College of Humanities
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Recent Submissions
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Constructing the Child Soldier Crisis: Violence, Victimhood, and the Development of Transnational Advocacy against the Recruitment and Use of Children in Conflict, circa 1970–2000
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Battling the tides: the Severn Estuary wetlands during the prehistoric, Roman and medieval periods
(Archaeopress, 21 October 2021)This paper will review how human communities changed from simply exploiting the rich natural resources of the Severn Estuary’s wetlands during the prehistoric period, through to modification and then transformation as the ... -
The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes
(Nature Research, 20 October 2021)Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of ... -
Dolly Pentreath: a “very singular female”
(West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network, 16 October 2021)Dolly Pentreath’s place in history is as the so-called last speaker of the Cornish language. As such she has gained a certain notoriety in both historical and linguistic circles and thus is frequently mentioned in passing ... -
The Holy and Great Council of Crete and Eastern Orthodoxy’s Struggle for Identity in the Modern West
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 23 April 2021)These are responses to the essays by Daniela Augustine, John Burgess, Dale Coulter and Peter Phan on the Orthodox Council of Crete of June 2016.