Craig Lambert

What harm, whose justice?: excavating the restorative movement

The city of Hull in the northeast of England gave itself the ambitious task of becoming the world’s first restorative city. The aim of this strategy was to create a more socially and emotionally confident youth population which in turn would encourage a more entrepreneurial and aspirational outlook across the City. Based on a two-year National Lottery-funded project exploring peoples’ experiences of restorative approaches and a Knowledge Transfer Project to help develop restorative skills, the development of restorative justice is analysed. How does a restorative classroom, workplace, or family really behave? Is there a common objective within, and across, all restorative initiatives and if so, what is it? The answer to these questions is that communication breakdown can be understood as the common harm within, and across the restorative movement. This raises some interesting questions and challenges for zemiology where both restorative justice and social harm perspectives contain quite different notions of harm suggesting that neither has yet developed a clear or solid foundation upon which to build an alternative focus to criminal harms.

Reshaping the field: building restorative capital

ABSTRACT Restorative justice is best known as an alternative approach for dealing with crime and wrongdoing. Yet as the restorative movement has grown it is increasingly being deployed in different arenas. Based on a two-year study funded by the UK National Lottery, this article provides an early glimpse into how people experience the introduction of restorativeness as cultural change within an organisational context. Using a combination of observation, in-depth interviews and focus groups, this research explores how different staff groups react to, adapt to and resist the introduction of a new ethos and language within their organisation. Drawing on the ideas of Bourdieu (1986), it appears that a new form of restorative cultural capital is emerging that threatens the very integrity of the values restorative justice claims to uphold.

Agincourt in context: war on land and sea. Introduction

ABSTRACT This special issue contains a selection of nine papers from an international conference commemorating the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (1415). The contributions place the battle in the broader context of late medieval warfare, highlighting new trends in war studies and engaging with new and old historiographical debates.

Henry V and the crossing to France: reconstructing naval operations for the Agincourt campaign, 1415

ABSTRACT The Battle of Agincourt, 1415, has attracted much attention from scholars. Yet much of the academic focus in this phase of the Hundred Years War centres on the English king, the army, the battle and its aftermath. Much less research has been carried out on the maritime logistics that underpinned Henry V’s invasion of France. This article seeks to address this lacuna by focusing on three key areas of the naval operations in 1415. Firstly, it will assess the numbers of foreign ships that participated in the crossing. Secondly, it will reconstruct the process of gathering English ships. Finally, it will analyse the naval patrols put to sea over 1414 and 1415 which were designed to protect the gathering transport armada.

Norman naval operations in the Mediterranean

it became the central focus of the fleet, it was necessary for the Royal Navy to cultivate a positive image. As Redford shows, an effective way of ensuring this transformation was by using names previously given to battleships. In effect, it told the British people that the trust, respect and reverence they once had for the battleship should now be transferred to this new weapon. Redford’s study is a valuable and informative contribution, forcing the reader to deal with new ways of understanding naval technology. Occasionally, it might have engaged a little more closely with the actual design processes and examined the personnel involved at the grass-roots level in order to unpick their conceptions and approaches. However, this does not detract greatly from the overall effect and it opens the way for many further studies, particularly of a comparative nature.

Shipping, mariners and ports in fourteenth-century England

A database of 10,289 records concerning voyages made by English ships and mariners during the fourteenths century. Compiled during an ESRC-funded project based at the University of Hull (Shipping, mariners and port communities in fourteenth-century England; RES-000-22-4127)

Shipping the medieval military : English maritime logistics in the fourteenth century

During the fourteenth century England was scarred by famine, plague and warfare. Through such disasters, however, emerged great feats of human endurance. Not only did the English population recover from starvation and disease but thousands of the kingdoms subjects went on to defeat the Scots and the French in several notable battles. Victories such as Halidon Hill, Nevilles Cross, Crecy and Poitiers not only helped to recover the pride of the English chivalrous class but also secured the reputation of Edward III and the Black Prince. Yet what has been underemphasized in this historical narrative is the role played by men of more humble origins, none more so than the medieval mariner. This is unfortunate because during the fourteenth century the manpower and ships provided by the English merchant fleet underpinned every military expedition. The aim of this book is to address this gap. Its fresh approach to the sources allows the enormous contribution of the English merchant fleet to the wars conducted by Edward II and Edward III to be revealed; the author also explores the complex administrative process of raising a fleet and provides career profiles for many mariners, examining the familial relationships that existed in port communities and the shipping resources of English ports.