Conflict and Revolution

S-M Grant, ‘“Hold the Fort”: Securing the Soldiers’ State in Nineteenth-Century America,’ in Frank Towers and Jewel Spangler (eds.), Continent in Crisis: The Civil War Era in a North American Context (New York: Fordham University Press, in press, 2022). 

S-M Grant, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The American Civil War,’ in Cathie Carmichael, Matthew D’Auria and Aviel Roshwald (eds.), The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press, 2022).  

Robert Dale, “Remobilizing the Dead: Wartime and Post-war Soviet Burial Practices and the Construction of the Memory of the Great Patriotic War,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter 2021), pp. 41-74.

S-M Grant, ‘Dere never wuz a war like dis war’: The WPA Narratives and the Emotional Echoes of the Civil War,’ Slavery and Abolition, 2021. Online: https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2021.1956193 

Susan-Mary Grant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice (New York: Routledge, 2016).

David Saunders, 'Icebreakers in Anglo-Russian Relations (1914-21)' International History Review, Vol. 38, No. 1 (January 2016), pp. 814-829.

Robert Dale, '"No longer normal”: Traumatized Red Army Veterans in Post-war Leningrad', in Peter Leese and Jason Crouthamel (eds),Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 119-141.

Robert Dale, '"Being a Real Man": Masculinities in Soviet Russia during and after the Great Patriotic War', in Corina Peniston-Bird and Emma Vickers (eds), Gender and the Second World War: The Lessons of War. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 116-134.

Susan-Mary Grant, 'Disembodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons, and the Medical Memories of Combat', in David Seed et al (eds), Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015), pp. 80-92.

Susan-Mary Grant, 'Civil War Cybernetics: Medicine, Modernity, and the Intellectual Mechanics of Union', in Lorien Foote and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (eds),'So Conceived and So Dedicated': Intellectual Life in the Civil War Era North (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015) pp. 41-63.

Robert Dale, Demobilized Veterans in Late Stalinist Leningrad: Soldiers to Civilians (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

Robert Dale, ‘Divided we Stand: Cities, Social Unity and Post-War Reconstruction in Soviet Russia, 1945–1953’, Contemporary European History, Vol. 24, No 4 (November 2015), pp. 493-516.

Rachel Hammersley (ed.), Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts(London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).

Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, 'Arson, Treason and Plot: Britain, America and the Law 1770-1777', History, Vol. 100, Issue 341 (2015), pp. 374-91.

Genealogies of Conflict
Newcastle Zoom Roundtable/Conflict & Revolution Research Strand

Wednesday 12^th May 2021, 10am - 4:30pm GMT

10:00am - 12:30pm, Morning Session: Children and 20^th Century Conflict Legacies

• Michael Roper: (Essex), Afterlives of the First World War Project – inter-generational transmission of the First World War past within families in the UK and Australia.
• Maggie Andrews: (Worcester), Children in WWII.
• Laura Tisdall: (Newcastle), ‘British Teenagers and the Cold War.’

2:00pm - 4:30pm, Afternoon Session: The Wider Landscapes of Conflict & Trauma 

• Rob Dale: (Newcastle), “Genealogies of Trauma in Russia and the Soviet Union”.
•  Andy Clark and Colin Atkinson: Newcastle & University of the West of Scotland), ‘”That was the point when I realised it wasn’t a military jet. It looked like a passenger airliner’: First Responder Narratives of the Lockerbie Terrorist Attack, 1988.’
• Rob Collins: (Newcastle), Long-term impact of conflict from Hadrian’s Wall onwards.
• Rachel Hammersley: (Newcastle), ‘Lingering Memories of Conflict over Newcastle's Town Moor.’

Genealogies of Conflict Programme (PDF: 3033KB)

The global challenge of peace - 1919 as a Contested Threshold to a New World Order 
A conference

17-18 May 2019

Room 2.16 Armstrong Building, Newcastle University 
Free admission, please register at 1919conference@gmail.com. This event is organised by Labour and Society Research Group and Conflict and Revolution Research Strand at Newcastle University.

Programme 
Friday 17 May 2019

12.30 – 13.00 Registration and Coffee 
13.00 – 14.30 Panel 1: The Dynamics of Contention in 1919. Chair: TBC 
Jacopo Perazzoli (University of Milan): The General Strike of July 1919: Lenin, Wilson and their Influences on Italian Socialism 
Jude Murphy (WEA) and Nigel Todd (WEA): How did military/civilian dynamics shape matters with the return and demobilisation of millions of military personnel? 
Gordon J. Barclay and Louise Heren (Independent Scholars): The Battle for George Square, 1919: myth, memory and reality in Red Clydeside 
14.30– 15.00 Tea and Coffee 
15.00 – 15.45 Keynote Lecture – Chair: Máire Cross Professor Tyler Stovall (University of California, Santa Cruz): The Black and the Red: the Elaine, Arkansas Massacre of 1919 
16.00 – 17.30 Panel 2: Contentious Politics from Below. Chair: TBC 
Professor Claudia Baldoli (University of Milan): “Do as in Russia”: The Italian Peasant Movement in 1919 
Matt Perry (Newcastle University): The 1919 mutinies in the French Armed Forces: Colonialism, Ethnicity and the Remaking of the French left 
Professor Máire Cross (Newcastle University): Blessed are the peacemakers! The presence of ideas of nineteenth-century French socialists in twentieth-century pacifism 
Reception/Dinner 

Saturday 18 May 2019

09.30 – 11.00 Panel 3: Colonialism and Race. Chair: Joe Redmayne 
Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University): Sylvia Pankhurst in 1919: Feminism, communism, and Interwar Internationalism 
Paul Griffin and Hannah Martin (Northumbria University): The “Race Riots” of 1919: Within and Beyond Exceptional Moments in Glasgow and South Shields 
Willow Berridge (Newcastle Univesity): Iraqi Perspective on Gertrude Bell 
11.00 – 11.30 Tea and Coffee 
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 4: Reaction and Non-Reaction. Chair: Rob Dale 
Christopher Loughlin (Newcastle University): The Forward March of Reactionary Working-Class Politics? Democratic Authoritarianism and “Modernity” in Britain and Ireland, 1919 
Professor Tim Kirk (Newcastle University): 1919: Revolution, Counter-revolution and Fascism in Austria 
Jeffrey Johnson (Providence College): The “Soviet Ark” in Context: The Buford and the Anti-Radicalism of 1919 
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 5: Transnational Interactions in 1919. Chair: Matt Perry 
Sarah Hellawell (Sunderland University): Women as Peacemakers: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich, 1919 
Megan Trudell (Newcastle University): Soldiers, Veterans and Volunteers for Gabriele D’annunzio’s occupation of Fiume 
Estela Rukseniene (Independent Scholar): British Military Missions as Intermediaries between Western Europe and Lithuania in 1919-1920s 
15.30 – 16.00 Closing Comments (Rob Dale)

Civil Wars workshop

This workshop hosted by Professor Stathis Kalyvas (Gladstone Professor of Government at All Souls College, University of Oxford) will be discussing and exploring ideas surrounding civil wars. Stathis Kalyvas is a recognised expert on issues of conflict, civil wars, insurgencies, political violence, and has theorised extensively on Civil Wars in a comparative manner. He is perhaps best known for his 2008 book The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press) and has a new book on Civil Wars to be shortly published with Polity Press.

The starting point for our discussion will be an article published by Stathis Kalyvas which we encourage you to read in advance of the workshop. The article’s details are Stathis N. Kalyvas, Civil Wars - Kalyvas World Politics 54, no. 1 (2001): 99-118.

Rebuilding Socialism: The Reconstruction of the Soviet Union and its Official Ideology through the Lens of Post-War Published Sources

Dr Rob Dale has been awarded a AHRC International Placement Scheme Fellowship to spend three months between July and September 2018 researching at the Library of Congress in Washington DC on a project entitled 'Rebuilding Socialism: The Reconstruction of the Soviet Union and its Official Ideology through the Lens of Post-War Published Sources'.

The project seeks to build on Dr Dale’s previous work on the post-war reconstruction of the Soviet Union, and the transition from war to peace in the late Stalinist period (1945–1953). Historians have long examined the Great Patriotic War’s profound effects upon Stalinism. In the wake of war, Soviet citizens anticipated that wartime sacrifice would be rewarded by the advent of a more responsive system. Hopes of reform, however, quickly turned to disappointment as the Stalinist system reversed wartime compromises. The project explores how the Soviet Union’s physical infrastructure was rebuilt in the wake of the Great Patriotic War, by a re-examination of Soviet published sources, particularly newspapers and official ideological journals. Physical reconstruction proceeded in parallel with the political, social, ideological and cultural re-imposition of Stalinism. The project examines the mechanisms by which Soviet propagandists rebuilt socialism on the pages of newspapers and journals published between 1945 and 1955. It examines how the physical reconstruction of Soviet society was connected to a post-war relaunch of socialism. It considers how the social and cultural process of rebuilding cities, towns, and villages, also drew people into the wider ideological and political project. In rebuilding the fabric of urban and rural society, Soviet citizens were also creating the future edifice of Socialism.

Dr Dale will be blogging on the progress of his research during his Fellowship throughout the duration of the award in the summer of 2018 at https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk/robertdale/

War, Revolution and Empire in Russian History: A Workshop in Honour of Professor David Saunders.

This Workshop on 10 May is to mark Professor David Saunders’ retirement at the end of this academic year and speaks to some of the key themes that run through his rich and diverse career. Professor David Saunders is amongst the longest serving members of staff in the school of History, Classics and Archaeology (he has been working here since 1979 – that’s 38 years!) and to mark his retirement the school will be holding an afternoon of discussions around these themes. The War, Revolution and Empire workshop details are here.

Workshop: Re-assessing R. I. Moore's Formation of a Persecuting Society (1987)

This event on 15 September intends to celebrate and assess the contemporary relevance of R. I. Moore’s ‘Formation of a Persecuting Society’, first publishes in 1987, for the current historiography of mediaeval and early-modern Europe. The workshop will be divided into four sessions: firstly on the relevance of the concept of a persecuting society in contemporary mediaeval studies; second its impact on the scholarship of early-modern Europe; third on the use of the concept beyond the chronology and geography of the original work; and finally on the legacy of R. I. Moore’s scholarship on the historiography of exclusion, orthodoxy / heterodoxy and identity politics in general. The event celebrates Newcastle's contribution to these fields of scholarship, and the continued importance of a retired member of the School, his contribution to scholarship worldwide, and the impact of his work through translation and adaptation in other contexts than mediaeval history.

Speakers include: Professor R. I. Moore (Newcastle, Emeritus), Professor Mark Pegg (Washington, St Louis), Professor Robin Briggs (Oxford, Emeritus), Professor Mark Greengrass (Sheffield, Emeritus), Dr Julien Théry-Astruc (Lyon II), and Dr Simon Yarrow (Birmingham).

For more information please email Luc Racaut (luc.racaut@newcastle.ac.uk)

Rebuilding Socialist cities: Reshaping urban space and life in Soviet Russia after 1943. Dr Robert Dale - Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 18 November 2016. 

On the fighting line: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, the Lochner Era Court, and the Dangers of Dissent. Professor Susan-Mary Grant – Newcastle Law School Seminar, March 2016.

Rebuilding the Socialist City: Urban Reconstruction in the Soviet Warzone after 1943. Dr Robert Dale - Reconstruction and Resettlement in the Wake of War: Global Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century to the Present – Workshop at Trinity College Dublin, 26/27 February 2016. 

The Kindness of Strangers: Soldiers, Surgeons, Civilians and the New Intimacies of the Battlefield in the American Civil War. Professor Susan-Mary Grant - Intimacies and Spaces Workshop – Passions of War Project – Leicester University, 19-20 February. 

The Reconstruction of Soviet Russia after the Great Patriotic War: Rural Housing, Soviet Subprime, and Landscapes of Memory. Dr Robert Dale – War, Society and Culture Seminar – Institute for Historical Research, London, 27 January 2016.

An Appealingly Eerie Happenstance: Links between North-East England and Russia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Professor David Saunders – Keynote Lecture – Study Group on the Russian Revolution XLII Annual Conference (Northumbria University), 7 January 2016.

The contraband’s death is more miserable than her life: Death, Disease and Domesticity in the Civil War South. David Bruce Centre Colloquium, The Civil War and Slavery Keele University, October 2015. 

Universal Yankee Nation: Securing the Soldiers’ State in Nineteenth-Century America. Professor Susan-Mary Grant, Remaking North American Sovereignty: Towards a Continental History of State Transformation in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Conference, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, July 2015.

(Dis)embodied Identities: Civil War Soldiers, Surgeons and the Medical Memories of Combat. Professor Susan-Mary Grant, Liverpool University/NLM Life and Limb Exhibition Conference, April 2015.