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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Lewes"”.
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The sociology of recurrent ceremonial drama: Lewes Guy Fawkes Night, 1800-1913
… and disturbance through the analysis of the Lewes Guy Fawkes Night celebrations as a recurrent ceremonial drama. This strategy demonstrates the gradual process of change within Lewes, as reflected in the slowly evolving form of the celebrations, indicating the existence of a relatively stable …
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The use of joint probability analysis to predict flood frequency in estuaries and tidal rivers
… and surge is assessed for a case study area of Lewes, East Sussex, UK, a town which is prone to both tidal and fluvial flooding. Bivariate and trivariate daily and extreme joint exceedance methods are developed and used in conjunction with a one-dimensional hydraulic model to analyse the …
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
… engagement with the ideas of George Henry Lewes (1817-1878) and Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) are evident in their fictions. Throughout, I show that unconscious mental processes were discussed decades before Freud.
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A Medieval tale: Saxons, Normans and the telscombe ring
… detector near the village of Telscombe, in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. The object, hereto referred to as the Telscombe Ring, was reported and documented per the Treasure Act (1996). In 2012, it was disclaimed as treasure, returned to the finder and sold to a private collector. …
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Three essays on environmental valuation: the social value of carbon storage in wetlands, the impact of wind turbines on home prices, and the effect of flood risk on home prices
… of the University of Delaware’s Wind Turbine in Lewes, Delaware, on local property prices. Wind turbine developments are frequently met with fervent local opposition, citing concerns over changing views, noise, and wildlife impacts, which may lead to reduced property prices. Using a hedonic …
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Climate Change and Biogeography In the Marine Intertidal
… upper lethal limits of this organism south of Lewes, Delaware (38.8°N). This has caused a geographic contraction of the southern, equatorward range edge of M. edulis, shifting the range edge approximately 350 km north of the previous limit. Barnacle range shifts: Using a combination of survey …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
… it is limited in its application. George Henry Lewes, who Stang names one of the champions of classicism, disliked Tom Jones and believed, in contrast to the Neoclassicists, in the importance of "particularity" in fiction. Like Anthony Trollope, who I also examine in the introduction, Lewes was …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering events that had been unexpected or whose outcomes defied expectation. These historians were …
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Castles and Communities: Using the taskscape to explore the attitudes, activities, and lived experience of wider communities in castle landscapes between 1050 - 1550.
This thesis utilises the concept of the taskscape to explore the impact of the medieval castle in England on lived experiences in the landscapes surrounding them between 1050 to 1550. Recent shifts in the focus of castle studies have demonstrated the need to focus on castles as sites of everyday …
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Castles and Communities: Using the taskscape to explore the attitudes, activities, and lived experience of wider communities in castle landscapes between 1050 - 1550.
This thesis utilises the concept of the taskscape to explore the impact of the medieval castle in England on lived experiences in the landscapes surrounding them between 1050 to 1550. Recent shifts in the focus of castle studies have demonstrated the need to focus on castles as sites of everyday …