Recent publications

Recent publications

Some recent publications:

  • Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 (Yale University Press, 2018, pbk 2022), 300pp.  And audiobook.
  • ‘The Day the World Turned Upside Down’, BBC History Magazine (November 2018), Supplement: 24-page Armistice Magazine, pp. 4-9.
  • ‘The Armistice bacchanal’, The New Statesman (4 November 2018), pp. 42-3.
  • ‘Let us see to it that we guard the peace’, The Tablet (10 November 2018), pp. 4-5.
  • ‘The Day of Victory: Gloucestershire and its Poets at the Armistice’, Dymock Poets and Friends (2019), pp. 101-4.
  • ‘”I should want nothing more”: Edward Thomas and simplicity‘, Journal of the British Academy (November 2019), open access (reprinted in The Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletter, 83, January 2020).
  • ‘Capturing Home: British First World War Poetry’, British Literature in Transition, 1900-1920: A New Age?, ed. James Purdon (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 122-35.
  • ‘“Pike, Popler, Oram, and Fatt”: Exploring Churchyards, Graves and Epitaphs with Edward Thomas’, Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletter, 87 (January 2022), pp. 26-8.
  • ‘“That remoter, changeless England”: Walter de la Mare and Edward Thomas’, Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals, ed. Yui Kajita, Angela Leighton and A.J. Nickerson, Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 95 (Liverpool University Press, 2022), pp. 77-94.
  • ‘Edward Thomas and the Mundays of East Meon’, Edward Thomas Fellowship Newsletter, 89 (January 2023), pp. 16-21.
  • ‘Edward Thomas (1878-1917)’, A History of World War One Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), pp. 350-64.