Britain's Antarctic Empire: How whales and imperialism created an Anglo-American 'Special Rivalry' in the Antarctic (1946-1949)
In this section you can find details of my Open Access personal research for (in descending order); the
Extreme Empire
Project
(Essays exploring the geopolitics, foreign relations and subjects lives of Imperial powers in the environmental or geographic extremes of their borderlands and outposts), Historical Essays (essays on wider history), Contemporary Analysis
(essays analysing current political, economic and international events), and
Using History
(essays on the history of history writing, and how history can, cannot, and is, used beyond merely 'relaying' the past).
Extreme Empire Project:
“Palmerston’s Opium War”?: The 1832 Reform Act, its attendant domestic contexts and their influence on the outbreak of the First Opium War (1839-42)
China, Britain and France: A geopolitical comparative analysis of the East and West's leading imperial powers (1644-1911)
‘[Shake?] at Royal Force’: British and Colonial soldier’s letters from the Boer War (1899-1902) and what they can say about Imperial and National Identities.
The Profit Drive: The innovative success of the Dutch Vereenigde Oost-Indische (VOC) as an imperial model (1602-1700)
Global Economic Integration, Gladstone’s Nightmare?: How did global integration contribute to increasing state intervention? (1870-1913)
Historical Essays:
The Chagos Islands Dispute: Britain's current and continuing engagement with imperialism
Is war, or the threat of war, a necessary factor for successful imperial decolonization?
Was the British Empire really ‘a most extraordinary achievement’? A sweeping overview of the British Empire’s form, function and legacy (1500-1956) to judge the veracity of Tony Blair’s 1997 claim
Roman Baths - More about 'being seen' than 'keeping clean'?
Contemporary Analysis:
The 2019 General Election Post-Mortem: The 'Red Wall' crumbling- Your guide to the consequences of the General Election (Part 1)
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The 2019 General Election Post-Mortem (Part 2): The rise of the SNP, fall of the Lib-Dems and Boris Johnson’s future juggling acts
Thumbnail artwork by SmokinDonut
Using History:
Rise and Stall? The Applied History Manifesto’s revival of Applied History
