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The University of Chester is one of only a small number of UK universities to have its own publishing operation. Founded in 2001 and launched as the University of Chester Press in 2011, the aim is to disseminate excellent original research and creative work from within the University, together with publications with a significant relationship to the history, life and culture of Chester and its surrounding area.

Managed by an Editorial Board and supported by a critical peer review process, the University of Chester Press seeks to ensure that the University’s core value of excellence in learning, teaching, research and innovation is evident throughout its list of publications. The Press aims to provide authors with a cost-effective means of publishing their research, together with a personal approach.

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2017 Titles...... 4 2016 Titles...... 6 2015 Titles...... 9 2014 Titles...... 13 2013 Titles...... 16 2012 Titles...... 18 2011 Titles...... 20

Chester Academic Press (before 2011)...... 23 Cheshire Prize for Literature Anthologies ...... 23 General Titles ...... 26 Issues in the Social Sciences...... 29 Publications about the University...... 31 Public Lectures ...... 33 Ordering Information/Contact Details...... 35

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Jonathon Louth and Martin subjectivities. Taking in nations and Potter (Editors), Edges of Identity: citizenship, urban transformation, Neoliberal Subjectivities, 2017, gender, work, (dis)ability, sexual ISBN 978-1-908258-24-3, £18 .99 . performance and cognitive function, this volume demonstrates the Edited by Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter Potter Martin and Louth by Jonathon • Edited Subjectivities Neoliberal of Production The Identity: of Edges ISS Issues in the Social Sciences: 10 In recent decades astonishing scope of neoliberalism

In recent decades neoliberalism has emerged as the ruling economic, political and cultural ideology of our time. Originally construed as an economic philosophy, neoliberalism is better understood today as a neoliberalism has to inform and delimit our identities broad worldview that emphasises free-market policies, deregulation, individualism, self-management and personal resilience at the expense of more collective, social-democratic policies and principles. Neoliberalism is a pervasive ideology that has shaped our lives for more than 40 years, from the wide-ranging organisational structures of our global economy to our most intimate bodily practices. In this engaging and accessible volume, Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter bring together researchers working in and across Europe, Asia, emerged as the on both macro and micro levels of Australia and North America to elucidate on the manifold ways in which neoliberalism produces our subjectivities. Taking in nations and citizenship, urban transformation, gender, work, (dis)ability, sexual performance and cognitive function, this volume demonstrates the astonishing scope of neoliberalism to inform and delimit our identities on both macro and micro levels of social and personal life. Combining thoughtful theoretical accounts with fascinating fieldwork and spanning areas of inquiry including the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ruling economic, social and personal life. Combining Pakistan, Cambodia, Japan and Australia, Edges of Identity provides a remarkable collection of global perspectives on the impact of neoliberalism in contemporary international contexts. This tenth volume in the Issues in the Social Sciences series is an absorbing introduction to the practical affects and lived realities of neoliberal ideology that will appeal both to readers encountering neoliberalism for the first time and expert scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities. political and thoughtful theoretical accounts cultural ideology with fascinating fieldwork and Edges of Identity:

University of Chester Press CHESTER Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ The Production of Neoliberal Subjectivities +44 (0)1244 513305 www.chester.ac.uk/university-press Price: £18.99 Edited by Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter of our time. spanning areas of inquiry including Cover photographs: Khvay Samnang, from the photo series Human Nature, 2010–2011. Originally the UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina, construed as an economic Pakistan, Cambodia, Japan and philosophy, neoliberalism is better Australia, Edges of Identity provides understood today as a broad a remarkable collection of global worldview that emphasises free- perspectives on the impact of market policies, deregulation, neoliberalism in contemporary individualism, self-management international contexts. and personal resilience at the expense of more collective, social- This tenth volume in the Issues democratic policies and principles. in the Social Sciences series is Neoliberalism is a pervasive an absorbing introduction to ideology that has shaped our lives the practical affects and lived for more than 40 years, from the realities of neoliberal ideology wide-ranging organisational that will appeal both to readers structures of our global economy to encountering neoliberalism for the our most intimate bodily practices. first time and expert scholars in the In this engaging and accessible Social Sciences and Humanities. volume, Jonathon Louth and Martin Potter bring together researchers Reviews: working in and across Europe, Asia, Edited volumes can be highly uneven Australia and North America to in their quality and focus. This elucidate on the manifold ways in collection is an exception. Louth which neoliberalism produces our and Potter have done readers a great service in collating a diverse but focused group of scholars who

4 successfully capture the manifold way across choppy, hazardous dimensions of neoliberalism/ waters. They take us with them neoliberalisation across competing over to the other side, and when times, spaces, and scales. Readers we look back we can hardly with an interest in the far too all believe the voyage we have made. pervasive construction of neoliberal Yet somehow they have kept us subjectivities should direct their safe and brought us to a fresh attention to this collection. understanding of our lives. There Dr Stuart Shields, Senior are many different kinds of poem Lecturer in Politics, University of to be found here, crossing back Manchester, UK. and forth, making a rich tapestry of voices, opening new ways into Louth and Potter have curated a those areas which have always remarkably diverse, yet coherent been the territory of poetry: love, collection of contributions that death, nature, relationships, age, investigate how markets shape us politics, and indeed poetry itself. and the societies we live in. This is They encompass a wide range of a volume for students and scholars tone, from regretful to celebratory, alike who want to better understand lyrical to comic, dramatic to how neoliberalism is imbricated into reflective. Every poem tells a story, our everyday. or rather shows us a story, since Professor Timothy Doyle, poetry so often thinks in imagery. Department of Politics and The poems talk to one another in a International Studies, University kind of ongoing dialogue. When of Adelaide, Australia. reading this collection, it is difficult not to feel astonished by the different connections and Ian Seed (Editor), Crossings Over: relationships that emerge between Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for them. Each poem stands on its Literature 2016, 2017, own, yet as we read on (best done ISBN 978-1-908258-31-1, £10 .99 . out loud), the different voices combine to make a kind of choral The poems music, which lingers in our hearts gathered in this and minds. anthology are not unlike small, yet hardy

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POETRY FROM THE CHESHIRE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2016 Edited by Ian Seed navigating their

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Sharon M . Varey and Graeme J . Chester Society for Landscape White (Editors), Landscapes Past History, whose thirtieth anniversary and Present: Cheshire and Beyond, this volume marks, that the balance 2016, ISBN 978-1-908258-28-1, is being redressed. The book offers £12 .99 . a well-edited and well-illustrated collection of eight papers covering

Stretching from the Peak District to the Welsh border and the Irish Sea, Cheshire has a rich diversity of landscapes, some of which it shares with neighbouring counties. This volume, which marks the 30th anniversary of Chester Society LANDSCAPES LANDSCAPES PAST AND PRESENT: CHESHIRE AND BEYOND AND CHESHIRE PRESENT: AND PAST LANDSCAPES Stretching from diverse aspects of the historic county for Landscape History, celebrates that diversity, both in and beyond Cheshire, through a series of papers based on members’ original research. It covers features PAST AND PRESENT dating from the twelfth century to the twentieth, all of which can still be seen CHESHIRE AND BEYOND today. These range in topic from moats, field patterns and way-markers to historic buildings, developing towns and lost airfields. It also includes a discussion of the the Peak District and beyond. appeal of landscape history as a subject. to the Welsh Nick Higham, The Local Historian, border and the 2017, July p. 254.

Edited by Sharon M. Varey and Graeme J. White J. Graeme and Varey M. by Sharon Edited Irish Sea,

Readers of the volume might also be interested in Landscape History Discoveries in the North West, by the same editors. Cheshire has a

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+44 (0)1244 513305 Edited by Sharon M. Varey www.chester.ac.uk/university-press rich diversity of Derek Halbert and Hayley Price £12.99 (paperback) and Graeme J. White landscapes, Whitaker, Advocacy and Public some of which it shares with Speaking: A Student’s Introduction, neighbouring counties. This 2016, ISBN 978-1-908258-27-4, volume, which marks the 30th £12 .99 . anniversary of Chester Society for

This book is intended to give practical advice to anyone embarking upon and PublicAdvocacy Speaking a career involving advocacy or public speaking. Its authors are Derek Advocacy and Landscape History, celebratesHalbert and Hayley Whitaker from the University thatof Chester Law School. This book is Derek spent 24 years as a member of the bar in chambers in Chester Public Speaking and then more than 20 years as a Circuit Judge until his retirement in September 2015. In October 2015 he was appointed an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Law and it is estimated that during his 44 years as a member of the legal profession, he made or listened to approximately 56,000 diversity, both in and beyondspeeches. Hayley is also a member of the bar of England and Wales and A Student ’s intended to give a Lecturer in Law. She is the tutor with responsibility for Advocacy and Public Speaking and so has considerable expertise in the needs of students in this area. Introduction

Cheshire, through a seriesThe combined experience of the authors forms the basis of this book and Derek Halbert and practical advice they cover topics such as: twelve rules for speaking in public, how to Hayley Whitaker prepare a speech, how to prepare a case for court, how to research and present a legal argument, examination in chief, cross-examination, ethics papers based on members’and professional conduct and alternative dispute resolution. Derek Halbert and Hayley Whitaker to anyone The result is a book which is, in the words of The Rt Hon. The Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Kt, PC, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales:

‘an indispensable companion to any student aspiring to the highest original research. It coversstandards of advocacy.’ features embarking upon dating from the twelfth century to a career involving

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Price £12.99 (paperback) be seen today. These range in topic public speaking. from moats, field patterns and The combined experience of Derek way-markers to historic buildings, Halbert and Hayley Whitaker from developing towns and lost the University of Chester Law airfields. It also includes a School. forms the basis of this book discussion of the appeal of and they cover topics such as: landscape history as a subject. twelve rules for speaking in public, how to prepare a speech, how to Review: prepare a case for court, how to Cheshire was traditionally rather research and present a legal overlooked by landscape historians argument, examination in chief, and it is much to the credit of the cross-examination, ethics and

6 professional conduct and alternative if increasingly precarious encounters dispute resolution. The result is a with, and positions of, marginality book which is, in the words of The and nonnormativity offers us a Rt Hon. The Lord Thomas of chance (perhaps the chance) to Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of critically explore the possibilities of England and Wales: ‘an “imagining otherwise”? indispensable companion to any student aspiring to the highest Review: standards of advocacy.’ ... this collection never promised us a rose garden; it is an edgy and at times uneven rollick through ab/normalcy, Rebecca Mallett, Cassandra and as the chapters unfold they play A . Ogden and Jenny Slater in increasingly uncomfortable corners, (Editors), Theorising Normalcy and interrogating the tools of the norm the Mundane: Precarious Positions, while quietly jostling and queering 2016, ISBN 978-1-908258-20-5, the codes of ‘abnormalcy’. ... The £17 .99 . contradictions and complexities of such a project do not make for a comfortable

Emerging from the internationally recognised Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conference series, the chapters in this book offer wide-ranging Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane • Mallett, Ogden and Slater critiques of that most pervasive of ideas, “normal”. In particular, they explore the Theorising Normalcy Emerging read. Rather, these postcards from the precarious positions we are presented with and, more often than not, forced into by “normal”, and its operating system, “normalcy” (Davis, 2010). They are written by activists, students, practitioners and academics and offer related but diverse and the Mundane: approaches. Importantly, however, the chapters also ask, what if increasingly precarious encounters with, and positions of, marginality and non-normativity offers us a chance (perhaps the chance) to critically explore the possibilities of Precarious Positions from the conference extend an invitation to “imagining otherwise”?

The book questions the privileged position of “non-normativity” in youth and unpacks the expectation of the “normal” student in both higher and primary education. It uses the position of transable people to push the boundaries of “disability”, interrogates the psycho-emotional disablism of box-ticking internationally readers to have their cages well and bureaucracy and spotlights the “urge to know” impairment. It draws on cross- movement and cross-disciplinary work around disability to explore topics as diverse as drug use, The Bible and relational autonomy. Finally, and perhaps most controversially, it explores the benefits of (re)instating “normal”. By paying attention to the opportunities presented amongst the fissures of critique and defiance, this book offers new applications and perspectives for thinking through the most ordinary of ideas, “normal”. recognised truly rattled: an invitation I would Theorising encourage them to accept. Normalcy and David Jackson-Perry, Disability Edited by

University of Chester Press CHESTER Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ Rebecca Mallett, www.chester.ac.uk/university-press Cassandra A. Ogden +44 (0)1244 513305 Price £1.99 (paperback) and Jenny Slater the Mundane and Society, 32(7), 1111–1113. conference series, the chapters in this book offer wide-ranging critiques of Ian Seed, Patches of Light: Short that most pervasive of ideas, Stories from the Cheshire Prize for “normal”.In particular, they explore Literature 2015, 2016, the precarious positions we are ISBN 978-1-908258-29-8, £10 .99 . presented with and, more often than

‘The great thing about a short story,’ said Emma Donoghue, ‘is that it doesn’t have to trawl through someone’s whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.’ Each story in this anthology does precisely that – enters a life ‘glancingly’ but illuminates what is truly important not, forced into by “normal”,about that life in the process of doing andso. The world we inhabit is fast-changing, never quite The stories in this the same from one moment to the next. It has perhaps been ever thus. The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said that we never step into the same river twice. Yet with so much to distract and entice us today, how can we know what is ‘real’, what has any kind of genuine worth? Does it really matter?

The stories here do not pretend to know the answers. Rather they seek to reﬂ ect and explore its operating system, “normalcy”the hopes, dreams, joys, fears and frailties that are common to us all, but which are revealed volume seek to differently in each life. They may offer us only glimpses, but each glimpse will leave us changed in some way. Like shifting patches of light on water, they invite us to stop and look, to linger for a brief space of time, to take away something we felt we always knew, but didn’t know that we knew before. Pate Lit

The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize (Davis, 2010). They are writtenfor Literature. It is administered by the University by of Chester. The 2015 competition was for reflect and short stories, and this collection contains stories by 21 of the shortlisted entries, including those of the eventual winner and runners up. Details of the Prize are available at: www. chester.ac.uk/literatureprize

activists, students, practitioners Edited by ian eed explore the THE CONTRIUTORS Robert Angus Annest Gwilym Lynne Parry-Grifﬁ ths Pauline Brown Sue Hoffmann Ian Pickering David Bryan Margaret Holbrook Dominic Teague Cathy Bryant Jan Kaneen Laura Thompson and academics and offerAndrew related Fleming Tom Kilcourse butLynne Voyce hopes, dreams, Heather Freckleton Liz Milne Gordon Williams Roy Gray Barbara Oldham Valentine Williams diverse approaches. Importantly, joys, fears and University of Chester Press PATCHES OF LIGHT Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ CHESTER www.chester.ac.uk/university-press +44(0)1244 513305 St Stie te Ceie Pie Liteate 201 however, the chapters alsoPrice £10.99 (paperback) ask, what frailties that are Cover image: Chester Cathedral Cloisters Edited by Ian Seed

7 common to us all, but which are migration of their fellow revealed differently in each life. countrymen into the area and soon They may offer us only glimpses, they had established a community but each glimpse will leave us with a clearly defined border, its changed in some way. Like shifting own leader, its own language, a patches of light on water, they trading port, and at its centre a invite us to stop and look, to linger place of assembly or government – for a brief space of time, to take the Thing at Þingvo˛llr (Thingwall). away something we felt we always This community was answerable to knew, but didn’t know that we nobody else: the English, the Welsh, knew before. The Cheshire Prize for the Dublin Norse, the Isle of Man, Literature was inaugurated in 2003 Iceland, and not even Norway. as the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is administered by This book, written by Wirral-exile the University of Chester. The 2015 and scientist Steve Harding, is competition was for short stories, about these people, why they left and this collection contains stories Scandinavia, where they settled, their by 21 of the shortlisted entries, religion and their possible pastimes including those of the eventual Wirral was also probably witness winner and runners up. to one of the greatest battles in the history of the British Isles – Brunanburh. The third edition Stephen Harding, Ingimund’s Saga of this highly popular book has (3rd Edition), 2016, been updated to incorporate the ISBN 978-1-908258-30-4, £15 .99 . identification of the mysterious Dingesmere in the Battle, the

Around 1,100 years ago a group of Viking settlers from Scandinavia arrived somewhere INGIMUND’S SAGA: between Þorsteinnstún (Thurstaston) and Melar Around 1,100 importance and relation of (Meols) on the shores of north Wirral – a small Ingimund’s peninsula lying between the Rivers Dee and Mersey – having been driven out of Ireland. This initiated a mass migration of their fellow countrymen into the area and soon they had established a community with a clearly defined Saga years ago a Wirral to the wider Viking border, its own leader, its own language, a trading port, and at its centre a place of assembly or government – the Thing at Þingvollr˛ (Thingwall). Viking Wirral This community was answerable to nobody else: the English, the Welsh, the Dublin Norse, the Viking Wirral Isle of Man, Iceland, and not even Norway. The Wirral-Norse settlement therefore satisfied all group of Viking Commonwealth, including the the criteria of an independent, self-governing Viking state – albeit a mini one!

This book, written by Wirral-exile and settlers from Isle of Man, North Wales, Scotland scientist Steve Harding, is about these people, why they left Scandinavia, where they settled,

their religion and their possible pastimes. STEPHEN HARDING Wirral was also probably witness to one of the greatest battles in the history of the British Isles University of Chester Press – Brunanburh. The third edition of this highly Scandinavia and Ireland, together with the Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ popular book has been updated to incorporate

+44(0)1244 513305 the identification of the mysterious Dingesmere www.chester.ac.uk/university-press in the Battle, the importance and relation of Wirral to the wider Viking Commonwealth, ISBN 978-1-908258-30-4 (3rd edition) Price £15.99 (paperback) including the Isle of Man, North Wales, Scotland and Ireland, together with the results arrived results from the Wirral and West from the Wirral and West Lancashire Viking DNA project, where up to 50% of the DNA

of men from old Wirral and West Lancashire CHESTER families appeared to be Scandinavian in origin. Stephen Harding foreword and tribute – Magnus Magnusson KBE In conjunction with the Borough of Wirral and the City of Trondheim somewhere Lancashire Viking DNA project, between where up to 50% of the DNA of Þorsteinnstún (Thurstaston) and men from old Wirral and West Melar (Meols) on the shores of Lancashire families appeared to be north Wirral – a small peninsula Scandinavian in origin. lying between the Rivers Dee and Mersey – having been driven out of Ireland. This initiated a mass 8 2015 Titles

Jaki Brien (Editor), Out of this Peter Cox (Editor), Cycling Word: Stories and Poems for Children Cultures, 2015, from the Cheshire Prize for Literature, ISBN 978-1-908258-11-3, £13 .99 . 2015, ISBN 978-1-908258-25-0, £10 .99 . Cycling studies is a rapidly Out of this Word growing area of The entries for investigation the 2014 across the social Cheshire Prize sciences, for Literature reflecting and were excellent. engaged with Lucky judges rapid transformations of urban read mobility and concerns for wonderfully crafted, original sustainability. This volume brings poems and stories written by together a range of studies of adults for young readers aged cycling and cyclists, examining between seven and fourteen. This some of the diversity of practices anthology includes the very best and their representation. Its of them. There are pieces which international contributors focus on will make you shiver; others will cases studies in the UK and the take you back to half-forgotten Netherlands, and on cycling places and times; some will ask subcultures that cross national you to experience the familiar boundaries. By considering cycling with a new intensity while others through the lens of culture it will invite you into the impossible. addresses issues of diversity and All are crafted with skill and flair. complexity, both past and present. It is remarkable what a great The authors cross the boundaries writer can create just out of words. of academia and professional Whoever you are and however old engagement, linking theory and you are, there are things in this practice, to shed light on the very book you will love. real processes of change that are reshaping our mobility.

Review: Cycling Cultures edited by Peter Cox is a must read for sociologists,

9 city planners and transportation Counselling training on friendship; executives. Across eight learned the therapeutic importance of pets; dispositions on the state of cycling as non-physical abuse; mothers’ it relates to modern culture, the book experiences of the impact of a investigates such forgotten corners traumatic birth; the experience of as the role of the Cargo Bicycle, how Counsellors who work with Immigrant Women Cyclists learn complicated grief; and the role of to ride in Holland, and why some mother-tongue in counselling Welsh cyclists think it sensible to ride speakers. This book is an exemplar 1600km non-stop in 90 hours in a of good practice in the publication Randonée. … If the examples cited of excellent Counselling students’ of female emancipation and cultural research, which draws on the blending through the use of bicycles Interpretative Phenomenological are anything to go by, the humble Analysis method of research, in bicycle can still bring plenty of new which the participants’ voices are culture to our increasingly crowded clearly heard. yet environmentally aware societies. Jeremy Torr, Gaia Discovery, Review: June 2016. If you are looking for a book on counselling and psychotherapy research written by practitioners for Peter Gubi (Editor), Listening practitioners, then this is the book to Less-Heard Voices: Developing for you. Dr Gubi contextualises the Counsellors’ Awareness, 2015, rationale behind the publication ISBN 978-1-908-258-23-6, £14 .99 . in the opening sentence: ‘Whilst research is designed to inform This book is best practice and increase written in order understanding, there is less in- to enhance depth research published about practice and human experiencing that relates understanding in to issues that are “on the edge” Counselling and of the professions of counselling, allied helping psychotherapy and psychology, yet professions. The which are nevertheless “central” for contributors are all qualified those people who experience such Counsellors and the work is issues’ (p1). grounded in research. They explore: the phenomenology of the tattooed As a predominantly self-confessed client; the impact of Person-Centred (and proud) qualitative researcher, I

10 felt compelled to continue reading. It distant observers and became is so refreshing to discover research the story. ‘that comes from a place of passion within the researchers, which is Reviews: aimed at informing counsellors The subject of the press in Britain about aspects of human experiencing during World War II is relatively that are not written about much neglected in historical writing. (if at all) in the counselling-related Much has been written which refers literature’ (p2). to it, but as yet there is no detailed Charlie Jackson, Therapy Today, account of how the national and September 2015, p. 42. provincial press and periodical industry functioned during this period of intense political, military, Guy Hodgson (Editor), War Torn: economic and social strain. Guy Manchester, its Newspapers and the Hodgson’s study contributes to Luftwaffe’s Blitz of 1940, 2015, the redressing of that deficiency ISBN 978-1-908258-16-8, £14 .99 . in an account of the way the Manchester press covered the Blitz The Manchester in Manchester during December Blitz was 1940. ... for anyone wishing to think relatively short, about the complexities of the role lasting two of the newspaper press in the UK nights in during the Second World War, this December 1940, book is essential reading and points when around to the need for far more work on this 1,000 people important subject. were killed and more than 3,000 Tom O’Malley, Media History, injured in the city centre, Salford 2016, 22(1), 137-139. and the residential areas near Old Trafford. This book focuses Newspapers provide the historian on the reaction by the local and with a plenteous bounty of regional newspapers of information. They offer a window Manchester, which was Britain’s into popular opinion as well as the second press centre at the time, overarching influence of the media to this heavy bombing. in shaping those views. Despite their This book explores the gap value, scholars of the Second World between reality and what War have traditionally been hesitant appeared in print when to rely on such material, something Mancunians stopped being that Guy Hodgson seeks to address

11 in War Torn: Manchester, its public alike. To appreciate the Newspapers and the Luftwaffe’s transformative effect of conflict on a Blitz of 1940. Its focus on population, probative research into newspapers allows for a detailed civilian-military relations can go look at the portrayal of a British far towards drawing together what city exposed to aerial bombardment. are sometimes (and unfortunately) A fresh angle on a familiar topic, considered separate topics. This book the author’s work illustrates how accomplishes that goal, revealing the costliest war in human history the vast metaphorical gulf between a remains a rich area for scholarship. people’s wartime experience and the stance taken by the government in Hodgson’s concentrated approach such a time of crisis. and regional emphasis on Alexandre F . Caillot, H-War, Manchester do not hinder the H-Net Reviews, October 2015. broad relevance of the volume. Its conclusions are pertinent to readers around the world: the importance of factual reporting, the dangers of propaganda justified by military exigencies, and the challenges of discovering the voices of the population. Anyone engaged in the study of history or journalism will find this discussion of great interest. Furthermore, the resulting contribution to the historiography will challenge scholars to carefully evaluate the agendas of their sources.

Over the past several decades, historians have sought to expand the discussion of military history to encompass war and society. Guy Hodgson’s War Torn: Manchester, its Newspapers and the Luftwaffe’s Blitz of 1940 ably demonstrates the potential for wide- ranging scholarship of considerable appeal to academics and the

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Paul Taylor and Paul Wagg our employment status – to (Editors), Work and Society: Places, perform as resilient, productive Spaces and Identities, 2014, neoliberal subjects with the ISBN 978-1-908258-15-1, £12 .99 . capacity for work. This innovative, interdisciplinary volume brings ISS Issues in the Social Sciences: The original together established and new theoretical and voices in the fields of sociology, empirical studies criminology, victimology and in this new political economy to present an edited volume, accessible intervention in current Work and Society: debates about work in the twenty- S Places Saces and Identities Places, Spaces and first century. Edited by Paul Taylor and Paul a Identities, present a re-imagining of what work is, how it is undertaken, and the Emma L . E . Rees (Editor), Great impact of work on people who Escapes: Poetry from the Cheshire engage in it. While traditional Prize for Literature 2013, 2014, examinations of work are ISBN 978-1-908258-21-2, £10 .99 . synonymous with discussions of labour markets, organisational ‘There are functions and industrial relations, moments’, Great Escapes

the eight contributions published reflects Rhoda, Emma L. E. Rees here for the first time extend our one of Virginia conceptualisation of work to take in Woolf’s less commonly scrutinised activities characters in The

CHESTER GREAT ESCAPES Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2013 such as care-giving, soldiering, edited by Emma L. E. Rees Waves, ‘when the gambling and career criminality. walls of the This intriguing approach opens up mind grow thin; when nothing is space for an exciting unabsorbed, and I could fancy that reconsideration of the relationships we might blow so vast a bubble between work and society, focusing that the sun might set and rise in it on illegitimate and unvalued and we might take the blue of occupations, the places where midday and the black of midnight personal and professional identities and be cast off and escape from intersect in risky or rewarding here and now’. Poetry is like ways, and the ideological Rhoda’s bubble. From nothing, the imperative on all of us – no matter poet fashions an entire world of

13 meaning and sensation. Poets and that shape the dancers’ experience readers enter that imaginary, of ‘the everyday’ as they travel to frangible world to escape the ‘here work; struggle to secure funding; and now’, and, since we must nurse injuries; and negotiate their always return to the ‘here and gender and work identities. The now’, a good poem must equip us emphasis on the dancers’ better to deal with, or understand, everyday experience is designed it. Whether it’s the music in which to critically explore and to ice-cream-factory workers find challenge the established sanctuary, as Philip Williams methodological boundaries of suggests in his prizewinning poem dance studies: the focus shifts ‘The Elvis Shed’, or a painter’s away from the scholarly attentions quest for truth, as Andrew Rudd’s that are more regularly paid to the poem, ‘Hiroshige at Work’ shows, phenomenology and perception of the poems in this collection performance, towards the material provide many alternate ‘worlds’ conditions of dance production. In into which we may escape. general, this book revisits the debates in dance education related to gender politics and the well- Dunja Njaradi, Backstage being of dancers; and it also traces Economies: Labour and Masculinities and discusses some significant in Contemporary European Dance, shortcomings of the current 2014, ISBN 978-1-908258-14-4, European dance policies and £13 .99 . employment practices. Backstage Backstage Economies: Labour and Masculinities in Contemporary European Dance investigates gender politics and labour practices in contemporary European dance. By focusing on masculinities and job careers in professional dance, this study looks at the e cultural, historical, and material conditions that shape the dancers’ experience of ‘the conomies: Labour a Backstage everyday’ as they travel to work; struggle to secure funding; nurse injuries; and negotiate their gender and work identities. The emphasis on the dancers’ experience of ‘the everyday’ is designed to critically explore and to challenge the established methodological boundaries of dance studies: the critical focus shifts away from the scholarly attentions that are more regularly paid to the phenomenology and perception of performance, towards the material conditions of dance production. In general, this book revisits the debates in nd Economies: dance education related to gender politics and the well-being of dancers; and it also traces m asculinities and discusses some significant shortcomings of the current European dance policies and employment practices.

The material for this book was gathered over a five-year period in dance communities in i n

c Labour and Turkey, Macedonia, Serbia, and Romania focusing on the ways these communities relate ontemporary to Western European dance world. It describes the production of dance communities and dance policies in relation to, and conditioned by, globalization, mobility, and labour patterns. e uropean Masculinities in d ance

d Contemporary unja n jaradi European Dance Backstage economies:

CHESTER LaBour and mascuLinities in University of Chester Press Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ contemporary european dance investigates http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press Price £13.99 (paperback) dunja njaradi gender politics and labour practices in contemporary European dance. By focusing on masculinities and job careers in professional dance, this study looks at the cultural, historical, and material conditions

14 Graeme J . White, On Chester On: period: as appropriate today as A History of Chester College and the when it was coined. University of Chester, 2014, ISBN 978-1-908258-19-9, £14 .99 . Reviews: The hallmark of Graeme White’s Although there book is its honesty and clarity . His has been a meticulous research of the historical University of records results in a story both Chester only compelling and enticing. Dr White since 2005, its also reads between the lines of his predecessor, sources, giving us a delicious and Chester College, fascinating insight into the minds dates back and motives of the key players in the further than most UK institution’s history. universities, to 1839. This book Rod Hunt MBE, children’s author celebrates the 175th anniversary and alumnus of the then Chester of the foundation in 2014. The College. story is a remarkable one of survival and success. The early The history of British tertiary and College was a pioneering venture higher education is important and with a unique approach to incomplete. Volumes such as On learning and the University still Chester On are valuable for all houses the first buildings in those associated with individual England specifically designed for institutions, while contributing the training of teachers. Three through the story of one particular times, in the 1860s, the 1930s and trajectory to a fuller understanding of the 1970s, Chester College came how and why higher education in the near to closure, only repeatedly to UK has reached its present position emerge intact and to become and how it might evolve in the future. stronger than before. In the early Marion McClintock, University twenty-first century, the of Lancaster for the British University has a growing Association for Local History. reputation within the higher education sector and can claim some of the highest rates of student satisfaction in the country. The book’s title is taken from the College motto of the late-Victorian and Edwardian

15 2013 Titles

Claire H. Griffiths, Contesting whatever our thoughts, beliefs Historical Divides in and experiences of life, all living Francophone Africa, 2013, is embodied. We are of and ISBN 978-1-908258-13-8, £14 .99 . within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists From Senegal in have increasingly turned their Contesting HistoricalContesting Divides in Francophone Africa • Griffiths Contesting Historical Divides the west to the attention to the body as a site of in Francophone Comoros islands both theoretical engagement and Africa in the east, this empirical exploration. Recently,

Edited by Claire H. Griffiths collection of public discourse has also become essays casts a preoccupied with embodied

CHESTER critical eye over debates: the obesity crisis and the fifty years of London 2012 Paralympics have “independence” in former located the body firmly in the French colonial possessions of realm of public interest. The new Africa and the Indian Ocean. essays collected in Corporeality: With methods and perspectives The Body and Society demonstrate that cross traditional disciplinary some of the unique advantages barriers, Contesting Historical attainable through studying the Divides in Francophone Africa body sociologically. Focusing in on proposes fresh insights into the a series of embodied fields related process of decolonisation in this to lifestyle media, war, disability, part of the world. drugs and mental health, the book re-states the fundamental importance of a body-centred Cassandra A . Ogden and Stephen approach in the social sciences. Wakeman, Corporeality: The Body Work by established experts in the and Society, 2013, ISBN 978-1- field sits side by side with new 905929-97-9, £12 .99 . voices to provide an accessible and stimulating snap-shot of the ISS Issues in the Social Sciences: 8 Regardless of role of the body in society in the how a person early-twenty first century. spends her or his day, in a Review: classroom, in The stated aim of the editors is work or outside to bring together work that helps Corporeality: The Body and Society employment, reassert the centrality of the body in Edited by Cassandra A. Ogden and Stephen Wakeman

16 ‘late-modern social thought’ and they means simultaneously to certainly make a useful contribution acknowledge the possibility of in this regard. The book helps make loss. And loss figures largely in ‘embodiment’ contemporary, as the the anthology, too: from beloved majority of the chapters are embedded relatives, to despised spouses, and in recent empirical work or built on from inconsequential objects to an discussions of current events. individual’s very sense of self, Steven Robertson in Sociology of life’s losses are portrayed here in a Health & Illness. variety of humorous, dark, and frequently surprising ways.

Emma L . E . Rees (Editor), Lost and Found: Short Stories from the Simon Gwyn Roberts, Shades Cheshire Prize for Literature 2012, of Expression: Online Political 2013, ISBN 978-1-908258-10-6, Journalism in the Post-Colour £11 .99 . Revolution Nations, 2013, ISBN 978-1-908258-07-6, £13 .99 . ‘He is my

The Colour Revolutions in the former Soviet Union were arguably the twenty-first century’s first successful attempts to overthrow political elites through mass protest and civic society activism. They are of intrinsic interest to media scholars because miracle,’concepts of media freedom says were located at the heart of the protests against semi- This book autocratic post-Communist regimes and have continued to characterise political debate SHADES OF in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

The ideals that underpinned the events were echoed several years later in the Arab world, and both initially involved influential networks of activists ranged against political EXPRESSION elites. The events of the Arab Spring were often facilitated and given added impetus by the advances in news media technology which had taken place over the latter half Online Political Journalism in

Sarah Frost SHADES OF EXPRESSION Simon Gwyn Roberts captures a of the decade and which allowed for more effective networked communications and a more open public sphere to thrive, even in autocratic environments. But while the role of evolving media technologies has been extensively analysed and critiqued in the the Post-Colour Revolution context of the Arab world, its use in the more mature post-Revolution environments of Nations the former Soviet Union has been largely overlooked.

This book captures a “snapshot” of the contemporary role of online journalism in rapidly Mellor’sevolving post-Soviet, post-Colour Revolution political environments, exploring the wider Simon Gwyn Roberts ‘snapshot’ of the journalistic and political context alongside the use and influence of online news sites. In particular, it aims to fill a gap in the literature by undertaking qualitative work in the post-Colour Revolution nations which seeks to assess the views of active journalists on protagonist,the role of online political journalism in those environments. of contemporary

LOSt and FOund her lover, Joe: role of online Short Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2012 edited by Emma L. E. Rees University of Chester Press CHESTER ‘FoundParkgate Road, Chesterby CH1 4BJ journalism in http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press Price £13.99 (paperback) accident, in the rapidly evolving least likely of places.’ Sarah won post-Soviet, the 2012 Cheshire Prize for post-Colour Revolution political Literature with her short story environments, exploring the wider ‘Udumbara in Lytham St Anne’s’, journalistic and political context and it’s in this modest seaside alongside the use and influence of town that Lost and Found begins. online news sites. In particular, it Reading through the stories in this aims to fill a gap in the literature collection, the reader will ‘find’ by undertaking qualitative work many things: surreal flotsam on a in the post-Colour Revolution desolate beach; a love letter nations which seeks to assess the mislaid for decades; turns of views of active journalists on the phrase in a classroom; role of online political journalism relationships shaped in unusual in those environments. settings. But to find something

17 2012 Titles

Ros Aitken, The Prime Minister’s Professor Michael Wheeler Son. Stephen Gladstone, Rector (University of Southampton) in of Hawarden, 2012, the Church Times. ISBN 978-1-908258-01-4, £14 .99 .

This newly researched biography presents an intimate picture of Stephen Gladstone, the previously ignored son of Prime Minister William Stephen Gladstone, Stephen Son. Minister’s Prime The The Prime Minister’s Son Gladstone, whose life was tormented by the expectations and interference This newly Derek Alsop, More Bagpipe of his father, his mother Catherine and his sister Mary. This wide-ranging book sets his fascinating character, caught between duty and self-doubt, Stephen Gladstone fi rmly in its historical context, tracing his progress through the horrors of a nineteenth-century prep school, his thirty-two years as the reluctant and Rector of Hawarden restless Rector of Hawarden, his mysteriously acquired fi nal incumbency researched Music: Poems on Scotland, 2012, and the desolating personal effects of the First World War.

‘Elegantly crafted and meticulously researched, this book casts an interesting light on the life and career of the least well-known of William biography ISBN 978-1-908258-05-2, £7 .99 . Gladstone’s children, and will appeal both to the general and the specialist

reader. It offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the Gladstone family and of Hawarden Rector Ros Aitken an insight into life lived in the shadow of the Grand Old Man of Victorian politics, who sought to manage his offspring – even as adults – with the same rigour with which he managed affairs of state.’

presents an Derek Alsop Anne Isba, author of Gladstone and Women

‘Ros Aitken’s well researched and lively study illuminates both the neglected relationship between William Gladstone and his ordained son More Bagpipe and, more generally, the challenges, which faced parochial clergy in the intimate picture Scotland – its later Victorian era.’ Dr Roland Quinault, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Historical Research of Stephen Music cities, ISBN 978-1-908258-01-4

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http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press 9 781908 258052 tormented by the expectationsPrice £7.99 (paperback) and Derek Alsop is the theme of interference of his father, his this collection of mother Catherine and his sister poems. From Glasgow to Mary. This wide-ranging book sets Aberdeen, from Skye his fascinating character, caught to Lower Largo, Derek Alsop between duty and self-doubt, traverses the country, exploring firmly in its historical context, its history, mythology and culture tracing his progress through the with a keen outsider’s eye. What horrors of a nineteenth-century emerges is a land of incomparable prep school, his thirty-two years richness, diversity and beauty. as the reluctant and restless Rector Whether the subject is the seals of Hawarden, his mysteriously of Portnahaven or the birds of acquired final incumbency and the Jura, the whisky of Islay or the desolating personal effects of the races at Ayr, Alsop finds his own First World War. view of Scotland. There are darker moments, too, as the violent Review: history of Scotland reveals itself The Prime Minister’s Son is written amongst the ruins, monuments in an informal style, and tells an and glens. engaging story with a special appeal to the hard-pressed parish priest, or long-suffering clergy spouse.

18 Jaki Brien (Editor), Wordlife: Sharon M . Varey and Graeme Stories and Poems for Children J . White (Editors), Landscape from the Cheshire Prize for History Discoveries in the North Literature 2011, 2012, West, 2012, ISBN 978-1-905929-98-6, £10 .99 . ISBN 978-1-908258-00-7, £12 .99 .

From optical remote-sensing technology (lidar) to more traditional forms In 2011 The High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature was for a short story or poem of landscape analysis and documentary research, this volume brings suitable for seven- to fourteen-year-old readers. Wordlife includes the very best of together the work of both amateur and professional historians and LANDSCAPE HISTORY the entries for the competition. Some are startling, some are very funny, some take archaeologists, united in their enthusiasm for the landscape of north- WEST NORTH IN THE DISCOVERIES HISTORY LANDSCAPE you to quiet and comfortable places while others may make you very uncomfortable In 2011 The High From optical indeed. All these stories and poems remind us both that the real and imaginary lives west England and north-east Wales. This collection of research papers DISCOVERIES of children are rich and complex and that literature helps children to make sense arose from the Chester Society for Landscape History’s 25th anniversary of their own lives, empathise with the lives of others and play with ideas which conference and includes a wealth of illustrations. The publication offers transform the ordinary into the fabulous. Discovering that well-chosen words have new insights into a wide range of features indicative of the region’s IN THE NORTH WEST the power to take us into another life is what changes ‘children who can read’ into enthusiastic readers who love books. Wordlife has something for every reader, adult Sheriff’shistory between the twelfth and the twentieth centuries, including remote-sensing or child: enjoy it! residential buildings, settlement patterns, the names and boundaries of fi elds, and the legacy of developments in transport and industrialisation: The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as The High Sheriff’s a collection of ‘landscape discoveries’ to be shared. Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is funded by Bank of America and administered by the University of Chester. The 2011 competition was for children’s literature and this WORDLIFE anthology contains some of the short-listed entries, including those of the eventual Cheshire Prize technology winners. Details of the prize are available at www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize

THE CONTRIBUTORS Jaki Brien Rachael Bate Derek Matthews Lisa Jane Rowlands for Literature (lidar) to more Sheila Blackburn Jo Mayers Nicola Russell-Johnson ISBN 978-1-905929-98-6 Hilary Bowen Don Nixon Beverley Sims Catherine Bruton Paul Palmer Andrew Smith

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ISBN 978-1-905929-98-6 WORDLIFE story or poem of landscape ISBN 978-1-908258-00-7 Stories and Poems for Children from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2011 CHESTER University of Chester Press University of Chester Press CHESTER Edited by Sharon M. Varey Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ Introduction by Toby Forward Parkgate Road, Chester CH1 4BJ and Graeme J. White http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press 9 781905 929986 http://www.chester.ac.uk/university-press 9 781908 258007 Price £10.99 (paperback) edited by Jaki Brien suitable for analysis and Price £12.99 (paperback) with an Introduction by Dai Morgan Evans seven- to documentary fourteen-year-old readers. Wordlife research, this volume brings includes the very best of the together the work of both amateur entries for the competition. Some and professional historians and are startling, some are very funny, archaeologists, united in their some take you to quiet enthusiasm for the landscape of and comfortable places while north-west England and north- others may make you very east Wales. This collection of uncomfortable indeed. research papers arose from the All these stories and poems Chester Society for Landscape remind us both that the real and History’s 25th anniversary imaginary lives of children are rich conference and includes a wealth and complex and that literature of illustrations. The publication helps children to make sense of offers new insights into a wide their own lives, empathise with the range of features indicative of the lives of others and play with ideas region’s history between the 12th which transform the ordinary and the 20th centuries, including into the fabulous. Discovering residential buildings, settlement that well-chosen words have the patterns, the names and power to take us into another life boundaries of fields, and the is what changes ‘children who legacy of developments in can read’ into enthusiastic readers transport and industrialisation: a who love books. Wordlife has collection of ‘landscape something for every reader, adult discoveries’ to be shared. or child: enjoy it!

19 2011 Titles

Emma Rees (Editor), Still Life: Bruce Ing, Biodiversity in the Poetry from the Cheshire Prize for North West: The Slime Moulds of Literature 2010, 2011, Cheshire, 2011, ISBN 978-1-905-929-88-7, £6 .99 . ISBN 978-1-905929-91-7, £11 .99 .

In a hot Spanish Biodiversity in the north West: The county of The Slime Moulds of Cheshire

kitchen a little Bruce ing Cheshire, in its boy’s mouth broadest, waters as he historical sense, daydreams has a rich about the citrus diversity of tang of freshly- wildlife, linked squeezed juice; to a varied in the weak sunlight outside a geology and land use. This is an Russian Orthodox church, account of a group of strange but splinters of wood ‘dance’ like so fascinating organisms, the slime many motes of dust; and in a moulds, which straddle the camp in Germany three prisoners boundaries between fungi and of war look upwards and marvel protozoans. After a short at the near-weightless liberty of introduction to the biology and the birds they see. These are some ecology of slime moulds, the of the exquisite moments – almost physical and ecological visual in their vibrancy – that are environment of wider Cheshire is captured in the pages of Still Life. described. The main body of the In this rich and textured work is a detailed catalogue of all anthology, the mundane is the species ever recorded in the transfigured as poets attempt to district. The records date back into answer – or at least to establish – the 19th century but are mostly the ‘big’ questions of life. In being concentrated in the last 40 years, recalled and recorded in poetry, since the author came to Chester. ‘still lives’ are endowed both with There are more than 90 maps, on a vitality and with a particular kind 5 km grid square base, of the of immortality, too. commoner species. The author, who is Visiting Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Chester, has studied slime moulds since 1957 and is a

20 world authority on the group. He this rivalry, together with differing has published more than 200 political allegiances, often led to papers on slime moulds and conflict between proprietors in the fungi and has produced the effort to gain the highest standard work on the British and circulation. Politics, Publishing and Irish species. Personalities draws together the battles to establish successful titles Review: against the backdrop of British This book, which is light enough to and Welsh politics and reveals the take into the field, is a must-have personalities involved in this for those studying or embarking microcosm of local society. on the study of slime moulds in the North Wales area and will also be Review: useful to anyone with an interest This is chiefly a local-interest book, in biodiversity. but its academic pedigree makes Charles Aron in Natur Cymru. it a useful addition to the long list of single-place and single-title histories of the provincial press Lisa Peters, Politics, Publishing from which a national synthesis can and Personalities: Wrexham eventually be written. Newspapers, 1848-1914, 2011, Andrew Hobbs in Victorian ISBN 978-1-905929-87-0, £12 .99 . Periodicals Review.

Politics, Publishing and Personalities: Wrexham Newspapers, 1848-1914 gives a unique insight into the world of provincial newspaper publishing in a North Wales town during the Victorian and Edwardian eras. Wrexham’s position on the Welsh border meant that its local newspapers had to compete with those from Shropshire, Cheshire and the rest of North Wales and

21 Chester Academic Press (before 2011)

22 Cheshire Prize for Literature Anthologies

Details of the Prize are available are conjured by the darkness. at http://www.chester.ac.uk/ Ghosts haunt a guesthouse and a literatureprize computer, while clocks tell more than the time. The collection thus Peter Blair (Editor), Edge Words: embraces the full range of human Stories from the Cheshire Prize for experience, from first kiss to last Literature 2006, 2007, rites and beyond, enabling us to ISBN 978-1-905929-29-0, £6 .99 . see the world afresh, dropping through the surface of life, sounding

A fishmonger dreams of romance in the Orkneys, an emigrant comes home from South Africa, and a backpacker tries to quell his wanderlust. An army cadet plots revenge on a bully, a soldier’s actions in Kosovo have unexpected consequences, and a veteran wrestles with what he did as a Japanese prisoner of war. An anthology of the depths and rippling out to

These are just some of the stories in a collection that locates the local within the international, and discovers the extraordinary in the everyday. Couples fall in and out of love, families fracture and endure. Dogs are less than man’s best friends, and sinister creatures are conjured by the darkness. Ghosts haunt a guesthouse and a 20 of the best explore the edges of our world. computer, while clocks tell more than the time.

This collection embraces the full range of human experience, from first kiss to last Edge Words rites – and beyond. In his Foreword, Ashley Chantler praises the way in which the contributors enable us to see the world afresh, to experience the stoniness of stones. stories entered Dropped through the surface of life, these stories sound the depths and ripple out to explore the edges of our worlds.

THE CHESHIRE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE was inaugurated in 2003. It is funded by the MBNA peter blair Foundation, and administered by the University of Chester. The fourth competition was for a short for the 2006 story. This collection contains 20 of the short-listed stories, including the eventual prizewinners. Details of the Prize are available at www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize Cheshire Prize Peter Blair (Editor), Elements:

#HESTER !CADEMIC for Literature, Poems from the Cheshire Prize for 0RESS EDGE WorDs Chester Academic Press University of Chester 20 stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2006 Parkgate Road, CHESTER CH1 4BJ http://www.chester.ac.uk/academicpress/ edited by Peter Blair including the Literature 2007, 2008, Price £6.99 (paperback) four prize- ISBN 978-1-905929-57-3, £6 .99 . winning entries. The stories are extremely varied. A fishmonger An anthology of dreams of romance in the new poems Orkneys, an emigrant comes entered for the home from South Africa, and a Cheshire Prize backpacker tries to quell his for Literature wanderlust. An army cadet plots competition in revenge upon a bully, a soldier’s 2007. This actions in Kosovo have contains poems unexpected consequences, and a by 15 short-listed entrants, veteran wrestles with what he did including the eventual as a Japanese prisoner of war. prizewinners. From the chemical This is a collection that locates the composition of salt to the local within the international and influence of the stars, this discovers the extraordinary in the collection explores the things that everyday. Couples fall in and out make us what we are. Moments of love, families fracture and are excavated and preserved, the endure. Dogs are less than man’s deep archaeology of life revealed: best friends, and sinister creatures the accretions of history, the

23 well-springs of wonder. The poets Jaki Brien (Editor), Word attempt to see into the lives of an Weaving: Stories and Poems for extraordinary diversity of others Children from the Cheshire Prize from suburban rain-dancers to for Literature 2005, 2006, Turkish sword-swallowers, from ISBN 978-1-902275-90-1, £6 .99 . soaring kestrels to stranded seals, from soldiers to snowdrops. In A collection of rich and surprising ways, the the best entries poems that make up this collection for the Cheshire explore the elements of our world. Prize for Literature 2005, which was for Jaki Brien (Editor), Wordscapes: an original and Stories and Poems for Children previously from the Cheshire Prize for unpublished piece of writing for Literature 2008, 2009, children. The 18 stories and two ISBN 978-1-905929-74-0, £6 .99 . poems in the anthology include the eventual prize winners. The An anthology of first prize was won by David some of the best Whitley and the runner-up prizes entries for the by Tricia Durdey and Sheila 2008 High Powell, while John Mead won the Sheriff’s prize awarded for the entry that Cheshire Prize most impressed an advisory panel for Literature, of young readers. The book also which was for a contains an introduction by the piece of writing suitable for 7-14 former Children’s Laureate, year-old readers. It includes Michael Morpurgo, who stories by the winner of the contributed to the final stages of Cheshire Prize, John Latham, and the judging. of the Young Readers’ Prize, Sheila M. Blackburn, and poems by the two runners-up, Caroline Hawkridge and Stephen Wrigley.

24 Ashley Chantler (Editor), Life Emma L . E . Rees (Editor), Zoo: Lines: Poems from the Cheshire Short Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2004, 2005, Prize for Literature 2009, 2010, ISBN 978-1-902275-51-2, £6 .99 . ISBN 978-1-905929-83-2, £6 .99 .

A penguin sits calmly in a classroom, a past-it actor confronts a spectre, and air raid sirens ring out over the Mersey. Elsewhere, a lonely child prays to a dead pop A collectionstar, a social misﬁ t learns something important,of a misanthrope is reformed by an A penguin sits unlikely companion, and a boy imagines beauty where others see only ugliness.

This is oo, where the quotidian and the sublime are juxtaposed and where we can imagine ourselves – momentarily, at least – living the lives of others. As spectators we progress from one cage to another; as readers of the anthology the bestwe go from oneentries story to the next, visiting some more than once, and ﬁ nding calmly in a meanings and associations which are, ultimately, unique.

The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is funded by Bank of America and administered by the University of Chester. The 2009 competition was for Short Stories and this for thecollection Cheshire contains 23 of the short-listed entries, including those of the eventual classroom, a winners. Details of the Prize are available at www.chester.ac.uk/literatureprize ZOO

emma rees THE CONTRIBUTORS Prize forAnnette Albuquerque David Diggory John Latham past-it actor Jan Bengree Max Dunbar Alison Leonard Madeleine Beveridge Heather Freckleton Catherine Marseille Die Booth Simon Gotts Sheila Powell Oliver Briscoe Gillian Higgs Tessa Sheridan Rachael Bundock Sarah Hilary Lynne Voyce LiteratureSophie Coulombeau Emily-Jo Hopson Kaite Welsh confronts a Helen Dalton Richard Lakin

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Chester Academic Press University of Chester Short Stories from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2009 Parkgate Road, CHESTER CH1 4BJ Life Lines www.chester.ac.uk/academic-press POEMS FROM THE CHESHIRE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2004 2004, whichPrice £6.99 (paperback) was edited by Emma Rees raid sirens ring Edited by Ashley Chantler for an original out over the and previously unpublished Mersey. Elsewhere, a lonely child poem, or collection of poems, not prays to a dead pop star, a social exceeding 100 lines in total. The misfit learns something important, a collection contains poems by 23 misanthrope is reformed by an entrants, including the eventual unlikely companion, and a boy prize winners. imagines beauty where others see only ugliness. This is Zoo, where the quotidian and the sublime are Ashley Chantler (Editor), Prize juxtaposed and where we can Flights: 20 Stories from the Cheshire imagine ourselves momentarily, at Prize for Literature 2003, 2004, least living the lives of others. As ISBN 978-1-902275-37-3, £6 .99 . spectators we progress from one cage to another; as readers of the A collection of anthology we go from one story to 20 of the best the next, visiting some more than stories once, and finding meanings and submitted for associations which are, ultimately, the inaugural unique. The 2009 competition was Cheshire Prize for Short Stories and this collection for Literature contains 23 of the short-listed competition, in entries, including those of the 2003, which was for a short story eventual winners. of no more than 2,500 words. The stories of all the eventual prizewinners are included.

25 General Titles

Brian Baker (Editor), Textual Ken Green, Physical Education Revisions: Reading Literature Teachers on Physical Education: and Film, 2009, A Sociological Study of ISBN 978-1-905929-75-7, £10 .99 . Philosophies and Ideologies, 2003, ISBN 978-1-902275-17-8, £8 .99 . Textual Revisions is a collection of This book essays which discusses the discusses results of a adaptations for research study cinema and undertaken in the television of a North West of variety of novels, England in the plays and short stories. Works late 1990s, in discussed include adaptations of which 35 practising PE secondary novels by Austen, Stoker, Michael school teachers were interviewed Cunningham, Fowles and Tolkien, about the nature of their subject. Their plays by Shakespeare and Pinter, responses are analysed in terms of the and a short story by Philip K. Dick. theories of figurational sociology of Norbert Elias. Dr Ivan Waddington, formerly Director of the Centre for Ashley Chantler (Editor), An Research into Sport and Society, Anatomy of Chester: A Collection University of Leicester, said of the of Short-Short Stories, 2007, work: ‘By applying a sociological ISBN 978-1-905929-19-1, £6 .99 . perspective to what are conventionally thought of as AN ANATOMY A collection of 55 philosophical problems, Professor OF CHESTER original short- Green provides valuable new insights short stories that into some important conceptual form a portrait of issues. At the same time, his thought- life in the historic provoking analysis of his research A Collection of Short-Short Stories Edited by Ashley Chantler English city of data reveals much about the processes Chester at the underlying the experience of PE that start of the 21st secondary schools offer to their century. The 31 contributing authors pupils. This is an original and timely all have close connections with the contribution to the ongoing debate city or the surrounding area. about the nature of the subject,

26 underpinned by detailed qualitative Merritt Moseley (Editor) The research with day-to-day Academic Novel: New and practitioners. It should be essential Classic Essays, 2007, reading both for academics and for ISBN 978-1-905929-38-2, £10 .99 . practitioners of physical education.’ A collection of the most Elaine Hogard, Roger Ellis & illuminating Jeremy Warren, Community Safety: commentary Innovation and Evaluation, 2007, written on the ISBN 978-1-905929-26-9, £12 .99 . English language A volume of academic novel conference during the last 40 years, together papers that with new essays especially brings together commissioned for this volume. the latest As well as general thematic thinking in the essays, there are discussions of a important area of number of individual novelists: community Vladimir Nabokov, Randall safety, with contributions from Jarrell, Mary McCarthy, Kingsley some of the leading internationally Amis, Alison Lurie, Robertson respected academics, policy Davies, David Lodge, Howard makers and practitioners in the Jacobson. Contributors are: field. The 15 chapters are organised Adam Begley, Ian Carter, under four main themes: data and Benjamin DeMott, Aida data gathering regarding Edemariam, Leslie Fiedler, Philip community safety; studies of Hobsbaum, J. P. Kenyon, David innovations in community safety; Lodge, Merritt Moseley, Dale partnerships for community safety; Salwak, Samuel Schuman, J. A. and approaches to the evaluation Sutherland, Glyn Turton, Chris of community safety initiatives and Walsh, Susan Watkins and programmes. The book is useful George Watson. and stimulating for practitioners, academics and policy makers.

27 John Renshaw, Drawing: Looking Alan Wall, Myth, Metaphor and and Thinking: Marks and Meaning, Science, 2009, 2005, ISBN 978-1-902275-76-5, ISBN 978-1-905929-73-3, £9 .99 . £5 .99 . Myth, Metaphor an d Science - Alan Wall & Goronwy Tudor Jones Myth, Metaphor This book Myth, Metaphor and Science explores the way in which language is used in fiction, poetry and science. It examines the Myth,role of Metaphor metaphor andin structuring Science explores our thought, the way and in questions which any & languagesimplistic is notion used inof fiction,creativity. poetry There and is science. an enquiry It examines into the the The rolesignificancecatalogue of metaphor of myth in structuringfor the modern our thought, writer. Why and questionsdo our any explores the way DRAWING simplisticearliest narratives notion of return creativity. to haunt There us atis thean enquiry end of history?into the The Science significancefinal essays askof myth what forit means the modern to attempt writer. scientific Why do descriptions our earliestof reality narratives in words. return Can language to haunt hereus at everthe endbe anything of history? more The finalthan essaysa clumsy ask approximation what it means ofto mathematics?attempt scientific descriptions of reality in words. Can language here ever be anything more of anthanThe booka clumsyexhibition ends approximation with a paper written of mathematics? jointly by the particle in which physicist Goronwy Tudor Jones and Alan Wall, exploring the Themeaning book of ends complementarity with a paper writtenin modern jointly physics, by the by particle describing physicistin detail theGoronwy double-slit Tudor experiment. Jones and Alan Wall, exploring the LOOKING + meaning of complementarity in modern physics, by describing that in detailwas the double-slit experiment. the language is used

Alan Wall is the author of numerous novels and books of poetry. He is Professor of Writing and Literature at the AlanUniversity Wall ofis theChester. author of numerous novels and books of THINKING poetry. He is Professor of Writing and Literature at the resultUniversityGoronwy Tudor ofof Chester. Jones is Readeran in High Energy Physics at the in fiction, poetry University of Birmingham’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Goronwy Tudor Jones is Reader in High Energy Physics at the UniversityCover design: of Birmingham’s Stephen Lloyd. School Hubble of Physics Space Telescopeand Astronomy. image of M82. Photo credit: NASA. Cover design: Stephen Lloyd. Hubble Space Telescope image invitationof M82. Photo credit: NASA. from Alan Wall and science. It #HESTER MARKS + !CADEMIC 0RESS ISBN 978-1-905929-73-3 Including ‘The Most Beautiful Experiment’ Chester Academic Press, by University of Chester, Parkgate Road, CHESTER CH1 4BJ http://www.chester.ac.uk/academicpress/ Goronwy Tudor Jones and Alan Wall the Grosvenor9 781905 929733 examines the MEANING Price: £9.99 (Paperback) Museum, role of metaphor Chester, to John Renshaw to make in structuring our thought, and a personal selection from the questions any simplistic notion of Museum’s permanent collection of creativity. There is an enquiry into drawings and to offer his own the significance of myth for the interpretation of the range of modern writer. Why do our images that he chose. The earliest narratives return to haunt exhibition was timed to coincide us at the end of history? The final with Drawing Power, a national essays ask what it means to campaign to promote the skills of attempt scientific descriptions of drawing, which took place during reality in words. Can language October 2005. However, it is the here ever be anything more than a author’s belief that the clumsy approximation of significance of an image and its mathematics? The book ends with potential meanings reside in the a paper written jointly by the mind of the person looking at it, particle physicist Goronwy Tudor and are not fixed. Visitors to the Jones and Alan Wall, exploring the exhibition were therefore offered meaning of complementarity in the opportunity, not only to look modern physics, by describing in at the images and reflect upon detail the double-slit experiment. them, but also to record their own impressions, and so the catalogue contains, in addition to images of the 30 chosen drawings and the author’s own interpretations, dedicated spaces to accommodate personal notes and drawings.

28 Issues in the Social Sciences Series

Mark Bendall & Brian Howman Education in November 2000. (Editors), Decoding Discrimination, The papers examine four main 2006, ISBN 978-1-902275-49-9, areas: the role of the media in £8 .99 . constructing public perceptions of crime; historical reactions to female

ing Papers from a deviants in society; social policies to Deco D Discrimination conference tackle domestic violence; and fear of organised for crime in the community. undergraduates at what was University Anne Boran (Editor), Poverty:

Edited by Mark Bendall and Brian Howman College Chester Malaise of Development, 2010, in November ISBN 978-1-905929-79-5, £10 .99 . 2002. The papers explore the nature of discrimination in a variety of Poverty: Malaise different contexts. Topics covered of Development include religion and belief in features papers relation to ethnicity, the portrayal from a con- of old age by the media, gender in ference held at post-industrial Britain, stigma in the University of health care settings, social class in Chester contemporary Britain, disability exploring how and alternative lifestyle. poverty undermines development strategies. This volume engages with three broad thematic areas, Anne Boran (Editor), Crime: Fear theoretical discourses and policy or Fascination?, 2002, implications, vulnerability and ISBN 978-1-902275-16-1, £7 .99 . poverty and solutions to poverty.

Papers from a conference organised for undergraduates at the former Chester College of Higher

29 Anne Boran & Peter Cox (Editors), aspects of gender in, respectively, Implications of Globalisation, Nigeria and Mexico. 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-30-6, £9 .99 .

These papers Meriel D’Artrey (Editor), raise searching Cont_xts?: Media, Representation questions about and Society, 2008, the nature and ISBN 978-1-905929-68-9, £10 .99 . implications of globalisation, Papers from a exploring some conference key features in organised for terms of their impacts on undergraduates nations and people. Three broad at the University themes are highlighted: key of Chester, players and processes; November 2006. consequences and impacts; and The papers response and resistance. discuss the complex relationships between mediation, representation and public attitudes on social issues Anne Boran & Bernadette such as domestic violence, drug use, Murphy, Gender in Flux, 2004, racism, stigma and surveillance. ISBN 978-1-902275-26-0, £7 .99 .

Papers from a David Charles Ford (Editor), conference Fragmenting Family?, 2010, organised for ISBN 978-1-905929-78-8, £10 .99 . undergraduates at the former These papers University from a conference College Chester at the University in November of Chester explore 2001. Three major themes are the complex ways expored in this book: in which family masculinities; embodiment and relationships culture; and the gender division of have changed or labour. While most of the are changing, in order to examine contributions are concerned with critically the contention that the the experience of contemporary family is fragmenting. Western societies, two focus on 30 Publications about the University

Cynthia Burek & Richard Ian Dunn, The Bright Star in the Stilwell, Geodiversity Trail: Present Prospect: The University Walking Through the Past on the of Chester 1839-2012, 2012, University’s Chester Campus, ISBN 978-1-905929-99-3, £5 .00 . 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-32-0,

THE BRIGHT STAR IN THE PRESENT PROSPECT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER £2 .00 . 1839–2012 An illustrated history of the

Geodiversity Trail: Walking The Geodiversity Through the Past on the University of University’s Chester Campus trail on the Chester charting University of its progress from Chester’s Chester IAN DUNN the foundation as Campus was Chester Diocesan inspired by a Training in 1839, to the comment in an achievement of university status in Environmental 2005, and subsequent consolidation Association of Universities and as a leading higher education College’s [EAUC’s] newsletter, institution in the region. asking universities as part of their greening process to look at their own campus biodiversity and raise Elsie Newton, The Padgate Story: the awareness of students and staff 1946-2006, 2007, in this area. The wealth of ISBN 1-905929-31-3, £5 .00 . geodiversity and biodiversity on the Chester Campus lent itself to A history of the become the first to produce a piece former Padgate of original research on this subject, Training College, in booklet form, by a student. from its beginnings as an emergency training college for male students at the end of World War II. It covers the College’s change in status to a permanent college for female students in 1949, its growth and redesignation as a college of

31 education in the 1960s and its Graeme J . White, On Chester On: merger with the former Art College A History of Chester College and the and Technical College in University of Chester (see page 7 for Warrington to become a full details). constituent part of the new North Cheshire College in 1979. Also described are its change of title to the Padgate Campus (Higher Education) of the Warrington Collegiate Institute in the 1990s and its current position as the Warrington Campus of the University of Chester. The work contains a number of reminiscences by former students and members of staff and is illustrated with black and white photographs.

Review:

Shades of Expression: Online Political Journalism in the Post-Colour Revolution Nations While the role of the evolving media technologies in the events of the Arab Spring has attracted significant attention among media scholars, research on the impact of the media in the Colour Revolutions remains scarce. As Simon Gwyn Roberts rightly points out, this is an unfortunate omission and a manifestation of a rather selective geopolitical focus of media and communications research – but also, we could add, a symptom of the field’s relentless emphasis on the newest technological developments at the expense of longitudinal analysis and informed historical comparisons. Roberts’ book is a welcome corrective to these trends, and shows that many of the trends noted in the Arab Spring – above all the ideal of media freedom, but also the ‘networked’ nature of political protest and its dependence on online media – have clear counterparts in the Colour Revolutions, even though the digital media environment at the time was centred primarily on online news platforms rather than social media such as Facebook or Twitter. European Journal of Communication

32 Public Lectures

Celia Deane-Drummond, Genetic David J Hunter, Choosing Futures and Our Search for Wisdom, or Losing Health? (Haygarth 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-41-2, Lecture), 2006, ISBN 1-905929-02-1, £2 .00 . £2 .00 .

Inaugural and Professorial Lectures The Haygarth Lectures

Genetic Futures and Our Search for Wisdom

Choosing or Losing Health?

David J. Hunter Professor of Health Policy and Management Celia Deane-Drummond University of Durham Professor of Theology and the Biological Sciences

Eric Dunning, “Figuring” Modern Bruce Ing, The Exciting World of Sport, 2005, ISBN 978-1-902275-52-9, the Slime Moulds, 2008, £2 .00 . ISBN 978-1-905929-62-7, £3 .00 .

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hester cademic Press ororate ommunications Eric Dunning University of hester ISBN 978-1-905929-62-7 Visiting Professor of Sociology of Sport Pargate oad hester H J htt.chester.ac.uacademicress Bruce ng Price £3.00 9 781905 929627 isiting Professor of nironmental Biology

Ron Geaves, Twenty Years of Fieldwork: Reflections on Reflexivity in the Study of British Muslims, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-18-4, £2 .00 .

Inaugural and Professorial Lectures Twenty Years of Fieldwork: Reflections on Reflexivity in the Study of British Muslims

Ron Geaves Professor of Religious Studies

33 Roger Kay, The Boundaries of Roger Swift, Behaving Badly? Legal Recognition of Personal Irish Migrants and Crime in the Partnerships: Where and Why? Victorian City, 2006, 2006, ISBN 978-1-905929-17-7, ISBN 978-1-902275-53-6, £2 .00 . £2 .00 .

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Behaving Badly? Inaugural and Professorial Lectures Irish Migrants and Crime in the Victorian City

The Boundaries of Legal Recognition of Personal Partnerships: Where and Why?

Roger Swift Professor of Victorian Studies

Roger Kay Storrar Cowdry Professor of Family Law

Anthony C Thiselton, Can the Christopher Partridge, Bible Mean Whatever We Want It Understanding the Dark Side: to Mean?, 2005, Western Demonology, Satanic ISBN 978-1-902275-50-5, £2 .00 . Panics and Alien Abduction, 2006, ISBN 978-1-905929-16-0, £3 .00 . Inaugural Lectures

Can the Bible Mean Whatever We Want It to Mean?

Inaugural and Professorial Lectures

Understanding the Dark Side:

Western Demonology, Satanic Panics and Alien Abduction

Anthony C. Thiselton Research Professor of Christian Theology

Christopher Partridge Professor of Contemporary Religion Chris Walsh, “from mind to mind”: Robert Browning and J R R Tolkien, 2007, ISBN 978-1-905929-40-5, £2 .00 .

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“from mind to mind”: Robert Browning and J. R. R. Tolkien

Chris Walsh Professor of English Literature

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