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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The British Empire c1857-1967

open access: yes, 2016
Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, The British Empire c1857-1967 has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.
Waller, Sally   +2 more
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‘Teetotal and Proud’: Preston and the Band of Hope Movement, 1847-1939 [PDF]

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The Band of Hope was a non-denominational movement with membership open to all children who pledged to abstain from drinking alcohol. It began in 1847, grew rapidly and in some locations it maintained its popularity for over a hundred years. The thesis
Bailey, Susannah Mary
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Building Co-operation: a business history of the co-operative group, 1863-2013

open access: yes, 2013
Building Co-operation traces the development of The Co-operative Group and its predecessor, the Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS), over the course of 150 years.
Wilson, John   +2 more
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'Beats apart': a comparative history of youth culture and popular music in Liverpool and Newcastle upon Tyne, 1956 - 1965

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This study explores the themes of continuity and change in twentieth-century British cultural history, particularities of place and regional identity in the North of England, and the cultural transfer of North American popular music in Britain between ...
Watson, Jonathan Paul
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‘The Inextinguishable Struggle Between North and South,’ American Sectionalism in the British Mind, 1832-1863

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Working within the field of nineteenth century transatlantic history this thesis takes as its starting point British attempts to engage with the American Civil War.
O'Connor, Peter
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Sewing the Self: Needlework, Femininity and Domesticity In Interwar Britain

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This thesis looks at design practice as a method of investigating the relationship between design and identity in interwar Britain; in particular it considers design from the perspective of practice, not solely as the final object or the story of the ...
Cesare, Carla
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Women's networks in Northern England 1600-1725

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This research fills a gap in seventeenth century English social history. In studies of the early modem period, women are generally situated within the formal structures of marriage and the family, where their relationship to the masculine is the defining
Baxter, Paula
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The development of tourist culture and the formation of social and cultural identities 1800 – 1914, with particular reference to Central Europe

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The essays presented here for submission for the degree of PhD by publication were published between 1998 and 2006 and (with one exception) consist of sole-authored studies in cultural history focused on the development of tourist culture in the period ...
Steward, Jill
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Henry Rothschild and Primavera: The retail, exhibition and collection of craft in post-war Britain, 1945-1980

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An AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award has made collaboration possible between Northumbria University and the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead in providing the opportunity to highlight a significant narrative in craft history.
Barker, Janine
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