the appropriate scale for migration ... -
'Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967'
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)Oral historians have only recently begun to record the memories of communities affected by major oil spills. In this article we investigate how the first supertanker oil spill in 1967, the Torrey Canyon, is remembered in ... -
The ‘Compleat Physician’ and Experimentation in Medicines: Everard Maynwaring (c.1629-1713) and the Restoration Debate on Medical Practice in London
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-03-19)Restoration London saw a wave of publications by physicians advocating that the ‘compleat physician’ should be one who experimented and produced his own medicines. Only thus, they argued, could the medical hierarchy be ... -
Computer-Assisted Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages
(Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2017-09-07)The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies ... -
Conservative Party agents in Second World War Britain
(Oxford University Press, 2007)The Second World War placed great pressures on the machinery and personnel of all political parties. Conservatives formed the view that their own machine had been especially hard hit by the challenges of the war years, and ... -
Constituencies and Interests: An Afterword
(Yoshida Shoten Publishing, 2015)The essays in this volume each probe an aspect of the relationship between parliamentary constituencies and interest groups in the workings of the parliament at Westminster between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth ... -
Cornish cases and Cornish social history (review article)
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Cornish identities and migration: a multi-scalar approach
(Blackwell Publishing, 2007-06-06)In this article we argue that theories of transnationalism have value in exploring the historical context of migration and that historical contexts help to shape such theoretical conceptualizations. Historians of migration ... -
The Cornish paradox: ethnoregionalism in a hybrid territory
(2003)This article addresses a gap in the literature on nationalism, the case of Cornwall. Cornish ethnoregionalism presents a paradox; a minority nationalist movement that has sustained itself politically for more than a half ... -
County, nation, ethnic group? The shaping of the Cornish identity
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Courtship, sex and poverty: illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Wales
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-19)This article sheds new light on illegitimacy in eighteenth-century Britain through an analysis of evidence from 36 parishes across the former Welsh counties Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire. Quantitative analysis of ... -
Covering Up Chelmno: Nazi Attempts to Obfuscate and Obliterate an Extermination Camp
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The centrality of deception and secrecy to the Nazi extermination of the Jews has long been recognised, yet numerous questions remain regarding its significance for the ‘Final Solution’. This article examines Nazi attempts ... -
Creating and resisting the Terror: the Paris Revolutionary Tribunal, March-June 1793
(Oxford University Press, 2018-04-03)The Paris Revolutionary Tribunal was a key institution of the Terror during the French Revolution, as evidenced by the show trials of Jacques-Pierre Brissot and Georges Danton. However, the early history of this central ... -
The Criminal Corpse, Anatomists, and the Criminal Law : Parliamentary Attempts to Extend the Dissection of Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century England
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) for North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), 2015-01-01)In the later eighteenth century, two schemes were introduced in Parliament for extending the practice of handing over the bodies of executed offenders to anatomists for dissection. Both measures were motivated by the needs ... -
Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism
(Royal Society Publishing, 2007-01-22)Cromwell Fleetwood Varley is chiefly remembered as a leading Victorian electrical engineer who was closely involved in the testing and laying of the successful transatlantic telegraph cables of the 1860s. Historians of ... -
Cultural competence in migrant healthcare
(Edward Elgar, 2016-12-30)The 2004 Amsterdam Declaration called for countries across Europe to take adequate measures to ensure that health provision is accessible, appropriate and sufficiently ‘culturally competent’ to meet the needs of migrants ... -
Deadlier than the male? Women and the death penalty in colonial Kenya and Nyasaland, c.1920-57
(Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 2007)The position of women and the operation of justice were both contentious issues in colonial Africa. However, when combined in the discussion and sentencing of African women charged with murder and facing the death penalty ...