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A 'philosophical storehouse': the life and afterlife of the Royal Society's repository
(2009)
In June 1781, the Royal Society’s repository was transferred to the British
Museum. Though ostensibly as a result of the limited space in the Royal Society’s
purpose-built accommodation at Somerset House, the Society ...
London calling: BBC external services, Whitehall and the cold war 1944-57.
(2009)
The Second World War had radically changed the focus of the BBC's overseas
operation from providing an imperial service in English only, to that of a global
broadcaster speaking to the world in over forty different ...
Prime ministers & Civil Service reform 1960-74
(2009)
This thesis anatomises the high watermark of belief in administrative and
institutional remedies to the deeply-felt relative economic and absolute military decline of
Britain in the years after the Second. World War. It ...
The Unionist Party and the First World War
(2005)
Filling the historiographical gap created by an overemphasis upon its rival
Liberal and Labour parties, this study analyses the part played by the war in
shaping Unionist (later Conservative) fortunes between 1914-18. ...
Dying For Home: The Medicine and Politics of Nostalgia in Nineteenth-Century France
(2006)
Nostalgia was first conceived as a clinical entity in the seventeenth century,
and understood as an extreme psychological and physical reaction to
dislocation. The condition was interpreted as a rupture of bonds thought ...
The eclipse of 'elegant economy': post-war changes in attitudes to personal finance in Britain
(2007)
In Britain, almost all survivors of the Second Word War found themselves in a
stronger and more secure financial position than at its outbreak. Simultaneously they
were confronted by a host of intrusive controls, rationing, ...
Rule behind the silk curtain: the Sultanahs of Aceh 1641-1699.
(2009)
This thesis is about the kingdom of Aceh Dar al-Salam in the latter half of the
seventeenth century when four women ruled in succession: Sultanah Tajul Alam
Safiatuddin Syah (1641-1675), Sultanah Nur Alam Naqiatuddin ...
Shell-shock in First World War Britain: an intellectual and medical history, c.1860-c.1920
(2006)
Historians have identified shell-shock, a contemporary umbrella term for the range
of nervous and mental afflictions suffered by soldiers in the First World War, as a
key episode in the transition to modern psychological ...
Mediations of the Bible in Late Medieval England.
(2007)
Direct access to the Bible was the exception rather than the rule in medieval Europe.
Limitations imposed by cost, sacrality and degrees of literacy determined people's
ability to own or consult the Bible. The multitude ...