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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Modern British"”.
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
Iconoclasm has proved to be a major feature in modern British drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the present and the past have been subjected to a …
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The Structure of The Modern British Artist Novel
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Modern British linguistics: a study of its theoretical and substantive contributions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Modern Languages. Thesis. 1964. Ph.D.
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Signifying nothing: intelligence and intellectual disability in modern British literature and culture, 1919 – 1969
… Intelligence and Intellectual Disability in Modern British Literature and Culture, 1919-1969 investigates the confluences between literary and scientific approaches to intelligence in the mid-twentieth century. It stages two central arguments. First, it argues that in multiple domains, …
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The development of the Monday Club and its contribution to the Conservative Party and the modern British right, 1961 to 1990
… Governments, the Conservative Party and the modern British Right, from the Club's inception in 1961 to the fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990. The significance of this investigation lies in the fact that whilst the Monday Club is much referred to, with the exception of one article, it has not …
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The very model of a modern travel agency? : the Polytechnic Touring Association 1888-1962
… an original contribution to the history of modern British travel and tourism, in the form of the first full-length analysis of the Polytechnic Touring Association (PTA). It seeks to establish whether the PTA was distinctive among contemporary travel agencies; whether it was successful; and …
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The body and the blood: Graham Greene’s incarnational imagination
… is central to the “Catholic novels” of modern British author Graham Greene, as can be seen through a close reading of how he ties the physical nature of experience to a spiritual understanding of God. Indeed, Greene writes of a God who not only exists, but acts as a living being within …
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What were the effects of the post-colonial experience of counterinsurgency on UK forces in southern Iraq? Were the lessons absorbed and implemented?
This thesis examines the British army and its legacy of counterinsurgency from the 20th century. It analyses the effects of post-colonial counterinsurgency and the army’s ability to learn from previous counterinsurgency conflicts to create new doctrine from earlier examples that could have had …
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What were the effects of the post-colonial experience of counterinsurgency on UK forces in southern Iraq? Were the lessons absorbed and implemented?
This thesis examines the British army and its legacy of counterinsurgency from the 20th century. It analyses the effects of post-colonial counterinsurgency and the army’s ability to learn from previous counterinsurgency conflicts to create new doctrine from earlier examples that could have had …
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Scotts of Greenock: shipbuilders and engineers, 1820-1920; a family enterprise
… ingredients which came together to project British shipbuilding from purely local significance to world leadership between the late eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The roots of modern British shipbuilding lie in the craft industry based on wood and sail, one …
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The Post Office in Ireland 1638-1840
… impacted by the evolution of the early modern British ‘composite state’2 in its various iterations, highlighting how Ireland’s status as a kingdom within that composite polity down to the Act of Union (1800), and thereafter as part of the United Kingdom, shaped the form and pace of …
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Reassessing DNA Preservation of Ancient Material from Poulton, UK and Testing and Optimizing of CATS: a Novel Single-Strand DNA Library Preparation Technique
… suggests that the Poulton samples group within modern European variation, though with some affinity to Southeastern Europe relative to modern British people. Sex determination of the Poulton samples presented four males and three females. The ssDNA CATS method holds potential for further …
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An Anthropology of Conservation
… actually exist outside of the remit of ‘modern’ (Western) conservation? Accessibility to literature and artefacts helped to narrow the field of study and the following social groups were selected for in depth analysis representing a range of temporal and spatial variables : Ancient …
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The Political Thought of the Chartist Movement
… is one of the most written about subjects in modern British history, yet the ideas of the movement remain strangely neglected. This thesis tackles this problem by examining Chartist ideas along a broad front. By examining the political thought of a movement, rather than a select number of …
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The scope and purpose of town planning in Britain : The experience of the second town planning act, 1919 to 1933
… study is to develop a greater understanding of modern British Town Planning by examining, in depth, its operation during the 1920s and early 1930s, i. e. the period of the Second Town Planning Act. Two main themes are explored; the ideology of town planning and, the practical achievements of the …
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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… took - during one of the most dynamic periods in modern British history. The partnerships included in this thesis are diverse and are comprised of Emmeline and Richard Pankhurst, James and Marion Bryce, John and Katharine Bruce Glasier, Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Li1wrence, Annot and Sam …
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The constitutional position of the British Civil Service : an assessment of the impact of managerialism on the notion of 'the servant of the Crown' via a case study of HM Prison Service
… This thesis questions one of the enigmas of the modern British constitution, which is that the civil service does not have a statutory footing. So, it is the Executive rather than Parliament which has the prerogative power of regulating the civil service. The enigma is encapsulated in the …
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Walking the talent tightrope : becoming a 'top cop' in the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS)
… important and, arguably, testing roles within modern British public life, wielding a powerful influence over crime, security and safety in the UK. However, although there is now a significant body of research on policing, very little of it has focused on examining those who occupy the top ranks …
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London Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, 1760-1782: The impact on landscape painting and its reception
The institution of annual exhibitions of modern British art has been accredited with the initiation of a consumer-led commercial market which obviated the need for patronage. I argue that the simplistic acceptance that exhibitions were successful in establishing a market for landscape painting …
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The making of 'Labour's working class', 1931-1951.
… compatibility of recent ‘vernacular’ trends in modern British history and older, traditional party-political approaches.
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