Tag: Britain
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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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A Trip Down Gin Lane: An Enquiry into British Boozing
Alcohol consumption is central to British national self-conception and military culture. Olivia Hiskett traces the contentious moral history of alcohol from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Hulme Crescents: A Case Study in Manchester’s Post-Slum Clearance Experiment and a Lesson for British Social Housing
Many British industrial cities were marked by decline after the Second World War. Jake Beecroft recounts the case of Hulme Crescents in Manchester, illustrating the failures of urban renewal and advocating for people-centred urban planning.
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The Trauma of Independence
American Independence was a humiliating blow to British national pride, evoking fear for the future of the British Empire and impacting British policy. Emilio Luppino explores American Independence from the British perspective.
Retrospect Journal 