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Empathy and Historical Learning in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour (2023)
Book Chapter
Hiriart, J. (2023). Empathy and Historical Learning in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour. In E. Champion, & J. F. H. Vera (Eds.), Assassin’s Creed‹ in the Classroom, History’s Playground or a Stab in the Dark? (133--150). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111253275-007

This chapter explores the integration of empathy and historical learning in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour (VDT). By introducing mission quests in VDT, the game establishes empathic connections between players and historical characters, pre... Read More about Empathy and Historical Learning in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Discovery Tour.

‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army (2023)
Book Chapter
Blackstone, K. (2023). ‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army. In Waging War in America 1775-1783 (55-74). Helion Press

Studies of the campaigns of the 1775–1783 American War for Independence often suffer from a lack of understanding of the operational aspects of the armies involved. This collection of essays looks at many facets of military operations in America, sho... Read More about ‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army.

'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary (2023)
Book Chapter

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of... Read More about A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary.

The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’ (2023)
Book Chapter

This paper examines Salford’s attempt to re-invent itself as a culture and media centre with an emphasis on the role of civic identities and cultural dissonance. The spatial turn in historical and cultural studies has provoked a return to the idea of... Read More about The Classic Slum? Heritage Discourses, Ideologies of Transition and the Remaking of Post-Industrial Salford (1985-2021)’.

Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses recent evidence of efforts by broadcast players to move into personal mobile communications through the delivery of broadcast content to smartphones. It explores innovation strategies related to the broadcast distribution channe... Read More about Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications..