All Outputs (54)

Fetlar (2019)
Journal Article

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

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.

Metaphors of Brexit: No cherries on the cake? (2019)
Book

How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and... Read More about Metaphors of Brexit: No cherries on the cake?.

The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III) (2019)
Book

This is the first volume of a three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton, covering the period July 1828-Deember 1837. The collection also includes an introduction and five commentaries by the editor, contextualising and embeddin... Read More about The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton (Volumes I-III).

More than Horrible Histories: Engaging the public with criminal justice past and present (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2018 Dorset Shire Hall, an eighteenth-century courthouse, opened as a museum dedicated to the development of the criminal law, and as a centre for public engagement with notions of justice and injustice, past and present. As an academic historian,... Read More about More than Horrible Histories: Engaging the public with criminal justice past and present.

Your City's Place-Names: Cambridge (2019)
Book

The fourth in a new series of books from the English Place-Name Society focusing on English cities rather than counties. Interpretations published earlier (1943) by P. H. Reaney have been extensively reassessed and critiqued, and new material added.

Crafting Admin, Performing Bureaucracy (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

What can artists do for business? How can business become a medium for artistic practice? How can crafting new modes of administration and bureaucracy enable and inform new forms of economy and commoning with the city?

This workshop explores alter... Read More about Crafting Admin, Performing Bureaucracy.

Liquid loss: Learning to mourn our companion species and landscapes (2019)
Journal Article

“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.

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.

An invisible nation? The BBC and english-language arts television in Wales (2019)
Journal Article

The history of the BBC’s regional programming is one of perennial tension between representing and reflecting the diversity of the UK’s nations and regions, and what is often perceived as an unrelenting ‘metropolitan centricity’. Through charting the... Read More about An invisible nation? The BBC and english-language arts television in Wales.

Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder (2019)
Journal Article

Objective: To determine the relationship between language abnormalities and broader cognitive impairment and thought disorder by examining language and cognition in schizophrenia and aphasia (a primary language disorder). Methods: Cognitive and lingu... Read More about Language in schizophrenia and aphasia: The relationship with non-verbal cognition and thought disorder.

Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network (2019)
Journal Article

The Independent Filmmakers Association (IFA) was formed in London in 1974 to represent the various strands of predominantly leftist and experimental independent filmmaking in post-war Britain. For the next fifteen years, the IFA played a key role in... Read More about Organising counter-cultures: Challenges of structure, organisation and sustainability in the Independent Filmmakers Association and the Radical Film Network.

Poverty Politics: Poor Whites in Contemporary Southern Writing (2019)
Book

Network for Creative Enterprise final report (2019)
Report

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.

Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions (2019)
Journal Article

This article seeks to place children on the autism spectrum at the centre of a study examining the potential of virtual reality head-mounted displays used in classrooms. In doing so we provide data that addresses three important and often overlooked... Read More about Using virtual reality head-mounted displays with autistic children: Views, experiences and future directions.

Elite multilingualism (2019)
Book Chapter

A chapter on Elite Multilingualism

Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (2019)
Journal Article

Previous studies suggest that understanding of non-literal expressions, and in particular metaphors, can be impaired in people with schizophrenia; although it is not clear why. We explored metaphor comprehension capacity using a novel picture selecti... Read More about Non-literal understanding and psychosis: Metaphor comprehension in individuals with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.

Whitehall War Graves (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod (2019)
Journal Article

This article will illustrate several facets of MacLeod’s career. First, it will consider his appointment and the years immediately afterwards, when he struggled to gain recognition of his status from the Makhzen, the Moroccan government. Second, it w... Read More about Our Man in Fez: James MacIver Macleod.

The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities (2019)
Book

This book aims to give new insights into the multifarious worlds of Angela Carter and to re-assess her impact and importance for the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Carter scholars with some emerging academics, in a new approach to h... Read More about The Arts of Angela Carter: A Cabinet of Curiosities.