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Books by Michael J . K . Walsh

Popular Culture and Its Relationship to Conflict in the UK and Australia since the Great War, 2023

Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 moment, 2022

Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the F... more Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully answered some of the post-war tests they faced, such as demobilisation, repatriation, and fighting the widespread effects of the Spanish flu, the racial, social, political and economic hallmarks of their imperialism set the scene for a wide range of expressions of loyalties and disloyalties, and anticolonial movements. The book documents and conceptualises this 1918-20 'moment' and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire, examining these years for the significant shifts in the imperial relationship that occurred and as laying the foundation for later change in the imperial system.

After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath, 2021

A century after the Armistice and the associated peace agreements that formally ended the Great W... more A century after the Armistice and the associated peace agreements that formally ended the Great War, many issues pertaining to the UK and its empire are yet to be satisfactorily resolved. Accordingly, this volume presents a multi-disciplinary approach to better understanding the post-Armistice Empire across a broad spectrum of disciplines, geographies and chronologies. Through the lens of diplomatic, social, cultural, historical and economic analysis, the chapters engage with the histories of Lagos and Tonga, Cyprus and China, as well as more obvious geographies of empire such as Ireland, India and Australia. Though globally diverse, and encompassing much of the post-Armistice century, the studies are nevertheless united by three common themes: the interrogation of that transitionary ‘moment’ after the Armistice that lingered well beyond the final Treaty of Lausanne in 1924; the utilisation of new research methods and avenues of enquiry to compliment extant debates concerning the legacies of colonialism and nationalism; and the common leitmotif of the British Empire in all its political and cultural complexity. The centenary of the Armistice offers a timely occasion on which to present these studies.

Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries, 2019

Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of schola... more Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries
presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus. This historic harbour city was at the heart of the Crusading Lusignan dynasty, a possession of both Genoa and Venice during the Renaissance, a port of the Ottoman Empire for three centuries, and in time, a strategic naval and intelligence node for the British Empire. It is a maritime space made famous by the realities of its extraordinary importance and influence, followed by its calamitous demise.

Contributors are: Michele Bacci, Lucie Bonato, Tomasz Borowski, Mike Carr, Pierre-Vincent Claverie, Dragos Cosmescu, Nicholas Coureas, Marko Kiessel, Antonio Musarra, William Spates, Asu Tozan, Ahmet Usta, and Michael Walsh.

Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War 'An Old Man's Tears'

Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs which deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of th... more Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs which deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, And the band played Waltzing Matilda and No Man’s Land (a.k.a The Green Fields of France), have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the universality and power of their simple message. Bogle’s other compositions about the First World War give a voice to the voiceless, prominence to the forgotten, and personality to the anonymous as they interrogate the human experience, celebrate its spirit and empathise with its suffering.
This book examines Eric Bogle’s songs about the Great War within the geographies and socio-cultural contexts in which they were written and consumed. From Anzac Day in Australia and Turkey to the ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, and from small Aboriginal communities in the Coorong to the influence of Prime Ministers and rock stars on a world stage, we are urged to contemplate the nature and importance of popular culture in shaping contemporary notions of history and national identity. It is entirely appropriate that we do so through the words of an artist who Melody Maker described as ‘the most important songwriter of our time’

This book is about seven centuries of change in Famagusta as seen through the story of the rise a... more This book is about seven centuries of change in Famagusta as seen through the story of the rise and fall of the city’s Medieval Armenian Church. The meticulous scholarship presented in this volume offers not only a first history of the Armenian community of Famagusta but also a valuable, and timely, record of the efforts made to safeguard, understand, theorise and reconstruct (virtually) the fragile heritage it left behind. An interdisciplinary investigation of art, architecture, archives, and ‘hard sciences’ therefore escorts the reader from the era of the crusades, through the rise and fall of empires, to the political stasis of the present day.

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies wen... more In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

January 2016

Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology is a multi-disciplinary collection of... more Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology is a multi-disciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex relationship that existed, and exists, between the Great War, the British Empire, and Australia. These thematically diverse studies have been selected to help the modern reader come to terms with what that three-way relationship was, and has subsequently become, in the ten decades since August 1914. Interconnections in scholarship between war, identity, history, gender, propaganda, economics and nationalism are teased out, then presented alongside more oblique perspectives that escort the reader from the Australian wheat farm of a century ago to the exhibition of contemporary art in today’s troubled Middle East. Necessarily, the book also engages in the debate concerning the creation and subsequent [mis]use of histories, while touching upon the necessity and nature of both remembering and forgetting war.

Despite its undoubted importance, there has never been a volume dedicated entirely to studies of ... more Despite its undoubted importance, there has never been a volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571. City of Empires: Ottoman and British Famagusta takes an important first step in redressing this imbalance. The four centuries which followed the conflict, as the contributions gathered here demonstrate, are rich research seams for scholars of history, urban design, photography, art history, literature, drama, military history and the post-war mandates. City of Empires also places emphasis on the tangible heritage of Famagusta – twice listed as endangered by World Monuments Fund and now the recipient of an increasing number of international efforts to protect it.

As odd as it may seem, the genesis of this project was 8000 kilometers from Famagusta, in Singapo... more As odd as it may seem, the genesis of this project was 8000 kilometers from Famagusta, in Singapore, and the result of a collaboration between two professors with entirely different academic interests: Michael Walsh, who had spent over a decade living in, and working on, Famagusta; and Paul Kohl, who had built an international reputation based on black and white photographs, most recently in Japan, India and Portugal, but never been to Cyprus. A combination of the two, it was felt, might very well lead to something rather special in this charismatic Eastern Mediterranean location.
Let us begin then by stating clearly what we set out not to do. In preparatory conversations for the project we agreed that perhaps too many artists and writers try to imbue their perceptions of, or feelings for, historic sites with knowledge of events which happened there. In Famagusta one hardly knows how to avoid this. This is, after all, the city of Dante’s warnings, St. Brigitte’s prophecies, Baragadino’s martyrdom, and Shakespeare’s Othello. Who would not be tempted to pontificate about what the stones would tell us, if only they could, about the various invasions, the exiled poets and politicians, the coronation ceremonies for the kings of Jerusalem, and ultimately, the rise and fall of great, global, empires? Could the lure of dreaming about the historic port, the magnificent walled city, and the wealthy merchants, courtesans and soldiers who frequented its streets, be resisted? And what about the instinct to close one’s eyes, to concentrate hard in an attempt to visualize the costumes, to hear the music, to imagine the pageantry – a utopia soon shattered by recalling the ghastly roar of siege cannon and drums, the cacophony of earthquakes which ravaged the city, and the moans of the dying in the plagues which followed? In time, don’t we allow ourselves to believe in the beauty, the respite, the tranquility and timelessness, brought about by the silence for which Famagusta was soon infamous?
This is exactly the approach that we set out to avoid. In the same way that Monet retrospectively longed for blindness from birth so that in adulthood the return of sight could afford him a freshness of seeing; and in the same way that one can only hear Handel’s Messiah for the first time, once; so too, one’s first impression of Famagusta should be both fleeting and profound. We could not risk spoiling the freshness, neutrality and immediacy of the photographer’s artistic vision of Famagusta by acquainting him with the romantic stories, bitter longing or utopian dreaming normally associated with the city. Only later, back in Singapore, would any attempt be made to match words with images, and past with present, and even then, only when entirely necessary. Instead, our primary goal was to explore the concept of Still Life - a play on words we believed to be uniquely suited to Famagusta. On the one hand, there is ‘still life’ in the bustling university town; on the other, it has become a ‘still (static) life’ where little moves forward or progresses. Artistically, the arrangement of inanimate objects into a work of art (ie a ‘still life’ or nature morte) seemed not only feasible, but truly alluring, driven by the potential of creating an aesthetic unique to Famagusta.
It is tempting to offer the reader a commentary on what is contained in the pages of this book, or to insist on explaining what the motivation was for each image / word association, but once again, we have resisted the temptation. The reason should be self-evident to those who know and love the city in all its imperfect beauty.
Paul Kohl & Michael J K Walsh

The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of Famagusta's Lusignan, Genoese and Ven... more The Harbour of All This Sea and Realm offers an overview of Famagusta's Lusignan, Genoese and Venetian history. The essays contribute to the understanding of the city's social and administrative structure, as well as of itsarchitectural and art historical heritage in the period from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. The two themes of Famagusta's diasporas and cultural hybridity permeate all of the articles in this collaborative effort and constitute their most conspicuous unifying feature. Some of the studies carry out the harmonization of archival sources and thus manage to reconstruct the early stages of appearances of various buildings. In light of the threats facing Famagusta's medieval and early modern heritage such research is of vital importance.

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that... more There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem after the fall of Acre in 1291, symbolised both the sophistication and permanence of the French society that built it. From the port radiated impressive commercial activity with the major Mediterranean trade centres, generating legendary wealth, cosmopolitanism, and hedonism, unsurpassed in the Levant. These halcyon days were not to last, however, and a 15th century observer noted that, following the Genoese occupation of the city, 'a malignant devil has become jealous of Famagusta'. When Venice inherited the city, it reconstructed the defences and had some success in revitalising the city's economy. But the end for Venetian Famagusta came in dramatic fashion in 1571, following a year long siege by the Ottomans. Three centuries of neglect followed which, combined with earthquakes, plague and flooding, left the city in ruins.

The essays collected in this book represent a major contribution to the study of Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta and its surviving art and architecture and also propose a series of strategies for preserving the city's heritage in the future. They will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Gothic, Byzantine and Renaissance art and architecture, and to those of the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as the Military Orders. After an introductory chapter surveying the history of Famagusta and its position in the cultural mosaic that is the Eastern Mediterranean, the opening section provides a series of insights into the history and historiography of the city. There follow chapters on the churches and their decoration, as well as the military architecture, while the final section looks at the history of conservation efforts and assesses the work that now needs to be done.

Runaway Dreams tells the story of brothers Pat, John and Tommy McManus who, as Mama's Boys, wrote... more Runaway Dreams tells the story of brothers Pat, John and Tommy McManus who, as Mama's Boys, wrote their own chapter in the history of rock music. From a farmhouse in Derrylin, Northern Ireland, and a family steeped in the traditions of Irish folk music, the three brothers set out at the height of 'The Troubles' to make their mark on a world stage. Given an early leg up by Barry Devlin of Horslips, then by Hawkwind and Wishbone Ash, their success was assured when Phil Lynott chose Mama's Boys to accompany Thin Lizzy on their farewell tour. The band went on to circuit the world many times over, sharing the stage with the likes of Deep Purple, Rush, Sting, Black Sabbath, Rory Gallagher, and Foreigner; and touring in the company of Twisted Sister, Scorpions, Iron Maiden, Ratt and Bon Jovi. At the height of their success tragedy struck the band when youngest brother, Tommy, after years of struggle, died of leukaemia at the age of 28. There could be no Mama's Boys without Tommy, and yet it was unthinkable for the two remaining brothers not to play on. So, after a brief hiatus, the music and the successes continued with Pat and John's new venture, Celtus. Playing their debut at the Royal Albert Hall, the band went on to win the 1998 Irish World Music Award, ahead of U2, The Corrs and Enya, and toured with Sheryl Crow, Deacon Blue, Paul Carrack and Jimmy Nail. Their final performance was with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Runaway Dreams is the story of a band of brothers who, through passion, talent, loyalty and determination, became cultural icons in Ireland and in the words of Mary Anne Hobbs 'living, breathing Irish history.' Michael Walsh lost count years ago of how many times he saw Mama's Boys, and of how many nights he hitched home in the rain through the back roads of Northern Ireland after their shows. He is now, in addition to being a Mama's Boys and Celtus fan, an Associate Professor of Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Previous books include: This Cult of Violence (Yale University Press, 2002); A Dilemma of English Modernism (University of Delaware Press, 2007); Hanging a Rebel (Lutterworth Press, 2008) and London, Modernism and 1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

It was unpredictable, at the outset, what impact the Great War would have on the arts in London. ... more It was unpredictable, at the outset, what impact the Great War would have on the arts in London. For many painters and their associated groups and institutions, August 1914 brought with it either opportunity, or near certain extinction. Strands of modernist painting, for example, experienced a seismic shift in tolerance, verging on cultural hostility, suggesting that it represented everything that had been corrupt, decadent and foreign and which had led to the war in the first place. Others felt that the ‘pre-war experiment’ had been a meaningless and valueless frivolity, the product of peace-time London which could now be set aside, or forcibly purged, as the nation got down to the serious business of war. Other sub-currents felt that English art, in whatever shape or form, epitomised the very culture and civilisation that Kitchener’s million was now being asked to defend in the face of an altogether more barbaric kultur. Some saw the war as heralding in the dawn of a new renaissance in English art, while others felt that art had nothing whatsoever to do with war anyway, and that it could resume only after hostilities across the channel had ceased. In short, from the Royal Academy of Arts to the Rebel Art Centre, it was unclear how art and artists were to respond to the declaration of war and how to confront the conflict in a relevant and meaningful way.
The focus of this collection of essays is not about English culture during the war. It is concerned instead with the transition period that bridged peace to war and the predictive mindsets of those concerned with painting in the year 1914. It looks at what their role in a nation at war might be – not what it eventually ended up being. Would English cultural production have to re-group and re-nationalise as definitively as did its government? How would art, and especially modern art, anticipate its role in the new intellectual climate that had been brought about by the declaration? How would the avant-garde artists and groups identify an acceptable route between pacifism and jingoism, between internationalism and xenophobia, whilst addressing the conflicting demands of a nationally intact and internationally significant cultural expression? And what of foreign modernists and modernisms working in London – for example Irish Poets, American writers, Italian Futurists, French sculptors, Russian Ballets dancers? Would the nature/legitimacy of modernism’s survival have to be rethought, and a national identity created for it, to replace the now unacceptable internationalism that had characterized it in the pre-war years? Was one kind of foreign-ness preferable to another…ie those of the Allies as opposed to the Central Powers? Did the protagonists see the avant-garde, as fundamentally, avant-guerre, and would 1914 mark the abrupt, unexpected and sudden termination of the great pre-war experiment, or would it simply alter both the trajectory and pace, en route to a different destination? The artist too would be scrutinised in this new and revealing light, where the soldier was needed to replace the dilattanti.
Percy Wyndham Lewis wrote:

They talk a lot about how a war just-finished effects art. But you will learn here about how a war about to start can do the same thing.

It is a fine starting point for a study of a war ‘about to start’ - a crisis that could only be anticipated – and a projected re-evaluative positioning of painting and painters in a soon-to-be belligerent capital. The Slade Professor of Art at Oxford University, lecturing in August 1914 declared ‘War and Art are not always enemies, and Peace is not always Art’s best friend’. But quite how that relationship was to develop was a matter of intense debate and anxious speculation in the months surrounding August 1914.

The first comprehensive study of the life and work of C.R.W. Nevinson, an important painter and w... more The first comprehensive study of the life and work of C.R.W. Nevinson, an important painter and writer whose name is re-emerging to take its rightful place among the established icons of art and literature in early 20th century England.

Numerous previous accounts remember Nevinson solely as a Futurist and war painter. However, in recent years there has been a revival of academic interest in his role in the inter-war period and the Second World War, and with it, the need for a full study of his life and works. Painter, social commentator, novelist and society host, Nevinson can now be remembered as one of the most prominent and distinguished artists of his generation.

In this interdisciplinary work, Walsh presents a thorough analysis of Nevinson’s artistic achievements, explaining his problematic relationships with contemporaries like Wyndham Lewis, Roger Fry, Amadeo Modigliani, H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.

This book gives the reader a wider understanding of the changing cultural landscape of Britain between 1889 and 1946 and introduces the figure of C.R.W. Nevinson in context, providing an objective and captivating account of his explosive and multi-layered personality.

This anthology presents a series of new and important studies on an artist whose work is re-emerg... more This anthology presents a series of new and important studies on an artist whose work is re-emerging to take its rightful place among the established icons of English modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. It is both timely, and in keeping with current scholarly re-reading of the era in general, through recent publications, conferences, and several key exhibitions.

C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946) was one of the most important, colorful, and talked about artists o... more C. R. W. Nevinson (1889–1946) was one of the most important, colorful, and talked about artists of his generation. In the turbulent days of pre-World War I London, he gained notoriety as England’s only Futurist, and during the war he produced some of the most memorable and harrowing images of that conflict. This book focuses long overdue attention on Nevinson’s dynamic early career, drawing on newly located archives and on the press of the period to shed new light on the young artist and the power of his progressive paintings.

Articles by Michael J . K . Walsh

New Approaches Towards Recording, Preserving and Studying Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus, 2023

Popular Culture and Its Relationship to Conflict in the UK and Australia since the Great War, 2023

Eric Bogle wrote No Man's Land in 1975. When it was released as The Green Fields of France by Dav... more Eric Bogle wrote No Man's Land in 1975. When it was released as The Green Fields of France by Davey Arthur and the Fureys in 1979 the song topped the Irish charts, while as far away as Australia it was declared one 'of the most striking musical essays yet written on the futility of war.' Yet No Man's Land has been associated with controversy too: branded a rebel song in Ulster during The Troubles, singled out by Tony Blair as a 'peace anthem' and prelude to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, and controversially chosen by the Royal British Legion for the Poppy Day appeal in 2014. In addition to exploring the 'complex relations between cultural and political history' in Ireland, this article also looks at the making of the documentary film 'Eric Bogle: Return to No Man's Land' (by Dan Frodsham) in which Bogle returned to the grave of Willie McBride on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme to recite his poem to the now famous Inniskilling. To Bogle's surprise the grave had become a pilgrimage site for this, an entirely fictional, Irish martyr created then immortalized in his own composition written four decades earlier.

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 2021

The following article approaches a historic monument on the island of Cyprus, the sixteenth-centu... more The following article approaches a historic monument on the island of Cyprus, the sixteenth-century Panagia tou Potamou church, with an interdisciplinary methodology. An in-depth study of its history, architecture, and paintings leads to a new evaluation of the church's value for Cypriot and Mediterranean research. The church has proven to be a space for burial and private memory of a sixteenth-century semirural community, reflected in the staging of a prominent burial and the iconographic topics underlining ideas of intercession and salvation. Ultimately, this enables an enhanced appreciation of “minor monuments” in general. The other angle of approach concerns heritage questions: in precarious state for most of the twentieth century, particularly the wall paintings are in urgent need of restoration. In 2015–2017, an emergency intervention secured the most fragile parts and evaluated the state of the church, proposing future ways to ensure the survival of this monument.

Popular Culture and Its Relationship to Conflict in the UK and Australia since the Great War, 2023

Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 moment, 2022

After the Armistice: Empire, Endgame and Aftermath, 2021

Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries, 2019

Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War 'An Old Man's Tears'

January 2016

They talk a lot about how a war just-finished effects art. But you will learn here about how a war about to start can do the same thing.

New Approaches Towards Recording, Preserving and Studying Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus, 2023

Popular Culture and Its Relationship to Conflict in the UK and Australia since the Great War, 2023

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies, 2021

After the Armistice, 2021

Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , 2021

Famagusta Marítima, 2019

disegnarecon, 2018

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR HISTORICAL CITIES VISUALIZATION This article is concerned with the 14t... more ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR HISTORICAL CITIES VISUALIZATION

This article is concerned with the 14th century
church of St. Anne’s in the historic walled city of
Famagusta, Cyprus, as a site for transdisciplinary
investigation embedded in, interrogated by, and
disseminated via, digital space. The principal
tool to create the foundational model and
database of this historic structure was HBIM
(Historic Building Information Modelling),
beyond which further experiments were
conducted in Padua and Singapore into the
scholarly and pedagogical potential of VR, AR,
and curated 4D interactive historic spaces. Such
non-invasive systems of analysis are most
welcome in a city where the legalities of
conducting work ‘in the field’ are complicated by
political and economic considerations.

Rock Music Studies, 2018

On 19 March 1982, during Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman Tour, 25-year-old Randall (Randy) Rhoa... more On 19 March 1982, during Ozzy Osbourne’s Diary of a Madman Tour, 25-year-old Randall (Randy) Rhoads, who had just been voted Best Young Talent by Guitar Player Magazine, was killed in a plane crash in Florida. His funeral was held on 24 March in Burbank, California. A replacement guitarist was urgently needed who could quickly learn the complexities of Rhoads’ writing and playing style, function with band members deeply traumatized by the recent tragedy, and have the confidence to perform at the iconic Madison Square Garden within two weeks. The guitarist who rose to the challenge was Irishman and ex-Gillan guitarist, Bernie Tormé.
Thirty-six years later, Michael Walsh interviewed Tormé to ask him about the experience and to elaborate on the musical difficulties and the complex legacy of that frantic 10 days in April 1982.

Journal of Australian Studies, 2017

The anti-war song “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” has become a cultural icon in Australia,... more The anti-war song “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” has become a cultural icon in Australia, and elsewhere has been recorded over 130 times in ten different languages. The song was written in 1971 by Eric Bogle, a Scottish immigrant to Australia, who has penned more than 250 powerful compositions, which, among other things, focus on the failure of history to impress upon youth the futility of war. Appropriately, Bogle was named Australian Humanist of the Year in 2001 for capturing “the ethos of humanism through his perceptive and individualistic songwriting with its exposure of racism, bigotry, warmongering and injustice of all kinds”. Additionally, he was awarded the United Nations Peace Medal (1986), and was made Member of the Order of Australia (1987). To date, there is no academic study of his work.
This article asks why a song written by a Scot in Australia, fifty-six years after the Dardanelles campaign, feels as if it has “always existed. That it belongs to culture and country”. The article questions what the appeal imbued within the lyrics of those five short verses might be and recounts the story behind the creation of what Pete Seeger referred to as “one of the world’s greatest songs”. Through interviews with the writer, and an examination of the relevant historiography, this article presents a study of “the most potent ballad of the age”. It also examines what Bogle meant when he said that it was a song that “came into its time”.

Rock Music Studies, 2016

‘Resituating and Rebranding “Classic Rock” in the USA’ is a component of a larger multi-discipli... more ‘Resituating and Rebranding “Classic Rock” in the USA’ is a component of a larger multi-disciplinary project entitled ‘Culture and Conflict’ which explores the historic relationship between artistic production and social / political change. This interview with Rickey Medlocke was designed to tease out ideas concerning not only the era in which Lynyrd Skynyrd and Blackfoot were founded, but what our understanding and appreciation of those bands and their works has become. It was also intended to establish tentative links between musical and literary heritage, ethnic identity, concepts of community, the relationship between music and protest, and the standing / importance of classic rock music in America today.
The interviews were conducted over three telephone conversations with Rickey Medlocke, then followed up with written responses for clarity on some key questions. This interview in its entirety was conducted in early 2015.

It would be difficult to upstage the archival scholarship on Venetian Famagusta already published... more It would be difficult to upstage the archival scholarship on Venetian Famagusta already published by such notables as Benjamin Arbel and Gilles Grivaud, or to surpass the analysis of its architecture by Allan Langdale and Gianni Perbellini, and so I shall not try. Rather, I look at the city through a different lens and in so doing add some small, but enticing, details to our knowledge of the Venetian period and the years of ruin that followed. This has been done by turning to almost entirely unknown contemporary travellers’ accounts, by examining some unrecorded graffiti recently discovered on Famagusta’s walls and by conducting a survey of earthquakes and the related superstitions which accompanied them. The study concludes by observing some heated debates between Victorian London and Venice that continued well into the 20th century, andit brings to light the little known fact that Marcantonio Bragadino’s tomb was re-opened in 1961.

Rock Music Studies, 2015

Drawing on his own experiences in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in the 1980s and contextual... more Drawing on his own experiences in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, in the 1980s and contextualizing them within a later research project which ran from 2008 to 2011, the author recalls the existence of a politically neutral creative space made possible by two bands in Ulster during “The Troubles.” In particular, his study examines two early compositions by the Enniskillen-based heavy rock band Mama’s
Boys (“Belfast City Blues” and “Freedom Fighters”) and a later piece by Celtus (“Portrait”), which, in their call for a cessation to violence, resonated with his disillusioned generation. The author situates the attitudes and music of the McManus brothers (who made up both bands) within a wider literature pertaining to cultural production and consumption in the border regions of Northern Ireland, and suggests that rock offered much needed respite, at grass-roots level, to Protestants and Catholics alike.

J. Bridgland (ed), International Council of Museums (Paris, 2014), Sep 2014

This paper presents an overview of pioneering work being undertaken in Famagusta, Cyprus. It char... more This paper presents an overview of pioneering work being undertaken in Famagusta, Cyprus. It charts, briefly, the route taken to permit such work to begin, then draws attention to the importance of NGOs and universities in protecting heritage in areas that are politically difficult for national and transnational organizations. It introduces some of the component projects being undertaken in Famagusta, concerning augmented reality visualization, laser imaging, and 3D modeling. The paper emphasises that, in addition to university-led high-tech research, fundamental children’s education is also of paramount importance in any long-term management strategy for the cultural heritage of Famagusta. Lastly, the authors finish by questioning whether UNESCO will be able to re-think its current nomination strategies for World Heritage Site status in unrecognized states.

Archives and Manuscripts, 2014

This paper explores a recent interdisciplinary project which brought together a visualization exp... more This paper explores a recent interdisciplinary project which brought together a visualization expert, an art historian, and an architectural historian, to study the ruins of Saint George of the Greeks Cathedral in Famagusta, eastern Cyprus, then create a virtual three-dimensional reconstruction of it. The motivation for this work, funded by Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, was to apply existing knowledge and expertise to a difficult, and very particular, heritage question on this Eastern Mediterranean Island. The creation of such a model could, it was felt, not only reiterate the academic value of thorough archival work married to state of the art technology, but also have very practical reverberations in terms of future heritage welfare and education via this ‘borderless’ domain.

Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 2013

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Mariner's Mirror, Jan 1, 2012

Join Michael J K Walsh for the screening of the new documentary film, 'Eric Bogle: return to no m... more Join Michael J K Walsh for the screening of the new documentary film, 'Eric Bogle: return to no man's land', which follows the songwriter back to the Somme battlefields that inspired him to write the modern masterpiece 'No man's land (the green fields of France)'.

For nearly four decades the well-known 'Cyprus Problem' has resulted in the political impasse sur... more For nearly four decades the well-known 'Cyprus Problem' has resulted in the political impasse surrounding the city of Famagusta's Medieval, Renaissance and Ottoman heritage. Professor Walsh offers an alternative route to education and intervention through technological advances and NGOs, as put forth in a pilot project in partnership with the local municipality of Famagusta, the World Monuments Fund, and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). While raising recognition and funds to protect Famagusta's delicate heritage, this five-year book and film project seeks to Document endangered heritage; Develop techniques for visualization and conservation; Create 3D modeling, GPS mapping, data recognition and visualization methods to recreate historic spaces in a scholarly manner; Refine educational methodologies for inculcating the importance of cultural heritage in children while promoting tolerance; and Propose 'shared' cultural heritage in a 'shared' virtual space, as a step towards political reconciliation. M.A. in Museum Studies |

The neglect that Famagusta’s cultural heritage has suffered for over four decades as a result of ... more The neglect that Famagusta’s cultural heritage has suffered for over four decades as a result of the ‘Cyprus Problem’ is well known. This presentation (Walsh) and documentary film (Frodsham) nevertheless focus strongly on the emergency stabilisation work that was carried out between 2012-2016, principally on the 14th century murals in the Armenian church in the Syrian quarter of the city. This interdisciplinary project, funded by the World Monuments Fund and led by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrated clearly the potential that yet exists for art historians specialising in the Medieval eastern Mediterranean, conservators who are prepared to confront the challenge of cement removal from delicate centuries-old plasters, and scholars who are prepared to embrace high-level international and multi-disciplinary collaborations to protect endangered works of art and architecture in this politically sensitive region. It is my contention that if this heritage can be ‘detached’ from the political and legal impasse which has been so detrimental to its welfare, there is yet much hope for this important, and largely neglected, chapter in Cypriot cultural history. The presentation / screening is also timed to coincide with the launch of my latest edited book The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage (Palgrave, 2017).

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The neglect that Famagusta’s cultural heritage has suffered for over four decades as a result of the ‘Cyprus Problem’ is well known. My presentation and documentary film (26 minutes - made by Dan Frodsham) nevertheless focus strongly on the emergency stabilisation work that was carried out between 2012-2016, principally on the 14th century murals in the Armenian church in the Syrian quarter of the city. This interdisciplinary project, funded by the World Monuments Fund and led by Nanyang Technological University Singapore, demonstrated clearly the potential that yet exists for art historians specialising in the Medieval eastern Mediterranean, conservators who are prepared to confront the challenge of cement removal from delicate centuries-old plasters, and scholars who are prepared to embrace high-level international and multi-disciplinary collaborations to protect endangered works of art in this politically sensitive region. It is my contention that if these precious murals can be ‘detached’ from the political and legal impasse which has been so detrimental to their welfare, there is yet much hope for this important, and largely neglected, chapter in Cypriot art history. The presentation / screening is also timed to coincide with the launch of my latest edited collection The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage (Palgrave, 2017).

Famagusta's Religious Heritage: Past, Present and Future

The walled city of Famagusta, Cyprus, with its French Gothic churches, exquisite 14th-century fre... more The walled city of Famagusta, Cyprus, with its French Gothic churches, exquisite 14th-century frescoes, towering Venetian walls, domed Ottoman hamams, and majestic British Imperial architecture, should be a UNESCO World Heritage Site – but it is not. Instead, as a result of the military intervention in 1974, and the ensuing political stalemate that exists to this day, the city and its heritage have become dangerously isolated, its architectural and art-historical treasures within its walls virtually forgotten.

Following the successful nomination of Famagusta to the World Monuments Fund (WMF) Watch List in 2008 and 2010, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (with the WMF and the Famagusta Municipality) led a series of international efforts to protect, stabilize and study Famagusta’s irreplaceable heritage, and in particular its extant murals. This seminar will discuss this initiative, exploring how, in 2015, the United Nations took over the NTU / WMF led project, indicating strongly a welcome move towards a recognition of international responsibility to protect universal heritage in post-conflict zones. The presentation will include the screening of Dan Frodsham's documentary film produced to highlight the relationship between culture and politics, and the interface between art history and technology.

This presentation asks why a song written by a Scot, in Australia, fifty six years after the Dardanelles campaign, feels like it has “always existed. That it belongs to culture and country”. It questions what the appeal imbued within the lyrics of those five short verses might be and recounts the story behind the creation of what Pete Seeger referred to as “one of the world’s greatest songs”. Through interviews with the writer, and an examination of the relevant historiography, this article presents a study of “the most potent ballad of the age”. It also examines what Bogle meant when he said that it was a song that “came into its time”.

In 2013 a multi-disciplinary team, equally funded by World Monuments Fund, Nanyang Technological ... more In 2013 a multi-disciplinary team, equally funded by World Monuments Fund, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and the Famagusta Municipality, conducted scientific testing on the fragile remains of the medieval murals in St. Anne’s Church, Famagusta, Cyprus. In this project, which has since been taken over through a United Nations Development Project tender, much was learned about the emergency art conservation requirements of such medieval buildings, and perhaps more was demonstrated concerning the need for high-level international collaborations to protect works of art in this politically sensitive region. Some of the key findings are presented here.

ICOM-CC: International Council of Museums – Conservation Committee (Melbourne, September, 2014)

Dr. Walsh is an associate professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technolog... more Dr. Walsh is an associate professor at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore

Monday, December 10, 2012
6:00 p.m. presentation
Reception follows
World Monuments Fund
Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2412
New York, NY 10118
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RSVP by email to sortiz@wmf.org or by phone at 646-424-9594 by Wednesday, December 5

Founded in the late tenth century and rising to prominence after the fall of Acre in 1291, the port city of Famagusta once rivaled Constantinople and Venice as a center for maritime commerce. Through the centuries, Famagusta was ruled by a succession of conquerors including French, Greek, Genoese, Venetian, Ottoman, and British—creating an astonishingly varied artistic and architectural legacy. The historic walled city of Famagusta was included on the World Monuments Watch in 2008 and 2010, drawing attention to the beauty and significance of the famed city, and the critical conservation and maintenance needs to protect the historic structures. After a 2008 mission to assess key structures in Famagusta, WMF sponsored the conservation of the fifteenth-century Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul. The Forty: Saving The Forgotten Frescoes of Famagusta, Cyprus, a documentary film by Dan Frodsham, tells the story of Famagusta’s first successful art intervention in almost eight decades. To learn more about the historic walled city of Famagusta, visit www.wmf.org.

Invitation: To mark the 100 th anniversary of the end of the Great War in November 1918, Nanyang ... more Invitation: To mark the 100 th anniversary of the end of the Great War in November 1918, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Flinders University, Australia, invite speakers for an international conference to be held in Singapore from 5-7 December 2018. Rationale: By the end of the Great War the British Empire had expanded its reach across more territory and was in control of more people than ever before in its history. Not only had it consolidated its pre-existing empire but it had expanded it at the expense of the defeated nations. The implications and reverberations of this transformation can still be felt today. This conference, following on from that in 2014, focusses specifically on an examination of the social and cultural reactions within the old and new colonial societies at the end of the first global conflict and in the inter-war period. In keeping with the themes of the 2014 conference, the organisers are especially interested in papers which allow a decentralisation of socio-cultural and socioeconomic analysis away from the more predictable metropolitan perspective (and away from the monolithic notion of empire) to focus instead on contrasts and complementarities of ideology throughout the geographical and ethnic extremes of both the 'formal' and 'informal' empire. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Jamaica, Ghana to Mesopotamia, and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes will be addressed, for example: how different strata and subsets of imperial society shaped and were shaped by the experience of total war; and how disparate societies and cultures – in all their manifestations – shaped and were shaped by the war and its aftermath. The conference will be of particular interest to those actively researching imperial and colonial history; British imperial experiences at the end of the Great War and in its aftermath; and the relationships between war, society and culture. More specifically the organisers are interested in papers dealing with themes ranging from colonial responses, loyalties and disloyalties, gender roles, class and race relations, migration and displacement, collective identities and memorialisation and memory; as well as art history, music, theatre, film, architecture and photography.

Following the success of previous meetings in Paris, Budapest, and Bern, all of which led to inte... more Following the success of previous meetings in Paris, Budapest, and Bern, all of which led to international book publications related to the art, history, architecture and heritage of the walled city, I now wish to focus on the maritime story of Famagusta through all historical periods (from the 12th century to independence). Scholars with interests in maritime and so on, and with a specific academic interest in the Cypriot city of Famagusta, are sought. In the absence of any comprehensive history of Famagusta's capacities / activities as a harbour, our first task will be to present the fragments that we have, and see can they be pieced together into a more complete vision. Bringing together as many academic disciplines as possible to traverse the centuries will undoubtedly make this a fascinating pursuit in itself. Secondly, having developed a body of knowledge particular to the city, we would then like to consider how it fits into, or contributes to, wider networks (cultural, fiscal, political etc) throughout the Mediterranean. Thirdly, and not inconsequentially, an additional aim of the meeting (and subsequent publication) is to pull together extensive lists of key archival and visual sources (including online) for the benefit of future historians. Please contact me on mwalsh@ntu.edu.sg if you think you might like to attend this meeting and include a short paper title and abstract.

'Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible... more 'Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.' (William Shakespeare, 1607, Coriolanus, Act IV Sc. V)

In this panel the relationship between struggle and conflict (be it social, political, territorial, ideological etc) and artistic production in Britain (and / or its empire) is investigated. More specifically, Conflict as Cultural Catalyst in Britain interrogates the contentious philosophical notion that art thrives in times of war, and expires in peace, then asks whether art, as a form of social barometer, can anticipate conflict (or merely respond to it). The panel will be asked to consider the extent to which British cultural production, derived from conflict, is used to create specific social identities, national histories and contemporary concepts of memory. Specific presentations are as follows:

Historians of British Art (HBA)
Chair: Conflict and Culture
Michael J. K. Walsh, Nanyang Technological University Singapore

The Spanish Civil War, Three Guineas, and the Arrival of Guernica in Britain
Frances Spalding, Clare Hall, Cambridge

Feminism in a Context of Conflict: The Orchard Gallery and Nancy Spero’s Notes in Time on Women
Rachel Warriner, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

“We are all engaged in the battle of life”: Imperialism, Social Darwinism, and Visualizations of Conflict in the First World War Memorial Sculpture of Eric Kennington (1888–1960) and Charles Sergeant Jagger (1885–1934)
Jonathan Black, Kingston University London

Within, Within, Within: The Principle of Visualizing the British Imperial World
Jiyi Ryu, University of York

Discussants: Holly Schaffer, Dartmouth College; Joan DelPlato, Bard College at Simon’s Rock; John Klein, Washington University St. Louis

http://conference.collegeart.org/programs/conflict-as-cultural-catalyst-in-britain/

New Approaches to Recording, Preserving and Studying Cultural Heritage in Divided Cyprus, 2023

The ability to capture and model the physical attributes of a building is becoming increasingly e... more The ability to capture and model the physical attributes of a building is becoming increasingly easy, accurate and cost-effective. What is often overlooked however is the “poetics” of digitally reconstructed space derived from its “intangible heritage”. A medieval church, for example, was a meeting place for both the spiritual and rational, the social and the technological, the political and the prestigious. The building embodied the priorities of theologians, architects, masons, politicians, engineers, artists, composers and of course believers. Their interiors, accordingly, were places of colour, sound, smell and of the myriad intangible residues of thought, contemplation, emotion and prayer. Modelling such spaces then cannot just be about capturing the volumetric qualities of the building while stripping away, or failing to embrace, complimentary data pertaining to the nuances of aesthetics and lived experience. Using the medieval church of St. Anne’s in Famagusta to illustrate this point, this article speculates on how much of this intangible heritage can be captured and reconstructed in a digital model (or within the space itself) and asks what diverse scholarship needs to be drawn upon so that such models may evolve towards a semblance of the “mood” within an academically valid experience. This article therefore should be seen as a logical and natural extension of the discussion presented in “Heritage Visualisation and Potential speculative Reconstructions in Digital Space: The Medieval Church of St. Anne in Famagusta, Cyprus” by the author and Rachele Bernardello, which itself followed from a paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Documentation, Conservation and Restoration of the Architectural Heritage and Landscape Protection, entitled “Emergency Conservation of Medieval Murals in Northern Cyprus: St. Anne’s Church, Famagusta”, also by the author and Werner Schmid.

Short article in 'Front Court' magazine (Trinity Hall, Cambridge University) on Famagusta. See pa... more Short article in 'Front Court' magazine (Trinity Hall, Cambridge University) on Famagusta. See page 5

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For five hundred years, an exquisite Renaissance era fresco depicting the Forty Martyrs of Sebast... more For five hundred years, an exquisite Renaissance era fresco depicting the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste has remained hidden, forgotten, and neglected on the wall of a fourteenth-century church in Famagusta, Cyprus. 'The Forty' charts the painstaking work of rescuing the fresco from obscurity and ruin, as part of a pioneering project that puts heritage above politics to begin, after decades of neglect, the work of saving Famagusta’s forgotten frescos. Produced, directed, and narrated by Dan Frodsham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-snm3kWK4tk

A short film documenting the long-term, international and interdisciplinary project to protect Fa... more A short film documenting the long-term, international and interdisciplinary project to protect Famagusta's endangered medieval wall art in northern Cyprus, specifically of the fourteenth century Armenian Church and St. Anne's.
https://www.wmf.org/video/prayers-long-silent

Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries, 2019

Routledge eBooks, Oct 18, 2022

Contemporary British History, Oct 2, 2019

The articles that follow were selected and developed from two conferences happening almost simult... more The articles that follow were selected and developed from two conferences happening almost simultaneously on opposite sides of the world. The first was the Eric Richards Symposium in British and Australasian History held at Flinders University in Adelaide between 31 January and 3 February 2017, and the second was the Historians of British Art panel ‘Conflict as Cultural Catalyst in Britain’ at the College Arts Association, New York City, February 15–18, 2017. From these two meetings comes this special co-edited edition of Contemporary British History, which explores aspects of the relationship between conflict and cultural production in Britain (and where appropriate Australia and Ireland) throughout the 20th century. Through this selection of essays an examination is conducted into how, for example, cultural production derived from, or in anticipation of, conflict was used to foster specific social identities, pre-write and re-write regional, national and imperial histories, and catalyse or resist change (often violent) in Britain and beyond. Taken together they offer an imaginative and imaginary geography of what James Ryan described as ‘cultural formations, attitudes, beliefs and practices’. Changing societal and political attitudes can be detected in music, poetry, theatres, exhibitions, public spectacles and even in a child’s doll’s house, offering the historian an alternative lens through which to view Britain as it responded to diverse epoch-making world events in the twentieth century. These are not mere backdrops, imaginative landscapes and crowdpleasing diversions. . . they are the tangible remains of a process, expressions of knowledge and power, and they are the sites in which emotive discussions and political aspirations were symbolised, compressed and played out often to an audience keen to participate in the debate. ‘Artefacts’, such as those considered in this special issue are therefore vital to our understanding of Britain and its century. They warrant more than the casual gaze or the fleeting glance. Decoding this cultural legacy requires us to seek an understanding of systems of signification, methods and

Australian Historical Studies, Jan 2, 2021

Routledge eBooks, Jul 14, 2021

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its al... more In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.

There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to ... more There was a time seven centuries ago when Famagusta's wealth and renown could be compared to that of Venice or Constantinople. The Cathedral of St Nicholas in the main square of Famagusta, serving as the coronation place for the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem after the fall of Acre in 1291, symbolised both the sophistication and permanence of the French society that built it. From the port radiated impressive commercial activity with the major Mediterranean trade centres, generating legendary wealth, cosmopolitanism, and hedonism, unsurpassed in the Levant. These halcyon days were not to last, however, and a 15th century observer noted that, following the Genoese occupation of the city, 'a malignant devil has become jealous of Famagusta'. When Venice inherited the city, it reconstructed the defences and had some success in revitalising the city's economy. But the end for Venetian Famagusta came in dramatic fashion in 1571, following a year long siege by the Ottomans. Three centuries of neglect followed which, combined with earthquakes, plague and flooding, left the city in ruins. The essays collected in this book represent a major contribution to the study of Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta and its surviving art and architecture and also propose a series of strategies for preserving the city's heritage in the future. They will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Gothic, Byzantine and Renaissance art and architecture, and to those of the Crusades and the Latin East, as well as the Military Orders. After an introductory chapter surveying the history of Famagusta and its position in the cultural mosaic that is the Eastern Mediterranean, the opening section provides a series of insights into the history and historiography of the city. There follow chapters on the churches and their decoration, as well as the military architecture, while the final section looks at the history of conservation efforts and assesses the work that now needs to be done.

Contemporary British History, 2019

Eric Bogle wrote No Man's Land in 1975. When it was released as The Green Fields of Franc... more Eric Bogle wrote No Man's Land in 1975. When it was released as The Green Fields of France by Davey Arthur and the Fureys in 1979 the song topped the Irish charts, while as far away as Australia it was declared one 'of the most striking musical essays yet written on the futility of war.' Yet No Man's Land has been associated with controversy too: branded a rebel song in Ulster during The Troubles, singled out by Tony Blair as a 'peace anthem' and prelude to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, and controversially chosen by the Royal British Legion for the Poppy Day appeal in 2014. In addition to exploring the 'complex relations between cultural and political history' in Ireland, this article also looks at the making of the documentary film 'Eric Bogle: Return to No Man's Land' (by Dan Frodsham) in which Bogle returned to the grave of Willie McBride on the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme to recite his poem to the now famous Inniskilling. To Bogle's surprise the grave had become a pilgrimage site for this, an entirely fictional, Irish martyr created then immortalized in his own composition written four decades earlier.

This article sheds some new light on the affair of the Pan Crescent and the Pan York, the largest... more This article sheds some new light on the affair of the Pan Crescent and the Pan York, the largest ships to carry ‘illegal ’ Jewish immigrants to Palestine from Bulgaria in 1947 / 1948. These ageing vessels were apprehended by the British authorities off the Dardanelles and escorted to an enforced detention near Famagusta, Cyprus. The ships remained anchored near Boğaz for five months while their human cargos were sent to camps just outside the walls of the historic city. As the clock counted down on the British Mandate in Palestine throughout early 1948, the fate of the vessels, and the thousands of immigrants who depended upon them, hung in the balance. Now, through a recently instigated cataloguing project for Cypriot newspapers instigated at the National Archive in Kyrenia, and the simultaneous uncovering of some relevant documents at the Public Records Office in London, a fuller understanding and appreciation of the events in this critical post war period can be attempted. This ...

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