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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"D839 Post-war History, 1945 on"”.
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The Cultural Memory of Britain's Cold War
In recent years the Cold War has increasingly become a popular topic for museums, films, and television series. The sustained popularity of Cold War characters and events continue to bring the Cold War back into the contemporary world and to contemporary audiences. Films, series, and exhibitions …
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The Promotion of Global Humanitarianism in Britain, 1945-2000
This thesis explores the promotion of global humanitarianism in Britain between 1945 and 2000. The purpose of it is to explore how, and why, global humanitarianism became such a large part of British society and culture. This thesis argues that British global humanitarianism developed between 1945 …
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The role of Britain in Greek politics and military operations 1947-1952
This thesis examines Anglo-Greek relations during 1947-1952; the era of the Greek civil war from the British announcement to withdraw aid from Greece until the end of the civil war and Greece's entry into NATO. A comprehensive treatment of the crisis of the civil of the civil war focuses on British …
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The Special Operations Executive in Malaya: Impact and Repercussions, 1941-48
During World War II, agents of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) infiltrated into Japanese-occupied Malaya. They worked with Malayan guerrilla groups, including the communist-sponsored Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA). The MPAJA is regarded as the precursor of the communist insurgent …
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Post-war Tourism in the Tendring District and Beyond: The Rise of the Holiday Caravan Park, c. 1938-1989
This study addresses the history of the static holiday caravan site in Britain. Commercial holiday camps, such as Butlin’s and Warner’s, have been seen by many to be the epitome of UK post-war working-class holiday making. But despite some shared characteristics and developmental roots, it is …
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Photography, memory and identity: the émigré photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989)
… Lisel Haas (1898 – 1989). It focuses on a selection of her portrait photographs spanning a period of almost 40 years, from before the Second World War to the early 1970s. Haas’s work has not been the focus of any publication to date; this thesis situates her within the fields of …
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The British Fair Trade Movement, 1960 - 2000: a new form of global citizenship?
This thesis is concerned with the development of a Fair Trade social movement in Britain between 1960 – 2000. It situates the analysis of Fair Trade within the context of historical debates about political consumption. It examines the role of the ethical consumer as a political activist and …
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The war and siege: language policy and practice in Gibraltar, 1940-1985
… explores language policy and practice in the history of the people of Gibraltar between 1940 and 1985. This period covers the wartime Evacuation and the Spanish border restrictions and closure, and it is also fundamental in the emergence of Gibraltarian identity and democratic rights. My …
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Armed Peace: the Foreign Office and the Soviet Union, 1945-1953
… of the British Foreign Office and its perception of, and attitude towards, the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1953. In these formative years after World War II many assumptions and policies were shaped that proved decisive for years to come. The Northern Department of the Foreign Office was at …
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Land based air power or aircraft carriers? The British debate about maritime air power in the 1960s
… studies, books, and articles have been written on Britains retreat from its former empire in the 1960s. Journalists wrote about it at the time, many people who were involved wrote about it in the immediate years that followed, and historians have tried to put it all together. The issues of …
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Reinventing geopolitical codes in the post-Cold War world with special reference to international terrorism
… of geopolitical codes, this thesis examines the condition of the Westphalian sovereign state in the post-Cold War world. Focusing primarily on the events of September 11th 2001 and their aftermath, the research questions the sustainability of the state as conceived by (neo)realists in the context …
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Childhood Memories of Post-war Merseyside: Exploring the Impact of Memory Sharing Through an Oral History and Reminiscence Work Approach
This study used an oral history (OH) and reminiscence work (RW) approach to explore childhood memories of Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, in the period following the Second World War. Interviews were conducted with ten volunteers between 60 and 70 years of age from communities across …
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British attitudes towards the Soviet Union, 1951-1956
The thesis is concerned with the British perception of Soviet foreign policy between 1951 and 1956. In particular it examines the understanding that British diplomats, politicians and civil servants had of the process of change which the death of Stalin stimulated in the Kremlin's relations with …
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The Roots of Remembrance : Tracing the Memory Practices of the Children of Far East Prisoners of War
… is about the children of former Far East prisoners of war (FEPOWs): their memories of childhood, how they fashioned those memories in adulthood, and the relationship between the two. The FEPOW experience reverberated through postwar family life, and continued to shape the lives of participants …