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British Maritime History, National Identity and Film, 1900-1960.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2012-02)
This thesis examines the creation, transmission and preservation of the idea of Britain as a ‘maritime nation’ on film from 1900 to 1960. By placing an analysis of maritime films’ frequency, content and reception into the ...
Postcolonial excess(es): On the mattering of bodies and the preservation of value in India.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-01)
This thesis postulates the annihilation of the poor as the authorised end of development.
This circumstance, I contend, is an effect of the entanglement – that is, the mutual
affectability (Barad 2007) – of the human and ...
The Phenomena of Prayer: The Reception of the Imitatio Christi in England (1438-c.1600)
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-03-28)
The Imitatio Christi by Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) was among the most successful texts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Over eight hundred manuscripts survive from that period alongside hundreds of printed editions. ...
French Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-02-18)
This thesis provides the first comprehensive account of French revolutionary thought in
the years that followed the defeat of the 1871 Paris Commune, France’s last nineteenthcentury
revolution. The Commune as an event ...
Modell Leistungsgesellschaft: the ‘Achieving Society’ and the concept of ‘Leistung’ in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic, 1933-1975
(Queen Mary University of London, 2016-08-08)
This thesis analyses the uses of the concept of a Leistungsgesellschaft to explore the breaks and continuities in the transition from Third Reich to Federal Republic as well as within the post-war era. Between 1933 and ...
'Like a man trying to knit'? : Women's Cricket in Britain, 1945-2000
(Queen Mary University of London, 2015-11-04)
This thesis focuses on a much neglected area of women's history, female leisure. It examines the
processes of change since the Second World War in British society as experienced by British
women, through the lens of ...
The Library of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-05-11)
The survival of the 1711 sale catalogue of the library of Sir Thomas Browne and his
heirs has given scholars of his work a privileged insight into his reading and book
owning habits. Browne wrote on an encyclopaedic range ...
DOMESTIC SERVICE AND DOMESTIC SPACE IN LONDON, 1750-1800
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-05-20)
This thesis explores the relationship of servants to the domestic spaces in which they lived and laboured. Although the place of servants within the ‘household family’ is well established, servants rarely feature as major ...
LITTLE FRIENDS OF ALL THE WORLD?’ THE EXPERIENCES OF BRITISH DIPLOMATIC SERVICE CHILDREN 1945 – 1990
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-06-23)
This thesis is a historical reconstruction of the experiences of children born in to the British Diplomatic Service between 1945 and 1990. The first academic investigation of its kind, in a greatly under-documented area, ...
British Economic Policy in Palestine, 1919 - 1935: the Construction of Haifa harbour, a case study
(Queen Mary University of London, 2017-04-13)
This dissertation addresses the question of how Britain was able to achieve its imperial goals in Palestine in spite of the limitation imposed by the League of Nations’ mandate system. To do so, it investigates the ...