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Over the past ten years the study of dress history has achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies.

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This guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname.

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This is the first edition for students and general readers of a pro-woman reply to Shakespeare's 'The Tamer of the Shrew' written in Shakespeare's lifetime . Co-edited by a feminist critic and a distinguished textual scholar, it makes clear why 'The Tamer Tamed' should be restored to the theatrical repertoire and the literary canon. -- .

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The traumatic surreal is the first major study to examine the leading role Germanophone women artists have played in deploying surrealism to respond to the traumatic events and legacies of the Second World War.

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An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies. -- .

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The multi-authored text The Witch of Edmonton is based on a witchcraft trial of 1621. It presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of a witch-mania reflecting popular belief and superstition of the time.

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The first major study of Dalziel Brothers, a Victorian image-making firm that made a phenomenal contribution to mass visual culture.

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There is no soundtrack amplifies new and radical audio-visual relationships in experimental media art. It addresses the lack of diversity in the study of art, media and sound through careful audition of marginalised voices that speak of race, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, colonialism, nationalism, violence and the politics of space. -- .

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John Ford's tragedy took as its theme fulfilled incest between brother and sister. The Revels Plays edition by Derek Roper has notes designed for modern undergraduate use. The introduction has been rewritten to take account of the studies and new approaches of the last twenty years.

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Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain for the scholarly and general reader. -- .

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Victorian touring actresses provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century theatre and the careers of previously neglected British women who had once starred at home and abroad. Chapters explore debuts, establishing a name, working life in the UK, touring North America, long-distance colonial touring, management, offstage life and ageing.

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The Weimar period in German history, which extended from 1919 to 1933 was a time of political violence, economic crisis, generational and gender tension, and cultural experiment and change. Despite these issues the Republic is often treated only as a preface to the study of the rise of Fascism in Germany and this book seeks to correct the balance.

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What caused the UKs cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.

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This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .

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This book traces the history of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to the year 1951, when the passing of the Fraudulent Mediums Act finally erased the concept of witchcraft from the statute books.

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This is an anthology of short stories of World War I from 25 classic writers. Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield are among the women writers whose works account for half the volume. The stories are by turn poignant, violent, harsh, tender and desolating.

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This book revisits women's workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity in England between 1968 and 1985. -- .

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This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender.

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This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change how they think about research in a definitive way.

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This book shows how Rolex has become the embodiment of individual success since the 1960s. This brand is much more than a watch: it is a narrative on a triple exceptionality: that of a product, that of an entrepreneur, and that of the wealthy consumers who wear it. A must-read for understanding the phenomenal success of Swiss watchmaking.

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This book examines twenty major British films from a seventy-year time span, offering a lively account of what has made them valuable and provocative over many viewings. -- .

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The first general history of the British far left to be published in the twenty-first century -- .