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4841
A study of the life and public career of Frederick Howard, fifth Earl of Carlisle, 1748-1825
Published 1981“…Such a condition, especially in an aristocratic context, has received little attention from historians, preoccupied with the growth or collapse of party. …”
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4842
The British Conservative Party and the state, 1929-1940
Published 2020“…Despite this, how the governing Conservatives viewed the state remains neglected. Historians of 1930s Tory domestic policy have variously argued it was too interventionist, not interventionist enough, or quite reasonable. …”
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4843
Their allotted place: social conditions, survival strategies and comparative respectability among naval wives in mid-nineteenth century Portsea island
Published 2018“…Surviving records of this allotment system - known to, but little explored by historians - are used here to reconstruct a previously neglected naval community. …”
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4844
The piety and charity of London’s female elite, c. 1580-1630
Published 2016“…To what extent can elite women’s piety and charity reveal their religious identity, among an elite characterised as 'puritan' by contemporaries and historians? How did women practise piety and charity in a worldly City, and did they share a civic ethos?…”
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4845
Consensus in conflict - the making of a common intellectual culture in Germany, c. 1920-1950
Published 2018“…It follows discussions of widespread catchwords, such as ‘masses’ and ‘elites’, ‘progress’ and ‘decline’, ‘<em>Sachlichkeit</em>’ and ‘Romanticism’ in order to identify common patterns of thought, which united a wide range of both supporters and opponents of the Nazi movement. While historians have traditionally described the 1920s and early 1930s as a period ridden by political clashes, my work thus reveals a hidden intellectual convergence underlying Germany’s open and violent conflicts. …”
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4846
'Unregarded age': texts and contexts for elderly characters in English renaissance drama, c.1480-1625
Published 2000“…Its secondary aim is to suggest the value, for social historians of old age in early modern England, of play-texts as social evidence.…”
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4847
The agrarian foundations of early twentieth-century Japanese anarchism: Ishikawa Sanshirō’s revolutionary practices of everyday life, 1903-1945
Published 2015“…Thus, this work puts forward a more nuanced understanding of the movement of popular agrarianism that marked the interwar period, often pigeon-holed by historians as an adjunct of radical nationalism. I also probe the ecological critique embedded in Ishikawa's vision of the man-nature interaction, which remained vital over the decades and has direct relevance to presentday concerns.…”
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4848
Musical warriors: British military music and musicians during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Published 2022“…<p>Military music was pervasive in Britain and Ireland during the French Wars but has received limited attention from historians. This thesis interprets martial music-making as a core military activity and an integral part of wider musical culture. …”
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4849
Late Holocene environmental change and the anthropization of the highlands of Santo Antão Island, Cabo Verde
Published 2019“…Cabo Verde was the first tropical archipelago colonized by Europeans. Historians have suggested that the first colonizers initiated archipelago-wide ecosystem degradation, loss of vegetation cover, and erosion. …”
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4850
The celebrity gossip column and newspaper journalism in Britain, 1918-1939
Published 2014“…Through a comparative study of six newspapers including the Daily Express, Daily Mail and News of the World, I analyse the changing representation of the celebrity subject, and, originally, the shifting character and persona of the gossip columnist. Whereas some historians have analysed the content of newspapers without considering the questions of the newspaper’s production, I analyse newspaper employment records, gossip columnists’ memoirs and their unpublished letters and diaries to define the specific economic, social and cultural circumstances which, I argue, influenced their public portrayal. …”
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4851
The poetry of Anton Schnack
Published 2014“…</p> <p>The thesis begins with a general introduction to Schnack’s life and work and makes specific reference to his contemporary and current standing among literary historians and critics. Chapter Two focuses on the three volumes of Expressionist verse and documents the cultural circles which he frequented in Munich and the numerous Expressionist magazines and periodicals to which he contributed. …”
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4852
Law, government and authority in mid-Tudor England 1540-1570
Published 2013“…Second, despite their frequent interaction with the legal system, ordinary people perhaps knew less about the technical law than some historians have suggested. Third, even if technical legal knowledge was not widespread among the population, the complicated map of overlapping jurisdictions and rival legal institutions meant that ordinary people nonetheless cultivated a detailed mental map of their legal world. …”
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4853
Mythology as history
Published 1988“…The theological defence of the Mosaic account of the origins of the world by orthodox Christians set against the sympathy towards pagan culture expressed by secular historians and antiquarians of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries forms a recurrent theme in the background to Shelley's interest in myth.…”
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4854
Monetary policy, 1833-9 : with special reference to the Anglo-American crisis of 1837
Published 1983“…These led to frequent changes of direction which did much to diminish the Bank's reputation among contemporaries and historians.</p> <p>The conclusion is broadly favourable to the Bank of England, or at least that part of it led by Horsley Palmer which was responsible for the evolution of 1830's policy. …”
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4855
Waists, health and history: obesity in nineteenth century Britain
Published 2014“…To date anthropometric historians have mainly utilised institutional sources providing height and occasionally weight data for a sample of the working class who experienced deprivation. …”
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4856
Associative political culture in the Holy Roman Empire: the Upper Rhine, c. 1350-1500
Published 2015“…<p>Historians have long struggled to conceptualise the Holy Roman Empire in the later middle ages. …”
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4857
Agricultural development in Mid Saxon England
Published 2014“…<p>Over the past decade, historians and archaeologists have become increasingly aware that the Mid Saxon period in England (7th-9th centuries AD) witnessed a transformation in agricultural practices. …”
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4858
Preface: Angus Hawkins and the Victorians
Published 2022“…<br> In producing this short study, Angus was targeting an audience beyond the modern British historians towards whom his previous scholarship had mainly been addressed. …”
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4859
Developing powers: modernization, economic development, and governance in Cold War Afghanistan
Published 2013“…<p>In the last decade, scholars have recognized economic development and modernization as crucial themes in the history of the twentieth century and the ‘global Cold War.’ Yet while historians have written lucid histories of the role of the social sciences in American foreign policy in the Third World, far less is known on the Soviet Union’s ideological and material support during the same period for countries like Egypt, India, Ethiopia, Angola, or – most prominently – Afghanistan.…”
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4860
The beginnings of disease control in London : the work of the medical officers in three parishes, 1856-1900
Published 1980“…The problems of health and disease in nineteenth century England have attracted some attention from historians in recent years, although little attention has so far been paid to the local difficulties of public health improvement. …”
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