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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Edwardian Britain"”.
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Henry Lucy and the world of parliamentary journalism, 1872-1916
… parliament and the press in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. The focus of the study is the life and career of Henry Lucy, widely regarded as the foremost parliamentary journalist of his time.
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"Seeking and saving": the reform of prostitutes and the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham, 1860-1914
A number of attempts were made in Victorian and Edwardian Britain to reform individual prostitutes and to regulate, control and eliminate prostitution. This thesis examines a small number of groups which were committed to the reform of prostitutes and to the prevention of prostitution in Birmingham …
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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, …
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Charles Roberson, London colourman, and the trade in artists' materials 1820─1939
… comprehensive artist’s colourman’s archive in Britain, and through its pages the working lives of professional artists both male and female, with their successes and failures, can be reconstructed, along with the activity of the many amateurs who contributed to Britain’s vibrant and varied …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
… anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and permanently urbanised …