Outputs (446)

Stories for after a war: Social memory and the making of urban and industrial transition in 1960s Spain (2016)
Book Chapter

A study of post-civil war social change in Spain and the effects on collective memory of migration in particular.

Prólogo (2016)
Book Chapter

Summary of current debates about civil war and memory in Spain

Asset mapping and civic creativity (2016)
Book Chapter

"The Creative Citizen project is concerned not only with understanding and capturing current practice and its value (as enacted through the use of different media) but also exploring how this pursuit of value can be further supported and advanced.... Read More about Asset mapping and civic creativity.

'There's something fishy about Wales': Dahl, identity, language (2016)
Book Chapter

In the book bearing his name, the BFG tells Sophie that ‘there is something fishy about Wales’. Even allowing for Dahl’s well-known delight in wordplay, it seems that there is more to this throwaway line than just a joke for children. Taking its cue... Read More about 'There's something fishy about Wales': Dahl, identity, language.

From networks to complexity: Two case studies (2016)
Book Chapter

"From the noticeboard in the newsagent’s window to multi-layered online networks using social networking technologies, citizens are increasingly accessing networks of support that uncover previously invisible opportunities. Such networks exist online... Read More about From networks to complexity: Two case studies.

Family names (2016)
Book Chapter

A chapter on the history of family-names and family-name research in Europe, Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. Co-authored with Prof. Patrick Hanks.

Variability in native and non-native use of pragmatic markers: The example of well in role-play data (2015)
Book Chapter

'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
Book Chapter

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.

Travel writing: Reception and readership (2015)
Book Chapter

'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830 (2015)
Book Chapter

Progressive accounts of the English encounter between capital punishment and modernity have made much of the abandonment c. 1783-1800 of lengthy processions to customary sites on urban peripheries and their replacement with drop systems on elevated p... Read More about 'For the benefit of example': Crime scene executions in England, 1720-1830.