Described as ‘the first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after the two world wars of the twentieth century’, Clive Emsley’s Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914 was published by Oxford University Press in January 2013.
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Dr Catherine Lee, who studied for her PhD in the department, has recently published a monograph based on her thesis research. Policing Prostitution, 1856–1886: Deviance, Surveillance and Morality was published in Pickering and Chatto’s Perspectives in Economic and Social History series.
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Sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies, the Economic History Society and the Social History Society, this one day colloquium will be held at the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies. Full details of the programme and a registration form are available from the British and Irish History research group website. The deadline for registration is 29 October 2012.
Congratulations are due to Alice Smalley, a History research student, who won the Arts category in the recent OU Postgraduate Poster Competition and goes forward to compete in the Midlands Hub final on 12 July. Her entry demonstrated the use of GIS to determine where crimes reported in the 19th-century illustrated Police News actually took place.
The History of Medicine research group will hold its third workshop on 4 July 2012 at The Open University in London. Attendance is free, but places are limited, so please email Yvonne Bartley to reserve a place by 20 June. Further details and the workshop programme are available online.
The History of Medicine research group will hold its third workshop on 4 July 2012 at The Open University in London. Attendance is free, but places are limited, so please email Yvonne Bartley to reserve a place by 20 June. Further details and the workshop programme are available online.
Dr Hack’s War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012) has just been published.
Further information about this book is available from NUS Press’s website. He presented some of its findings to a public audience of more than 200 at Singapore’s Supreme Court, on 16 February 2012 at an academic conference on The Causes and Impact on the Fall of Singapore.
Dr Janice Holmes has been awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award valued at £54,500 to be run in partnership with the Irish Temperance League from 2013 to 2016.
Empire is a major five-part series telling the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the Empire but also the complex effects of the Empire on the modern world – political, technological and social – and on Britain.
Members of the Empire: 1492-1975 (A326) module team assisted in the preparation of the series and some of the content and activities associated with it. Karl Hack, A326 chair, wrote the text for the free wallchart to accompany the series. RSVP Empire, an interactive Empire themed activity, was written by A326 Associate Lecturer, John Kirkaldy.
To find out more, order a free Empire poster or play Empire interactive, go to: www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/empire.
Rodney Harrison’s article ‘Excavating Second Life: Cyber-Archaeologies, Heritage and Virtual Communities’ published in Journal of Material Culture 2009 14: 75 was the most downloaded article in 2010 in this journal (of all articles published in 2009 and 2010).
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