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The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history. Volume XIV maintains this standard of original and thorough scholarship. Each entry is written by a specialist drawing...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-02-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-02-02
Format(s) : ePub
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Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-02-02
Format(s) : ePub
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During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain became more...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-02-02
Format(s) : PDF
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Our sense of history shapes how we think about ourselves. One of the distinguishing features of the left in Britain is that it holds to a remorselessly bleak and miserabilist view of our recent political history -- one in which Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-26
Format(s) : PDF
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How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2018-01-25
Format(s) : PDF
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This book is a study of children, their books and their reading experiences in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain. It argues for the importance of reading to early modern childhood and of childhood to early modern reading cultures by drawing together...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-01-09
Collection :
Early Modern Literature in History
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In this book, the ownership, distribution and sale of patent medicines across Georgian England are explored for the first time, transforming our understanding of healthcare provision and the use of the printed word in that era. Patent medicines constituted a national...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-04
Collection :
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History
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This book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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This book reinterprets the Leveller authorships of John Lilburne, Richard Overton and William Walwyn, and foregrounds the role of ordinary people in petitioning and protest during an era of civil war and revolution. The Levellers sought to restructure the state in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This volume represents the first dedicated study of the British Yeomanry Cavalry, delving into the institution’s history from the cessation of hostilities with France in 1815 through to the eve of the First World War in 1914.This social history explores the Yeomanry’s...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-23
Collection :
War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland. Interwar Ireland’s politics have been caricatured as an anomaly, with the distinction between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael bewildering political commentators and scholars...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Political History
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This book is the first comprehensive account of classical music on all British radio stations, BBC and commercial, between 1945 and 1995. It narrates the shifting development of those services, from before the launch of the Third Programme until after the start of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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The central argument ofThe Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-11-03
Format(s) : ePub
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There were many surprising accessions in the early modern period, including Mary I of England, Henry III of France, Anne Stuart, and others, but this is the first book dedicated solely to evaluating their lives and the repercussions of their reigns. By comparing a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-24
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-10-20
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-16
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-10-13
Format(s) : PDF
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