Combat Ready or Clankers? This article for Star Wars Insider #232 asks: Just how effective were the Trade Federation's battle droids? [...]

The Iraq War at 20: Anniversary Journalism, British Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Closure
Chris Kempshall2025-01-07T20:31:09+00:00The Iraq War at 20: Anniversary Journalism, British Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Closure War anniversaries are important milestones that enable certain understandings [...]

Killing to commemorate, dying to remember? Authenticity and the practice of memory in Isonzo
Chris Kempshall2024-11-08T12:18:23+00:00Killing to commemorate, dying to remember? Authenticity and the practice of memory in Isonzo First World War video-games have grown in importance and popularity [...]

Introduction: Wartime Ephemera and the Transmission of Diverse Family and Community Histories
Chris Kempshall2024-09-23T15:24:00+00:00Introduction: Wartime Ephemera and the Transmission of Diverse Family and Community Histories Co-authored with Prof Catriona Pennell Read Article

Waiting to Be Discovered? Community Partnerships, the Facilitation of Diverse Memory, and Reflections on Academic Success and Failure
Chris Kempshall2024-09-23T15:21:06+00:00Waiting to Be Discovered? Community Partnerships, the Facilitation of Diverse Memory, and Reflections on Academic Success and Failure Community partnerships, based on ‘the collaborative [...]

The Personality of Leadership – Optimism, Pessimism, and Realism in the First World War
Chris Kempshall2024-08-30T11:14:43+00:00The Personality of Leadership - Optimism, Pessimism, and Realism in the First World War This insight examines the impact of leadership personalities—optimism and [...]

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
Chris Kempshall2025-02-11T14:42:45+00:00A history of the dark times When Palpatine declared the birth of his new Empire, he expected it would stand for 10,000 years. Instead, [...]
The Death Star Stratagem
Chris Kempshall2023-12-11T17:18:06+00:00The Death Star Strategem This article for Star Wars Insider #223 asks: what made Emperor Palpatine's cunning plan to crush the Rebel Alliance [...]

Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend
Chris Kempshall2022-06-06T12:58:20+00:00Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend Terence Davies’ Benediction, a biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, portrays two iterations of the [...]

Clumsy or Stupid? Why the Galactic Empire Loses Battles
Chris Kempshall2022-06-06T12:54:06+00:00Clumsy or Stupid? Why the Galactic Empire Loses Battles This article for The Companion website focuses on the ways in which the Galactic [...]