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The Prisoner of War and Civilian Internment Camp Encyclopedia
Full text linkDespite their being around 180 prisoner of war and civilian internment camps in Japan during the Second World War, little is known about them and few publications trace their history. This paper explains the Japanese-language Prisoner of War and Civilian Internment Camp Encyclopedia, a product of over two decades of research by the POW Research Network Japan. This was the first comprehensive Japanese language publication on these camps and was released in late 2023. This note describes its background, sources, and structure, and the authors’ hopes that it will becomes a key source for researching and learning about Japan’s history of internment
Anoma Pieris and Lynne Horiuchi, The Architecture of Confinement: Incarceration of the Pacific War
Full text linkDid professionals talk logistics? Officer education at the British Army Staff College, 1903–1914
Full text linkThis article examines the education in the fields of supply and transportation provided to officers at the British Army’s Staff College. Drawing upon materials produced by those who taught and studied at the College between the South African War and the First World War, this article argues that the importance of logistical issues to military operations was clearly understood within the British Army, and considerations of supply and transportation matters were key components of the syllabus. However, its success was limited by an inability to correctly anticipate the character of the war that broke out in August 1914. 
The Equine Learning Curve: Horses and mules in British Army transport services during the First World War
Full text linkThis article combines research methodologies from military history and animal studies to write equines into the history of the First World War. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate how considering the animal perspective can advance our understanding of conflict at an individual and operational level. It proposes that the horses and mules used in British Army transport services were not just passive victims as they are often portrayed, but sentient beings who played an active role in operations
‘The Forgotten Ones’. Finding and Recruiting the Men on the Ground for the Royal Flying Corps During the First World War
Full text linkWhen the First World War began the Royal Flying Corps was just two years old and over the next four years it changed beyond all recognition. To successfully support the Army, the RFC recruited almost 300,000 non-officers, the vast majority for service on the ground and, for most, service in Britain. While their roles were less glamourous than the so-called ‘aces’ who dominate the historiography, the service would not have existed without them. This article explains how the RFC found multiple ways to attract sufficient manpower to successfully prosecute Britain’s first war in the air
Michelle Tusan, The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East
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Neo-Victorian Romanticism and Decadence: The Reconceptualization of Realism from John Henry Newman to James Stephens
Full text linkThis article explores the resurgence of Romantic aesthetics during the late nineteenth century, and assesses such a resurgence as a neo-Victorian phenomenon. Firstly, the argument tackles realism as the dominant formal and conceptual register of the Victorian Age, investigating in particular the reconceptualization of social realism put forth by decadent artists such as Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater, and by Irish modernist writer James Stephens (1880-1950). Secondly, such a reconceptualization is assessed as a reworking of theoretical principles set forth during the Victorian Age by John Henry Newman. Finally, an overview of such principles, largely based on Romantic premises such as idealism and immaterialism, is provided so as to bring into focus the reception of Newman’s ‘aesthetic idealism’ during decadence and High Modernism
Variations of Decadence: Reflections on Julian Barnes’ The Man in the Red Coat
Full text linkWhy are we drawn to decadence? The reasons would surely be self-evident, the volupté quality of decadence not being the least of them. Nevertheless, there is some value in asking the question. It prompts reconsideration of various assumptions on the allure of decadence. Additionally, it provokes reflection on why we might be drawn away from decadence. This article looks at those issues in the context of reference to variations of decadence, not overlooking the insights that might be derived from a more or less straightforward, vernacular understanding of the term. Among the writers referred to are Spenser, Pope, Johnson, Arnold and E. M. Forster, but the argument centres on discussion of Julian Barnes’s The Man in the Red Coat (2019). Possibly best described as an example of documentary essayism, The Man in the Red Coat is about the figure, previously largely overlooked, of Samuel Jean Pozzi: an eminent gynaecologist and ‘scientific rationalist’ who moved easily within the circles of Belle Epoque Paris and was well-acquainted with many of the celebrités within decadence and aestheticism. This article argues that in portraying the man and his complex relation with that tradition, the volume offers both finely researched and stylishly inventive ground for reappraisal of decadence and of the reasons why, like Pozzi, we might hold some distance from it even while being beguiled by it