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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Modern British History"”.
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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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Suffrage, solidarity and strife: political partnerships and the women's movement 1880-1930
… have been informed and developed by women's history. It will consider the extent to which developments within the suffrage movement both challenged and reinforced gendered political identities and influenced attitudes toward the parts that men and women had to play in both the public and …
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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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Confession and intimacy in England, 1851-1913
This thesis examines the history of confession as an intimate practice in England through four microhistorical case studies. In the introduction, I briefly outline a broad history of confession and trace the outline of what I argue already forms the history of intimacy. I propose that a promising …
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Popular Attitudes to Taxation in Britain, c.1945- 1992
There has been a general view among British historians that popular opposition to tax increased dramatically in the 1970s. However, no study has looked in detail at the available evidence. This view has been based largely on politicians’ statements and a few isolated studies from the 1980s, most of …
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HIV/AIDS activism in England, c. 1982-1997.
This PhD thesis examines the history of the groups and individuals who responded politically to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in England. It spans the years of the first confirmed AIDS-related death in the UK, that of Terry Higgins in 1982, until 1997. This was the year after the introduction of highly …
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British immigration policymaking and European integration, 1973-1990.
… borders, and unwanted immigration. Drawing on British government archives and interviews with senior Home Office officials, this dissertation examines British immigration policy during the first two decades of membership to the European Communities (later, Union) to understand the impact of …
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Love and marriage in Labour and Conservative party cultures, 1918-1970
… asserts the social functions of marriage in the history of the Labour and Conservative party, but also provides an intimate analysis of how it felt to be political in twentieth-century Britain.
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Social Anthropology and British Society, c. 1920-1975
… and techniques, undermining the idea of the British Empire’s ‘civilising mission’, and inspiring readers to compare and contrast the wide range of social relations evident amongst the world’s different peoples. These changes occurred amidst contemporary debates about colonial policy, …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
… 1954 to 1990. It draws on ‘food-themed’ life history interviews with thirty men and women, together with Mass Observation directives and sociological surveys, to highlight the value of integrating subjectivities and lived experiences into the history of food in modern England. Existing …
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Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
… responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban migration: one that marked Britain’s decisive breakthrough to a largely and permanently urbanised society. During the period, earlier nineteenth-century tropes of the ‘shock’ of the city, …