Category: Academic
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Visuality, Materiality, and Eighteenth-Century Samplers
Molly Marsella explores eighteenth-century American samplers, discussing how the visuality and materiality of these pieces has been viewed.
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“It Ain’t Half Racist Mum”: Reflexive Wit and Migration in Modern British Voices and Television
Harry Fry explores what race and migration mean to Britain today as represented through sitcoms.
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The Influence of Social Class in 1960s British Cultural Movements and Outputs
Lauren Hood examines 1960s British counterculture and media to explore how class continued to influence the shaping of cultural participation, outputs, and movements.
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The Rise and Fall of Wilsonianism
Eva Beere explores the factors which shaped President Wilson’s policies, considering how this influenced America’a international relations.
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Assimilation as a prerequisite for equality: The politics of immigrant integration in the Danish welfare state c.1960-2000
George Purdy explores twentieth-century approaches to immigration integration from the Danish welfare state
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The Biafran Crisis: How Famine Redefined Humanitarianism
The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970, arose from tensions between different and diverse ethnic groups following a forced union by British colonial powers. These struggles continued post Nigerian independence, and Louisa Steijger explores international responses to the Civil War which prompted a form of neo-humanitarianism.
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Beyond Consent: The Inconsistencies of Rape Laws in the antebellum South
The American legal system in the South before the Civil War was highly inconsistent, especially in term of rape and consent laws. Eva Beere explores these antebellum rape laws, and how Black women received less legal protection.
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“[T]he mute body speaks by its gesture and movement”: A Classical Corporeality in Catherine de Medici’s Tears
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Harry Fry contextualises Catherine de Medici’s tears upon the death of her husband within early modern thinking about, and historiographical frameworks on emotion.
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