Journal of British Studies
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Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
📢New article in Forum: 1776 - Views from the British World 📗"The Loss of America and the Case for British India," by Tiraana Bains Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: The Loss of America and the Case for British India | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: The Loss of America and the Case for British India - Volume 65
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📢New article in Forum: 1776 - Views from the British World 📗"How the American Revolution Transformed the British Press and Its Readers," by Troy Bickham Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: How the American Revolution Transformed the British Press and Its Readers | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: How the American Revolution Transformed the British Press and Its Readers - Volume 65
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Upcoming JBS event! 💻"How I Wrote This" with Christian Liddy 📅September 24 ⏰8am PT/ 11am ET Christian Liddy joins @thenacbs.bsky.social and JBS editors to discuss the process of writing and revising an article for the journal. Info and RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
📢New article in JBS! 📗"Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85" by Jay R. Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England" by Sara Margaret Butler Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalists
Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85" by Jay R. Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England" by Sara Margaret Butler Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Weaponizing Death: Harassing the Clergy in Thirteenth-Century England - Volume 65
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1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65
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For the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social forum, "1776: Views from the British World," I wrote a short piece about the surprising significance of Church of Scotland ministers in the transatlantic American Revolution.
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: Ambivalent Independence: Scottish Dissent, Parliamentary Reform, and Britain's American Revolution | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
FORUM: 1776. Views from the British World: Ambivalent Independence: Scottish Dissent, Parliamentary Reform, and Britain's American Revolution - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"'Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?': Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain," by @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65
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Chuffed to see my article on feminist responses to the unemployment crisis of the 1980s out in JBS:
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Women, Where Are Your Jobs Going?”: Feminism and the Problem of Unemployment in Thatcher’s Britain - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"Killer Dust in the Classroom: Asbestos in Schools and the Urban-Environmental Politics of Risk in 1980s London" by Adam Page Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Killer Dust in the Classroom: Asbestos in Schools and the Urban-Environmental Politics of Risk in 1980s London | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Killer Dust in the Classroom: Asbestos in Schools and the Urban-Environmental Politics of Risk in 1980s London - Volume 65
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How did two retired British military officers make yoga a model for martial masculinity in the British Empire? Dive into "Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence" by Kate Imy in the Journal of British Studies from 2016. @kateimy.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Fascist Yogis: Martial Bodies and Imperial Impotence - Volume 55 Issue 2
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Ever wondered about the history of jodhpurs? Read more about the iconic equestrian staple from Tara Mayer's 2019 "One British Thing." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
One British Thing: Jodhpurs | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
One British Thing: Jodhpurs - Volume 58 Issue 2
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Thanks 'Journal of British Studies' for including my review of Diane Robinson Dunn's excellent, 'An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British State, 1900-20'. @jbritishstudies.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social @cambridgepress.cambridge.org @ucc.ie doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
Diane Robinson-Dunn. An Empire of Many Cultures: Bahá'ís, Muslims, Jews and the British state, 1900–20 Studies in Imperialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024. Pp. 272. $130.00 (cloth). ...
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For @jbritishstudies.bsky.social, I reviewed 'England's Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s' by David Matless: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
David Matless. England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 376. $30.00 (cloth). | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
David Matless. England’s Green: Nature and Culture since the 1960s Reaktion Books, 2024. Pp. 376. $30.00 (cloth). - Volume 65
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@thenacbs.bsky.social Great news about a @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article from January
Eamonn O’Keeffe@1812andallthat.bsky.social · 3mo agoPleasantly surprised to learn my January @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article was covered in a recent issue of Historie, a chain of Scandinavian history magazines! Check out doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... for my original "From Amputee to Author" article.
Delighted to see Liz Egan's "'A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant': Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca. 1865-1938" shortlisted for the RHS Early Career Article Prize. Congrats @lizegan.bsky.social ! You can read the article open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant”: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“A Lazy Mistress Makes a Lazy Servant”: Domestic Labor and White Creole Womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938 - Volume 64
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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo agoOver the next two weeks, we feature the 8 articles and 8 monographs shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today: 'Domestic labor and white Creole womanhood in Jamaica, ca.1865–1938', by Liz Egan, published in 'Journal of British Studies' #Skystorians 1/2
Pleasantly surprised to learn my January @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article was covered in a recent issue of Historie, a chain of Scandinavian history magazines! Check out doi.org/10.1017/jbr.... for my original "From Amputee to Author" article.
📢New article in JBS! 📗"'Captured at Sea': Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain" by Rebecca Earle Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Captured at Sea”: Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Captured at Sea”: Maritime Conflict and the Circulation of Art in Early Modern Britain - Volume 65
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📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World! Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.
Check out our editor Roey Sweet's latest article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Focusing on case studies of Shrewsbury, Chester, York, Coventry, and Bristol, Roey's article analyzes how the concept of the “historic town” emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century doi.org/10.1017/jbr....
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 - Volume 65
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Journal of British Studies@jbritishstudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago📢New article in JBS! 📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
📢New article in JBS! 📗"The 'Asian Mother and Baby Campaign': Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain," by Saima Nasar Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780-1850," by Rosemary Helen Sweet Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Invention of the English Historic Town: The Place of Vernacular Architecture, ca. 1780–1850 - Volume 65
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Feeling very honoured that my @jbritishstudies.bsky.social article has been shortlisted alongside so many other amazing pieces of research! 😊
Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 4mo agoThe Society is pleased to publish today the Shortlist of its 2026 Early Career Article Prize: bit.ly/4wEuVoW This year's list includes eight articles published in 2025 and follows an open call for submissions. Our two winners for this prize will be announced in July #Skystorians 1/2
I’m really pleased to see my article on “The Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” in the @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Many thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding this research. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65
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📢New article in JBS! 📗"Imperium in Imperio: The Peacetime Commander in Chief as a Linchpin of Colonial Reform," by Rachel Banke Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Imperium in Imperio: The Peacetime Commander in Chief as a Linchpin of Colonial Reform | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Imperium in Imperio: The Peacetime Commander in Chief as a Linchpin of Colonial Reform - Volume 65
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Our application for the NACBS/ NAVSA Early Career Network Collaboration is now open! This program will bring together precariously employed ECRs from both organizations, culminating in events at our conferences in Pasadena. More info and application: www.nacbs.org/early-career...
"Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England" New #openaccess article by our Dr Barry Hazley, co-authored with @jcrangle.bsky.social, Graham Dawson, Liam Harte + Fearghus Roulston in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
Anxieties of Belonging: Ulster Protestant Migrants and the Troubles in Late Imperial England - Volume 65
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📢Online book event! Join us next week to hear more about Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990 with Tal Zalmanovich. 📅May 7 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP here: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
Broadcasting Apartheid with Tal Zalmanovich | NACBS
Join NACBS to discuss Tal Zalmanovich’s recent book, Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990. Rachel Sandwell will join Tal for discussion.
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