history of Britain
Seeing the past: Simon Schama’s A History of Britain and public history*
... and history as devices for speaking about what it is to be ...A History of Britain is one bold attempt to try to put the majesty of poetic connection back into ...A History of Britain ...
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Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s
... about Britain in the 1980s must inevitably revolve around the former Conservative Prime Minister, and Stewart on the whole agrees with Andrew Rawnsley’s recent verdict that often there seems to be two Margaret ...
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Review Article: Naval History of Britain
... appearance of sophisticated, inclusive works on key areas of wider historical debate; naval historians have joined these debates, while others have drawn on naval evidence to develop their own concerns. This sporadic ...
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Swinging Sixties: A Social History of Britain, 1960 - 1970
... 1960s Britain is like a wedding cake adorned with icing sugar which makes it look very attractive but underneath the sugar is a cake that is largely ...for Britain with the consistent and persistent rise in ...
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German as a foreign language in Britain: the history of German as a 'useful' language since 1600
... However, history gives succour to the view that it is not hard-headed commercial reason- ing that wins individual learners to languages in general and to German in par- ticular, but the promise of enriching ...
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Power Point 6
... COURSE LECTURE TOPICS This Week’s Lecture Covers: •The United Kingdom Policy Changes Facing Britain The Environment Of Politics The Legacy Of History The Structure Of Government The[r] ...
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THE COLLAPSE OF BARINGS BANK AND LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC: AN ABRIDGED VERSION
... In the case of Lehman Brothers’ Bank, it happened to be among the top investment banks in the middle and late of 2008 in the US (D’ Arcry 2009). Annals of history have it that Lehman Brothers’ crumble to ...
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The 'working class' in a pre-capitalist culture : a study of the jute workers of Calcutta, 1890-1940
... When the Government of India appointed a committee in 1946 to enquire into the conditions of the jute mill workers of Calcutta, the committee found that there was 'very little literature available' in regard to the ...
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Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire
... phenomenon to the Victoria who had received the homage of her subjects from across the world in London in 1897. At the level of high strategy, the Commonwealth could be regarded either as a tiresome sham, which seems to ...
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The Anglo German diaspora
... In the largest internment camp at Alexandra Palace in London, the well know anarcho- syndicalist Rudolph Rocker informally led the 3,000 inmates of the camp, delivering no less than 139 lectures to Anglo-German internees ...
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Not the end of history : the continuing role of national identity and state sovereignty in Britain
... of History paradigm because they place cherished beliefs (like democracy, sovereignty, and the Union) under public scrutiny and assert them to be more important than "subsidiary" ...
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The Roman Catholic Church in the History of the Exiled Polish Community in Great Britain
... Although the community was beset with many problems at that time, the year 1903 was favourable in that Father Cichocki had a good number of Polish priests ready to help in the pastoral w[r] ...
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A History of the Reformational Movement in Britain: The Pre-World War II Years
... The focus here will be primarily on those in Reformational circles. At present in the UK there have been three main centres of Reformational thought and action: Bath, Cambridge and Leeds associated with Richard Russell ...
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The Roman Catholic Church in the history of the Polish exiled community in Britain (1939-1950)
... task. The problem areas.. From death row to active life. Polish colours flying over Buzuluk. Chäplains in the structure of the army. The Polish Nation in the Soviet[r] ...
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What Lies in the Public Interest? A Legal History of Official Secrets in Britain
... The importance of the legislation lies both in its providing a means of attack on any possible disclosure of confidential or official information about the activities of the security s[r] ...
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Education, identity and empire: history teaching in multi national post imperial Britain
... Dr Maria Grever considered the case of the Netherlands, analysing the experience of the ‘small nation’ and the impact of imperial expansion. She did so through discussion of, for example, the Colonial World Fair in ...
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Women at the intersection of the local and the global in schools and community history in Britain since the 1980s
... women’s history and the ‘imperial turn’ in the 1980s and 1990s, all of which were led by historians who linked their academic work with political agendas for social ...Transnational history, she claims, can ...
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‘An act of struggle in the present’: History, education and political campaigning by South Asian anti imperialist activists in Britain
... This was an era when the Cold War came to an end and the dominant imperialist discourse came to be that of a ‘clash of civilisations’ with ‘Islam’ identified as the new ‘threat’ to the West. An early response to this was ...
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Empire of culture : contemporary British and Japanese imaginings of Victorian Britain
... in Britain (1988), which showed that public investment in “culture” engendered additional employment and spending on local amenities, local authorities began to link government spending on historic sites and ...
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Mental Health Nursing: The Working Lives of Paid Carers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
... important figure in the history of mental health nursing. But as Long shows, the union was more tuned to the needs of male attendants. Men returned from the Western Front to hospitals to face a serious threat to ...
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