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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Modern Britain"”.
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… examines the intersection of medieval and Early Modern Arthurian literature, English and British nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist …
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A pound of flesh
… also coming to terms with the sociopolitics of modern Britain.
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Colonialism and Empire: Are Reparations Owed by the United Kingdom to the Descendants of Slavery?
… work explores the ramifications of slavery for modern Britain, contrasting ancient and pre-modern institutions within the context of Britain’s former colonies (Williams, 1994). Modern attitudes to slavery are inspected, revealing the continuing manifestation of anti-black racism through …
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The Las Vegas phenomenon
… Persuasions of the Witches Craft that people in modern Britain who engage in witchcraft do so in order to achieving a childlike enchantment of adulthood; Findings are that there are indeed similarities between Luhrmann's British witches and gamblers in Las Vegas, and that they share certain …
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… control the contours of wind knowledge in early Modern Britain and its expanding empire.</p>
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Sex, aesthetics, and modernity in the British romance of Italy, 1870-1914
… in a supposedly deficient and oppressive modern Britain. In articulating sexuality in terms of Italy, they drew on and revised a range of nineteenth-century discourses about travel, culture, history, and art that were linked to discourses of race and evolutionism. Anchoring my analysis in …
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Mass media and public understandings of nature in interwar Britain
… history films and radio programmes flooded into Britain’s cinemas and its airwaves, at a moment when the relationship between humans and the natural world was undergoing a profound transformation. Meanwhile, new methods of conveying knowledge like film and radio were hailed as potential solutions …
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Risk, social trust and knowledge: public perceptions of gene technology in Britain
… is about the perception of technological risk in modern societies. The investigation focuses on one risk case, gene technology, with special reference to genetically modified (GM) food, and one particular society, modern Britain. I am concerned firstly with the structure and stability of people’s …
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The Celebrity Scientists
… contextualises the celebrity scientists in late modern Britain, shaped by Thatcherism, Blairism, commercialism, globalisation, mediatisation, public science, and conceptions of the public intellectual. The subjects share characteristics with iconic historical scientists, including Isaac Newton, …
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The development of sociology first degree courses at English universities, 1907-1972
… Social Institutions, Social Structure of Modern Britain, Social Psychology) and nineteen optional subjects (Social Anthropology, Social Administration, Social Philosophy, Industrial Sociology, Political Sociology, the Sociology of Deviance, of Religion,and of Education, Urban Sociology, …
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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
… allows us to construct a history of intimacy in modern Britain with broader implications. This thesis contains discussion of sexual violence, suicide, abortion, drug use, and female genital mutilation.
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Economic and social changes in the 1980's : a study of the effects of redundancy on a group of South Yorkshire steelworkers and their families.
… chequered working lives and unemployment in modern Britain. It focuses in particular on the ways in which a specific group of industrial workers and their families have perceived, mediated and reacted to the upheavals redundancy has caused in their lives.</p> <p>Section I deals with the …
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How do Further Education (FE) teachers see their role changing in the future to exploit digital teaching and learning opportunities in an increasingly digital education environment?
… world and for what the UK Government terms a modern Britain. This means teaching, learning and assessment in FE might need to change, which may lead to considerable changes to the role of the teacher. This research argues that government policy is underestimating the complexities of developing …
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Decision-making in residential renewal.
… welfare policy and in environmental planning in modern Britain and as a finite commodity it has only a limited life. To maximise this life potential the improvement and renewal of dwelling units is necessary, and is an important aspect of both national and local housing policies. Differences in …
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Blood, society and the gift: An ethnography of change in the gift relationship
… and Wacquant, 2006; Shaw, 2009). Blood and its modern-day sociology and anthropology is understood and limited by its links with both Titmuss’ altruism and gift exchange theories. This thesis, using a qualitative ethnographic approach, re-examines and introduces new discourse about blood, …
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Importing ‘Faith’: The Effect of American ‘Word of Faith’ Culture on Contemporary English Evangelical Revivalism
… disenchanted by advanced<br/>secularization in modern Britain, this often results in bewilderment when the promises<br/>of the rhetors fail.<br/><br/>The thesis is original in its finding that many of the miracles claimed by such<br/>charismatic ministries are the result of suggestion similar to …
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Whodunnit? Grave-robbery in early medieval northern and western Europe
… as a reaction to fear of revenants. In modern Britain burial is a finite and final process: the definitive disposal of a dead body. The archaeological and ethnographic records contain many examples of more complex series of events to enable the dead to move on from the living. The …
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Women's Refuges in Britain and Northern Ireland, 1971-2010
… the movements to establish women’s refuges in Britain and Northern Ireland between 1971, when the first refuge opened in London, and 2010, when the arrival of the coalition government reformulated, once again, the political environment in which they operated. Emerging alongside the Women’s …
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The Administration of the Land Tax in England 1643-1733
… a mainstay of an increasingly powerful early modern English state by considering its administration, processes and tax mechanics from its 1643 inception to the excise crisis. Economic development offered fiscal opportunity and whilst the excise exploited product supply chains, the land tax …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
The dissertation is a study of the fortress garrisons of Northern England during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It combines cultural and administrative methodologies to explore the subject, linking it to as many different areas of Civil War historiography as possible to demonstrate the centrality …