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The management of psychological casualties from large-scale attritional combat: shell shock, British military doctors and generals in the First World War. 大规模消耗战中心理伤亡的管理：炮弹休克，第一次世界大战中的英国军医和将军。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag036

Edgar Jones

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How warm should the welfare state be? The evolution of Britain's heating benefit and the challenge of defining adequate heat, 1948-1988. 福利国家应该有多温暖？1948-1988年，英国供暖效益的演变和定义足够热量的挑战。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag039

Rebecca Wright

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'All the Marks of a Swindle': Walter Sidney Bromhead and the dividends of whiteness. “骗局的所有标志”：沃尔特·西德尼·布罗姆黑德和白人的红利。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag024

Calvin Scott Paulson

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Blood parenthood and the hierarchies of dispossession in English adoption cases, 1946-70. 1946- 1970年英国收养案例中的血缘关系和剥夺等级。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag022

Emma Melody Bradley

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Family stories: retirement, old age, and generational thinking in Britain since the 1970s. 家庭故事：20世纪70年代以来英国的退休、老年和代际思维。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag021

Helen McCarthy

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Correction to the following two papers. 更正以下两篇论文。

Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag017

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'Stop this horror': protest imagery, exposure tactics, and the media campaign to end British counterinsurgency violence in Malaya, 1948-53. “停止这种恐怖”：抗议图像、曝光策略和媒体运动，以结束英国在马来亚的反叛乱暴力，1948-53。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag037

Rio Creech-Nowagiel

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Experiencing British Nationality Law in Twentieth-Century China: extraterritoriality, marriage, and 'legitimacy' on the edges of empire. 在20世纪中国体验英国国籍法：帝国边缘的治外法权、婚姻和“合法性”。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag001

Catherine Ladds

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'All the Kids Wanna Sniff Some Glue': glue-sniffing, deindustrialization, and moral panic in 1980s Britain. “所有的孩子都想吸点胶水”：20世纪80年代英国的吸胶、去工业化和道德恐慌。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwaf025

Malcolm Russell

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Migration memories of sexual and reproductive health in late twentieth-century London. 20世纪晚期伦敦性与生殖健康的移民记忆。

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Modern British history Pub Date : 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1093/tcbh/hwag009

Caroline Rusterholz, George J Severs

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