Martin Hurcombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4585602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Hurcombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurcombe |
| SIGNATURE | HURCOMBE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5232-4224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hannah Frydman, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
[No abstract]
At the Bicycle Races
The authors take three different points within a transatlantic triangle to trace the flow of people, products, and ideas concerned with the sporting culture of the bicycle. Tracking the emergence and elaboration of a global culture sheds light on how cycling was experienced across and between spaces, challenging notions of coherent “nationality and territoriality” in the crucial decade before World War I. Co-authorship is utilized as a means of o…
New Directions in War and Culture Studies. An Early Career Special Issue
This short article introduces this special issue which features the work of early career researchers and marks the retirement of the final founding member from the editorial team. It begins with a history of the Journal of War & Culture Studies and an analysis of its contribution to the field. It argues that JWCS has played a leading role in constituting and shaping this field by creating a forum in which scholars of the arts and humanities and s…
Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939
Journal Article Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939 Get access Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939. By Thomas Beaumont. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2019. 271 pp. £24.99. ISBN: 978-1-78962-080-1. Martin Hurcombe Martin Hurcombe University of Bristol, Bristol, UK [email protected] Search for other…
Le Véloce-Sport et l’invention de la culture cycliste
FR. Publié entre 1885 et 1897, Le Véloce-Sport de Bordeaux faisait figure de chef de proue parmi les revues vélocipédiques françaises de la fin du XIXe siècle. En tant que la voix de l’Union Vélocipédique Française (UVF), cet hebdomadaire en devint par la suite son organe national officiel. Alors que certaines analyses de l’histoire du sport en France se sont penchées sur ce rapport avec l’UVF pour mieux comprendre l’évolution de cette dernière, …
Introduction: War, Peace and Sport
[No Abstract]
The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945
This article examines the ways in which veteran writers, notably through the activities and publications of the Association des Écrivians Combattants [Association of Combatant Writers], were essential to the conscious elaboration of a generational identity amongst French veterans in the interwar years. In particular, it explores how the AEC constructed the war generation in France, examining how its successes, limitations, and legacy beyond the F…
France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936-1945
In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage, essays, and fiction by French supporters of Franco's Nationalists and of the Spanish Republic, Hurcombe shows the multifaceted ways in which that c…
Imaging Europe: Myth, Memory, and Identity
Imagining Europe offers an incisive critique of the limited success experienced by the European Union (EU), and its earlier incarnations, at generating a widespread sense of European identity. The
The Past, Present, and Future of War and Culture Studies
The current issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies marks both continuity and a moment of transition. It is the second issue of the current volume devoted to the study of the past, present
Roman noir et drapeau noir: Didier Daeninckx and the libertarian legacy
The crime novelist Didier Daeninckx originally established himself as an author of historical crime fiction. His Citation1984 novel, Meurtres pour mémoire, in particular challenged occluded and intertwined memories of the Occupation and the Algerian War of Independence. Since then, and through his subsequent writings and political activities, Daeninckx has been recognised as giving voice to a range of marginalised communities and memories. Much a…
Introduction: Occupation/Liberation – French Cultural Representations of 1944–1945 and its Legacy
The year 2014 saw a series of commemorative events and acts across the world associated with the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Yet it was also the year of the se
Untold Crimes: The First World War and the Historical Crime Fiction of Jean Amila and Didier Daeninckx
This article considers how Jean Amila's Le Boucher des Hurlus (1982) and Didier Daeninckx's Le Der des ders (1984) expose hidden crimes committed by figures of French military authority during the First World War; how they reject the myth of a France united by combat embodied in the heroic and steadfast poilu; and how they complicate and pluralise memories of the war through the existence of a counter-memory and a counter-myth founded upon the fi…
Veteran Identities: One Hundred Years of the First World War
Mass conscription made the figure of the veteran more visible, particularly in Western societies, in the years following the Armistice than ever before. Returning combatants became a recognized social group and, in some nations, a powerful political force. Moreover, representations of the veteran haunted the cultural landscape of the belligerent nations, and he appeared in a number of different guises. The nationalist stereotypes—the Tommy, poilu…
The sweet liberty of the trenches’: Capitaine Conan by Roger Vercel and Bertrand Tavernier
World War I has given rise to a vast literature inspired by a pacifist interpretation of the events. Generally accepted during the war years, the Great War was mostly condemned afterwards, especially from 1929 onwards. This myth of a senseless war in which soldiers are perceived as victims rather than actors has been challenged by Roger Vercel, himself a veteran, in his 1934 novel Capitaine Conan. The main character is a gung ho soldier who takes…
Introduction: Traces of Conflict 2
Introduction: Traces of Conflict
The importance of the trace in relation to public memory and historical remembrance was highlighted in Pierre Nora's seminal work on French cultural, political, and historical memory, Les Lieux de
Introduction: Variations on the theme of war and culture
(2011). Introduction: Variations on the theme of war and culture. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-6
Introduction: War, culture, technology
This issue presents four articles that, in their different ways, consider directly or indirectly the representation and reception of technology in cultural representations of warfare from the early twentieth century to the present. Since World War I, cultural representations of technological developments used in and around warfare have often expressed the dehumanizing effect of technology on the experience of warfare. Often war is no longer perce…
The Figure of the Soldier
(2009). The Figure of the Soldier. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 103-104
The Spanish Civil War
(2009). The Spanish Civil War. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 241-244
The body at war: Wounds, wounding and the wounded
This issue looks back, on the one hand, to some of the founding work undertaken by the research group GWACS1 (Group for War and Culture Studies, the research impetus from which the Journal of War and Culture Studies sprang), and looks forward, on the other, to themes and approaches that will be developed in the future in the pages of this journal. The subject of the body at war is indeed a vast one, and one which has received increasing attention…
Raising the dead: Visual representations of the combatant's body in interwar France
During the interwar years, images of dead infantrymen rising from the grave were designed as a reminder to the French nation of the suffering and sacrifice of the armed forces and of the Army in particular during the war and of the debt that the civilian population owed to its dead. Examining three French films of the interwar years and the battlefield memorials of Verdun, this article studies the passage from a carnivalesque and subversive use o…
Mi guerra, tu guerra: Claiming the Spanish Civil War in literature and film
This paper presents an overview of general trends in a selection of representations of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to the present in literature and film, arguing that two different versions of the conflict have developed since the nationalists' victory in 1939. It begins by examining how, following the rapid internationalization of the conflict in 1936, the Civil War was considered increasingly as a battle between ideological absolutes, Europ…
The Figure of the Soldier
(2009). The Figure of the Soldier. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 103-104
The body at war: Wounds, wounding and the wounded
This issue looks back, on the one hand, to some of the founding work undertaken by the research group GWACS1 (Group for War and Culture Studies, the research impetus from which the Journal of War and Culture Studies sprang), and looks forward, on the other, to themes and approaches that will be developed in the future in the pages of this journal. The subject of the body at war is indeed a vast one, and one which has received increasing attention…
Untold Crimes: The First World War and the Historical Crime Fiction of Jean Amila and Didier Daeninckx
This article considers how Jean Amila's Le Boucher des Hurlus (1982) and Didier Daeninckx's Le Der des ders (1984) expose hidden crimes committed by figures of French military authority during the First World War; how they reject the myth of a France united by combat embodied in the heroic and steadfast poilu; and how they complicate and pluralise memories of the war through the existence of a counter-memory and a counter-myth founded upon the fi…
Roman noir et drapeau noir: Didier Daeninckx and the libertarian legacy
The crime novelist Didier Daeninckx originally established himself as an author of historical crime fiction. His Citation1984 novel, Meurtres pour mémoire, in particular challenged occluded and intertwined memories of the Occupation and the Algerian War of Independence. Since then, and through his subsequent writings and political activities, Daeninckx has been recognised as giving voice to a range of marginalised communities and memories. Much a…
Veteran Identities: One Hundred Years of the First World War
Mass conscription made the figure of the veteran more visible, particularly in Western societies, in the years following the Armistice than ever before. Returning combatants became a recognized social group and, in some nations, a powerful political force. Moreover, representations of the veteran haunted the cultural landscape of the belligerent nations, and he appeared in a number of different guises. The nationalist stereotypes—the Tommy, poilu…
Raising the dead: Visual representations of the combatant's body in interwar France
During the interwar years, images of dead infantrymen rising from the grave were designed as a reminder to the French nation of the suffering and sacrifice of the armed forces and of the Army in particular during the war and of the debt that the civilian population owed to its dead. Examining three French films of the interwar years and the battlefield memorials of Verdun, this article studies the passage from a carnivalesque and subversive use o…
Mi guerra, tu guerra: Claiming the Spanish Civil War in literature and film
This paper presents an overview of general trends in a selection of representations of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to the present in literature and film, arguing that two different versions of the conflict have developed since the nationalists' victory in 1939. It begins by examining how, following the rapid internationalization of the conflict in 1936, the Civil War was considered increasingly as a battle between ideological absolutes, Europ…
Mi guerra, tu guerra: Claiming the Spanish Civil War in literature and film
This paper presents an overview of general trends in a selection of representations of the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to the present in literature and film, arguing that two different versions of the conflict have developed since the nationalists' victory in 1939. It begins by examining how, following the rapid internationalization of the conflict in 1936, the Civil War was considered increasingly as a battle between ideological absolutes, Europ…
The body at war: Wounds, wounding and the wounded
This issue looks back, on the one hand, to some of the founding work undertaken by the research group GWACS1 (Group for War and Culture Studies, the research impetus from which the Journal of War and Culture Studies sprang), and looks forward, on the other, to themes and approaches that will be developed in the future in the pages of this journal. The subject of the body at war is indeed a vast one, and one which has received increasing attention…
Raising the dead: Visual representations of the combatant's body in interwar France
During the interwar years, images of dead infantrymen rising from the grave were designed as a reminder to the French nation of the suffering and sacrifice of the armed forces and of the Army in particular during the war and of the debt that the civilian population owed to its dead. Examining three French films of the interwar years and the battlefield memorials of Verdun, this article studies the passage from a carnivalesque and subversive use o…
The Figure of the Soldier
(2009). The Figure of the Soldier. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 103-104
The Spanish Civil War
(2009). The Spanish Civil War. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 241-244
Introduction: War, culture, technology
This issue presents four articles that, in their different ways, consider directly or indirectly the representation and reception of technology in cultural representations of warfare from the early twentieth century to the present. Since World War I, cultural representations of technological developments used in and around warfare have often expressed the dehumanizing effect of technology on the experience of warfare. Often war is no longer perce…
Introduction: Variations on the theme of war and culture
(2011). Introduction: Variations on the theme of war and culture. Journal of War & Culture Studies: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-6
Veteran Identities: One Hundred Years of the First World War
Mass conscription made the figure of the veteran more visible, particularly in Western societies, in the years following the Armistice than ever before. Returning combatants became a recognized social group and, in some nations, a powerful political force. Moreover, representations of the veteran haunted the cultural landscape of the belligerent nations, and he appeared in a number of different guises. The nationalist stereotypes—the Tommy, poilu…
The sweet liberty of the trenches’: Capitaine Conan by Roger Vercel and Bertrand Tavernier
World War I has given rise to a vast literature inspired by a pacifist interpretation of the events. Generally accepted during the war years, the Great War was mostly condemned afterwards, especially from 1929 onwards. This myth of a senseless war in which soldiers are perceived as victims rather than actors has been challenged by Roger Vercel, himself a veteran, in his 1934 novel Capitaine Conan. The main character is a gung ho soldier who takes…
Introduction: Traces of Conflict 2
Introduction: Traces of Conflict
The importance of the trace in relation to public memory and historical remembrance was highlighted in Pierre Nora's seminal work on French cultural, political, and historical memory, Les Lieux de
Untold Crimes: The First World War and the Historical Crime Fiction of Jean Amila and Didier Daeninckx
This article considers how Jean Amila's Le Boucher des Hurlus (1982) and Didier Daeninckx's Le Der des ders (1984) expose hidden crimes committed by figures of French military authority during the First World War; how they reject the myth of a France united by combat embodied in the heroic and steadfast poilu; and how they complicate and pluralise memories of the war through the existence of a counter-memory and a counter-myth founded upon the fi…
Introduction: Occupation/Liberation – French Cultural Representations of 1944–1945 and its Legacy
The year 2014 saw a series of commemorative events and acts across the world associated with the one hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. Yet it was also the year of the se
France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936-1945
In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and shaped the French political landscape. Bringing together reportage, essays, and fiction by French supporters of Franco's Nationalists and of the Spanish Republic, Hurcombe shows the multifaceted ways in which that c…
Imaging Europe: Myth, Memory, and Identity
Imagining Europe offers an incisive critique of the limited success experienced by the European Union (EU), and its earlier incarnations, at generating a widespread sense of European identity. The
The Past, Present, and Future of War and Culture Studies
The current issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies marks both continuity and a moment of transition. It is the second issue of the current volume devoted to the study of the past, present
Roman noir et drapeau noir: Didier Daeninckx and the libertarian legacy
The crime novelist Didier Daeninckx originally established himself as an author of historical crime fiction. His Citation1984 novel, Meurtres pour mémoire, in particular challenged occluded and intertwined memories of the Occupation and the Algerian War of Independence. Since then, and through his subsequent writings and political activities, Daeninckx has been recognised as giving voice to a range of marginalised communities and memories. Much a…
The War Generation and Generation Wars: French Veterans and the Association des Écrivains Combattants, 1919–1945
This article examines the ways in which veteran writers, notably through the activities and publications of the Association des Écrivians Combattants [Association of Combatant Writers], were essential to the conscious elaboration of a generational identity amongst French veterans in the interwar years. In particular, it explores how the AEC constructed the war generation in France, examining how its successes, limitations, and legacy beyond the F…
Introduction: War, Peace and Sport
[No Abstract]
Le Véloce-Sport et l’invention de la culture cycliste
FR. Publié entre 1885 et 1897, Le Véloce-Sport de Bordeaux faisait figure de chef de proue parmi les revues vélocipédiques françaises de la fin du XIXe siècle. En tant que la voix de l’Union Vélocipédique Française (UVF), cet hebdomadaire en devint par la suite son organe national officiel. Alors que certaines analyses de l’histoire du sport en France se sont penchées sur ce rapport avec l’UVF pour mieux comprendre l’évolution de cette dernière, …
Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939
Journal Article Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939 Get access Fellow Travellers: Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914–1939. By Thomas Beaumont. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2019. 271 pp. £24.99. ISBN: 978-1-78962-080-1. Martin Hurcombe Martin Hurcombe University of Bristol, Bristol, UK [email protected] Search for other…
New Directions in War and Culture Studies. An Early Career Special Issue
This short article introduces this special issue which features the work of early career researchers and marks the retirement of the final founding member from the editorial team. It begins with a history of the Journal of War & Culture Studies and an analysis of its contribution to the field. It argues that JWCS has played a leading role in constituting and shaping this field by creating a forum in which scholars of the arts and humanities and s…
At the Bicycle Races
The authors take three different points within a transatlantic triangle to trace the flow of people, products, and ideas concerned with the sporting culture of the bicycle. Tracking the emergence and elaboration of a global culture sheds light on how cycling was experienced across and between spaces, challenging notions of coherent “nationality and territoriality” in the crucial decade before World War I. Co-authorship is utilized as a means of o…
Hannah Frydman, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France
[No abstract]
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