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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Twentieth Century Britain"”.
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Scrapbooking cultures in twentieth-century Britain
… thesis offers the first study of scrapbooking in Britain during the twentieth century. By adding newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, and ephemera into their scrapbooks, Britons fashioned unique records of the world in which they lived. During the twentieth century, scrapbooking remained a …
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Lalkar: Migrant Internationalism Among Punjabis in Twentieth Century Britain
… political and social formation of Punjabis in twentieth century Britain. This project offers a discursive corrective to analyses of the British working-class that exclude or ignore the presence of thousands of nonwhite workers that came to the United Kingdom during that period and offers an …
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Enemy of the state: political surveillance in twentieth century Britain
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the University of Wolverhampton for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Reviving Hellas: the body and natural movement in early twentieth-century Britain
This thesis examines the body and the new corporealities that emerged at a time in history when the modern looked back to Hellas as a source for self-transformation. In particular, this thesis investigates the actions of the body and Madge Atkinson’s (1885-1970) Natural Movement technique and its …
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Blood groups and the rise of human genetics in mid-twentieth century Britain
… of postwar human genetics. In early 1930s Britain a community of geneticists, including R.A. Fisher andj.B.S. Haldane, promoted blood groups as having the potential to give the study of human heredity 'a solidly objective foundation, under strict statistical control'. Fisher and colleagues …
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Animals, Science and Gender: Animal Experimentation in Britain, 1947-1965
… of scientific experimentation on animals in mid-twentieth century Britain. To do this, it addresses two aspects of animal experimentation; firstly, exploring how scientific research forms power-knowledge relations through the use of nonhuman animals. Secondly, this thesis analyses the …
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Love and marriage in Labour and Conservative party cultures, 1918-1970
… in electoral politics and political activism in twentieth-century Britain. It argues that marital status is an underappreciated category of analysis, particularly for women, in understanding access to political worlds post-suffrage. It provides a unique perspective that the majority of …
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Heritage Fictions: The Country-House Novel, Preservation, and the New Britain
… reveal the centrality of preservationism to twentieth-century British identity. According to most critics, this site grows increasingly anachronistic as the century progresses, a repository for that which is considered out of time in English culture. Against this view, I demonstrate that the …
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The 'history of everyday life' and democratic culture in Britain, 1918-1968
… of popular social history and education in mid-twentieth century Britain. It argues that the ‘history of everyday life’ was a guiding framework for how ‘ordinary’ people sought to understand themselves and the world around them in this period. The ‘history of everyday life’ told stories of how …
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Autonomy and Agency in Virginia Woolf’s Writing
… political, and legal histories of early twentieth-century Britain, decisively demonstrating the overlap between discursive and power relations that shape both individual and social modalities of governance.This thesis examines representations of autonomy and agency in Virginia Woolf’s …
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An investigation of the theological questions raised by twentieth-century works of art which make use of the iconography of the crucifixion
… the crucifixion was being used by artists in the twentieth century for purposes beyond its usage in earlier centuries. As an active member of a Christian Community this appeared to have implications for a Christian understanding of the theological significance of the crucifixion of Jesus and also …
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Women and the Practice of Studio Portraiture in Britain 1888 – 1914: Politics, Commerce and Constructions of Femininity
… production in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Britain, specifically the commercial practice of studio portraiture. It addresses a gap in scholarship, namely the absence of women photographers in social histories of photography, and the lack of attention paid to commercial …
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Acts of Livelihood: Bodies and Nature in International Garden City Movement Planning, 1898-1937
… with city life. The book catalyzed an early twentieth-century international movement for the promotion and construction of garden cities. Howard’s garden city remains a highly influential context in the history of town planning and urban public health reform, as well as more recent …
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Attitudes to drawing in Britain, 1918-1964
Numerous artists and theorists in Britain between 1918 and 1964 produced rich bodies of drawing-orientated work, yet these endeavours receive little analysis. In order to account for them as more than isolated anomalies, the nature and importance of drawing during the period needs to be …
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Fiction-criticism in interwar England: Judgment, gender, and the pluralist public sphere
… to say that intellectual writers in early twentieth-century Britain produced popular journalism for outlets like Good Housekeeping, Vanity Fair, and The Daily Telegraph simply to make money. However, this dissertation argues that such “side” work in fact played an important role in …
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Classroom Photographic Journeys: Alfred Hugh Fisher and the British Empire's Development of Colonial-era Visual Education
… the imperial indoctrination of children in early twentieth-century Britain. It focuses on photographs made by Alfred Hugh Fisher, an artist photographer who was employed by COVIC between 1907 and 1910 to document the peoples and lands ruled by the British Empire. Fisher was the first and only …
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‘My name was mud!’: Women’s experiences of conformity and resistance in post-war Rhondda
… and continuities affecting women’s lives in mid-twentieth century Britain, examining the factors that shaped what was possible for women coming of age in the immediate post-war years. Within the developed historiography on the coalfields, women’s histories have been limited to broad overviews of …
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Psychoanalysis, management and labour in the British workplace, 1942-c.1970
… of a field of workplace psy-expertise in mid-twentieth century Britain, through four case studies and centring on two organisations: the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and Roffey Park rehabilitation centre. While existing research on psychoanalysis has taken childhood and the family as …
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Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987
… people engaged in the stock market across twentieth-century Britain. It asks how and why previously stigmatised forms of investment and speculation came to be regarded as socially, politically and economically desirable. I argue that financial and economic historians, preoccupied with the …
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The Territorial Air Force 1925-1957 – Officer Class and Recruitment
… continued to play a key role in the defence of twentieth-century Britain, but the underlying tensions and weaknesses associated with a class-based voluntary culture meant that the TAF had to change in response to new pressures. The thesis charts how these changes began to manifest themselves in …
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