Theses - History
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The Clergy and Print in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-1750
(2018-05-19)In much of the historiography surrounding print culture and the book trade, the worldliness of print remains a point of common emphasis. Indeed, many influential studies either assume or actively present the history of ... -
Anxiety and Urban Life in late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914
(2018-05-31)The thesis investigates anxieties about urban life in late Victorian and Edwardian culture, and examines emotional responses to urbanisation, industrialisation and modernity at this high point of urban growth and rural-urban ... -
The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
(2018-07-20)This dissertation examines how news and information circulated among select colonies in the British and French Caribbean during a series of military conflicts from 1763 to 1804, including the American War of Independence ... -
Popular Investment and Speculation in Britain, 1918–1987
(2018-07-14)This doctoral thesis traces the various forms in which ordinary people engaged in the stock market across twentieth-century Britain. It asks how and why previously stigmatised forms of investment and speculation came to ...
