Grace Huxford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3496477 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace Huxford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace |
| FAMILY NAME | Huxford |
| SIGNATURE | HUXFORD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2479-3167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Are there any wives like me? The meanings of family in British military communities during the 1990s
Writing in the letters pages of the British Army Wives Journal in 1994, one writer asked: ‘[D]oes the Army merely attract females who have no ambition in life but to reproduce at an alarming rate?’ In tracing the outcry that followed this letter through the journal’s pages, this article calls for the ‘military family’ to be placed in a clear historical context. We make two arguments: first, that the military family is a historically contingent an…
‘School is everywhere’? British military children, ‘turbulence’ and the meanings of post-war mobility
This article traces the emergence of the term 'turbulence' to describe the educational disruption experienced by military children after 1945. It asks why the term came to dominate professional discussion of military education so much from the late 1960s onwards and the wider tensions it exposed in post-war Britain: between welfare and warfare; 'tradition' and progressiveness; individuals and communities; families and institutions. Moreover, this…
Round Table: The New Cold War
First paragraph: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is having profound repercussions in Britain, not least on our cultural and intellectual life. However, although the media has presented this unfolding crisis in exhaustive detail, no one could reasonably argue that there has been much depth to the general treatment. From the outset, media coverage has been superficial and woefully lacking in objectivity, with briefings by President Zelensky and oth…
There is No Icebreaker like a Tiny Child’: Reuniting British Military Families in Cold War Germany
Family reunion had a deeply practical and symbolic significance in post-war Europe. Through the case study of British military families living in Germany, this article examines both official discourse and families’ own experiences of reunion and life overseas in the first decades of the Cold War, through the three national but also international visions of the family: as emblems of familial and domestic stability, as ‘unofficial ambassadors’ prom…
Escape From the Cold War: Planning Civilian Evacuation from British-Occupied Germany, 1946–55
Evacuations, imagined as well as actual, reflect national strategic preoccupations, cultural assumptions and prevailing social values; they also reveal practical strengths and weaknesses in international relationships and in states’ interactions with their own citizens, at home and abroad. But evacuations are deeply symbolically significant too and grounded in far longer, intertwined social and strategic histories. Using the remarkable case study…
Deterrence can be boring: Boredom, gender, and absence in Britain's Cold War military
Boredom was an integral part of Cold War experience in western Europe and its manifestations and management were key political, military and social considerations during this long conflict, for militaries in particular. Using over 60 original oral history interviews (both individual and group) with a wide range of former residents of British military bases in West Germany, this article explores the presence and articulation of boredom within mili…
In Our Daily Struggles’: Diaries as a Tool for Teacher Well-being
This article explores the connection between teachers, diary-writing and self-reflection in both historical and contemporary settings. It uses the insights of one pilot engagement project with present-day teachers, ‘Reimagining the Diary’ (2018–19), to explore the longue durée history of reflective writing within the teaching profession and to highlight the current problems facing teachers and educationalists looking to use self-reflection as a t…
Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Second World War Britain. By Lucy Noakes
Death and grief have political currency: profound meaning is attached to how people die, the way their bodies are treated, and the responses of their loved ones and wider communities. As Thomas Laqueur argues, the dead are made to ‘work’ for the state and the nation, particularly in liberal democracies during wartime. But, Elaine Scarry notes, death can be a destabilizing force too, the corpse exhibiting a ‘referential instability’. As Lucy Noake…
Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945–1950
The period of Allied occupation, political change and transition at the end of the Second World War continues to fascinate historians of modern Germany and Europe, as well as those interested in the emerging divisions between the occupying powers which would set the stage for the Cold War. Beattie’s book intersects with research on the occupation and its goals, which, as Beattie notes, examines ‘varying sets of three, four, and even five “ds”’, i…
Writing Veterans’ History: A Conversation on the Twentieth Century
This article is a conversation between five specialists of veterans’ history on the current direction of the field and its importance to the study of war and society. The discussants offer an an overview of current methodologies, definitions and historiographical approaches. Concentrating on the experiences of twentieth-century veterans (particularly after 1945) and using a diverse range of case studies from across the world, this article also as…
Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the late Twentieth Century . By James Hinton
Mass Observation (MO), its diarists, and its directives continue to fascinate historians of twentieth-century Britain. Coinciding with the eightieth anniversary of the social surveying project's foundation, James Hinton’s Seven Lives from Mass Observation is a timely reminder of the richness of the material at the heart of this ‘anthropology of ourselves’. Historians tend to have particular expectations of MO histories, envisaging that they will …
British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century
British Nuclear Culture: official and unofficial narratives in the long twentieth century." Contemporary British History, 31(4), pp. 639–640
The Korean War Never Happened: Forgetting a Conflict in British Culture and Society
This article traces the social and cultural significance of the Korean War in contemporary British society, from the initial involvement of British military forces in July 1950 to the unveiling of the first London memorial dedicated to the conflict in December 2014. In particular, it explores why the Korean War has been labelled the ‘forgotten war’ of the twentieth century. After an initial surge of concern over the prospect of another world war …
Write Your Life!’: British Prisoners of War in the Korean War (1950–1953) and Enforced Life Narratives
This article explores the range of life writing produced by British prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950–3). By examining enforced diary-keeping, public confessions and self-criticism within prisoner of war camps ran by the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV), this article uses the example of British servicemen to demonstrate how British prisoners of war were constantly called upon to reflexively consider their role as servicemen and their …
Deterrence can be boring: Boredom, gender, and absence in Britain's Cold War military
Boredom was an integral part of Cold War experience in western Europe and its manifestations and management were key political, military and social considerations during this long conflict, for militaries in particular. Using over 60 original oral history interviews (both individual and group) with a wide range of former residents of British military bases in West Germany, this article explores the presence and articulation of boredom within mili…
Writing Veterans’ History: A Conversation on the Twentieth Century
This article is a conversation between five specialists of veterans’ history on the current direction of the field and its importance to the study of war and society. The discussants offer an an overview of current methodologies, definitions and historiographical approaches. Concentrating on the experiences of twentieth-century veterans (particularly after 1945) and using a diverse range of case studies from across the world, this article also as…
British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century
British Nuclear Culture: official and unofficial narratives in the long twentieth century." Contemporary British History, 31(4), pp. 639–640
Escape From the Cold War: Planning Civilian Evacuation from British-Occupied Germany, 1946–55
Evacuations, imagined as well as actual, reflect national strategic preoccupations, cultural assumptions and prevailing social values; they also reveal practical strengths and weaknesses in international relationships and in states’ interactions with their own citizens, at home and abroad. But evacuations are deeply symbolically significant too and grounded in far longer, intertwined social and strategic histories. Using the remarkable case study…
In Our Daily Struggles’: Diaries as a Tool for Teacher Well-being
This article explores the connection between teachers, diary-writing and self-reflection in both historical and contemporary settings. It uses the insights of one pilot engagement project with present-day teachers, ‘Reimagining the Diary’ (2018–19), to explore the longue durée history of reflective writing within the teaching profession and to highlight the current problems facing teachers and educationalists looking to use self-reflection as a t…
Write Your Life!’: British Prisoners of War in the Korean War (1950–1953) and Enforced Life Narratives
This article explores the range of life writing produced by British prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950–3). By examining enforced diary-keeping, public confessions and self-criticism within prisoner of war camps ran by the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV), this article uses the example of British servicemen to demonstrate how British prisoners of war were constantly called upon to reflexively consider their role as servicemen and their …
Write Your Life!’: British Prisoners of War in the Korean War (1950–1953) and Enforced Life Narratives
This article explores the range of life writing produced by British prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950–3). By examining enforced diary-keeping, public confessions and self-criticism within prisoner of war camps ran by the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV), this article uses the example of British servicemen to demonstrate how British prisoners of war were constantly called upon to reflexively consider their role as servicemen and their …
The Korean War Never Happened: Forgetting a Conflict in British Culture and Society
This article traces the social and cultural significance of the Korean War in contemporary British society, from the initial involvement of British military forces in July 1950 to the unveiling of the first London memorial dedicated to the conflict in December 2014. In particular, it explores why the Korean War has been labelled the ‘forgotten war’ of the twentieth century. After an initial surge of concern over the prospect of another world war …
Seven Lives from Mass Observation: Britain in the late Twentieth Century . By James Hinton
Mass Observation (MO), its diarists, and its directives continue to fascinate historians of twentieth-century Britain. Coinciding with the eightieth anniversary of the social surveying project's foundation, James Hinton’s Seven Lives from Mass Observation is a timely reminder of the richness of the material at the heart of this ‘anthropology of ourselves’. Historians tend to have particular expectations of MO histories, envisaging that they will …
British Nuclear Culture: Official and Unofficial Narratives in the Long Twentieth Century
British Nuclear Culture: official and unofficial narratives in the long twentieth century." Contemporary British History, 31(4), pp. 639–640
Writing Veterans’ History: A Conversation on the Twentieth Century
This article is a conversation between five specialists of veterans’ history on the current direction of the field and its importance to the study of war and society. The discussants offer an an overview of current methodologies, definitions and historiographical approaches. Concentrating on the experiences of twentieth-century veterans (particularly after 1945) and using a diverse range of case studies from across the world, this article also as…
In Our Daily Struggles’: Diaries as a Tool for Teacher Well-being
This article explores the connection between teachers, diary-writing and self-reflection in both historical and contemporary settings. It uses the insights of one pilot engagement project with present-day teachers, ‘Reimagining the Diary’ (2018–19), to explore the longue durée history of reflective writing within the teaching profession and to highlight the current problems facing teachers and educationalists looking to use self-reflection as a t…
Dying for the Nation: Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Second World War Britain. By Lucy Noakes
Death and grief have political currency: profound meaning is attached to how people die, the way their bodies are treated, and the responses of their loved ones and wider communities. As Thomas Laqueur argues, the dead are made to ‘work’ for the state and the nation, particularly in liberal democracies during wartime. But, Elaine Scarry notes, death can be a destabilizing force too, the corpse exhibiting a ‘referential instability’. As Lucy Noake…
Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 1945–1950
The period of Allied occupation, political change and transition at the end of the Second World War continues to fascinate historians of modern Germany and Europe, as well as those interested in the emerging divisions between the occupying powers which would set the stage for the Cold War. Beattie’s book intersects with research on the occupation and its goals, which, as Beattie notes, examines ‘varying sets of three, four, and even five “ds”’, i…
‘School is everywhere’? British military children, ‘turbulence’ and the meanings of post-war mobility
This article traces the emergence of the term 'turbulence' to describe the educational disruption experienced by military children after 1945. It asks why the term came to dominate professional discussion of military education so much from the late 1960s onwards and the wider tensions it exposed in post-war Britain: between welfare and warfare; 'tradition' and progressiveness; individuals and communities; families and institutions. Moreover, this…
Round Table: The New Cold War
First paragraph: The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is having profound repercussions in Britain, not least on our cultural and intellectual life. However, although the media has presented this unfolding crisis in exhaustive detail, no one could reasonably argue that there has been much depth to the general treatment. From the outset, media coverage has been superficial and woefully lacking in objectivity, with briefings by President Zelensky and oth…
There is No Icebreaker like a Tiny Child’: Reuniting British Military Families in Cold War Germany
Family reunion had a deeply practical and symbolic significance in post-war Europe. Through the case study of British military families living in Germany, this article examines both official discourse and families’ own experiences of reunion and life overseas in the first decades of the Cold War, through the three national but also international visions of the family: as emblems of familial and domestic stability, as ‘unofficial ambassadors’ prom…
Escape From the Cold War: Planning Civilian Evacuation from British-Occupied Germany, 1946–55
Evacuations, imagined as well as actual, reflect national strategic preoccupations, cultural assumptions and prevailing social values; they also reveal practical strengths and weaknesses in international relationships and in states’ interactions with their own citizens, at home and abroad. But evacuations are deeply symbolically significant too and grounded in far longer, intertwined social and strategic histories. Using the remarkable case study…
Deterrence can be boring: Boredom, gender, and absence in Britain's Cold War military
Boredom was an integral part of Cold War experience in western Europe and its manifestations and management were key political, military and social considerations during this long conflict, for militaries in particular. Using over 60 original oral history interviews (both individual and group) with a wide range of former residents of British military bases in West Germany, this article explores the presence and articulation of boredom within mili…
Are there any wives like me? The meanings of family in British military communities during the 1990s
Writing in the letters pages of the British Army Wives Journal in 1994, one writer asked: ‘[D]oes the Army merely attract females who have no ambition in life but to reproduce at an alarming rate?’ In tracing the outcry that followed this letter through the journal’s pages, this article calls for the ‘military family’ to be placed in a clear historical context. We make two arguments: first, that the military family is a historically contingent an…
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