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Showing 1 to 20 of 223 for “"Manchester"”.
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Women and Leisure in Manchester, 1920-c.1960
… The thesis is built around interviews with Manchester women from working-class and lower middle-class backgrounds. However, it also uses local newspaper evidence, women's magazines and the contemporary work of a number of researchers with an interest in leisure during the period. The study …
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The design and construction of the Manchester engine-house
Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-09T23:47:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 5956644.pdf: 3184226 bytes, checksum: 8785dfcb9830105c58b91fc8f9c61ca3 (MD5) license.txt: 4183 bytes, checksum: 1dcc2037833d76bede73d5717587543b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1893
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The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants
… features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first studies of Romanian Roma acquisition of English, this work speaks to ongoing discussions about migration, integration, and social factors impacting upon language acquisition. I also address discussions …
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Attacking cities: terrorism in Paris, London, and Manchester (2015-2020)
… focuses specifically on Paris, London, and Manchester. These are relatively peaceful cities, characterised by diverse racial and religious communities and have strong local governance. However, they present distinct challenges in the terrorism context due to their urban form, national …
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A comparative study of student retention and attrition at Manchester College
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Municipal enterprise : the growth and development of Manchester Airport, c1910-1978
… is to investigate the growth and development of Manchester airport and the implications of municipal ownership. The main theme is the nature of municipal ownerships structures and their interaction with other institutional structures and agencies in the immediate locale and at national level, …
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Caught Pregnant: Wresting and Relinquishing Control Over Motherhood In Manchester UK
… in the comparatively supportive environment of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Over the course of three years of fieldwork and in-depth interviewing two major themes emerged: Control and Fluidity. Control was most apparent in the persistent tension between the women's self-imposed need for …
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Renewing Manchester: A supportive life skills center for Manchester's most underprivileged residents
… mobility.The existing structure lies in the Manchester district of Richmond, Va. This community is comprised of many gentrified warehouses and expensive artist lofts, skirted by poverty and the very compromised Blackwell neighborhood. Specifically this project will serve the needs of the …
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The History and Educational Legacy of the Manchester Art Museum, 1886-1898
This thesis examines the history of the Manchester Art Museum (Manchester, England), which was founded by Thomas Coglan Horsfall (1841-1932) in 1886. It considers the museum’s permanent collections and its programming from 1886 to 1898 with brief notes on the later years of the institution. While, …
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Local planning in inner city residential areas: studies of Leeds and Manchester 1966-1986
… of two neighbourhoods in Leeds and two in Manchester. At the citywide level Manchester council's form of Labour politics is seen as generally discouraging the use of local planning frameworks, with the retention of a more centralised council administration. Analysis of the joint operation …
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The Journey Home: A Root-metaphor Analysis of the 1840 Mormon Manchester Hymn Book
… on analyzing the poetry of the 1840 Mormon Manchester hymnbook. Using qualitative root-metaphor analysis, the author identified and analyzed expressions, supporting an emergent journey root-metaphor. He then divided the expressions into eight categories, each describing important and …
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An Alternative Approach to Child Rescue: child emigration societies in Birmingham and Manchester, 1870-1914
… emigration societies based in Birmingham and Manchester between 1870 and 1914. It argues that both societies marketed and promoted their work as an alternative approach to ‘child rescue’. Doing so places them in the wider context of a child emigration movement and a child rescue movement, both …
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Reform Ideas of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers (Free Trade, Cobden, Radicalism, Manchester School, England)
Historians have long recognized the central role of the Anti-Corn-Law League and its members in promoting the cause of repeal of the corn laws and adoption of free trade, but there is much evidence to suggest that their interest in the cause of reform went well beyond the mere repeal of the corn …
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Physical mechanisms controlling the strength and deformation behavior of unfrozen and frozen Manchester fine sand
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1994.
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