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Dr Brad Beaven is professor in social and cultural history at Portsmouth and leads the Port Towns and Urban cultures research project. His book, Visions of Empire: Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870-1939, is out now in paperback with Manchester University Press. The book offers a fascinating insight into the ways in which ideas of Empire impacted on the lives of the British population in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.’ Link: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526106698/

Former University of Portsmouth history students, James Daly and Dan Kneller, have published a Portsmouth Paper that examines the impact of the First World War on the naval city of Portsmouth. ‘From the Fight for Britain to the Fight for Bread: Portsmouth and the Impact of the First World War, 1914-1925’ draws on a wealth of local sources to reveal how Portsmouth’s residents were affected by the conflict, both while it took place and in the years that followed .’ Link: https://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/ext/news/library-launches-paper-on-the-impact-of-wwi-on-portsmouth.aspx