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A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article
Lister, M. (2007). A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information. Convergence, 13(3), 251-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856507079176

Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise (2007)
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Sellars, J. (2007). Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise. Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication, 28(3), 339-362. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-2007-001

This essay offers an introduction to Justus Lipsius's dialogue De Constantia, first published in 1584. Although the dialogue bears a superficial similarity to philosophical works of consolation, I suggest that it should be approached as a spiritual e... Read More about Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise.

A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
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Beeching, K. (2007). A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 8(1), 69-108. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.8.1.05bee

This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.

War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
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Ollerenshaw, P. (2007). War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945. Contemporary European History, 16(2), 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777307003773

Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.

'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility' (2007)
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Swanson, G. (2007). 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'. Intellectual History Review, 17(3), 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496970701622556

At the centre of this peer-reviewed journal article on distractibility is a detailed investigation of William McDougall's 1920s-1940s adaptation of William James' notion of distraction developed in the 1890s. While the argument concerning the applica... Read More about 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'.

After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad (2007)
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White, E. (2007). After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad. Europe-Asia Studies, 59(7), 1145-1161. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668130701607128

This article focuses on the civilian return to Leningrad after the end of the Blockade and in the immediate post-war period. It examines how the authorities tried to control movement back to the city but proved to be overwhelmed by vast numbers of ci... Read More about After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad.

Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007)
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Sakel, J., & Matras, Y. (2007). Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence. Studies in Language, 31(4), 829-865. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.31.4.05mat

This publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures from one language can be integrated into another. T... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence.

Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969 (2007)
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Bátiz-Lazo, B., & Wardley, P. (2007). Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969. Financial History Review, 14(02), 177-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565007000534

This article explores the automation of the supply of financial services by British high street banks and provides a comparative assessment of the impact of similar developments in the USA. Its aim is to provide a historical perspective to highlight... Read More about Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969.

Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London (2007)
Journal Article
Dresser, M. (2007). Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London. History Workshop Journal, 64(1), 162-199. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbm032

This article examines public monuments in London and their relationship to slavery and abolition, a topic that has attracted remarkably little empirical research. It argues that a significant proportion of the individuals commemorated by public statu... Read More about Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London.

30 years of hurt? (2007)
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Malpass, P. (2007). 30 years of hurt?. Roof -London-, 34-35

Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series (2007)
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Crogan, P. (2007). Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series

In Volumes 2 and 3 of his Technics and Time series, Bernard Stiegler advances a complex series of arguments concerning the relationship between philosophy and film, and thinking and film more generally. This is done in the context, and fulfillment, o... Read More about Thinking cinema (tically) and the industrial temporal object: Schemes and technics of experience in Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series.

Come alive by saying no: an introduction to Black Power Sf (2007)
Journal Article
Bould, M. (2007). Come alive by saying no: an introduction to Black Power Sf. Science Fiction Studies, 34(2), 220-240

Examines a cycle of borderline sf novels produced by African American writers 1962 and 1974, which struggle to imagine the emergence of a world beyond racism.

'Ye shall disturbe noe mans right': Oath-taking and oath-breaking in late medieval and early modern Bristol (2007)
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Lee, J. (2007). 'Ye shall disturbe noe mans right': Oath-taking and oath-breaking in late medieval and early modern Bristol. Urban History, 34(1), 27-38. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926807004312

Oaths of office are generally well preserved for many English towns and cities and they can tell us a great deal about the theoretical and (perhaps to a lesser extent) practical duties of office-holders. In the light of recent scholarly interest in o... Read More about 'Ye shall disturbe noe mans right': Oath-taking and oath-breaking in late medieval and early modern Bristol.

'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol (2007)
Journal Article
Poole, S. (2007). 'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol. Urban History, 34(1), 114-126. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926807004385

During the 1730s, Bristol acquired an unenviable reputation as a city in which sodomy was endemic and rarely punished by the civil power. Although the cause lay partly in difficulties experienced in securing convictions, the resolve of magistrates wa... Read More about 'Bringing great shame upon this city': Sodomy, the courts and the civic idiom in eighteenth-century Bristol.