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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"BRITISH HISTORY"”.
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Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Celtic Nations of Scotland and Wales and the Changing View of Ancient Britain
… and this was also the time when the ancient British myths were no longer taken as the verbatim source for British history, with a preference for seeing the civilising influence of classical Rome. This then is a watershed period for the relationship between England and its Celtic neighbours, …
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The Waning of Victorian Imperialism: Stylistic Dualism in Gustav Holst's One-Act Opera Sāvitri (1908-9)
… style, which came at a significant time in British history. Holst combines a simpler style informed by his work with English folksong with the Wagnerian style that permeated his earlier compositions. Although influenced by a British imperialist view of the world, Sāvitri renders Hindu-Indian …
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The Last Laugh: Selected Edwardian Punch Cartoons of Edward Linley Sambourne
… topics prevalent during the Edwardian period in British history. This thesis examines two of those topics - Women's Suffrage and Socialism - through their artistic treatment by one of Britain's most influential periodicals. Through a study of the historical context and iconography of selected …
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The uses of history in contemporary British political drama: David Edgar, Howard Brenton, and Caryl Churchill
… forms to subvert the dominant narratives of British history. Manipulating such received histories for the polemical purposes of demystifying both the past and the present, these writers construct metahistorical paradigms which interrogate ruling class versions of the past and attempt to …
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Outlaws: Individual Myths in Films
… myths. Robin Hood is a mythical character in British history and literature, influencing other countries’ somehow outstanding figures. For example, Jesse James who is one of the most significant outlaws in the United States of America and has been compared to Robin Hood due to his deeds. …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… study explores the ways in which natural history, myth and folklore, craft knowledge, and religion contributed to a growing body of knowledge about the wind at a moment in British history when wind knowledge assumed unprecedented political and economic significance. How did people come to …
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Crosland's socialism: a history of the British Labour Party's revisionist tradition, 1951-81
… decline. This is a work of contemporary British history that provides a comprehensive study of the British Labour Party's post-war revisionist tradition, tracing the political experience of its central advocates. The revisionists were an identifiable political group as a result of their …
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Fashioning Social Aspiration: lower-middle-class rational recreational leisure participation and the evolution of popular rational recreational leisure clothing c.1880-1950
… forms of leisure clothing have shared its long history. Yet, Kynaston's reference to a new, allinclusive nomenclature forged in a pivotal period in British history, implicitly suggests that the term in itself functions as trigger to a whole network of meanings around radical social and sartorial …
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… Early Modern Arthurian literature, English and British nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist value has been immeasurable both to the …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
… one of the most written about subjects in modern British history, yet the ideas of the movement remain strangely neglected. This thesis tackles this problem by examining Chartist ideas along a broad front. By examining the political thought of a movement, rather than a select number of highly …
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… maps the diminishing representation of the British Caribbean Family in British Television Drama, particularly the absence of the One African Family framework and the overall invisibility of the Black presence in British History. This thesis further addresses specific economic, historical, …
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
… long been credited with inventing the bulk of British history, and more especially the Arthurian legend, through his composition of De Gestis Britonum, also known as Historia Regum Britonum. Because so little of the text can be corroborated by other sources, Geoffrey is, however affectionately, …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… have been informed and developed by women's history. It will consider the extent to which developments within the suffrage movement both challenged and reinforced gendered political identities and influenced attitudes toward the parts that men and women had to play in both the public and …
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The equity side of the exchequer: its jurisdiction, administration, procedures, and records
… Plucknett's statement obsolete. Institutional history has an unfortunate tendency to dryness and remoteness, which coupled with the author's literary short-comings portends a tedious undertaking for the reader of this work. However, a reminder of the immense importance- of institutional history …
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BRITISH WORLD WAR TWO FILMS 1945-65: CATHARSIS OR NATIONAL REGENERATION?
Major differences in British Second World War films produced in wartime 1939-45 (idealising the 'People's War') and post-war versions produced between 1945-65 (promoting the return of elite masculinity) suggest a degree of cultural re-conditioning concerning the memory of war, by Britain's …
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Falmouth and the British Maritime Empire
… was an important base within an ever-expanding British empire. From here, people, letters, goods and information travelled back and forth from Cornwall to the rest of the world. This thesis investigates the extent to which Falmouth was a significant part of Britain’s maritime empire during the …
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Nesting in English fields : bird narratives and the re-imagining of post-war Britain
… texts can shed new light on a period of British history that was characterised by radical social change. The texts are examined using insights from historical contextualisation, ecocriticism and animal studies. The period is known as one in which previous ideas about human identity were …
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Dorothy Elmhirst and the visual arts at Dartington Hall 1925 - 1945
… an evaluation of her patronage of contemporary British art in the early thirties and an understanding of her commitment to social change, which found its ultimate expression at Dartington. Providing a wealth of previously unseen material, the thesis argues that Dartington's contribution to …
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