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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 ... -
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 ... -
Decorum or Deterrence? The Politics of Execution in Malawi, 1915-1966
(Berg, 2008)Capital punishment - specifically public execution - is here investigated not simply as a judicial punishment, but as a lens through which to view the civil and socio-political development of Malawi from the colonial to ... -
Developing multilateralism: the Havana charter and the fight for the International Trade Organization, 1947-1948
(Simon Fraser University, 2003-06)Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established, it has been the subject of vocal, and sometimes violent, international protests. Much of the criticism levelled at it has charged that the WTO régime puts developing ... -
Discrimination, opportunity, and middle-class success in early Communist Hungary
(Cambridge University Press, 2005-06)This article explores the middle-class response to life under the early Communist state in Hungary. It is based on an oral history of the Budapest bourgeoisie, and challenges some of the dominant indigenous representations ... -
Dismembering and remembering the body: execution and post-execution display in Africa, c.1870-2000
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›Do not burden one’s own army and its hinterland with unneeded mouths!‹ The Fate of the Soviet Civilian Population Behind the ›Panther Line‹ in Eastern Belorussia, October 1943-June 1944
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‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: old age, sex and infertility in early modern England
(Oxford University Press, 2015-07-04)This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies, sex and reproduction. The old body in early modern thought was particularly connected to barrenness and sterility: it was understood that old women were barren ... -
Enemy alien and refugee: conflicting identities in Great Britain during the Second World War
(University of Sussex: Department of History, 2015-05-29)The University of Sussex Journal of Contemporary History provides space for the publication of research and the exchange of ideas amongst the international postgraduate and early post-doctoral community. -
The enemy within: loyalists and the war against Mau Mau in Kenya
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-07)Between 1952 and 1960, the British colonial government of Kenya waged a violent counter-insurgency campaign against the Mau Mau rebels. In this effort the regime was assisted by collaborators, known as loyalists, drawn ... -
English Agricultural Output and Labour Productivity, 1250- 1850: some preliminary estimates
(Warwick University, 2008-11-26)This paper provides annual estimates of English agricultural output and labour productivity during the period 1250-1850, based on manorial records from the medieval period, probate inventories from the early modern period ... -
English individualism refuted - and reasserted: the land market of Earls Colne (Essex), 1550-1750
(Blackwell Publishing, 2003-11)Earls Colne first came to the notice of historians through Macfarlane's study of its seventeenth-century vicar, Ralph Josselin, and then Macfarlane's use of evidence from the village in his The Origins of English Individualism ... -
English law, Brahmo marriage, and the problem of religious difference: civil marriage laws in Britain and India
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)On the face of it, civil marriage represents both the most typical and most anodyne aspect of modern law. One might say that by instituting civil marriage, a bureaucratic, enumerative, and secularized state permits its ... -
Entangled Transitions: Eastern and Southern European Convergence or Alternative Europes? 1960s–2000s
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2017-10-17)Extract: Ever since the fall of the Iron Curtain and the enthusiasm it inspired about the potential for European unity and democracy, it has become fashionable to see post-war European history in terms of convergence. ...