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From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s (2022)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2022). From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s. Contemporary British History, 36(3), 459-481. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2022.2100987

This article examines how the activist group Women for Life on Earth (WFLOE) attempted to persuade the USSR to ditch their nuclear weapons. The article finds that WFLOE began a women-led campaign and engaged with unofficial activists and ordinary... Read More about From Greenham Common to Red Square: women for life on Earth and cross-bloc activism in the 1980s.

Cold War Nostalgia in The Game (2018)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2018). Cold War Nostalgia in The Game. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(3), 436-452. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0431

This article explores how nostalgia for both the Cold War and the 1970s became a key feature of the BBC drama The Game (2014). It argues that the serial situated the Cold War as a more stable era in international relations in which the enemy played b... Read More about Cold War Nostalgia in The Game.

Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
Journal Article
Barnett, N., & Smith, E. (2017). Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960. Labour History Review, 82(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2017.3

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sect... Read More about Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960.

‘No protection against the H-bomb’ : press and popular reactions to the Coventry civil defence controversy, 1954 (2014)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2014). ‘No protection against the H-bomb’ : press and popular reactions to the Coventry civil defence controversy, 1954. Cold War History, 15(3), 2014. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682745.2014.968558

This article examines British popular and media reactions to America’s Bravo test shot in April 1954 and Coventry City Council’s subsequent decision to abandon Civil Defence. The article finds three key motifs emerged which relate to Britain’s broade... Read More about ‘No protection against the H-bomb’ : press and popular reactions to the Coventry civil defence controversy, 1954.

'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957 (2013)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2013). 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957. Media History, 19(2), 182-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2013.791419

This article traces the development of the British press narrative from the launching of Sputnik in October 1957 to the Soviets’ second satellite, containing a dog, in early November. It argues there was an initial outpouring of surprise, combined w... Read More about 'RUSSIA WINS SPACE RACE' : The British press and the Sputnik moment, 1957.