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This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-10-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against Apartheid South...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM). Founded in April 1964, the IAAM spearheaded fundraising efforts, organized events, lobbied Irish politicians, and actively promoted the struggle against Apartheid South...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
Format(s) : PDF
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So many of the world's sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-08
Format(s) : PDF
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The history of the Commonwealth of Nations has been subject to limited scholarly enquiry, confined to a focus on inter-governmental relations and divorced from the lively historiographies on the economics and business of the British Empire.
Seeking to fill these gaps,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-10-07
Format(s) : ePub
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How did the 'quintessentially English' game of cricket come to be so important across Britain's Caribbean empire? As empire declined and gave way to complex patterns of migration, what part did cricket play in the life of the Windrush generation in post-war Britain?
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Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : ePub
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : ePub
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A provocative and original reinterpretation of modern Irish history.
There is a widespread misconception that Ireland became 'modern' much later than its neighbours, in the 1960s and 1970s. This is grounded in several enduring stereotypes and caricatures: of Ireland as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-09-26
Format(s) : PDF
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This book offers a new perspective on the parliamentary battle for British entry into the European Community (EC) – the forerunner of the EU. It provides a historical case study of how the whipping operation, overseen by the Chief Whip Francis Pym, played a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction. Re-evaluating the significance and tactical use of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy. It argues that thus far, the remarkable differences between the teaching of Parliamentarian and Royalist ministers to their...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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So many of the world's sports have their origins in Britain. Why is this? How did sports innovate and evolve in step with social upheaval, and political and cultural change? Why did British forms of play become so influential around the world?
Richard Holt explores...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-09
Format(s) : ePub
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-02
Format(s) : PDF
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives"...
Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-26
Format(s) : ePub
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