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Gender, rhetoric and regulation
Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900–55
By Helen Glew
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4663-2
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£25.00
Buy NowCrisis music
The cultural politics of Rock Against Racism
By Ian Goodyer
Rock Against Racism was a mass movement built in opposition to racism and fascism in 1970s Britain. At a time of severe economic and social crises, RAR, alongside the Anti-Nazi League, organised ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3385-4
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Buy NowNorthern memories and the English Middle Ages
By Tim William Machan
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4535-2
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£80.00
Pre-OrderHigh culture and tall chimneys
Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780–1914
By James Moore
This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9147-0
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£80.00
Buy NowThe hippie trail
A history
By Sharif Gemie and Brian Ireland
This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other 'points east' in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1462-4
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£20.00
Buy NowThe Great Exhibition, 1851
A sourcebook
Edited by Jonathon Shears
The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9913-7
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£17.99
Buy NowEngland and the 1966 World Cup
A cultural history
By John Hughson
England and the 1966 World Cup presents a cultural analysis of what is considered a key 'moment of modernity' in the nation's post-war history. Regarded as having an importance beyond its ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9616-7
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£15.99
Buy NowRepresenting ethnicity in contemporary French visual culture
By Joseph McGonagle
The issue of ethnicity in France, and how ethnicities are represented there visually, remain one of the most important and polemical aspects of French post-colonial politics and society. ... More
ISBN: 978-0-7190-7955-9
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£80.00
Buy NowWriting otherwise
Experiments in cultural criticism
Edited by Jackie Stacey and Janet Wolff
Writing otherwise is a collection of essays by established feminist and cultural critics interested in experimenting with new styles of expression. Leading figures in their field, such as ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0698-8
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£17.99
Buy NowCulture in Manchester
Institutions and urban change since 1850
Edited by Janet Wolff
With Mike Savage
This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution. These bring to light the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0688-9
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£20.00
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