Post War Britain
Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post War Britain
... Another reservation about this book concerns its subtitle which promises a general overview of ‘medicine, migration and the NHS in post-war Britain’. It would be interesting to know if this was the ...
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Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the 'Crisis' of the 1970s
... the post-war years’ in academic histories, ...in post-war Britain, 19 we want to highlight one key development of post-war culture which was pervasive by the 1970s and ...
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The aesthetics of class in post war Britain
... Lin Chun, The British New Left, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1993; Fred Inglis, Raymond Williams, Routledge, London, 1995; Michael Kenny, The First New Left: British Intellectu[r] ...
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Gender and Racial Others in Post war Britain
... cosmopolitan, multi-racial, even mongrel city. They were expressions of a particular conjuncture in twentieth century cultural politics. In this sense they can be mapped onto the distinctive stages – in terms of fields ...
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Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post War Britain
... regulated and shaped this sector of the film industry in Britain. Whilst providing excellent coverage of a field, this picture holds the audience at quite a distance from the day-to-day realities of production. To ...
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The socio cultural milieux of the left in post war Britain
... the post-war period witnessed a rejection of institutional expressions of Christianity along with the beginning of an accelerated decline in faith itself both as a means with which to interpret the world ...
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Developments in Criminal Law and Criminology in Post War Britain
... The Street Offences Act, 1959, Section 1, in providing that "it shall be an offence for a common prostitute to loiter or solicit in a street or public place for[r] ...
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Governing Post War Britain: The Paradoxes of Progress, 1951 1973
... Section four, ‘Educating the nation’, contains two chapters. Chapter nine, ‘Planning the education system in the post-war era’ paints what is some ways a rather positive picture. Education spending as a ...
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Familial transmission of leprosy in post-war Britain-discrimination and dissent
... Conclusion We describe what we believe to be the first autochthonous clinical case of leprosy in Britain since the 1920s, and highlight the extreme and damaging social and political responses to the diagnosis in ...
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Continuous path : the evolution of process control technologies in post war Britain
... This thesis examines two stages in the evolution of process control technology: the numerical control of machine tools; and the development of the small computer, [r] ...
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Nesting in English fields : bird narratives and the re imagining of post war Britain
... World War, when returning soldiers were promised a land fit for heroes but endured instead mass unemployment, an acute housing shortage and widespread ...took Britain into the First World War and ...
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Italian women migrants in post-war Britain: the case of textile workers (1949-61)
... What could have been the reasons for these “storms in teacups”? The correspondence never states this clearly, possibly because the British officials in charge were quite satisfied with the explanation that, as Italians, ...
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‘The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’ : the battered child syndrome in post war Britain and America
... the post-war era saw the ‘ entangled his- tories of secrecy and privacy ’ ...in Britain between the 1930s and the 1990s, secrecy was ever more vilified ’ ...
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AR's and AD's post war editorial policies: the making of modern architecture in Britain
... Banham at the AR and Crosby at AD sat either side of the Smithsons, ‘the bell-wethers [sic] of the young throughout the middle fifties.’ 20 In 1950, at the ages of only 21 and 26 respectively, Alison and Peter Smithson ...
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The Children’s War: Britain, 1914 1918
... In chapter two, ‘Families at war’, Kennedy concentrates on the correspondence between soldiers and their children. Fathers made much of life in the open air, depicting themselves relishing wartime escapades and ...
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Juvenile Delinquency in Britain during the War
... The points stressed are: the need for an adequate number of younger justices on every Juvenile Court Panel; the need for the reports of the Local Education Author[r] ...
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Post-Brexit prospects for Britain
... leverage Britain will have with its European ...May, Britain may aggressively cut taxes and red tape, if it does not secure favourable fast-track trade deals with the EU (FT, ...
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A History of the Reformational Movement in Britain. II: The Post-World-War II Years to the end of the Twentieth Century
... Russell went as a special student in Apologetics to Westminster Theological Seminary to study under Cornelius Van Til and Robert Knudsen. There he spent a lot of time with fellow students James Skillen, William Edgar and ...
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Philanthropy in Britain during the First World War
... Some individual children went even further. In Burnley, Lancashire, two young girls performed heroic deeds on behalf of local charities. Amy Foster became known as the “Hieland Lassie” on account of the Highland costume ...
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Adjusting from war to peace in 1940s Britain
... While there appears to be a growth shortfall which new growth theory cannot fully explain, invoking the bargaining model of productivity could be helpful, i Seen from this perspective,[r] ...
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