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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Edwardian period"”.
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The Last Laugh: Selected Edwardian Punch Cartoons of Edward Linley Sambourne
… Linley Sambourne for Punch magazine during the period 1901-1910 addresses a myriad of political topics prevalent during the Edwardian period in British history. This thesis examines two of those topics - Women's Suffrage and Socialism - through their artistic treatment by one of Britain's most …
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H. G. Wells: Prophet With Honor (Britain)
… journalism and much of is nonfiction. After the Edwardian period Wells's reputation as a novelist began to deteriorate. He continued to produce novels, but he turned more to the writing of journalism and nonfiction. Dismissed as "hack work," his journalism and much of his nonfiction is seen as …
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Steering Taste: Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th Century
… and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the collectors, their activities and motivation in making …
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Passwords to power: a public rationale for expert influence on central government policy-making: British scientists and economists. c.1900-c.1925
… by British scientists and economists in the period from c. 1900 to c. 1925, which was aimed at securing executive influence over government policy-making for these expert groups. I argue that members of each group followed characteristic strategies and produced distinctive rhetorics, but that …
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Aspects of the built environment of rural south west Lancashire, c.1880 - 1914
… into the later nineteenth century and the Edwardian period. Utilising the largely unused data from the District Valuation Survey, compiled in 1910, together with the censuses of 1881 to 1901, the research establishes resoundingly that in south west Lancashire, rural housing was no longer …
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Painting by Mouth: Art, Modernity and Disability. Bartram Hiles (1872-1927)
… Hiles’ disability within the late Victorian and Edwardian period in which he was active as a professional artist. Hiles is little known today and the study has been driven by primary archival research into his formal art education and professional career as a mouth-painting artist. Employing an …
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The Representation of Association Football in Fine Art in England From its Origins to the Present Day
… football in English art from the late Victorian period up to 2010. In general terms, with minor but notable exceptions, the analysis will centre on the work of fine artists working in 2D, whose work has length and width much like a football pitch. The thesis will look at how artists have …