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The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K., & Van der Waag, I. (2023). The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign. In M. Thomas, & G. Curless (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies (784). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198866787.001.0001

The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.

Children and youth in the Russian Revolution (2022)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2023). Children and youth in the Russian Revolution. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

Through 30 interpretative essays, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution sees an international team of leading scholars comprehensively examine Russia's revolutionary years. In the wake of the 2017 centenary, this handbook is the first ref... Read More about Children and youth in the Russian Revolution.

Lens-less capture and emerging moving imaging technologies: An investigation into the ways in which digital pinhole capture and advances in lens-less capture in imaging technologies may affect the form and content of moving images (2021)
Thesis
Williams, L. Lens-less capture and emerging moving imaging technologies: An investigation into the ways in which digital pinhole capture and advances in lens-less capture in imaging technologies may affect the form and content of moving images. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6726592

This thesis is a practice-led enquiry that investigates the creative potential of pinhole video, a new imaging technique which is undocumented elsewhere. Although fixed pinhole image capture has been possible since the advent of chemical photography... Read More about Lens-less capture and emerging moving imaging technologies: An investigation into the ways in which digital pinhole capture and advances in lens-less capture in imaging technologies may affect the form and content of moving images.

The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19 (2020)
Journal Article
Fedorowich, K. (2020). The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19. Histoire Sociale / Social History, 53(109), 519-544. https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2020.0030

In April 1916, the first battalion of Canadian lumberjacks arrived in England to initiate large-scale forestry operations. The remarkable achievements of the men of the Canadian Forestry Corps—who would number almost 32,000 by November 1918—are littl... Read More about The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19.

Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half' (2020)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. (2020). Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half'. In J. Fenwick, K. Foster, & D. Eldridge (Eds.), Shadow Cinema: The Historical and Production Context of Unmade Films (57-70). (1). Bloomsbury Publishing

Between 1967 and 1984, British independent producer Michael Klinger attempted to make a war film initially called Parachute that was renamed A Man and a Half. It was an international production through which as Klinger hoped to establish himself as a... Read More about Parting the iron curtain: Michael Klinger’s attempt to make 'A Man and a Half'.

‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2020). ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada. In M. Ruiz (Ed.), Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History: In Memorium Eric Richards (197-225). Anthem Press

The annual migration of harvesters from central and eastern Canada to the prairies had been a regular event ever since 1890. As the wheat economy expanded, larger supplies of manpower were needed to bring in the harvest. In 1906 and 1923 British work... Read More about ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada.

Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Dillon, T. (2020, January). Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud. Presented at transmediale, Berlin

Invited respondant: Exchange #2: Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud Teresa Dillon Daphne Dragona Sarah Friend Mél Hogan Ulises Ali Mejias Solveig Suess Moderated by Daphne Dragona Discussion Lecture Fri, 31.01.2020 15:30 to 17:30 Volk... Read More about Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud.

Fetlar (2019)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2019). Fetlar. Journal of Scottish Name Studies, 13, 37-54

This article rehearses the history of attempts to account for the name of the island of Fetlar in Shetland. It is concluded that explaining it as pre-Celtic is beset with philological difficulties, and that it is probably, after all, Scandinavian, th... Read More about Fetlar.

Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare (2019)
Book Chapter
Crogan, P. (2020). Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare. In T. Heffernan (Ed.), Cyborg Futures: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (89-112). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21836-2_5

My subject in this paper is the analysis, speculation and recommendations for the future development and deployment of lethal autonomous robotic systems such as they appear in reports, studies and presentations emanating from what is still aptly call... Read More about Visions of swarming robots: Artificial intelligence and stupidity in the military-industrial projection of the future of warfare.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article
Dillon, T. (2019). Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes. Screen City Biennial, 2,

“The world tells a big story: living arrangements that took millions of years to put into place are being undone in the blink of an eye.”[1] In 2015, a team of biologists, zoologists and ecologists[2] published a paper that examined whether human... Read More about Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes.

Network for Creative Enterprise final report (2019)
Report
Moreton, S., Dovey, J., Johnson, M. P., & Bellaar Spruijt, V. (2019). Network for Creative Enterprise final report. Bristol: Arts Council England/ERDF

The Network for Creative Enterprise (NfCE) was established in October 2017 to help freelancers, artists, creative practitioners, start-up microbusinesses, and small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the West of England LEP area make a sustainable livin... Read More about Network for Creative Enterprise final report.

Whitehall War Graves (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Goddard, R. (2019). Whitehall War Graves. [Photographic]. Exhibited at The Vestibules, Bristol. 25 July 2019 - 31 July 2019. (Unpublished)

to be (2015)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2015). to be. Tears in the Fence, 62, 34

One poem.

Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation (2014)
Journal Article
Matthias, G., & Jorgensen, T. (2014). Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation

This is a two-part paper; firstly, describing a collaborative research project aiming to provide innovation in glass investment casting through the exploration of digital fabrication methods. Secondly, illustrating examples of the artistic explorati... Read More about Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation.