Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire (2023)
Book Chapter
Sharma, K. (2023). The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire. In S.-S. Wheatle, & E. O’Loughlin (Eds.), Diverse Voices in Public Law (15-34). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781529220766-005

This chapter begins by discussing the history and some modern conceptions of the doctrine of the rule of law (RoL) before turning its attention to the development and deployment of the doctrine within the British Empire. Firstly, it examines how the... Read More about The rule of law and racial difference in the British Empire.

Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century (2021)
Journal Article
Lammasniemi, L., & Sharma, K. (in press). Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1923252

This article focuses on the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) as a colonial legal transplant and examines how ideas of social and moral hygiene manifested in the debates around the doctrine in late-nineteenth century England and India.... Read More about Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century.

Tourism and Collecting in Kyoto: The Miyako Hotel as an Agent in the Creation of the Hon. Henry Marsham Collection of Japanese Art, Maidstone Museum, Kent (2018)
Journal Article
Fukunaga, A. (in press). Tourism and Collecting in Kyoto: The Miyako Hotel as an Agent in the Creation of the Hon. Henry Marsham Collection of Japanese Art, Maidstone Museum, Kent. Journal for Art Market Studies, 2(3), https://doi.org/10.23690/jams.v2i3.66

The Hon. Henry Marsham (1845-1908) was a British businessman who collected Japanese works of art in Kyoto during the 1900s. His Kyoto ware collection at Maidstone Museum, Kent, is superior in both quantity and quality to other collections in Japan an... Read More about Tourism and Collecting in Kyoto: The Miyako Hotel as an Agent in the Creation of the Hon. Henry Marsham Collection of Japanese Art, Maidstone Museum, Kent.

Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy (2017)
Book
Collins, P., & Tripp, C. (Eds.). (2017). Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266076.001.0001

This book seeks to re-evaluate the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868–1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist and British civil servant. In 12 chapters, written by a number of international scholars, Iraqi and Britis... Read More about Gertrude Bell and Iraq - a Life and Legacy.

People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, I. J., & Webster, D. R. (2016). People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity. cultural geographies, 24(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016659235

This short photographic essay emerges from the recognition that identity, landscapes and heritage landscapes in particular are rarely configured and conceptualised wholly linguistically. An affective and emotional charge can involve visual and tactil... Read More about People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity.

Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008) (2013)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2013). Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008). In L. Goldman (Ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 (674-675). Oxford University Press