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The political socialisation of schoolgirls in England, 1870-1914
This thesis argues that the school was a key site for working and middle-class girls’ political socialisation in late Victorian and Edwardian England. It challenges conventional interpretations of the gendering of politics ... -
Joseph Priestley and the French Connection: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Grammaticography.
This thesis investigates the transformation of Joseph Priestley’s Rudiments of English Grammar between 1761 and 1769. The later editions of Priestley’s grammar have long attracted the interest of historians of linguistic ... -
Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
The Eusebius-Jeromian tradition of universal chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political ... -
Town Planning, Architectural Conservation, and Civic Identity in Portsmouth, 1939-1974
The research that led to this thesis sought to understand how civic identity, and particularly historic civic identity, was imprinted on Portsmouth’s built landscape after the heavy architectural losses of the Second World ...
