Michael Reeve
Biographic Data
| ID | 5189353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Reeve |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Reeve |
| SIGNATURE | REEVE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hiding in Plain Sight? Understanding War Through Ephemera
When the First World War broke out in 1914, ephemera quickly became a key way of understanding and recording the conflict. From collection drives through to postcards home, people at all levels embraced the communicative nature of ephemera, using it to document, remember, and share understandings of the war. However, this wide-ranging appreciation of ephemeral material has not always been fully appreciated by historians, who are often reticent to…
Athanasius, Evagrius, Adomnán
Managing risk in the ‘danger zone’
This article explores the development of nascent civil defence efforts during the First World War in Britain, through the use of urban case studies from the north-east coast of England. Whilst pre-war defence planning by central government and military authorities had been primarily concerned with the building of coastal gun batteries and strengthening the Royal Navy – in response to looming fears of invasion by a foreign foe – the war itself saw…
Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War
‘An Empire Dock’
This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on the opening ceremony of a new dock in June 1914 - organised around the procession of King George V and the Queen-consort Mary - the article contests that imperial discourses were adapted for use in the…
The Darkest Town in England”
This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues that, in Hull, the overwhelming response of local people was a sort of “defensive” or “practical patriotism”. The safety of kith and kin, local culture and “way of life” was foremost in the minds of …
Grim up North
Though 17 years have passed since its publication, the three “interconnected issues” outlined by Neville Kirk in the introduction to his edited collection, Northern Identities, still very much info
Special Needs, Cheerful Habits
This article applies an interpretive anthropological and phenomenological approach to the Great War in Britain, 1914–18, focusing on the cigarette as a cultural artefact and material commodity, and smoking as a cultural motif and social practice. The primary material featured includes personal correspondence from soldiers and civilians, newspaper articles, advertising and fictional literature. The fundamental task carried out by this study is the…
Chapter Twelve. The Vita Plinii
From the editio princeps until well into the 16th century, editions of Pliny's Natural history opened with a life of the author ascribed to Suetonius. The Vita Plinii , one of just six fragments in either class that concern historians, is the only fragment explicitly attributed to De viris illustribus the only biographical fragment of the work not edited since Roth and Reifferscheid. As both Roth and Reifferscheid knew of several manuscripts that…
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, phil…
Cuius in Usum ? Recent and Future Editing
In 1993 Michael Winterbottom remarked that we have reached ‘what may be the last decades of the systematic editing of classical texts’. If he was right, what has been dwindling: capacity, interest, scope, or confidence? When editors' prefaces include such Latin as ‘ad huius operis finem ... longdudum exspectatum’ (1983), ‘non solum hominibus, sed ne libris quidem non pepercit’ (1991, of the War), ‘ex Italia, ut Munk Olsen videtur, ortus’ (1997), …
The Darkest Town in England”
This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues that, in Hull, the overwhelming response of local people was a sort of “defensive” or “practical patriotism”. The safety of kith and kin, local culture and “way of life” was foremost in the minds of …
Special Needs, Cheerful Habits
This article applies an interpretive anthropological and phenomenological approach to the Great War in Britain, 1914–18, focusing on the cigarette as a cultural artefact and material commodity, and smoking as a cultural motif and social practice. The primary material featured includes personal correspondence from soldiers and civilians, newspaper articles, advertising and fictional literature. The fundamental task carried out by this study is the…
Cuius in Usum ? Recent and Future Editing
In 1993 Michael Winterbottom remarked that we have reached ‘what may be the last decades of the systematic editing of classical texts’. If he was right, what has been dwindling: capacity, interest, scope, or confidence? When editors' prefaces include such Latin as ‘ad huius operis finem ... longdudum exspectatum’ (1983), ‘non solum hominibus, sed ne libris quidem non pepercit’ (1991, of the War), ‘ex Italia, ut Munk Olsen videtur, ortus’ (1997), …
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, phil…
Chapter Twelve. The Vita Plinii
From the editio princeps until well into the 16th century, editions of Pliny's Natural history opened with a life of the author ascribed to Suetonius. The Vita Plinii , one of just six fragments in either class that concern historians, is the only fragment explicitly attributed to De viris illustribus the only biographical fragment of the work not edited since Roth and Reifferscheid. As both Roth and Reifferscheid knew of several manuscripts that…
Special Needs, Cheerful Habits
This article applies an interpretive anthropological and phenomenological approach to the Great War in Britain, 1914–18, focusing on the cigarette as a cultural artefact and material commodity, and smoking as a cultural motif and social practice. The primary material featured includes personal correspondence from soldiers and civilians, newspaper articles, advertising and fictional literature. The fundamental task carried out by this study is the…
The Darkest Town in England”
This article is primarily concerned with contributing to the burgeoning movement within First World War cultural history to provide rich local case studies, in order to problematise traditional perspectives on the patriotic response to war. It argues that, in Hull, the overwhelming response of local people was a sort of “defensive” or “practical patriotism”. The safety of kith and kin, local culture and “way of life” was foremost in the minds of …
Grim up North
Though 17 years have passed since its publication, the three “interconnected issues” outlined by Neville Kirk in the introduction to his edited collection, Northern Identities, still very much info
Bombardment, Public Safety and Resilience in English Coastal Communities during the First World War
‘An Empire Dock’
This article explores the employment and adaptation of imperial ideas and imagery in the civic performance and presentation of Hull, the East Yorkshire port city, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing, in particular, on the opening ceremony of a new dock in June 1914 - organised around the procession of King George V and the Queen-consort Mary - the article contests that imperial discourses were adapted for use in the…
Athanasius, Evagrius, Adomnán
Managing risk in the ‘danger zone’
This article explores the development of nascent civil defence efforts during the First World War in Britain, through the use of urban case studies from the north-east coast of England. Whilst pre-war defence planning by central government and military authorities had been primarily concerned with the building of coastal gun batteries and strengthening the Royal Navy – in response to looming fears of invasion by a foreign foe – the war itself saw…
Hiding in Plain Sight? Understanding War Through Ephemera
When the First World War broke out in 1914, ephemera quickly became a key way of understanding and recording the conflict. From collection drives through to postcards home, people at all levels embraced the communicative nature of ephemera, using it to document, remember, and share understandings of the war. However, this wide-ranging appreciation of ephemeral material has not always been fully appreciated by historians, who are often reticent to…
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