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The UK overseas territories: A decade of progress and prosperity? (2011)
Journal Article
Clegg, P., & Gold, P. (2011). The UK overseas territories: A decade of progress and prosperity?. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 49(1), 115-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2011.541117

This article analyses the relationship between the UK and its Overseas Territories since the publication of the 1999 White Paper Partnership for Progress and Prosperity. The article considers the efforts by the UK government to improve links with the... Read More about The UK overseas territories: A decade of progress and prosperity?.

The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46 (2011)
Book Chapter
White, E. (2011). The return of evacuated children to Leningrad, 1944-46. In J. Reinisch, & E. White (Eds.), The Disentanglement of Populations Migration, Expulsion and Displacement in postwar Europe, 1944-49 (251-270). Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

The angel of death: Targetting the hitman (2011)
Book Chapter
Spicer, A. H. (2011). The angel of death: Targetting the hitman. In B. Nicol, P. Pulman, & E. McNulty (Eds.), Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film (155-174). London: Continuum

Although there are hundreds of films that feature hitmen, this is the first critical account of the origins, development and possible cultural and historical significance of this figure and thus an original contribution to scholarship. It charts the... Read More about The angel of death: Targetting the hitman.

The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2011, January). The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context. Paper presented at MeCCSA Annual Conference 2011, Salford University, Manchester, UK

Abstract for MeCCSA 2011 Conference The Curzon Creative Technologies Project: Context Aware Media in a Screen Heritage Context The practise-based project is based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, home of the Curzon Collection, an arch... Read More about The Curzon creative technologies project: Context aware media in a screen heritage context.

The communist international and the challenge to British India, 1919–43 (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Kocho-Williams, A. (2011, January). The communist international and the challenge to British India, 1919–43. Poster presented at American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 2011, Boston, MA, USA

The poster presents, in a visual and graphic format, an overview of the Communist International (Comintern) and the challenge to British India in the years between the First and Second World Wars. The Comintern, composed of world communist parties, b... Read More about The communist international and the challenge to British India, 1919–43.

Nature (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2011). Nature. In W. Mott (Ed.), Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context (84-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235594.014

© Cambridge University Press 2014. To begin to understand what the term nature meant to the intellectual culture of Emerson’s time it is perhaps best to start with William Ellery Channing, a prominent New England Unitarian of the 1820s and 1830s. In... Read More about Nature.

"The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror" (2011)
Journal Article
Nevitt, L. (2011). "The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror". Journal of War and Culture Studies, 3(3), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.3.3.319_1

This article argues that the ideological mechanisms and norms used to render the War on Terror both familiar and seemingly inevitable to a wide public have long been present in popular American culture in the form of professional wrestling. The profe... Read More about "The spirit of America lives here": US pro-wrestling and the post-9/11 "War on Terror".