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Being modern : the cultural impact of science in the early twentieth century
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth …
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- 9781787353930
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- xvii. ;ill. : 438 p.
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- 306.45. FRA b
The b&c kinematograph company and british cinema : early twentieth-century sp…
This book sheds new light on the under-researched period of early British cinema through an in-depth history of the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company – also known as ‘B&C’– in the years 1908-1916, the period when it became one of Britain’s leading film producers. It provides an account of its films and personalities, and explores its production methods, business practices and…
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- edision 1
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- 9781905816651
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- xv. :ill. :239 p.
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- 791.430941 GER t
Families and food in hard times : European comparative research
Food is fundamental to health and social participation, yet food poverty has increased in the global North. Adopting a realist ontology and taking a comparative case approach, Families and Food in Hard Times addresses the global problem of economic retrenchment and how those most affected are those with the least resources. Based on research carried out with low-income families with children ag…
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- 9781787356559
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- xiii, 274 p. : ill
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- 362.5094 OCO f
Mothers on mothers : maternal readings of popular television
From Supernanny to Gilmore Girls, from Katie Price to Holly Willoughby, a wide range of examples of mothers and motherhood appear on television today. Drawing on questionnaires completed by mothers across the UK, this book sheds new light on the diverse ways in which mothers make sense of popular representations of motherhood on television.
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- 9783035307917
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- ix, 265 p.
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- 302.23082 FEA m
Mary Warnock : ethics, education and public policy in post-war Britain
This biography illuminates the life and thought of Baroness Mary Warnock, whose active years spanned the second half of the twentieth century, a period during which opportunities for middle-class women rapidly and vastly improved. Warnock was described as ‘probably the most celebrated philosopher in Britain.’ She began her career as an Oxford University philosophy don and went on to beco…
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- 9781800643406
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- viii, 350 p
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- 941.082092 GRA m
Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers' integration in European labour markets…
This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees a…
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- 9783030672843
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- xi, 258p. : ill.
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- 331.62094 MIG m
Bearing Witness : ruth harrison and british farm animal welfare (1920 - 2000)
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirc…
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- 9783030627928
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- xxvi. 271p. : ill.
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- 179.3092
Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'p…
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- 9781316459935
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- xiii, 272p. : ill.
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- 302.232094109033 MEE p
Literary coteries and the making of modern print culture, 1740-1790
Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture offers the first study of manuscript-producing coteries as an integral element of eighteenth-century Britain's literary culture. As a corrective to literary histories assuming that the dominance of print meant the demise of a vital scribal culture, the book profiles four interrelated and influential coteries, focusing on each group's depl…
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- 9781316423202
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- xii, 308p. : ill.
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- 820.9006 SCH l
British women surgeons and their patients, 1860-1918
When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine). In this major new study, Claire Brock examines the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon from the second half of the nineteenth …
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- 9781316911921
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- x, 305p. : ill.
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- 610.9 BRO b
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