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Architects of the Resurrection
Ailtirí na hAiséirghe and the Fascist ‘New Order’ in Ireland
R. M. Douglas
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The becoming of bodies
Girls, images, experience
Rebecca Coleman
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Truth recovery in Northern Ireland
Critically interpreting the past
Kirk Simpson
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News
THE MAGDALEN LAUNDRIES AND THE RYAN COMMISSION REPORT
James M. Smith, author of Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment, writes in our blog from the heart about victims of the Magdalen Laundries.
Click here to read it.
RECOGNITION FOR CARERS
National Carers Week runs from the 8th of June to the 14th and is a UK wide initiative to heighten the awareness of the needs of carers.
John Costello, author of the newly published Caring for Someone with a long-term illness has written a blog to celebrate the start of carers week.
DESTINATION AUSTRALIA WINS PRIZE
Congratulations to Eric Richards, who has won the Community Relations Commission Award at the 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards, for his book Destination Australia:Migration to Australia since 1901.
Click here for more information contained in our blog post about the awards.
THES BOOK OF THE WEEK
Congratulations to Angela John, author of Evelyn Sharp, which is the THES Book of the Week this week!
Check out the blog for more info.
Great reviews of Sandra Cavallo's book
Artisans of the body in early modern Italy has been getting some great press - check out our blog post to see what has been said about it.
Click here for more info on the title and to read a free sample chapter.
NEW series launched at PSA conference
The new Perspectives on Democratic Practice series, which already includes nine titles, was launched during the annual PSA conference, held at The University of Manchester last week. Editors Wyn Grant and Shirin M. Rai were on hand to answer questions and provide more information about the series.
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NEW OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL
We are very proud to announce the launch issue of Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal has now been published.
This is an open access journal, published by Manchester University Press and edited and compiled by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre. It is free to view. Please support it by spreading news of this important journal.
To read the journal click here.