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Taming the revolution?: Legitimists and the centenary of 1789 (2005)
Journal Article
Simpson, M. (2005). Taming the revolution?: Legitimists and the centenary of 1789. English Historical Review, 120(486), 340-364. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cei118

The celebration of the centenary of 1789 by republicans in 1889 has received considerable scholarly attention, yet the far more surprising attempt by the right to appropriate the Revolution has been neglected. In this article I explore the terms in w... Read More about Taming the revolution?: Legitimists and the centenary of 1789.

German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944 (2005)
Journal Article
Fedorowich, K. (2005). German espionage and British counter-intelligence in South Africa and Mozambique, 1939-1944. Historical Journal, 48(1), 209-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X04004273

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.

What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran (2005)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. H. (2005). What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran. Zeithistorische Forschungen, 1(1), 110-118

This was a counterpoint to the book chapter on service comedy. It explored a different type of 'unofficial' counter-hegemonic constructions of the Second World War' by focusing on a group of British films made immediately after the war and sporadical... Read More about What cannot be said: 'Silent Dust'(1949)and the malevolent veteran.

Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel (2005)
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Jarvis, R. (2005). Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel. Studies in Travel Writing, 9(2), 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2005.9634974

Despite the heterogeneity of Romantic-era travel writing, the idea of Romantic travel has become all but identified with a’subjective turn’ in the late eighteenth century, and with narratives of self-realisation or self-discovery, illustrated here ch... Read More about Self-discovery from Byron to Raban: The long afterlife of romantic travel.

The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep (2005)
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White, E. (2005). The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep. Revolutionary Russia, 18(1), 47-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546540500091134

This article examines the analysis of the Russian peasantry during NEP that was made by members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SRs) in emigration. They saw evidence that peasant behaviour in this period justified narodnik beliefs. It also disc... Read More about The émigré socialist revolutionary party and the russian peasantry during nep.

Republicanizing the city: Radical republicans in Toulouse, 1880-90 (2004)
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Simpson, M. (2004). Republicanizing the city: Radical republicans in Toulouse, 1880-90. European History Quarterly, 34(2), 157-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265691404042506

Using research on Toulouse, this article explores the limits of 'statuomania' in a major French city that was dominated by a strongly republican municipality, keen to testify to its principles. It looks at the alternative strategies that were adopted... Read More about Republicanizing the city: Radical republicans in Toulouse, 1880-90.

Fifty years of British housing policy: Leaving or leading the welfare state? (2004)
Journal Article
Malpas, P. (2004). Fifty years of British housing policy: Leaving or leading the welfare state?. European Journal of Housing Policy, 4(2), 209-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461671042000269038

This article seeks to develop a new perspective on the housing - welfare state relationship in Britain. Housing is conventionally seen as part of the post-war welfare state, but as different from other core services because of the persistence of a la... Read More about Fifty years of British housing policy: Leaving or leading the welfare state?.

The production line: Reflections on the role of the producer in British cinema (2004)
Journal Article
Spicer, A. H. (2004). The production line: Reflections on the role of the producer in British cinema. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 1(1), 33-50. https://doi.org/10.3366/JBCTV.2004.1.1.33

A film producer has two responsibilities: to the public and to his backers. If he is an imaginative and courageous producer, the two may coincide. The ideal producer, it seems to me, must always look ahead and try not merely to acquiesce in box-offic... Read More about The production line: Reflections on the role of the producer in British cinema.

The game thing: Ludology and other theory games (2004)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2004). The game thing: Ludology and other theory games. Media International Australia, 110(1), 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X0411000104

The current state of computer games studies as it was in the early 2000s is critically examined in this paper by means of an analysis of the recently released computer game, The Thing. Game studies is an emerging area of humanities scholarship, an em... Read More about The game thing: Ludology and other theory games.