Richard Pennell

The history of Islam and the early Ottoman Empire in Australian secondary school history textbooks

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2022  |  History Australia

This article examines Year 8 history textbooks (13–14-year-old students) that follow the Australian National and Victorian Curricu..

The pirates of the Defensor de Pedro (1828–30) and the sanitisation of a pirate legend

Sarah Craze, Richard Pennell

Journal article  |  2020  |  International Journal of Maritime History

In late 1827, the crew of a Brazilian slaver, the Defensor de Pedro, mutinied and became pirates. The article follows the narrativ..

Born-digital sources for the history of the Libyan revolution and its aftermath

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Libyan Studies

AbstractArchival material on the Libyan revolution and the civil war that followed is very scarce. This article discusses two born..

The Algerian State, Islamist Insurgents, and Civilians Caught in Double Jeopardy by the Violence of the Civil War of the 1990s

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2019  |  TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE

During the Algerian Civil War of the 1990s responsibility for both targeted assassinations of prominent politicians and political ..

Digitised, digital and static archives and the struggles in the middle east and north africa

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2019  |  Archives and Manuscripts

This paper examines the differences between archived material that was always a digital record and hard-copy archives that were su..

Can historians capture refugees’ voices from the records of their applications for asylum?

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2017  |  Oral History Association Of Australia Journal

This article examines how evidence given in refugee appeals tribunals is processed and transformed from an oral to a written form ..

Family Loyalties & Oppression in Morocco & Libya

C Pennell, N Belkziz

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Mediterranean Studies

This article examines how the repressive systems of two authoritarian political regimes, Morocco and Libya affected family relatio..

Making the Foreign Past Real: Teaching and Assessing Middle Eastern History in Australia

Richard Pennell

Journal article  |  2017  |  REVIEW OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Teaching modern Middle East history at the University of Melbourne raises problems of culture. Students are not generally acquaint..

How and why to remember the Rif War (1921-2021)

CR Pennell

Journal article  |  2017  |  JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES

The centenary of the Rif War in Morocco (1921–1926) has nearly arrived. This article considers how accounts of the war have been t..

What is the significance of the title 'Amir al-mu'minin?'

Richard Pennell

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES

This article examines the use of the title amīr al-mu'minīn in the modern jihadist movement and sets it in the context of the hist..