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Armoured warfare : a military, political and global history (2017)
Book
Searle, D. (2017). Armoured warfare : a military, political and global history. London: Bloomsbury Academic

This book charts the history of armoured warfare from the first use of the tank in 1916 right through to the 21st century, adopting military, political and global perspectives. Alaric Searle explores the origins of the tank, its role in the First Wor... Read More about Armoured warfare : a military, political and global history.

ProtectED Code of Practice: Introduction & Overview (2017)
Book Chapter
Wootton, A., Marselle, M., Davey, C., Nuttall, B., & Jones, T. (2017). ProtectED Code of Practice: Introduction & Overview. In ProtectED Code of Practice Self Assessment Workbook. University of Salford

Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs (2017)
Journal Article
Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.14

This paper considers the visions of Scottish identity projected in twenty-first century, post-devolution Scots literature, and seeks to read them against Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) which examines the protean identities of post-impe... Read More about Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs.

Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health (2017)
Book Chapter
McLaughlin, D., & Scott, J. (2017). Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health. In V. Baxter, & K. Low (Eds.), Applied Theatre : Performing Health and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury

This snapshot introduces an intermedial Practice as Research (PaR) project, exploring the intersections between live media practice, disability and health. As part of this collaborative work, we are seeking to discover new ways of formulating and ex... Read More about Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health.

Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director (2017)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K., & Willis, A. (2017). Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director. In N. Morris (Ed.), A Companion to Steven Spielberg (466-478). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118726747.ch26

This chapter looks at Steven Spielberg's career at different stages, considering how it can be read as emblematic of the rise of what might be termed the celebrity director. By the early 1970s, when a new young generation of directors found their way... Read More about Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director.

The year of the penguin (2017)
Journal Article
Bekerman, M. (2017). The year of the penguin

A reflection on the global political trends and aspects of discrimination in the current climate or right-wing tendencies and isolationism in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk) (2017)
Journal Article
Loubser, J. (2017). Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk). Journal of World Popular Music, 3(2), 289-295. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i2.28305

When the first edition of Christopher Ballantine’s Marabi Nights appeared in 1993, I was delighted. As a young musician at the time, this book, along with David Coplan’s In Township Tonight! South Africa’s Black City Music and Theatre (1985) and Veit... Read More about Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk).

Music/video (2017)
Book
Fairclough, K., & Goddard, M. (2017). Music/video. Bloomsbury Academic USA

Mismapping (2017)
Book Chapter
Kendall, J. (2017). Mismapping. In The Lie of the Land (1-9). Blaenau Ffestiniog: Liquorice Fish Books

A creative piece involving a mismapping methodology created by the author -mapping one walk onto another and creating a visual record of the result

The military papers and correspondence of Major-General J.F.C. Fuller, 1916-1933 (2017)
Book
Searle, D. (2017). D. Searle (Ed.), The military papers and correspondence of Major-General J.F.C. Fuller, 1916-1933. Stroud: The History Press

The contribution of Major-General J.F.C. Fuller to military thought cannot be understood without studying his military career closely from December 1916, with his transfer to the Heavy Branch, Machine-Gun Corps, to his retirement in December 1933. Wh... Read More about The military papers and correspondence of Major-General J.F.C. Fuller, 1916-1933.

Dal referendum costituzionale alle dimissioni di Renzi (2017)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2017). Dal referendum costituzionale alle dimissioni di Renzi. In A. Chiaramonte, & A. Wilson (Eds.), Politica in Italia. I fatti dell'anno e le interpretazioni. Edizione 2017 (143-166). Bologna: Il Mulino

On 4 December 2016, Italians voted on a significant constitutional reform proposal, only the third constitutional reform proposal in the history of the Italian Republic. The proposal promised to rewrite about a third of the Constitution. They were pr... Read More about Dal referendum costituzionale alle dimissioni di Renzi.