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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"British identity"”.
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Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
… provided the unifying foundation of national identity. Colley portrays a Protestant British identity defined in opposition to Catholic France. Clark favors an English identity, based upon an Anglican intellectual hegemony, against which only the heterodox could effectively offer criticism. …
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Sam Sly's African Journal and the role of satire in colonial British identity at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1840-1850
In 1843, William Sammons founded the peculiarly named Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843 -1851) in Cape Town. Claiming to be a ‘register of facts, fiction, news, literature, commerce and amusement’, the African Journal was a hybrid newspaper and literary and satirical periodical aimed at an Anglophone …
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British and Indian Influences in the Identities and Literature of Mark Tully and Ruskin Bond
… before India's Independence (1947). Both had British parents, but one considers himself Indian while the other has retained his British identity. The focus of this paper is how and why this difference has occurred and how it has influenced their writing. Both Tully and Bond write short stories …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… upon which ethnically diverse, multilingual British writers fought to determine what British identity would ultimately become. Through a medieval postcolonial framework, in which power and resistance are represented in a bifurcated archive, this dissertation explores the textual methods which …
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Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain
… of preservationism to twentieth-century British identity. According to most critics, this site grows increasingly anachronistic as the century progresses, a repository for that which is considered out of time in English culture. Against this view, I demonstrate that the continual literary …
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Identity cards and political commitment: a study in the formation, operationalisation and measurement of a concept
… the commitment of the Labour Government to its identity card policy. Drawing on literature from across the social sciences, the thesis derives an eight-limbed synthesis definition of the concept. This new definition is operationalised for empirical examination in a single case study of British …
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The divided political landscape of County Cavan 1912-1922
… this the Protestants of Ireland who espoused a British identity created a movement known as Unionism dedicated to preserving the union with Great Britain. The demographic religious make up of Ireland resulted in Unionists being most concentrated in the north of Ireland in the province of Ulster, …
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‘Save Spain’: British Support for the Spanish Republic within Civil Society in Britain, 1936–1939
While much has been written about British support for Republican Spain during the Spanish Civil War, this thesis offers a novel framework through which to consider this topic. It explores the popular humanitarian response to ‘Spain’ within the context of Britain’s bourgeoning civil society and …
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The Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) and the development of the Arts Council in Scotland: background, politics, visual art policy 1919-1947
… then-contemporary ideas of national cultural identity. Central to the purpose of the thesis is an account of the political and administrative context within which this development took place, especially in relation to the Scottish Education Department. The thesis presents in effect a case …
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Distance of the Heart. How ethnic social group identity may challenge cohesion in Bradford
… considering how a sense of ethnic social group identity may constrain meaningful engagement in wider society. Framing this sense of ethnic social group identity is distance of the heart, the term coined by one of the cohort to explain ongoing emotional ties to homeland, long after migration, …
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Imagining Great Britain, Europe and the Colonies in the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure (1747-1814). An Enquiry into the foundation of Britishness
… efforts to cultivate a shared sense of Britishness turned to the English periodical press. The increasing readership of newspapers played a pivotal role in defining a cohesive British national identity. This thesis examines the emergence of Britishness within a specific monthly …
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
… Europeans to confront the question of national identity through the context of the French Revolution. Nowhere was this phenomenon keener than in Great Britain, a traditional rival of France. Although in its infancy, a British national identity--as distinct from a English, Irish, Welsh, or Scot …
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A Colony Within: Art and Identity in London’s East End since World War II
… the changing and often contested issue of British identity. Chapter 1 compares and contrasts Nigel Henderson’s photographs of the postwar East End neighborhood of Bethnal Green with scenes from Robert Hamer’s 1947 film <em>It Always Rains on Sunday </em>set in the same neighborhood to look …
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Engaging and Evading the Bard: Shakespeare, Nationalism, and British Theatrical Modernism, 1900-1964
<p>Engaging and Evading the Bard is about British theatrical modernism and its ambivalent relationship to Shakespeare. The conventional narrative of early twentieth-century British theater and drama situates their rise within the broad European context of Continental artistic developments, such as …
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‘Looking locally to understand transculturally’: A heritage and placemaking approach to the linguistic/semiotic landscapes of Cornish heritage in Mexico
… – this is oftentimes blended with English and British heritages. This Cornish space appears to be indicative of historic and current discourses in relation to local Cornish heritage in Hidalgo. Importantly, this thesis lends attention to the transformation of Cornish heritage, the latter …
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How And Why Patrons Of The Arts Used Music As A Form Of Political Currency From 1780 To 1800
… the transformations in politics, culture, and identity in Britain after a period of stagnation between 1740 to 1780.</p> <p>My project will challenge the idea that noble and royal patronage began to wane after the early eighteenth century, by viewing the royal patronage of music as a form of …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… argues that Jewish thinking helped shape a British identity rooted in a secular, rather than in a religious, ethics. This identity was liberal, tolerant, and cosmopolitan. I show how, in response to Britain’s growing mercantile and colonial empire, British writers repurposed Jewish histories …
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Representing Wales: experience on screen 1985-2010
… began, and remain under-represented on the British screen. This intimate account of the detail and context of their production adds to the limited body of academic scrutiny such work has received. Second, at a time when the relationship between ‘the devolved nations’ of the UK and England is …
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