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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Britishness"”.
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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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Shaping Identity: The National Health Service and Britishness after World War II
This thesis argues that the creation of the NHS inadvertently created an institution that is fundamental to current British national identity. The NHS exemplifies the core values of the UK, in a way that previous national institutions – the Church, the monarchy, and the Empire – could not due to …
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The geographies of multiculturalism: Britishness, normalisation and the spaces of the Tate Gallery
… and their relationship to notions of Britishness through the example of the Tate Gallery. The evaluation of multiculturalism here reflects on the way it has been subject to various contentions of cultural politics and how it has operated through processes of normalisation. Central to …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… tenacity laid down the foundations of a new Britishness on which future generations could build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishi’s novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities …
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"This Blessed Plot": Negotiating Britishness in Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia, and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
… tenacity laid down the foundations of a new Britishness on which future generations could build. Chapter Two examines Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia. I argue that Kureishi’s novel indicates how second-generation migrants, who are often more psychically flexible, form their identities …
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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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An analysis of citizenship defined through dualistic and embodied paradigms. A case study of belonging and exclusion in young people around England in light of the debate on Britishness.
Embedded in debates concerning Britishness and citizenship, this thesis considers the influence of the dualistic tradition on citizenship theory and highlights the exclusionary nature of citizenship as founded in this paradigm. Working within this dualistic paradigm means that the lives and …
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Construction of national identity: British art 1930-1990
Claims for the 'Englishness' or 'Britishness' of art are often attended by a confident appeal to the 'obvious' innateness of certain characteristics - such as individualism, an amateur impulse, or a tendency for figurative work. In some cases claims are made that these, and other 'national' traits, …
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Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, eccentricity and the British character actor
… follows a survey which addresses notions around Britishness and eccentricity, and their interconnections, their representation in Sim and Rutherford's films, and recent debates about what these attributes constitute now. The fourth part engages in a broader discussion of the art of character …
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Identity Is A Laughing Matter: Humor and British National Identity In the Nineteenth Century
… Edgeworth and Jane Austen attempted to define Britishness within an empire that was still establishing itself. The values and behaviors they chose to promote stemmed from a need to create a sense of a united Britain. Moreover, they were invested in demonstrating how Britons should use their …
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A - Y: Of ‘British Chinese’ Art
… flags, to engage contemporary discourses around ‘Britishness’ and ‘Chineseness’, migration, hybridity, cultural commodification and assimilation. ‘Outtakes’ looks then at the tactical postures and gestures staged by Sanderson, Mo, Erika Tan and To across a range of works, which deconstruct and …
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“I think myself as good as anybody” : nationalism, manliness, space and identity in Boswell’s London Journal
… Britain was supposedly ushering in a new era of ‘Britishness’, Boswell’s musings offer a different perspective, one in which nationalism – specifically, English and Scottish nationalism – played an important role in Boswell’s quest to construct his idealized genteel identity. Examinations of …
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Ground Under Repair: Balancing Conformity and Non-Conformity in Women's Golf in Britain at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
… through the lenses of gender, sociability, Britishness and international competition, class, and amateurism and entrepreneurship it seeks to demonstrate the important place women created for themselves within golf. Drawing primarily from contemporary golfing magazines, books written by …
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Sense of Humour and its Effects on Great Britain's Destination Image
… humour (BSOH) and its respective role in shaping Britishness, and British national character and national identity. It examines how BSOH, British society, and British culture contribute to Great Britain’s (GB’s) destination image and its attractiveness in tourists’ minds. In doing so, it makes an …
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Shakespeare's Portrayal of the Celtic Nations of Scotland and Wales and the Changing View of Ancient Britain
… the Welsh, the Scots, and at the wider view of ‘Britishness’, to see how these Celtic nations are portrayed from an English viewpoint. I will also consider Shakespeare’s stance on the Antiquarian/Galfridian debate as understanding these two different views of British history, and how Shakespeare …
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Scotland and the British army, c.1700-c.1750
… concludes by extending Colley’s suggestion that ‘Britishness’ stemmed from a common threat from France to include Jacobitism, evidenced by the large-scale presence of Scots of all origins in military service well before William Pitt the Elder boasted of ‘harnessing’ the military resources of the …
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Home and Away: Home, Migrancy, and Belonging Through Landscape Photographic Practice
… material practices and ideas of landscape, Britishness and race. By taking a historical, but not chronological examination of the works the chapters examine aspects of the visual politics of landscape aligned with cultural experience and explore how these are expressed across a range of …
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British reactions to Amritsar and Croke Park : Connections and comparisons
… Croke Park Massacre is evaluated. Notions of 'Britishness' and how these were used to bolster the arguments presented by the Government and the right wing are also considered. The right-wing defence of Amritsar is contrasted with the reaction of the Labour Party. This thesis demonstrates how …
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British far right and anti-fascist media's construction of identity: Searchlight and Spearhead, 1964 – 1982
… magazines themselves. The themes explored are Britishness (including concepts of race and democracy), gender, sexuality and class. It will explore the creation and evocation of narratives of threat, and the ways in which the magazines motivated membership to action. It will test traditional …
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The end of tolerance: new discourses of racism, migration and the state in Britain, 1997-2008
… of community cohesion, managed migration and Britishness. It is argued that these discourses mark a new era in British 'race relations', breaking with an earlier consensus that had been forged in the late 1960s. As part of this discursive shift, an older notion of 'integration' as social, …
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