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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"British culture"”.
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'Family matters': ideas about the family in British culture 1945-1970
… analysis of representations of family in popular culture, particularly in British film/ and consideration of remembered experience as evidenced in oral sources. Where appropriate, the London Borough of Greenwich has been used as a local example which acts as a reference point for discussion of …
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The Left Behind: Representations of Working-Class Masculinities in British Culture 1945-1989
… heterosexual, working-class masculinities in British culture between 1945 and 1989. As the period that saw the establishment of the Welfare State, and the construction and breakdown of the post-war consensus in British politics, this is a period of great significance in the formation and …
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Cleaning Up the Junkyard: An Exploration in Developing an Online Course
… of education must adapt to the changes in culture and technology. Our visions of the modern classroom are no longer limited to a room on a campus with a professor and a blackboard Many classes are going fully online, some are meeting only once a semester if at all. This type of learning and …
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'LONDON UNDER ATTACK.' ANARCHIA E IMMAGINARIO URBANO.
… of the terrorist threat within the field of British culture.
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The Intellectual History Of Inter-war British Fascists
… conquest: fascism. In England, however, the British fascists set about to save what they saw as a dying empire. In an effort to restore Britain's greatness, British fascism held to fascist principles and doctrine to stem the flow of immigration, which fascists saw as darkening the pure …
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The Development and Gentrification of Musical Commerce in Williamsburg, Virginia, 1716-1775
… music to establish themselves as inheritors of British culture and musical entertainment. A diversity of musical businesses appeared in Williamsburg during the eighteenth century, including instrument sellers, music and dancing teachers, and two theaters utilized by theatrical troupes, to name a …
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British Muslim Extremism: The Terror Within
… political policy of multiculturalism, Muslim culture has been allowed to develop separately from British culture. The result is a completely separate society, living within another society. The majority in the Muslim community do not consider themselves British, and have not integrated into …
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Such a Deal of Wonder: Structures of Feeling and Performances of The Winter's Tale from 1981 to 2002
… performance can provide a point of access into a culture because the choices made in the production can be compared to each other and to the written text and then reveal how the theatrical company views particular issues within their own time period. This study looks at productions of The Winter's …
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The holiday: Britishness and British film
… in which the holiday film constructs a sense of Britishness based around the idea of community that is shaped and pressured by forces at different historical moments. Modern capitalist society offers us a structure where the holiday is presented to us as the ultimate contrast from work. It is …
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A UK Market Town Maintaining Identity Amidst Urbanizing Sprawl: A Learning History
English market towns greatly reflect British culture through unique traditions, architecture, and other characteristics. Market towns are often secluded from the outside world, located in rural areas of England with less significant roadways and very few railways leading into the towns. Despite the …
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Aunthood and Narrative Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Materteral Form
… a consideration of the position of aunthood in British culture during Woolf’s lifetime, and argues that the discourse surrounding the 1907 Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act is emblematic of the aunt’s unique position between inside, and outside, the family. Using this historicist research …
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"The Sudden Thrill of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision
… Eliot's ideas concerning nineteenth-century British culture, the devices and techniques Eliot employs in the transmission of those ideas remain less explored. Consequently, room exists for a study as attentive to the formal characteristics of Eliot's messages as recent scholars have been to …
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Tasteful piano performance in classic-era Britain
In recent decades, British solo piano repertoire of the Classic era has attracted increasing interest from researchers. A number of scholars have sought to identify the compositional elements that comprise late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British piano music. Despite this interest, …
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Accounting for health and illness: A social psychological investigation
… for health and illness that are current in British culture, placing them within broader contexts of psychological, sociological, traditional, religious and moral discourses; within broader explanatory frameworks; and, by way of an analysis of these ecological aspects, seeks to illuminate our …
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Landscapes of Power The Social Network of the Power Elite in mid-Victorian Ireland Case Study of Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown, Co Kildare
… culmination of the hegemonic supremacy of the British culture achieved through economic and military strategies across the world. This supremacy, steadily moving toward a proto nationalistic climate, would not irretrievably break down until the end of the century. By looking at Conolly’s social …
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An Anthropology of Conservation
… with approaches to the care of material culture and its conservation? • What type of artefacts do different cultures retain and preserve? • Why do cultures conserve and how do they achieve this? • Does conservation actually exist outside of the remit of ‘modern’ (Western) conservation? …
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Exploring health-seeking behaviours among Nigerians in the UK: towards improved healthcare utilisation
… explore how Nigerians in the UK engage with the British health system. This objective was pursued by integrating immigration issues, with factors associated with decisions to seek medical help, including health beliefs, access, attitudes, cognitions, and socio-political and religious experiences …
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An exploration of London based second generation Sierra Leoneans’ family mental health narratives and their relatedness to personal narratives of mental health
… experience of migrant families straddling two cultures, the research aims to explore these phenomena by investigating how the family narratives of second-generation Sierra Leoneans are related to their personal narratives about mental health examining the role of storytelling by first …
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The Royal Navy’s anti-slavery campaign in the western Indian Ocean, c. 1860-1890: race, empire and identity
… of the campaign as portrayed in popular British culture, the aim is to shift the emphasis from the official story of slave-trade suppression. This perspective significantly broadens understanding of the social and cultural background of the campaign. Building on the work of historians …
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Melville's England
… from his real work, but a deep engagement with British culture, and his attempt to write his way into it, was Melville's life's work. He is never writing only about England; produced at moments of professional crisis, Melville's transatlantic fictions include interrogations of the global …
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