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Offers an in-depth analysis of the historical, political and ideological backdrop to the denominational education system in the Republic of Ireland

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Examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power on the other. This title challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner.

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The book critically questions the assumption that making science more open and public could solve various issues around scientific credibility, trust, and legitimacy. Chapters in this book explore the risks and benefits of this perspective with relation to transparency, responsibility, experts and faith. -- .

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One solution to West Indian problems after 1940 was to transform sugarcane into a raw material for making synthetics. Britain hoped to encourage new industry by providing scientific information that business might exploit. This plan was threatened by American promotion of a different model of development. -- .

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This book explores how theatre engages with contemporary scientific themes in the twenty-first century. It looks at how and why different forms of performance, from the Broadway musical to experimental and educational theatres, tackles a wide range of scientific themes, including artificial intelligence, genetics and climate change. -- .

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Based on newly unearthed source material, this book follows the career of clergyman William Richardsona and assesses his impact on politics, science and agriculture nationally and internationally. -- .

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This book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture. -- .

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Examines the connected histories of how science was governed, and used in governance, in twentieth-century Britain. -- .

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Music hall was the most dynamic and successful popular theatre genre of the 19th century. This text explores all aspects of the Scottish music hall industry, from the lives and professional culture of performers and impresarios to the place of music hall in Scottish life and national identity.

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This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century. -- .

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An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture. -- .

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An essential overview of the most exciting period in Scottish film history, an account which is both broad in historical scope and textually grounded in specific films

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A study of Scottish society between 1707 and 1830. It contests received wisdom on issues such as the role of the Kirk and other agencies for inculcating order, and argues that the 18th and early-19th centuries in Scotland were years of upheaval and deep social conflict.

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Using a range of written, verbal, and visual sources, this book examines distinctive aspects characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. -- .

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A visual cultural history of contemporary borders and border outlooks through a film and television tour of Europe. Screen borders explores what screen representations of European borders, with France as a starting point, reveals about popular and institutional outlooks on European borders.

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Screen plays is a ground-breaking volume thatchronicles the rich and surprising history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and today. The collection makes a compelling case for the centrality of the theatre to the past and present of British television drama.

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Screen/Space is a collection of nine essays exploring developments in contemporary art informed by re-readings of the history of modernist exhibition design, experimental film festivals and key works in the history of structural and expanded film. -- .

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A cultural history of Sherlock Holmes adaptations in film and television from early cinema to the present.

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Originally published: Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2012.

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This expansive study brings to light a neglected history of suburban Paris as seen and reimagined by French filmmakers before the emergence of the 'film de banlieue'. -- .

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This volume explores the overlooked category of screenwriters in French cinema, from the coming of sound to the digital age. Using key figures as case studies, it considers how the role has evolved industrially and critically, and sheds light on screenwriting practices in the context of debates on word and image, national cinema and authorship.

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This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bond and his later reinvention as father-mentor and screen legend. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it will be essential reading for those interested in the phenomenon of stardom.

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An innovative reassessment of late Victorian literature and its relation to visionary Romanticism through its examination of six late Victorian writers - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, Theodore Watts-Dunton and Thomas Hardy. -- .

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A comprehensive history and analysis of Secret Cinema the leading producer of large-scale immersive experiences in the UK. The book examines how they have evolved their format over twelve years from experimental and artisanal beginnings to becoming a global leader in large scale immersive entertainment.