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“Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968 (2019)
Journal Article
Lomas, D. (2021). “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 49(1), 148-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2019.1648231

In July 2018, the UK’s Intelligence & Security Committee issued a report into diversity and inclusion across the intelligence and security community. The picture the report painted was far from satisfactory; in short, Britain’s intelligence agencies... Read More about “Crocodiles in the corridors” : security vetting, race and Whitehall, 1945 – 1968.

India’s pragmatic foreign policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB : struggling for relative and absolute gains (2019)
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Wu, F. (2020). India’s pragmatic foreign policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB : struggling for relative and absolute gains. Journal of Contemporary China, 29(123), 354-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2019.1645486

India’s foreign policy toward China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is pragmatic. On the one hand, India has not only raised its apprehensions about the BRI but also taken measures to compete with it.... Read More about India’s pragmatic foreign policy toward China’s BRI and AIIB : struggling for relative and absolute gains.

Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
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Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

Thatcher breaks consensus (2019)
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Williams, B. (2019). Thatcher breaks consensus. History today, 69(7), 76-81

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. When asked who has been the most controversial and radical postwar British prime minister, many historians and academics incline towards Margaret Thatcher. Taking offi... Read More about Thatcher breaks consensus.

The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth (2019)
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the work of Shaun Bloodworth. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1614799

Presenting a posthumous consideration of the work of photographer Shaun Bloodworth with a focus on his use of the urban landscape, this photo essay argues that there is a connection between figure and ground that defies conventional portraiture.... Read More about The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth.

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun (2019)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 940-942. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019856868

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun

Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2019). Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623500

This article examines the specificities of long-from improvised comedy performance (that is, long-from improv) within podcasting. It demonstrates how the podcast medium’s technologies, together with related cultural conventions, motivate performers t... Read More about Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture.

“I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy (2019)
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Nigri, L. (2019). “I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy. Skenè (Verona), 5(1), https://doi.org/10.13136/sjtds.v5i1.222

In eighteenth-century Italy negative responses to Shakespeare’s plays are not to be found exclusively in matters of aesthetics, but in the country’s political and cultural subordination to France. It is not surprising, then, that a new strand in the... Read More about “I have translated from the English”. Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century Italy.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
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Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

Andy Hollingworth’s online museum of comedy (2019)
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Edge, B. (2019). Andy Hollingworth’s online museum of comedy. Comedy Studies, 10(1), 137-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610x.2019.1592293

Andy Hollingworth is a British photographer, renowned for his portraits of leading practitioners in the UK comedy industry. His work has featured in national publications and his exhibition work includes items in the National Portrait Gallery’s colle... Read More about Andy Hollingworth’s online museum of comedy.

Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry (2019)
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Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry. Arts, 8(2), 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020057

This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as... Read More about Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry.

Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair (2019)
Journal Article
Murphy, C. (2019). Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair. Intelligence and National Security, 34(5), 668-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1595466

While there is a considerable literature that considers post-1945 British intelligence historiography, little attention has been given to non-print media, such as factual depictions of intelligence affairs broadcast on television or radio. Using pr... Read More about Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair.