Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"940 History of Europe"”.
-
Ownership, technology and patterns of coalmining activity in Northumberland between 1600 and 1850
… changes which occurred in the development of coalmining in Northumberland between 1600 and 1850. The explanation is derived from an examination of primary and published sources of various types, of which colliery records, documents and plans have been the most important. The study is …
-
The Exchequer in the later twelfth century
It is often said, in academic circles, that no thesis ever turns out in quite the way it was envisaged at the commencement of the study. The following pages do not upset that general rule: which has been a surprise to me, if not to my supervisors. Most theses are undertaken on a topic about which …
-
Stepney from the outbreak of the First World War to the Festival of Britain, 1914-1951: a profile of a London borough during the first half of the 20th century
… and against what odds, during the first half of the 20th Century. The First World War is the starting point of this thesis as it was to have long-term implications for Stepney. Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, in his Easter sermon of 1918 first used the slogan 'They Shall Not …
-
Alternative Ulster: voices of political radicalism, cultural empowerment and social dissent within loyalist paramilitarism in Northern Ireland since 1966
… thought that has been threaded throughout the history of loyalist paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of the modern troubles in the mid-1960s - a political voice that would often speak in more radical tones than anything else emanating from within a fractured Ulster …
-
Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
… Amendment Act led to the first national system of education for approximately 50,000 indoor pauper children each year in a decade of early initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, inspection and local …
-
Regulation theory/Global Fordism and Peripheral Fordism: the case of Ireland
The general aim of the thesis is concerned with the development of industrialisation in the Irish Republic from the opening up of the economy in the late-1950s to the present. 1982 has been chosen as a watershed as it was then that the Irish government commissioned the Telesis Consultancy Group to …
-
Ladies of the lodge : a history of Scottish Orangewomen, c. 1909-2013
This thesis focuses upon the under-researched history of the Ladies’ Orange Association of Scotland from 1909-2013. Challenging prevalent assumptions that Orangewomen are overwhelmingly working-class, it demonstrates a small - yet significant - core of female luminaries to be occupationally …
-
Thomas J. Clarke : 1916 revolutionary
… research has been carried out into the causes of the 1916 Easter Rising with commensurate investigations into the actions of the main personalities involved; Thomas J. Clarke is an exception. Research by historians into his role in 1916 has not been thorough, rigorous or sustained. The purpose …
-
Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
… thesis is a contribution to the patient-centred history of medicine. It takes the historical agenda established by Dorothy and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to …
-
British and American relations with independent Ukraine, 1917-1921 and 1991-1994
Having emerged onto the stage of international relations ten years ago, independent Ukraine could not but affect them due to the magnitude of the transformation which it was undergoing since the breakup of the Soviet Empire. At the same time its relations with other states, particularly with the …
-
The Irish in Leicester, c.1841 to c.1891: a study of a minority community in the East Midlands
The central aim of this thesis is to pioneer an in-depth study of the Irish in the largely unstudied East Midlands town of Leicester, and to do so across the half-century c. 1841-9 1. The Irish migrant and settler experience in Leicester is contextualised against current historiographical debates …
-
The feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor in Victorian Britain and Ireland
This thesis offers an examination of the feminism and political radicalism of Helen Taylor. Despite the growth of interest in the political and social campaigns of nineteenth century women, Helen Taylor has remained a marginal figure of historical enquiry, referenced mainly in terms of her …
-
Engendering race: Jamaica, masculinity and the Great War
This study places the experiences of black Jamaican volunteers in the Great War in the context of challenges to white masculinity presented by the conflict. Elaine Showalter's discussion of "male hysteria" is developed to show that the prevalence of shell shock brought into question constructs of …