Dr Krysten Blackstone's Outputs (4)

Fulwood Barracks and the Garrison Town of Preston: Regional Identity, Local Regiments and Social Change, 1848-1948 (2025)
Thesis

British Army regimental histories have attracted a good deal of criticism among historians due to their partisan nature and their tendency to gloss over human error, poor command, or the actual nature of a campaign in which a regiment participated. I... Read More about Fulwood Barracks and the Garrison Town of Preston: Regional Identity, Local Regiments and Social Change, 1848-1948.

British Regimental Museums as a Place of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2024)
Book Chapter

‘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.

‘It is yet too soon to Write the History of the Revolution’: Fashioning the Memory of Thomas Paine (2019)
Book Chapter
Blackstone, K. (2019). ‘It is yet too soon to Write the History of the Revolution’: Fashioning the Memory of Thomas Paine. In J. Lovell, & S. Hitchmough (Eds.), Authenticity in North America: Place, Tourism, Heritage, Culture and the Popular Imagination. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The chapter addresses the construction of memory, the function of monuments and memorials, and their relationship to identity politics. The work focuses on the contested legacy of Thomas Paine within the United States. Once lauded as a patriot, subse... Read More about ‘It is yet too soon to Write the History of the Revolution’: Fashioning the Memory of Thomas Paine.