Miniatures

Kate Ferris is Professor in Modern European History at the University of St Andrews. She researches modern Italy and Spain with an emphasis on everyday life history and questions of agency, practice, subjectivity, and space. She leads the ERC-funded project, ‘Dictatorship as experience: a comparative history of everyday life and the “lived experience” of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe, 1922–1975’.Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory, public history, and everyday life, with a particular interest in the contemporary Mediterranean world.

• Introduction: Miniature Perspectives on Big Historical Pictures Huw Halstead and Kate FerrisDOI: 10.47788/FJXP9208 1. Michel Gnimagnon’s Captivity Report: A Handwritten Account of a French Colonial POW, 1941 Sarah FrankDOI: 10.47788/JWQN9945 2. Atmosphere, the City and Everyday Life in Barcelona, 1909: The Journal of the Widow of Trias Matthew KerryDOI: 10.47788/MJRZ9746 3. Sound and Experience: Mass-Observation and an Exploration of the Senses in Inter-War Britain Jen PurcellDOI: 10.47788/YJFZ6040 4. Diary of a British Schoolboy in Nazi Germany Helen RocheDOI: 10.47788/LYTQ5054 5. Wolfgang Jahn’s Handwritten Letter to the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR): ‘Coming Out’ in 1970s West Germany Craig GriffithsDOI: 10.47788/YIWB8860 6. The Emotional Lives of Letters: Soviet Sexual Morality and Archival Encounters Hannah ParkerDOI: 10.47788/QZPR5289 7. Writing Letters to the State: The Normalization of Salazar’s Political Police Duncan SimpsonDOI: 10.47788/PDSM5638 8. Reading Ways of Manoeuvring, Mediating and Evading Dictatorship in a Memoir of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy Kate FerrisDOI: 10.47788/IUHD5017 9. Wife Notices, Oral Testimonies and Intimate Partner Violence in the Caribbean: Since the 1930s O’Neil JosephDOI: 10.47788/NBQD5734 10. Statesman at Home: The Space and Family of a Japanese Governing Elite in the 1960s Seen Through Floor Plans and Video Oral Testimonies Shin SatoDOI: 10.47788/ZJYP8355 11. Ethnokafenology: Oral Testimony, Space and the Noise of the Everyday in Western Thrace, Greece (c.1939–2013) Huw HalsteadDOI: 10.47788/GCUM1547 12. Incanting Revolution: A Sonic History of a Six-Word Slogan in Istanbul since the 1970s Christopher HoustonDOI: 10.47788/YUCU5505 13. An Ethnographic Bricolage: Mapping Everyday Space on the Urban Periphery in Chongqing, China in the Twenty-First Century Asa RoastDOI: 10.47788/OPCH7709 14. Layers of Knowledge Production and the Archives of Everyday Life in Apartheid South Africa Andile Magengelele and Franziska RueediDOI: 10.47788/URRQ3075 15. The Fabric of Everyday Culture: The Lives of a Green Leather Jacket since the 1980s Helen Ahner and Karin BürkertDOI: 10.47788/NVOG7312 16. Material Culture, Seaside Souvenirs and French ‘Taste’: The Transnational Journey of a Seashell Box in Post-War France and the USA Ludivine BrochDOI: 10.47788/KZMA8995 17. Cut-Throat: Italian Fascist Colonialism According to Razor Blades Diana GarvinDOI: 10.47788/MQMX5814 18. A Photographic Snapshot of Balsall Heath: Race, Sex and Space in 1960s Birmingham Kieran ConnellDOI: 10.47788/HTBB7375 19. Docile Bodies? Reflections on a Recruitment Photograph from India during the Second World War Diya GuptaDOI: 10.47788/ZPDY9911 20. Marginalization in Fragments: Photojournalistic Depictions of Loss, Destitution and (Imperial) Mobilities of Portuguese Ciganos under the Salazar Regime Yannick LengkeekDOI: 10.47788/PUSC5636 21. Everyday Life under the Greek Junta (1967–1974) Through Vassilis Maros’s Documentary Film To Bouzouki Eleni Kallimopoulou and Kostis KornetisDOI: 10.47788/EJVA9674 22. We Just Demolished Their Story: Using Drawing and Storytelling to Understand the Changing Post-Soviet City in Tajikistan Carl A. SmithDOI: 10.47788/KOPM1040 23. Comprehensive School Magazines from Bristol and Cardiff, 1960s–1980s Laura CarterDOI: 10.47788/QIIJ8488 24. The Children’s Section of the Finnish North American Socialist Women’s Newspaper Toveritar Samira SaramoDOI: 10.47788/ULJR6027 25. Finding Meaning in ‘Peripheral’ Sources: Subscription Lists and ‘Everyday Anarchism’ in Late Nineteenth-Century Argentina Nathaniel AndrewsDOI: 10.47788/OBXB3980 26. A ‘Miniature’ Carnival in Franco’s Spain: Official Investigative Reports on the Celebration of the ‘Burial of the Sardine’ in Albanchez (Almería) in 1950 Gloria Román RuizDOI: 10.47788/CARX7872 27. Playful Engagements on WhatsApp in Twenty-First-Century Zimbabwe Ushehwedu KufakurinaniDOI: 10.47788/XXOA8526 28. Mapping Memory: Using Google Maps to Understand Lima’s Contemporary Memoryscape Daniel WillisDOI: 10.47788/XEVZ4231