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The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National
Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and
portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil,
ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brief was
interpreted to include figures as diverse as the devout Lady
Margaret Beaufort, and the entertaining Lady Emma Hamilton.
History's Beauties, the first detailed study of this collection,
maps a culture of femininity that reframes the Victorian
fascination with women's domestic and sentimental presence by
locating it within a Parliament-centred 'national' culture.
Including an essay on the Gallery's Trustees, the book traces the
translation of their governors' culture to a public institution
through discussions of three themes in the National Portrait
Gallery's collection of women's portraits: portraits of the Royal
family and the cult of legitimacy in antiquities and in national
identity; the educated woman as model of domestic and national
cultivation; and finally the role of female beauty in defining
social and artistic power in nineteenth-century Britain. The first
monograph study of gender in a major museum, History's Beauties
engages themes of gender, national identity, class cultures, and
aesthetics in Victorian England to interpret the National Portrait
Gallery's fascinating collection.
This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during
the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival
sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy,
and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic
precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different
identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of
illegitimate children in Wales, and the lived experience of
conception, pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This
book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic,
social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity
of experiences, contexts and consequences.
A village-by-village survey of Suffolk, including descriptions of
church monuments, other antiquities, local ecclesiastical and
manorial customs. and property ownership, in the first five years
of the seventeenth century. The Chorography of Suffolk
reconstructed in this volume is one of the first attempts of a
county survey of Suffolk. It has remained almost unknown and
unconsidered by antiquaries since it was compiled, at the end of
the reign of Elizabeth I, for no county antiquarian tradition
comparable to those in Essex and Warwickshire ever emerged in
Suffolk. The unknown author of the Chorography intended his work to
be a village-by-village survey of the county, including
descriptions of church monuments, other antiquities, local
ecclesiastical and manorial customs, and property ownership as he
found them in his own day. The resulting work, although never
completed, is an invaluable gazetteer of Suffolk as it was in the
first five years of the seventeenth century. The manuscript passed
into the library of the eminent doctor Sir Thomas Browne, before
its acquisition by Peter Le Neve, the indefatigable but eccentric
eighteenth century antiquary. It was Le Neve who was responsible
for the dismemberment of the Suffolk Chorography manuscript into
several hundred fragments, so that from the dispersal of his
collections in the 1780s until the present day, the pieces of the
Suffolk manuscript have become scattered through at least six
different English archive collections, and some of it remains lost.
The present volume forms the fruits of a great academic jigsaw
puzzle following the first chance rediscovery of a large number of
the fragments, and it represents about 95 per cent of the text as
it existed before Le Neve's vandalism.
A concsie, comprehensive textbook on twentieth century Britain
inclding thematic chapters and case-study chapters on key periods
and topics that will engage attention. British History is still
widely studied and this book provides an up-to-date survey of that
history. The book is fully updated and engages with the most recent
historioigraphy as well as what people said they needed, such as
more qunatative approaches, movement away from the binary focus on
pre- and post-1945.
In White Innocence Gloria Wekker explores a central paradox of
Dutch culture: the passionate denial of racial discrimination and
colonial violence coexisting alongside aggressive racism and
xenophobia. Accessing a cultural archive built over 400 years of
Dutch colonial rule, Wekker fundamentally challenges Dutch racial
exceptionalism by undermining the dominant narrative of the
Netherlands as a "gentle" and "ethical" nation. Wekker analyzes the
Dutch media's portrayal of black women and men, the failure to
grasp race in the Dutch academy, contemporary conservative politics
(including gay politicians espousing anti-immigrant rhetoric), and
the controversy surrounding the folkloric character Black Pete,
showing how the denial of racism and the expression of innocence
safeguards white privilege. Wekker uncovers the postcolonial legacy
of race and its role in shaping the white Dutch self, presenting
the contested, persistent legacy of racism in the country.
A brilliant polymath and part of the 'first wave' of British
Romanticism, Thomas Manning was one of the first Englishmen to
study Chinese language and culture. Like famous friends including
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lamb, Manning was inspired by
the French Revolution and had ambitious plans for making a better
world. While his contemporaries turned to the poetic imagination
and the English countryside, Manning looked further afield - to
China, one of the world's most ancient and sophisticated
civilizations. His travels included the salons of Napoleonic Paris,
a period as a prisoner of war, a dramatic shipwreck and, disguised
as a Buddhist pilgrim, a trek through the Himalayas to Tibet, where
he met the Dalai Lama. Manning's extraordinary story sheds a new
light on English Romanticism. -- .
Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to
stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State
takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational
work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays,
songs, cartoons, government reports, laws, sermons, memoirs, and
how-to manuals, to make its case. It challenges the claim that the
Irish "became white" in the United States, showing that the claim
fails to take into full account the legal position of the Irish in
the nineteenth-century US state - a state that deemed the Irish
"white" upon arrival. The Irish thus not only fitted into the US
racial state; they helped to form it. Till now, little heed has
been paid to the state's role in the Americanization of the Irish
or to the Irish role in the development of US state institutions.
Distinguishing American citizenship from American nationality, this
volume journeys to California to analyze the means by which the
Irish gained acceptance in both categories, at the expense of the
Chinese. Along the way, it contests ideas that have taken hold
within American studies. One is the notion that the Roman Catholic
Church operated outside of the power structure of the
nineteenth-century United States. On the contrary, Famine Irish and
the American Racial State argues, the Irish-led corporate Catholic
Church became deeply imbricated in US state structures. Its final
chapter discusses a radical, transnational, Irish tradition that
offers a glimpse at a postnational future.
Written for both a general and academic audience, this full-length
biography of Feargus O'Connor (1795-1855) provides an overview of a
turbulent and active political career, from positions in journalism
and the House of Commons to mass demonstrations for the People's
Charter and working for the Chartist Land company. At the height of
his popularity as a leader of the Chartists' campaign for
democratic reform, O'Connor enjoyed the support of millions of
working people. But more than any other popular leader of his
generation, he sought to bring the "working Saxon and Celt"
together in a common struggle, an aspiration that had its roots
deep in the Irish past. Uniquely, this account restores the Irish
dimension of O'Connor's career to its proper place by offering, for
the first time, an evaluation of his heritage, his ideas, and his
public life on both sides of the Irish Sea.
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was
governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic
between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal
minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603.
The collection assesses James' relationship with his nobility,
detailing how he interacted with them, and how they fought,
co-operated with and understood each other. It includes case
studies from across Scotland from the Highlands to the Borders and
burghs, and on major individual events such as the famous Gowrie
conspiracy. Themes such as the nature of government in Scotland and
religion as a shaper of policy and faction are addressed, as well
as broader perspectives on the British and European nobility,
bloodfeuds, and state-building in the early modern period. The ten
chapters together challenge well-established notions that James
aimed to be a modern, centralising monarch seeking to curb the
traditional structures of power, and that the period represented a
period of crisis for the traditional and unrestrained culture of
feuding nobility. It is demonstrated that King James was a
competent and successful manager of his kingdom who demanded a new
level of obedience as a 'universal king'. This volume offers
students of Stuart Britain a fresh and valuable perspective on
James and his reign.
This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham
Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned
numerous government administrations under twenty different prime
ministers. An aristocrat from a privileged background, Villiers was
elected to Parliament as a Radical in 1835 and subsequently served
the constituency of Wolverhampton for sixty-three years until his
death in 1898. A staunch Liberal free trader throughout his life,
Villiers played a pre-eminent role in the Anti-Corn Law League as
its parliamentary champion, introduced an important series of Poor
Law reforms and later split with William Gladstone over the issue
of Irish Home Rule, turning thereafter to Liberal Unionism. Hence
Villiers, who remains the longest-serving MP in British
parliamentary history, was intimately involved with many of the
great issues of the Victorian Age in Britain.
* The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form
emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as
well as French mime and Italian commedia dell'arte roots. * Theatre
history is an essential part of theatre and drama courses across
the UK and would be recommended reading. * There is no comparable
book which makes critical analysis of British pierrot troupes and
concert parties in existence - the only ones that do exist on the
specific topic are written as reminiscence and anecdote.
This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British
political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of
a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape.
Starting with the 2015 general election and covering key
developments up to "Brexit Day", it shows how Brexit "transformed"
British politics. The unprecedented turmoil - two snap elections,
three Prime Ministers, the biggest ever defeat for the Government
in Parliament, an impressive number of rebellions and reshuffles in
Cabinet and repeated requests for a second independence referendum
in Scotland - as a result of leaving the EU, calls into question
what sort of political system the post-Brexit UK will become.
Taking Lijphart's "Westminster model" as its reference, the book
assesses the impact of Brexit along three dimensions: elections and
parties; executive-legislative relationships; and the relationship
between central and devolved administrations. Based on a wealth of
empirical material, including original interviews with key
policymakers and civil servants, it focuses on the "big picture"
and analytically maps the direction of travel for the UK political
system. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students
of Brexit, British politics, constitutional, political, and
contemporary history, elections and political parties, executive
politics, and territorial politics as well as more broadly related
practitioners and journalists. Chapters one and two of this book is
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons
[Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0
license. Funded by the University of Trento and the Sant'Anna
School of Advanced Studies.
With contributions from political, social and literary historians
based in Britain, Australia and the United States, this volume
presents 11 essays on the Chartist movement.'
This is the story of the extraordinary life of Claver Morris and
the society in which he lived. After his marriage at Chelsea in
1685, Claver Morris moved to Somerset where he established an
outstanding reputation for his work as a physician. His diaries
show us how he worked with apothecaries and surgeons, and travelled
widely to treat all kind of patients, from the children of the poor
to those of the landed gentry. The diaries also tell us about the
joys and pains of Claver's personal and family life, and of his
various intrigues. Claver Morris was a man of many talents:
immensely enterprising, knowledgeable, sociable and loving. His
house was always filled with music, guests and entertainments. Yet
he was often faced with disputes and troubles partly of his own
making - as when he courted a bishop's daughter, or stole some land
to build his Queen Anne house. The Doctor's World provides a unique
portrait of a physician living and working through the political
and religious turmoils that beset the nation at the turn of the
eighteenth century. Tales of medical treatments, clandestine
marriages and self-serving priests are entwined with famous acts of
treason and rebellion, and the pleasures and tragedies of daily
life. This meticulously researched book will appeal to all readers
of social, political, medical and family history.
The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to
befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and
its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact
on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and
systematic use of the wealth of manuscript sources that illustrate
social, economic and cultural change in seventeenth-century London
to examine the impact of the Fire in terms of how individuals and
communities reacted and responded to it, and to put the response to
the Fire in the context of existing trends in early modern England.
The book also explores the broader effects of the Fire in the rest
of the country, as well as how the Great Fire continued to be an
important polemical tool into the eighteenth century.
This book traces the history of the "Church Crisis", a conflict
between the Protestant and Anglo-Catholic (Ritualist) parties
within the Church of England between 1898 and 1906. During this
period, increasing numbers of Britons embraced Anglo-Catholicism
and even converted to Roman Catholicism. Consequent fears that
Catholicism was undermining the "Protestant" heritage of the
established church led to a moral panic. The Crisis led to a
temporary revival of Erastianism as protestant groups sought to
stamp out Catholicism within the established church through
legislation whilst Anglo-Catholics, who valued ecclesiastical
autonomy, opposed any such attempts. The eventual victory of forces
in favor of greater ecclesiastical autonomy ended parliamentary
attempts to control church practice, sounding the death knell of
Erastianism. Despite increased acknowledgment that religious
concerns remained deep-seated around the turn of the century,
historians have failed to recognize that this period witnessed a
high point in Protestant-Catholic antagonism and a shift in the
relationship between the established church and Parliament.
Parliament's increasing unwillingness to address ecclesiastical
concerns in this period was not an example advancing political
secularity. Rather, Parliament's increased reluctance to engage
with the Church of England illustrates the triumph of an
anti-Erastian conception of church-state relations.
Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county-and one of the
least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable
towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and
unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns
characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of
constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to
eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to
Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity.
Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called
Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and
reformers-Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert
Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John
Wesley-as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and
George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to
Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John
Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have
been inspired-including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and
Tennyson-while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary
architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest,
from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys
to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the
little-known land itself-an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.
Long did she reign and peacefully may she rest: this beautiful and
thoughtful tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the
life of a remarkable woman whose 70 years on the throne made her
the longest-reigning monarch in British History. Royal biographer
Brian Hoey describes the childhood, accession and coronation of
young Elizabeth, and chronicles her extraordinary and dignified
transfiguration into beloved wife, mother and grandmother during
her seven decades of unflagging service and dedication as Queen of
the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth. He also explains
the constitutional roles and public duties of this accomplished
stateswoman, conducted with such outstanding grace and
professionalism throughout her life. As the royal family, her
country, and countless people around the world prepare to say
goodbye, he describes all the honour and ceremony one would expect
to be lavished on this cherished sovereign and considers the
everlasting effect that her work, life, and legacy will continue to
have for many years to come.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the evolution of
imperialism in Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, France, and the Great
Britain. It delves into the background of colonialization and
focuses on the nature of the motives of necessity, utility,
religious, and exploratory and the modus operandi of the
establishment of the colonies which required substantial amount of
capital. The volume discusses a wide range of themes including the
role of Spain as a Muslim colony; rise and fall of Spain as an
imperial power; Portuguese discoveries and colonialization;
conquests of Dutch companies of East India and West Indies; the
French company of the Indies; British colonies in Americas, Africa
and Australasia and English East India Company to showcase a
holistic history of European competition for trade through wars in
North America, South America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and
Asia. This book will be of interest to general readers interested
in history of colonization, imperialism, Third World studies,
post-colonial studies, international relations, defense and
strategic studies, South Asian history, and European history.
This book is the first scholarly work to explore male homosexual
prostitution in interwar Scotland. The male prostitute occupies a
contested position within interwar society – depending on the
perspective he was representative of a descent into turpitude, of
tenacious organised criminality or of exploitation. The book
explores connections between male prostitution and criminal gangs
prevalent during the interwar period, by detailing the emergence
and activities of Glasgow’s notorious ‘Whitehats’, a gang
composed of a number of queer male prostitutes and led by William
Paton. This book discovers that although Paton’s activities were
representative of a career criminal, the young men who joined the
‘Whitehats’ were often driven by poverty and social isolation.
This book explores the experiences of Edinburgh police detective
William Merrilees and his war on homosexuality in Edinburgh during
the 1930s through examining the tactics used to regulate homosexual
trade and the implications this held for the men involved. The book
not only explores the attitudes, opinions and actions of police
officers, politicians and the legal process but also uncovers
fragments from the lives of the men involved, through personal
reflections and letters. The book explores the anxieties that the
trade in homosexual sex provoked, not just for understandings of
sexuality but also of gender and nationhood, and offers a
comparative perspective of the forms of homosexual trade in
Scotland, England and major foreign cities. This book will have
broad appeal to academics and students in the field of social,
sexual and gender history as well as the social and criminal
histories of Scotland and Britain.
This book examines the seismic impact of Brexit on the British
political system, assessing its likely long-term effect in terms of
a significantly changed political and constitutional landscape.
Starting with the 2015 general election and covering key
developments up to "Brexit Day", it shows how Brexit "transformed"
British politics. The unprecedented turmoil - two snap elections,
three Prime Ministers, the biggest ever defeat for the Government
in Parliament, an impressive number of rebellions and reshuffles in
Cabinet and repeated requests for a second independence referendum
in Scotland - as a result of leaving the EU, calls into question
what sort of political system the post-Brexit UK will become.
Taking Lijphart's "Westminster model" as its reference, the book
assesses the impact of Brexit along three dimensions: elections and
parties; executive-legislative relationships; and the relationship
between central and devolved administrations. Based on a wealth of
empirical material, including original interviews with key
policymakers and civil servants, it focuses on the "big picture"
and analytically maps the direction of travel for the UK political
system. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students
of Brexit, British politics, constitutional, political, and
contemporary history, elections and political parties, executive
politics, and territorial politics as well as more broadly related
practitioners and journalists. Chapters one and two of this book is
freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons
[Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0
license. Funded by the University of Trento and the Sant'Anna
School of Advanced Studies.
This set of 14 volumes, originally published between 1932 and 1995,
amalgamates several topics on the history of education between the
years 1800 and 1926, including women and education, education and
the working-class, and the history of universities in the United
Kingdom. This set also includes titles that focus on key figures in
education, such as Samuel Wilderspin, Georg Kerschensteiner and
Edward Thring. This collection of books from some of the leading
scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the
subject and will be of particular interest to students of history,
education and those undertaking teaching qualifications.
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