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Michael Talbot's work examines a number of topics in Ottoman history from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, with a general interest in Ottoman relations and interactions with the wider world. Photo Credit: Leslie MacDonald Gill, C
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Gavin Rand
Associate Professor of History
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Article
Rose, Sebastian and , (2022), Thomas Simpson, The Frontier in British India: Space, Science and Power in the Nineteenth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 298. ISBN 978-1-1088-7915-6. £75.00 (hardback).. Wiley - Cambridge University Press. In: , , , . Wiley - Cambridge University Press, British Journal for the History of Science, 55 (2) . pp. 250-251 ISSN: 0007-0874 (Print), 1474-001X (Online) (doi: https://www.bshs.org.uk/).
Rand, Gavin and , (2022), Decolonising the immortal heritage: Empire, war and history in contemporary Britain. Society for the History War - All Souls College Oxford. In: , , , . Society for the History War - All Souls College Oxford, Society for the History War . pp. 1-5 (doi: https://www.show.org.uk/post/decolonising-the-immortal-heritage-empire-war-and-history-in-contemporary-britain).
Talbot, Michael , Caldwell, Anne, Emmott, Chloe (2020), Perceiving Palestine: British visions of the Holy Land. In: , , , . , Jerusalem Quarterly, 82 . pp. 50-76 ISSN: 0334-4800 (Print), (doi: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1650278).
Taylor, Vanessa Jane and , (2020), Gender and agency in the Anthropocene: energy, women, and the home in Twentieth-Century Britain. Rachel Carson Center (RCC). In: , , , “Women and Energy,” edited by Abigail Harrison Moore and Ruth Sandwell, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Societ. Rachel Carson Center (RCC), Munich RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 2020/1 (1) (1st) . pp. 11-15 ISSN: 2190-5088 (Print), 2190-8087 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9065).
Martin, Mary Clare and , (2019), Catechizing at home, 1740-1870: Instruction, communication, denomination. Cambridge University Press. In: , , , . Cambridge University Press, Studies in Church History, 55 . pp. 256-273 ISSN: 0424-2084 (Print), 2059-0644 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/stc.2018.31).
Book section
Martin, Mary Clare and , (2020), Learning at home: Class, religion, gender and family. Routledge. In: , , In: Joachim Eibach, Margareth Lanzinger (eds.), The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe: 16th to 19th Centur. Routledge, (1st) . ISBN: 9780367143671 (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Conference item
Martin, Mary Clare and , (2020), Christian socialism and voluntary action: feminism, suffrage and politics, 1880-1950. In: Voluntary Action History Society seminar, 10 Feb 2020, London, UK , . , (doi: https://www.vahs.org.uk/).
Martin, Mary and , (2019), Religion and adolescence from 1700-1900: autonomy, ritual and community. In: 12th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past: Rebels Without a Cause? Accessing and Exploring Adolescents/Adolescence in the Past, 30 Oct - 01 Nov 2019, Sheffield, UK , . , (doi: ).
Working paper
Rand, Gavin , Williams, George, Madra, Amandeep (2020), The 'Punjab Registers' & Indian Army casualities in the First World War. Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Non-Commemorated Committee. In: , , , . Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Non-Commemorated Committee, Beaurains, France (doi: https://www.cwgc.org/non-commemoration-report/).