All Outputs (18)

The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

“Returning Home to Fight:” Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918 (2021)
Book Chapter

One issue that migration historians have ignored as a fruitful field of endeavour is the experience of thousands of British-born migrants who either came back to the United Kingdom to enlist in British regiments or enlisted in the respective dominion... Read More about “Returning Home to Fight:” Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918.

Sir Earle Page's British War Cabinet Diary, 1941-1942 (2021)
Book

On 7 September 1941, the former prime minister Sir Earle Page was appointed by Arthur Fadden’s UAP-Country Party coalition as Australian minister resident in London; a position he retained when John Curtin’s Labor Party came to power four weeks later... Read More about Sir Earle Page's British War Cabinet Diary, 1941-1942.

The “Sawdust Fusiliers": The Canadian Forestry Corps in Devon, 1916-19 (2020)
Journal Article

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.

‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
Book Chapter

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.

Seeking a family consensus? Anglo-dominion relations and the failed Imperial Conference of 1941 (2019)
Book Chapter

This essay investigates the governmental pressures behind the demands for a conference and the reasons why it never took place. Crucially, it explores the various and competing strategic, foreign and domestic anxieties that forced three of the domin... Read More about Seeking a family consensus? Anglo-dominion relations and the failed Imperial Conference of 1941.

Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30 (2016)
Journal Article

Throughout the 1920s Canadian politicians, immigration officials, eugenicists and political commentators talked about the need to ‘Canadianize’ all migrants who arrived in the dominion, including those from the mother country. This did not mean that... Read More about Restocking the British world: Empire migration and anglo-Canadian relations, 1919–30.

“Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940 (2015)
Journal Article

This essay examines a highly significant but little know incident –the ‘Campbell affair’ - that occurred during the first six months of Winston Churchill’s premiership between May and October 1940. As the RAF and Luftwaffe fought for aerial supremac... Read More about “Caught in the cross fire”: Sir Gerald Campbell, Lord Beaverbrook and the near demise of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, May-October 1940.

Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42 (2012)
Journal Article

This article explores a number of key facets of Vincent Massey's tenure as Canada's wartime high commissioner in London between 1939 and 1942. Using the personal tensions and mutual suspicions which existed between Massey and the mercurial Canadian p... Read More about Directing the War from Trafalgar Square? Vincent Massey and the Canadian High Commission, 1939-42.

Sir gerald campbell and the british high commission in Wartime Ottawa, 1938-1940 (2011)
Journal Article

In 1938 Sir Gerald campbell arrived in Ottawa to take up the position as the United Kingdom's high commissioner. Not much has been written about the man or his period in office (1938-41). Indeed, the sketchy and simplistic assessments of campbell, wh... Read More about Sir gerald campbell and the british high commission in Wartime Ottawa, 1938-1940.

When is a diplomat not a diplomat? The office of the High Commissioner (2010)
Book Chapter

Lord Harlech in South Africa, 1941-1944 (2008)
Book Chapter

"At war with Canberra": Sir Ronald Cross and the British High Commission, 1941-42 (2008)
Journal Article

The British Empire on the move: 1760-1914 (2008)
Book Chapter

German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944 (2005)
Journal Article

For most of the Second World War, German and Italian agents were actively engaged in a variety of intelligence gathering exercises in southern Africa. The hub of this activity was Lourenço Marques, the colonial capital of Portuguese East Africa (Moza... Read More about German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944.

‘Cocked Hats and Swords and Small, Little Garrisons’: Britain, Canada and the Fall of Hong Kong, 1941 (2003)
Journal Article

Sleeping with the Lion? The Loyal Afrikaner and the South African Rebellion of 1914–15 (2003)
Journal Article

The British Empire and its Italian prisoners of war, 1940-1947 (2002)
Book