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“Out of the Blue”: The mirroring fallacy and the navies of today

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In the 1960s, the Soviet Navy was quietly recapitalising and expanding. As détente collapsed in the late 1970s, western analysts panicked as the Soviet Fleet patrolled the world ocean, supported socialist revolutions around the world and established naval bases astride vital maritime chokepoints such as the Bab-al-Mandeb and the Suez Canal. But the signs had been there all along. Under the visionary leadership of Admiral of the Soviet Union Sergei Gorshkov, the USSR had hankered after sea power for a generation.

"God is an Equal Opportunities Employer - Pity about the Church": Humour and the Campaign for Women's Ordination in the Church of England, 1978-1994

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Finally moving on? The Socialist Labour Party and the search for an electoral alternative to New Labour

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Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong

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Sir Cecil Clementi (金文泰) (1875-1947) arguably was the most scholarly and gifted of all Hong Kong’s 28 colonial governors. As a young official he quickly mastered Chinese and in 1904 published a scholarly translation of Zhang Ziyong’s （招子庸）(1786-1847）Cantonese Love Songs (粵謳), the laments of south China’s ‘flowerboat’ girls. He was also a tireless traveller and spy, undertaking an epic journey across China from Kashgar to Kowloon.

Transfer of Status Presentations

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*Eleri Hedley Carter*, ‘Meanings of the home, family, and the welfare state to women in late-modern Britain’

*Freya Willis*, ‘Who Cares? Social Care Workers’ Experiences of Work, Gender, and Class in England and Wales 1979-2010’

Transfer of Status Presentations

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*Gabrielle Davies*, ‘Building the New Wales?: National Identities and the Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Second World War Wales’

*Thomas Wang*, ‘Vitalizing the Heritage: Tradition and Conservatism in Cold War Britain, 1944-1990’

*Carys Howell*, ‘The 1956 Hungarian Refugee Crisis: Local, National and International Responses, 1956-1960’

Transfer of Status Presentations

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*Kenneth Wong*, ‘To Advise, Encourage, and Warn: The Private Secretary to the Sovereign, 1867-1953’

*Natalie Martz*, ‘Ice Men: Irish Polar Explorers of the Royal Navy from 1818-1860’

How Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?

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China’s economy is at a crossroads, facing its most significant challenges in recent memory. Amidst this economic turmoil, a fierce debate has emerged among leading experts: is the current economic downturn a result of ingrained structural issues, excessive state intervention, or escalating geopolitical tensions?

Reform UK’s rise may tempt Sunak into moving further right. Let the Netherlands be a cautionary tale

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Hallelujah Lulie Wondimu

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I am a doctoral candidate interested in nationalism, democratization and security. My DPhil project explores the nexus between nationalism and citizenship in the Horn of Africa. I am researching how nationalist movements negotiate citizenship in multinational states, and what shapes and changes their conception of nationhood, statehood and self-determination. The research builds on my study as a MSc student in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) specializing on nationalism and democratization.

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