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Astonishingly Accurate British Intelligence in the American War of Independence
Full text linkAn unsigned, undated document among the General Sir Henry Clinton Papers at the University of Michigan William C. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan, demonstrates that the British possessed remarkable, accurate intelligence on the Continental Army’s order of battle and command structure. Curiously, Crown officers added derogatory nicknames denoting their understanding of the senior Rebel generals’ predominant character traits. Neither the senior general assessments nor the command structure intelligence led to sustainable battlefield advantages. Still, it aided unit identification during General Howe’s Spring 1777 New Jersey campaign and may have contributed to the British victory at Brandywine later that year
The Hessian Cloth ‘Parajute’ of the Second World War
Full text linkThe Second World war in India and Burma was principally a ground campaign, prosecuted in large part with supply by air, both air landing and air dropping. Distance from the UK and other factors required GHQ India develop domestic capabilities to be partially self-sufficient. The war in India and Burma has received much less coverage than elsewhere and there are gaps in what has been published. Coverage of the supply parachute situation, critical to air dropping, is one of those gaps, with official and personal books and articles mostly focusing attention on a failed substitute, the hessian cloth parachute, at the expense of the locally produced and massively successful cotton cloth parachute
John Kiszely, General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat. A New Biography
Full text linkThe Regio Esercito’s Fatalities, 1940-1943
Full text linkThe Italian Royal Army (Regio Esercito) fought no less than seven conventional campaigns against five opponents on two continents between 10 June 1940 and 8 September 1943, and in which around 133,667 servicemen died or went missing. Compared to the death toll of Italy’s First World War, from May 1915 to November 1918, this is a surprisingly low figure. It is also a misleading and superficial figure as each campaign had its own lethal dynamic. Based on the few Italian sources available, this note compares the fatality rates for the campaigns and highlights downplayed facts and unknowns; and advocates for further and innovative research in the Albo d’Oro della Seconda Guerra Mondiale
Lafcadio Hearn: Guest Editor’s Introduction
Full text linkIn a review of Lafcadio Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan in 1894, an anonymous critic in the New York Daily Tribune praised the collection’s ‘wealth of wondrously artistic prose’, noting that ‘the influence of the French decadents is apparent’ in the ‘vivid word-coloring’ of Gautier and the ‘impressionism of Verlaine’.[i] Hearn’s writing, he suggested, ‘seeks to make words minister to all the senses’, so that the ‘printed page must convey color, sound, odor, and glimpses of more ethereal things’.[ii] When the review reached Hearn – then 7,000 miles away in Kōbe, Japan – he was not impressed. In a letter to his friend Ellwood Hendrick, he complained that he was ‘vexed’ by the ‘curious’ suggestion that his style bore the traces of ‘the decadents’. ‘Never read a line of Verlaine in my life’, he insisted, ‘and only know enough of the decadent school to convince me that the principle is scientifically wrong, and that to study the stuff is mere waste of time’.[iii]
[i] ‘A Dreamer in Japan: Mr Hearn’s Arcadia in the Orient’, New York Daily Tribune (28 October 1894), p. 14.
[ii] Ibid.
[iii] Lafcadio Hearn, Letter to Ellwood Hendrick (December 1894), in The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by Elizabeth Bisland, 2 vols (Houghton, Mifflin, 1906), II, pp. 187–88
Notes on Contributors
Full text linkNotes on Contributors to Volupté 8.1, Lafcadio Hearn (Autumn 2025
Cawthorn, Auchinleck and British Countermeasures against the Indian National Army
Full text linkThis article challenges the depiction of the Indian National Army (INA) as either having played a direct and central military role in India’s independence struggle, or as an irrelevance in the fighting in Asia after 1942. It argues that British fears about the INA’s psychological threat to the Indian Army’s loyalty persuaded the Commander in Chief India (C-in-CI), General Claude Auchinleck, to sponsor a series of countermeasures named JOSH (pronounced JOASH), and the Director of Military Intelligence (DMI), Major General W. J. Cawthorn, to champion a policy that would have profound implications in 1945 and arguably accelerated the end of British Rule in India, the Raj
The Case for Case Studies: Art psychotherapy as a feminist methodology with women in prison
Full text linkThe castigation and criminalising of women is a systemic catastrophe that cannot be understood only through a standardised positivist methodology. Forensic art psychotherapy case studies seek to utilise stories and images to reframe misogynistic public perceptions of criminalised women as “unnatural” and “monstrous” by visualising their experience as complex and layered. This paper advocates for the inherent importance of case studies as a significant feminist methodology in understanding the value of art psychotherapy, the fundamental importance of ethical considerations including consent, and the explicit acknowledgment of power, prejudice and human fallibility. It concludes with a criminalised individual’s reflections on her own art psychotherapy experience in prison. This privileges her voice and evidences the value of feminist research methodologies that include listening, embodiment, relationality, reflexivity, emotions and intersectionality, as critical additions to classic case study psychodynamic interpretation.
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Art psychotherapy, women, prison, reflexivity, embodiment, emotio
Working with the ‘Glasgow Effect’ in Art Therapy through a Whole-School Approach
Full text linkThe realities of poverty and deprivation extend across the globe, often to an extent that creates despair in communities, where the tension and violence amongst its individuals are palpable and the emotional suffering is passed down from generation to generation. This is the reality of a community in Glasgow, a major industrial city in the west of Scotland. Thus, in this paper I will describe a whole-school art therapy service, presenting three art therapy vignettes that illustrate how this model addressed the complex needs of the children, and how art therapy supported them to express and understand their experiences and developed a sense of integration. The art therapy work is contextualised through reference to the children’s community throughout the paper using the voice and experience of the art therapist.
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poverty, community conflict, gangs and violence, whole-school approach, children and art therap