: A British School of International Relations
in The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century
May 2003; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: politics. 12962 words.
After considering the vexed question of whether it is possible to speak of a collective identity shared by scholars working in Britain, this chapter examines the debate surrounding the birth of...
‘A Commanding Commercial Position’: The African Settlement of Bolama Island and Anglo-Portuguese Rivalry (1830–1870)
in Brokers of Change
August 2012; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: early modern history (1500 to 1700). 22180 words.
The attempt to establish plantation agriculture on the island of Bolama by British settlers in the early 1790s triggered a scramble for West Africa's resources in the Guinea Bissau region. The...
‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
in ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
February 2010; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 16482 words.
This chapter focuses on the Duke of York and the crisis over the succession, which was precipitated in part by Oates' allegations. It sets concerns over a potential Catholic successor in several...
‘A Generall Reformation of Common Learning’ and its Reception in the English-Speaking World, 1560–1642
in The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain
December 2010; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: early history (500 CE to 1500). 15972 words.
This chapter provides a synthesis of the ‘Reformation of Common Learning’, which progressively developed from Peter Ramus’s pedagogy in the mid-sixteenth century to the work of the Moravian Comenius...
‘A Great Guy with His Chopper’?: The Sex Life of Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh
in Tudorism
December 2011; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 9068 words.
This chapter analyzes how the cinema and television have rendered Henry VIII. It considers films such as The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), and television...
‘A Great National Heritage’: The Early Twentieth-Century Tudor Church Music Revival
in Tudorism
December 2011; published online January 2013.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 8284 words.
This chapter examines the revival of interest in early English choral music that took place in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It pays particular attention to the religious agendas...
‘A Leap into Ice-Cold Water’: The Manoeuvres of the Henlein Movement in Czechoslovakia, 1933–1938
in Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe, 1918–1948
June 2007; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: modern history (1700 to 1945). 9544 words.
The democratic bastion of Czechoslovakia, which was accused of treating its minorities much better than other east European states, was allegedly destroyed in the 1930s through the machinations of...
‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:1 The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
in ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
February 2010; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 24735 words.
This chapter discusses the Justice of the Peace Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, who was another important character in the progress of the Popish Plot. It considers Godfrey's posthumous talismanic presence...
‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:1 Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
in ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
February 2010; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies (1500 to 1800). 10535 words.
This chapter discusses the activities of Parliament in relation to Catholics during the first few months following the plot revelations. One section looks at the representations of Catholics and...
Abraham Lincoln: The Great Emancipator?
in Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 125, 2003 Lectures
January 2005; published online February 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: social and cultural history. 5707 words.
This lecture discusses the evolution of Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery and race. It looks at his eventual role as the Great Emancipator, which was given to him in light of the events of the Civil...