Dr Nicholas Barnett's Outputs (11)

The British state-private network and way of life propaganda at the Anglo-Soviet trade fairs of 1961 (2025)
Journal Article

This article examines explores Britain the Soviet Union's reciprocal exhibitions in 1961. Using methods from diplomatic and cultural history the paper finds that, while typical of the cultural encounters that punctuated moments of Cold War crisis, th... Read More about The British state-private network and way of life propaganda at the Anglo-Soviet trade fairs of 1961.

Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism (2024)
Book

This book examines encounters between different cultures during the Global Age, outlining their historical, social, political, and economic contexts. Based around themes including tourism, migration, protest, display of cultures, and the examination... Read More about Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism.

Eating with the enemy: Cold War travellers in the Soviet Union (2023)
Book Chapter
Barnett, N. (2023). Eating with the enemy: Cold War travellers in the Soviet Union. In J. Dubino, O. Kocabiyik, & E. Marino (Eds.), War in Travel Literature (192-215). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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.

Britain's cold war : culture, modernity and the Soviet threat (2018)
Book

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.

Blurring boundaries in the cold war world (2017)
Journal Article
Barnett, N. (2017). Blurring boundaries in the cold war world. Journal of Contemporary History, 52(3), 764-775. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009417702605

Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
Journal Article

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

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.

Introduction: spies on British screens
Journal Article
Barnett, N., Crossley, L., & Burton, A. Introduction: spies on British screens. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 15(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0424