We have worked with broadcasters and filmmakers to entertain, interest and inform viewers and listeners. In some cases the books we have written have reached large global audiences, generating discussion, review and wide impact. Culture, Religion, and Mental Health: Asia and the UK Dr Chris Harding’s work has contributed to public understanding about modern and contemporary Japan, in particular by helping to revise popular myths and misunderstandings about Japanese politics, wartime beliefs and behaviour, and social psychology. Listening to Britain’s wartime voices ‘Morale’ reports from 1940 are challenging popular perceptions of the Second World War and even informing today’s sustainable living debate. Paracuellos: the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Research undertaken by Dr Julius Ruiz on Paracuellos, the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish Civil War, has challenged traditional interpretations with his arguments entering national consciousness in Spain as a result of extensive media coverage. Republican terror in the Spanish Civil War Work by European History lecturer Dr Julius Ruiz has changed national consciousness in Spain, by challenging orthodox assumptions that Republican terror during the Spanish Civil War was the work of anarchist ‘uncontrollables’. Women in UK Policing since 1915 Research undertaken by Professor Louise Jackson has led to increased knowledge and understanding of the role of women in UK policing since the First World War, and has been widely disseminated in the media, particularly during the 2015 centenary commemorations of the employment of Edith Smith as the first woman police officer in Britain. This article was published on 2024-08-01
