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The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K., & Van der Waag, I. (2023). The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign. In M. Thomas, & G. Curless (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies (784). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198866787.001.0001

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
Fedorowich, K., & Booth, C. (2021). “Returning Home to Fight:” Bristolians in the Dominion Armies, 1914-1918. In D. E. Delaney, M. Frost, & A. L. Brown (Eds.), Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars (72-85). Cornell University Press

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.

‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada (2020)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2020). ‘We shall have a fine holiday’: Imperial sentiment, unemployment and the 1928 miner-harvester scheme to Canada. In M. Ruiz (Ed.), Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History: In Memorium Eric Richards (197-225). Anthem Press

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
Fedorowich, K. (2019). Seeking a family consensus? Anglo-dominion relations and the failed Imperial Conference of 1941. In T. G. Otte (Ed.), British World Policy and the Projection of Global Power, c.1830–1960 (245-275). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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.

When is a diplomat not a diplomat? The office of the High Commissioner (2010)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2010). When is a diplomat not a diplomat? The office of the High Commissioner. In F. Bongiorno, C. Bridge, & D. Lee (Eds.), More than an Ambassador: A Century of Australian High Commissioners in the United Kingdom (10-23). Canberra, Australia: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

The British Empire on the move: 1760-1914 (2008)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2008). The British Empire on the move: 1760-1914. In S. Stockwell (Ed.), The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives (63-100). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

Lord Harlech in South Africa, 1941-1944 (2008)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K. (2008). Lord Harlech in South Africa, 1941-1944. In C. Baxter, & A. Stewart (Eds.), Diplomats at War: British and Commonwealth Diplomacy in Wartime (195-225). Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff