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Showing 1 to 20 of 2163 for “"Britain"”.
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Prizefighting in mid-Victorian Britain.
… the supposed decline of prizefighting in Britain from 1860 to 1880, focusing on the transformation from bare-knuckle prizefights and major international bouts in the early 1860s to glove boxing in the 1870s. It challenges the common portrayal of a simple decline due to disorder and waning …
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Roman temporary camps in Britain
… a comprehensive list of Roman temporary camps in Britain, drawn from published and archival sources. This material is presented as a corpus at the end of the volume. Following the introductory chapter, which outlines the scope of the work, the history of the development of study into the subject …
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Women engineers in Britain, 1945-2000
This thesis looks at the work of women engineers in the period 1945-2000. Its central focus is the impact gender had on the likelihood of a woman making such a career choice, on the training to become an engineer and on women's lived experiences in the work place. It discusses the impact of the …
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Policing of ethnic minorities in Britain
This research explores the complexities of the relationship between the police and young black people. This includes considerations on how young people specifically, young black minority ethnic groups are shaped by government policies and its agents, the police. Published research supports the …
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Britain and Upper Silesia 1919 - 1922
… the first complete dedicated narrative on Britain's political and military involvement in Upper Silesia between 1919 and 1922.It establishes the background to the Paris Peace Conference's decision to conduct a plebiscite in this important industrial region on the new Polish-German frontier. …
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Contemporary opera in Britain, 1970-2010
This study of contemporary opera in Britain considers first, the theoretical aspects of the creation of an opera, then moves to a survey of British opera companies and their productions of modern opera over the past 40 years. There follows a detailed study of three works produced in Britain during …
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Child labour in Britain 1900 - 1973
… which have helped shape child labour policy in Britain. Hence, this thesis has two main aims. Firstly, it seeks to provide detailed empirical information on the levels and types of work performed by children. Secondly, and more importantly, it aims to deepen our appreciation of the concerns …
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Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination
Bolshevizing Britain in the Interwar Imagination interprets the emergence of anti-Bolshevik popular fiction (also known as Red fiction) in Britain as manifesting a range of responses to the perceived "lessons" of the Great War. It argues that these responses foreground two opposing interpretations …
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… thesis offers the first study of scrapbooking in Britain during the twentieth century. By adding newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera into their scrapbooks, Britons fashioned unique records of the world in which they lived. During the twentieth century, scrapbooking remained a …
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Class-based Structural Violence in Britain
… some of the main areas of social organisation in Britain in the period from 1979 to 2010 (the period of neoliberal consolidation in Britain). It does this by pioneering the empirical operationalisation of a neo-Galtungian concept and typology of structural violence. Additionally, the thesis …
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Tasteful piano performance in classic-era Britain
… in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The thesis provides a survey of contemporaneous British writings on the subject of taste—first, the broad notion of taste in British culture during the period, then the notion of taste in music performance in general, and finally the notion …
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Britain and Menorca in the eighteenth century
… source material which is to be found outside Britain. The following study is based on British archives, on primary sources in Spain, Mallorca and Menorca, and on some hitherto untapped material in Britain and Canada. Chapter one is an account of English interest in Menorca prior to 1708, and …
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Britain in Europe : a discourse-theoretical approach
… upon European integration has observed that Britain has an I awkward partnership' with the rest of the EU. However, these analyses have not addressed how this awkward relationship reflects a difference in political and governmental discourse between Britain and the other Continental European …
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Popular conspiracism in Britain, c.1880-1914
… cultural current in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, evident in Parliament, politics, the press and popular literature. It contends that popular conspiracism was visible throughout the public sphere in the period 1880-1914, and was structured by three key discursive motifs. Firstly, popular …
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Attitudes to drawing in Britain, 1918-1964
Numerous artists and theorists in Britain between 1918 and 1964 produced rich bodies of drawing-orientated work, yet these endeavours receive little analysis. In order to account for them as more than isolated anomalies, the nature and importance of drawing during the period needs to be …
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Civil religion in Britain, 1707 - c.1800
… of theories of civil religion in Hanoverian Britain. In the aftermath of the seventeenth-century wars of religion, theorists of civil religion sought to render Protestant Christianity a faith whose ecclesiology was compatible with the civil state and whose practice encouraged civilised …
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