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The devil's highway
Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London's sailortown, c.1850-1900
By Brad Beaven
Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7792-6
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£85.00
Pre-OrderPolitics, performance and popular culture
Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain
Edited by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey Richards
This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6723-1
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£25.00
Buy NowFashioning Italian youth
Young people's identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958-75
By Cecilia Brioni
Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking at visual and written representations of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6200-7
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£80.00
Buy NowLondon calling Italy
BBC broadcasts during the Second World War
By Ester Lo Biundo
'London Calling Italy offers an expertly researched, thought-provoking analysis of BBC propaganda for Italy during the Second World War, exploring how programmes were put together and what ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6481-0
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£80.00
Buy NowDangerous amusements
Leisure, the young working class and urban space in Britain, c. 1870-1939
By Laura Harrison
In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4787-5
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£85.00
Buy NowWorlds of social dancing
Dance floor encounters and the global rise of couple dancing, c. 1910-40
Edited by James Nott and Klaus Nathaus
By the 1920s, much of the world was 'dance mad,' as dancers from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, from Manchester to Johannesburg and from Chelyabinsk to Auckland, engaged in the Charleston, the foxtrot ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5625-9
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£90.00
Buy NowWorlds of the ring
Nation and empire in the British and German circus
By Sabine Hanke
Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. Mills' circuses. This study illuminates the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7509-0
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£85.00
Pre-OrderChristmas in nineteenth-century England
By Neil Armstrong
Whether for reasons of family, food, shopping or religion, it's hard to imagine a British winter without Christmas, or to think of a more traditional national festival. But how and when did ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4993-0
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£14.99
Buy NowPicturing home
Domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film
By Hollie Price
Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3820-0
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£85.00
Buy NowDancing in the English style
Consumption, Americanisation and national identity in Britain, 1918-50
By Allison Abra
Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4262-7
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