Dissertations / Theses: 'British'

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McCarrick, Billy. "The British Labour Party, British politics and Ireland 1886-1924." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.260493.

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Hoque, Ashraf-ul. "Generation terrorised : Muslim youth, being British and not so British." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/13814/.

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Orledge, Glenda May. "The British Ciidae." Thesis, University of Bath, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.268397.

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Myronets, O. M., V. V. Poberezhniuk, and V. O. Babich. "BRITISH ADMINISTRATIVE LAW." Thesis, Молодіжний науковий юридичний форум: [Матеріали міжн. наук.-практ. конф. До дня науки, м. Киїів, НАУ, 18 травня 2018р.] Том 1.- Тернопіль: Вектор, 2018. С. 132-134, 2018. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/34639.

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Baldwin, Mary Paige. "Making British subjects : the development of British Nationality Law, 1870-1939." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.406204.

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Kershen, Anne. "British Jewish history within the framework of British history 1840-1995." Thesis, Middlesex University, 1997. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/11157/.

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This essay is a context statement in critical defence of my submission for the degree of Ph.D by Published Works in keeping with the requirements of MIddlesex University as laid down in the Guidance Notes dated April 1996. The underlying theme of the submission is that my published works serve to illustrate my belief that it is imperative to locate British Jewish history within the broader framework of British history. Thus, I have not limited my research and writing to one issue, event or section of British Jewish society, rather I have sought to develop a historiographical style which exemplifies the way in which individuals, groups and events, within and beyond the framework of Anglo-Jewry, interface and interact. Historical phenomena do not occur in a vacuum and it is imperative to understand what is taking place beyond the perimeters of ethinicity in order to fully comprehend both immigrant and receiving societies' actions and responses. In my most recent works I have taken this one stage further with the recognition that, in what is increasingly a multi-ethnic society, it is vital both to locate British Jewish history within that of the wider British immigrant/settler experience and to see it as a constituent of specific communities in order that comparisons and contrasts can be made and, where possible, lessons learnt.

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Smith, Alison. "U wot m8?: American and British Attitudes toward Regional British Accents." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1045.

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This research examines the relationship between British accents and their stereotypes. It looks specifically at the ratings of British and American subjects for a variety of British regional and standard accents, and examines them in contrast with observed stereotypes about these accents. The purpose of this paper is to compare the reactions of British and American participants in order to understand whether the stereotypes associated with these accents are purely socially constructed by British society, or whether qualities of each accent support these stereotypes. Results found a similar trend in the ratings of both American and British participants, though it is hypothesized that this is due to confounding variables.

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Sepp, E. (Elari). "Representation of British Society in paintings of the British Industrial Revolution." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2019. http://jultika.oulu.fi/Record/nbnfioulu-201905302296.

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Abstract. This thesis examines how the Industrial Revolution was perceived and presented in British art of the Industrial Revolution. This is done by analysing selected paintings of the Industrial Revolution by painters who are considered to be among the most influential figures in British art, these being Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner and Ford Madox Brown. The three painters in question represent different stages of the Industrial Revolution, with Wright of Derby presenting its infancy, Turner presenting its peak and Madox Brown presenting its after-effects. The analysis of their works is supplemented with historical perspectives of the Industrial Revolution by both historians and polemic writers and artists. The paintings chosen for analysis are selected according to their relevance to the Industrial Revolution, with their cultural significance being considered as well. The study is focused on social developments over the course of the Industrial Revolution, and so the ways in which the Industrial Revolution changed and shaped British society are key elements in the analysis. The historical perspectives maintain that while the Industrial Revolution brought advancements in industry and transportation, it also led to working people living destitute lives, and it also caused immense pollution in urban areas, thus causing an increase in death rate in Britain. The polemic views claim that the Industrial Revolution caused the decline of the British countryside and led to the negligence of natural beauty to facilitate the increase of factories. The people who worked in factories had very limited options in their life, as their managers largely had complete control over them, and could thus abuse their workforce to optimise production. The analysis found that the advancements of the Industrial Revolution were initially viewed with optimistic inquisitiveness along with feelings of wariness owing to the uncertainties regarding the advancements which were yet to come. Later on, the advancements became a regular part of life so that even wary observers adapted to them and altered their ways of thinking. Eventually the advancements led to the differences between social classes increasing, causing unemployment and general hardship among the working class. Industrialisation ultimately shaped British society so that it changed irrevocably, and common people ended up in a predicament where they had to adapt to the changes in the world they knew, regardless of how they felt about the changes in question.Tiivistelmä. Tämän tutkielman tarkoituksena on selvittää, miten teollinen vallankumous ilmeni vallankumouksenaikaisessa brittiläisessä kuvataiteessa ja millä tavoin siihen suhtauduttiin. Tutkielmassa analysoidaan valittuja maalauksia, joiden tekijöitä pidetään Brittiläisen taiteen tärkeimpinä edustajina. Kyseiset taiteilijat, Joseph Wright of Derby, J.M.W. Turner sekä Ford Madox Brown, edustavat teollisen vallankumouksen eri vaiheita. Wright of Derby edustaa vallankumouksen alkuvaiheita, Turner sen huippua ja Madox Brown sen jälkivaikutuksia. Historioitsijoiden sekä vallankumouksenaikaisten kirjailijoiden ja taiteilijoiden näkemykset tukevat maalausten analysointia. Tutkimusaineistona olevat maalaukset on valittu niiden kulttuurisen arvon sekä sen perusteella, miten paljon ne ovat yhteydessä teolliseen vallankumoukseen. Tutkielma keskittyy yhteiskunnassa tapahtuneisiin muutoksiin teollisen vallankumouksen aikana, joten teollisen vallankumouksen vaikutukset brittiläiseen yhteiskuntaan ovat tärkeässä osassa tässä tutkielmassa. Historiallisten näkökulmien mukaan teollinen vallankumous johti teollisuuden ja kulkuneuvojen kehitykseen, mutta aiheutti myös köyhyyttä ja kaupunkialueiden saastumista, mitkä puolestaan johtivat kuolleisuusasteen nousuun Britanniassa. Kirjailijoiden ja taiteilijoiden mielestä teollinen vallankumous aiheutti brittiläisen maaseudun alasajon ja johti teollisuuden leviämisen kautta yleiseen välinpitämättömyyteen luonnon suhteen. Tehtaissa työskentelevillä ihmisillä oli erittäin vähän valinnanvapauksia, sillä työnjohtajilla oli heihin suhteessa täysi ylivalta, ja he saattoivat väärinkäyttää valtaansa tuoton maksimoimiseksi. Analyysin kautta selvisi, että teollisen vallankumouksen tuomiin muutoksiin suhtauduttiin aluksi optimistisen uteliaasti ja toisaalta tulevaisuuden epävarmuuksien vuoksi varovaisesti. Myöhemmin näistä muutoksista tuli tavallinen osa elämää, ja näin varovaisemmatkin ihmiset sopeutuivat niihin ja muokkasivat omia ajatusmaailmojaan. Nämä muutokset lopulta johtivat luokkaerojen kasvamiseen, mikä puolestaan johti varsinkin työnväenluokan työttömyyteen. Teollistuminen muutti brittiläistä yhteiskuntaa pysyvästi, ja tavallinen kansa joutui tilanteeseen, jossa heidän täytyi sopeutua siihen, että heidän tuntemansa maailma muuttui riippumatta siitä, miten he itse suhtautuivat näihin muutoksiin.

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Perry, Adele. "Gender race, and the making of colonial society British Columbia, 1858-1871 /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/nq27317.pdf.

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Snider, Caleb. "Almost an Englishman: Black and British Identities in Three Contemporary British Novels." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28830.

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This project describes the work of three contemporary British novelists as they explore the possibility of self-identifying as black and British in contemporary Britain, despite the prevalence of racist attitudes that hold that these two identities are mutually exclusive. The three novels examined -- The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, White Teeth by Zadie Smith, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali -- present black protagonists who self-identify as British. While other characters in the novels either conform to assimilationist or diasporic models of identity, where the subject seeks to expunge all "black" characteristics in favour of conforming to stereotypical "white" cultural norms, or retreat from "white" characteristics into an essentialized version of the values of their "home" countries, Karim, Irie, and Nazneen establish spaces for themselves within British society that allow them to try on different identities. By acknowledging the variability of identity, all three protagonists are able to self-identify as being both black and British.

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Thomas, Kenneth. "The British brewing industry and decolonisation of the British Empire, 1945-1970." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407272.

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Deutschmann, Mats. "Apologising in British English." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Modern Languages, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-43.

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The thesis explores the form, function and sociolinguistic distribution of explicit apologies in the spoken part of the British National Corpus. The sub-corpus used for the study comprises a spoken text mass of about five million words and represents dialogue produced by more than 1700 speakers, acting in a number of different conversational settings. More than 3000 examples of apologising are included in the analysis.

Primarily, the form and function of the apologies are examined in relation to the type of offence leading up to the speech act. Aspects such as the sincerity of the apologies and the use of additional remedial strategies other than explicit apologising are also considered. Variations in the distributions of the different types of apologies found are subsequently investigated for the two independent variables speaker social identity (gender, social class and age) and conversational setting (genre, formality and group size). The effect of the speaker-addressee relationship on the apology rate and the types of apologies produced is also examined.

In this study, the prototypical apology, a speech act used to remedy a real or perceived offence, is only one of a number of uses of the apology form in the corpus. Other common functions of the form include discourse-managing devices such as request cues for repetition and markers of hesitation, as well as disarming devices uttered before expressing disagreement and controversial opinions.

Among the speaker social variables investigated, age and social class are particularly important in affecting apologetic behaviour. Young and middle-class speakers favour the use of the apology form. No substantial gender differences in apologising are apparent in the corpus. I have also been able to show that large conversational groups result in frequent use of the form. Finally, analysis of the effects of the speaker-addressee relationship on the use of the speech act shows that, contrary to expectations based on Brown & Levinson’s theory of politeness, it is the powerful who tend to apologise to the powerless rather than vice versa.

The study implies that formulaic politeness is an important linguistic marker of social class and that its use often involves control of the addressee.

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Lewis, Lucy Catherine. "British Boethianism 1380-1436." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325659.

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Jones, G. O. "British wind band music." Thesis, University of Salford, 2005. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14908/.

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I have chosen to be assessed as an interpreter and conductor of British wind band music from the earliest writings for wind band up to, and including, the present day; a period covering 220 years of original compositions of wind band music, This critical evaluation represents asummary of my work on the four required projects of the DMA course, in which I hope to demonstrate an erudite knowledge, creative imagination and maturity of interpratation in the performance of wind band repertoire.

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Dinnis, Robert. "Understanding the British Aurignacian." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522462.

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Billing, Ian Michael. "British carboniferous Bryozoan biogeography." Thesis, Durham University, 1991. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6289/.

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The geographical and temporal distributions of the British Carboniferous Bryozoa have been determined, incorporating data from fieldwork (including localities in Scotland, North England, North Wales, South Wales, and Avon), museum collections, and literature searches. A total of 126 species has been recognised, though further work may reveal some synonymies within this list. The forty species collected during the fieldwork have been identified by reference to previous taxonomic work; most species can be assigned to established taxonomic descriptions, but two new species, Rhombopora bancrofti and Polypora hexagonaria, are proposed, and the descriptions of Rhombopora incrassata and Rhombopora similis are emended. The applicability of Student's t-test to the morphometric analysis of Carboniferous bryozoan species has been studied, and a computer program written to perforin this task, incorporating a database of species measurements. A new statistical method, the division t-test, is presented in this thesis; this method is useful in comparing the relative ratios of bryozoan colony parameters. Both the t-test and the division t-test were found to be of use in identifying bryozoan species. Analysis of the bryozoan faunas in nine regional areas of Britain has been made using the Simpson and Jaccard coefficients of similarity. The resulting coefficients are consistent with the limited distribution capability of many bryozoan taxa, and also match with the known palaeogeography and palaeocurrents of the Carboniferous of northwest Europe. Plots of species diversity against geographical distribution show a similar pattern to that produced by Tertiary non-planktotrophic larvae-bearing neogastropods. Further, additional plots of species diversity against species longevity produced a pattern consistent with normal background extinction events. A study of bryozoan morphology between different areas and different stages within the Carboniferous indicated that species showed no measurable temporal evolutionary or lateral geographical changes through the Lower Carboniferous. Rather, local environmental stresses are the major architects of bryozoan colony morphology.

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Moore, Kenneth H. "The British Civil Service." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1990. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

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Thesis (M.P.A.)--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2953. Abstract precedes thesis as [2] preliminary leaves. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [61-63]).

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Reed, Delanna. "Appalachian & British Folktales." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1278.

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Williamsson, Joy. "How Brits Swear : The use of swearwords in modern British English." Thesis, Mid Sweden University, Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-9164.

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Pérez, Fernández Irene. "In search of new spaces: contemporary black British and Asian British women writers." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Oviedo, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/83470.

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La tesis doctoral es un estudio de la obra literaria de novelistas contemporáneas británicas pertenecientes a la diáspora africana, caribeña y asiática que emigró al Reino Unido en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El corpus literario bajo análisis engloba las siguientes autoras y obras: Andrea Levy, Small Island (2005), Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2001), Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000), Diana Evans, 26ª (2006) y Jackie Kay, Trumpet (1999). La tesis analiza la representación y codificación espacial en la obra de dichas autoras partiendo de los postulados teóricos que consideran el espacio como constructo social que esconde implicaciones de clase, raza y género (Lefebvre, 2005, Soja 1996, Massey, 1996, 2005). La tesis estudia el espacio en los tres niveles en los que se encuentra operativa la relación cuerpo-identidad-espacio (Keith and Pile, 1993). Estos tres niveles son, por un lado, el espacio individual de cuerpo, por otro, la familia y la comunidad y, por último la sociedad. El estudio de estas obras literarias da cuenta de la necesidad de negociar nuevas formas de entender la identidad y la realidad espacial británica, a la vez que pone de manifiesto su carácter multicultural.

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Drolet, Marc 1968. "The anatomy of the British battle cruiser and British naval policy, 1904-1920 /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68084.

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The Battle Cruiser was the result of the naval arms race and the realisation that England's undisputed mastery of the seas was over. The ship was the next logical step in the evolution of the Cruiser. Historians have generally considered this type of warship as an expensive mistake. While it was not as successful as its creators might have hoped, neither was it the disaster claimed by many of its critics. Once the British chose to build these ships, not only did they have no choice but to keep building more of them, but they also had to build larger, more powerful and expensive Battle Cruisers in order to maintain the lead in the arms race with Germany.

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Radtke, Robert Warren. "The British commercial community in Shanghai and British policy in China, 1925-1931." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315945.

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Ḥajarī, Hilāl. "Oman through British eyes : British travel writing on Oman from 1800 to 1970." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2662/.

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This thesis focuses on the images of Oman in British travel writing from 1800 to 1970. In texts that vary from travel accounts to sailors’ memoirs, complete travelogues, autobiographies, and letters, it looks at British representations of Oman as a place, people, and culture. It argues that these writings are heterogeneous and discontinuous throughout the periods under consideration. Offering diverse voices from British travellers, this thesis challenges Edward Said’s project in Orientalism (1978) which looks to Western discourse on the Middle East homogenisingly as Eurocentric and hostile. Chapter one explores and discusses the current Orientalist debate suggesting alternatives to the dilemma of Orientalism and providing a framework for the arguments in the ensuing chapters. Chapter two outlines the historical Omani-British relations, and examines the travel accounts and memoirs written by several British merchants and sailors who stopped in Muscat and other Omani coastal cities during their route from Britain to India and vice versa in the nineteenth century. Chapter three is concerned with the works of travellers who penetrated the Interior of Oman. James Wellsted’s Travels in Arabia (1838), Samuel Miles’ The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf (1919) and other uncollected travel accounts, and Bertram Thomas’s Alarms and Excursions (1932) are investigated in this chapter. Chapter four considers the travellers who explored Dhofar in the southern Oman and the Ruba Al-Khali or the Empty Quarter. Precisely, it is devoted to Bertram Thomas’s Arabia Felix (1932) and Wilfred Thesiger’s Arabian Sands (1959). Chapter five looks at the last generation of British travellers who were in Oman from 1950 to 1970 employed either by oil companies or the Sultan Said bin Taimur. It explores Edward Henderson’s Arabian Destiny (1988), David Gwynne-James’s Letters from Oman (2001), and Ian Skeet’s Muscat and Oman (1974). This thesis concludes with final remarks on British travel writing on Oman and recommendations for future studies related to the subject. The gap of knowledge that this thesis undertakes to fill is that most of the texts under discussion have not been studied in any context.

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Easingwood, Ruth. "British Women in Occupied Germany : Lived experiences in the British Zone 1945-1949." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.519557.

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Heinz, Alexander Richard Werner. "British perceptions of West Germany during Ostpolitik and British EC accession, 1969-1975." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.582558.

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The thesis analyses perceptions of West Germany in Britain at the time of West German Ostpolitik and British EC accession, 1969-1975, by focusing on two socio-professional networks in British 'high' politics, and on British public opinion. For both countries the analysed period, ending with the British referendum on Europe in 1975, is remembered as a time of change and . uncertainty during which new dynamics in the European political system became recognisable. In a departure from previous research, the trans-disciplinary methodology utilised in this qualitative study builds on a new, partly constructivist understanding of a constant process of negotiation of perceptions and attitudes. Looking frequently beyond the political, the research is based on a wide range of sources - newly opened documents of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, personal papers, newspaper articles and caricatures, TV and radio programmes, opinion polls and interviews. A detailed introductory chapter on perceptual and political developments in the binational relations and a methodological foundation is followed by chapters two and three which dissect perceptions in 'high' politics, amongst diplomats and politicians. The fourth chapter attempts to reconstruct perceptions in the 'publics'. The thesis asks to what extent different spheres of perceiving people developed different perceptions and criticises hypotheses about the content, uniformity and creation of post-war perceptions. It challenges the idea of public and elite perceptions being generically apart and questions a periodisation into streamlined perceptual periods. The findings acknowledge the central importance of 'the war' but re-assess its complex contents. The thesis also unearths other important elements of perception, being impacted upon by gender, regional origin, and, crucially, the economy. Moreover, perceptions of Germany were closely linked to perceptions of Frenchness. Thus, the thesis makes an innovative contribution to a more complex understanding of how different Britons oriented themselves in the post-war relationship.

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Feijóo, Rodríguez Sonia [Verfasser], Brigitte K. [Akademischer Betreuer] Halford, and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Pfänder. ""Somos más British que los British" : : Gibraltar: Code-Switching im Dienst der Identitätskonstruktion." Freiburg : Universität, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1172203245/34.

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Rose, James G. "British colonial policy and the transfer of power in British Guiana, 1945-1964." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-colonial-policy-and-the-transfer-of-power-in-british-guiana-19451964(34144bd1-72af-4cd8-bd1d-c497c40f95d2).html.

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Johnstone, Sara R. "A special relationship : the British Empire in British and American cinema, 1930-1960." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/58603/.

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This project sets out to scrutinize three decades of feature length fiction films about the British Empire produced by American and British filmmakers beginning in the 1930s through to the end of the 1950s. It compares British and American film in these three decades because such a comparative study has yet to be done and situating such a study within the changing historical contexts is important to chart shifting patterns in filmmaking in these two cultures. Focusing on film narratives that favour sites of modern colonial conflict as setting, namely India, the African colonies and Ireland, the project will chart how American and British filmmakers started from significantly different positions regarding the British imperial project but came to share increasing homogeneity of approach during and after the Second World War. This thesis shows that the relationship of American and British filmmakers to the British Empire changed dramatically after the Second World War and followed political developments. The new special relationship which grew strong after the war had far reaching consequences to the colonial and former colonial nations: the way in which American and British filmmakers portrayed this transition has important implications within film history.

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Morris, Nathalie. "An Eminent British Studio : The Stoll Film Companies and British Cinema 1918-1928." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.514262.

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This thesis explores the history of the Stoll Film Company and Stoll Picture Productions, which formed one of the largest and most important British film concerns of the late 1910s and the early and mid-1920s. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including trade papers, newspapers and archival films, this is the first detailed history of these important companies and the films they produced, a history that reveals much about the state of British cinema in the period following the First World War. Far from being a time of unremitting gloom, as many previous commentators have suggested, Stoll's operations show that this period was also characterised by ambition and energy. The thesis includes both a business history of the Stoll companies and detailed readings of a wide range of their films, demonstrating the ways in which those films were shaped by economic and industrial constraints and prevailing cultural practices. This analysis also highlights some of the important genres, cycles and film-making practices of the period, and engages with revisionist debates surrounding the importance of intermedial practices to British cinema of the 1910s and 1920s. The thesis contributes to current revisionist work on British silent cinema but also to histories of both the British film industry and of silent cinema more widely. It shows that there was a strong level of continuity between the silent and sound eras, although this is frequently marginalised in accounts of British cinema and film-making practices. The examination of Stoll's business practices and films also widens our understanding of the variety of ways in which producers sought to attract audiences for their films, develop national cinemas and respond to Hollywood's dominance of world film markets in the years following the First World War.

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Brown, J. A. "British Pestalozzianism in the nineteenth century : Pestalozzi and his influence on British education." Thesis, Bangor University, 1986. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/british-pestalozzianism-in-the-nineteenth-century--pestalozzi-and-his-influence-on-british-education(c23b096e-d830-450c-844c-db3f8b95fd5e).html.

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The study examines the contribution of Pestalozzianism to British nineteenth century education. It begins by detailing the life of Pestalozzi and the importance of his ideas on education. The emergence of British Pestalozzianism through the efforts of Irish pioneers and those having been in residence in Yverdon is assessed. The work and influence of Pestalozzian supporters in Britain is considered and emphasis is placed on Cheam School and object lessons. The study evaluates the Pestalozzian contribution to particular subject areas and the influence of the Home and Colonial School Society to improvements in infant teacher training and early childhood education in England and Wales. The study concludes with an appraisal of the development of Pestalozzian ideals and the associated controversy and subsequent respectability that surrounded the efforts of the British Pestalozzians.

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Reed, Delanna. "Appalachian & British Folktales for Rugby Roots-Appalachian Arts with a British Beat." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1282.

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Loo, Tina Merrill. "Making law, order and authority in British Columbia, 1821 - 1871 /." Toronto [u.a.] : Univ. of Toronto Press, 1994. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/273072315.pdf.

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Chang, Ning Jeniffer. "Sino-British relations during 1910-30 : a case study of British business in Hankow." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251913.

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Raposo, Jessica Ann. "Defining the British Flute School : a study of British flute performance practice 1890-1940." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31472.

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The British Flute School went through dramatic change in the twentieth century, as its leading players adopted elements of the French style of playing. These changes caused tensions that have led to a subjective oral history: a history which depicts two camps of flautists vying for the superior style, with one winner in the end. This document aims to provide a more comprehensive and more accurate history of the British Flute School from 1890 to 1940, and, through this investigation, explore what it means to define a style of playing in terms of both nationality and as a unified school. It will include not only an exploration of the interactions between the French and British flute schools, but also an in-depth examination of the influences of flautists of other nationalities, their career activities, performed repertoire, critical commentary in the press (primarily from The Musical Times and the London Times), British flute pedagogy, the recording industry, and aspects of the overarching musical culture in Great Britain. A survey of the active flautists of the time includes: John Amadio, Jean Firmin Brossa, Albert Cunningham, Edward De Jong, Louis Fleury, John Francis, Albert Fransella, Philippe Gaubert, Geoffrey Gilbert, Frederic Griffith, René Le Roy, Joseph Lingard, Gareth Morris, Marcel Moyse, Robert Murchie, Vincent Needham, Edith Penville, E. Stanley Redfern, Joseph Slater, and Lupton Whitelock. The document concludes with a proposal for a redefinition of the British Flute School that, like the culture from which it comes, values rather than disparages the diversity of its history.
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Music, School of
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Hutchings, Peter. "The British horror film : an investigation of British horror production in its national context." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329537.

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Al-Hout, Ahmad. "E.M. Forster at home and abroad : British and non-British elements in his fiction." Thesis, University of Dundee, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390681.

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Gilewicz, Magdalena. "The construction of Muslim community and British Muslim identity in two British Muslim newspapers." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=196303.

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This dissertation is an analysis of one year coverage of two Muslim newspapers in the UK: The Muslim News and The Muslim Weekly. It examines content and discourse in order to establish the predominant themes in the coverage of both newspapers throughout the year. Five dominant themes are discussed with an aim to establish how Muslim community and British Muslim identity are constructed in the particular context. These themes include: Terrorism and Extremism, Islamophobia, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Islam and Muslim Values and Muslim community in the UK. The frequency with which these themes appeared in the coverage of both newspapers reveals their importance as far as the editorial choice is concerned, as well as the interest of the Muslim readership. However, the discourse analysis allows for the better understanding as to how these themes are constructed by both newspapers and how, in the context of these themes, The Muslim News and The Muslim Weekly construct the image of Muslim community in the UK and British Muslim identity.

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Rickards, Carolyn. "A very British spectacle? : critical reception of the fantasy genre within contemporary British cinema." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/53406/.

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In the period since 2001, cinema has witnessed what David Butler refers to as a ‘golden age’ of fantasy film production. The majority of fantasy films released during this time have originated from British literature, and have to some extent been produced and located within Britain, showcasing a wealth of national characters, acting talent, and landscapes on screen. Yet, despite vital revisionist work conducted on British horror, science fiction and melodrama, there remains a hesitancy to embrace fantasy as a genre intrinsically connected with national cinema and domestic film production values. This thesis applies the contention that perceptions and understandings of British film and fantasy are influenced by the critical ‘writing machine’, which informs existing tensions between aesthetics, genre and film production, and also wider meanings attached to ideas around national identity and representation. However, this study argues that such discursive processes do not function as a homogenous entity and instead are prone to fluctuation across different critical sites and at different ‘moments’ in time. In order to determine how British cinema and fantasy genre are appropriated by the critical ‘writing machine’, this research adopts a historical reception studies approach to examine meanings and associations as generated by the contemporary British mainstream press in the subsequent decade since 2001 onwards. Building on work conducted by Barbara Klinger and Kate Egan, amongst others, this thesis examines a broad range of critical materials, including press reviews and film-related articles, which circulated across a national, regional and local spectrum of mainstream distribution. This research contributes to existing scholarship by investigating how the critical ‘writing machine’ operates to inform and influence cultural appropriations of British cinema and fantasy genre, and considers how these meanings can shift over time.

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Naumann, Curt Marcel. "The Cheam Slide : a study of the interrelationship of rock avalanches and seismicity." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29721.

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It is being increasingly realized that there exists an interrelationship between seismicity and rock slope failures. Possible chronological clustering of rock avalanches in the Fraser River corridor was investigated to determine if a common seismic trigger existed. It was determined that the events occurred throughout the Holocene indicating that either these slides were not seismically triggered or that seismic triggers were chronologically unrelated. Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes are believed to have occurred throughout the Holocene (Adams, 1989; Atwater, 1987; Hull, 1987). The ages of the earthquakes were compared to the ages of rock avalanches in the Fraser River corridor, but no distinct correlation could be made. The lack of distinct correlation between large rock avalanches in Fraser Corridor and paleoseismicity, and the absence of event clustering, indicated either seismicity was not a factor, or that these rock avalanches may not have been susceptible to seismic triggering. A stability study of Cheam Slide was performed to investigate the susceptibility of large rock avalanches to earthquake triggering. The results suggested that the seismic susceptibility of a slope is closely linked to the displacement the slope must undergo for failure to take place. A large critical displacement may render the slope relatively insensitive to seismic triggering, while a low critical displacement may result in high seismic susceptibility. A comparison was made between the effects of seismic and pore pressure related triggering. The results indicated that a high critical displacement slope, which is close to failure, may be more likely to fail by high pore pressures than by seismic loading. Low critical displacement slopes which are stable enough to surviving hydrodynamic loading may, because of their susceptibility to seismic triggering, pose the greatest hazard.
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Wintrup, Glen. "Researching British university sport initiations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2011. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6495.

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The study of sport initiations is in its infancy. So far, the North American-centric research has focussed on ‘exposing and condemning’ morally unacceptable initiation activities, which are referred to as hazing. Hazing moral panics in North America has resulted in universities utilising sport initiation empirical research to construct anti-hazing policies; policies proven to be ineffective in banning sport initiations. The purpose of this research is to address some of the gaps in the knowledge of sport initiations. A two stage ethnographic research approach was utilised to collect information on British university sport initiations. An international student embedded himself as a student-athlete within a British university to learn the cultural meanings of a foreign sport culture and to possess an emic perspective. Semi-structured interviews were then conducted with key policy actors possessing differing organisational cultural perspectives (differentiational and fragmentational), specifically university staff and sport - rugby union, football, and track and field - club members from multiple higher education institutions. The researcher’s ethnographic confessional tale of his experience as a self-funded international student is combined with the data from interviewee participants to construct British university sport initiations as a resistance research topic.

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Pawluk, Lorna A. "Variable compensation in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42048.

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This study begins with a review of economic and industrial relations literature to identify changes to the workplace that will make industry more productive and competitive. It identifies the measures necessary for industry to take advantage of technological development and to make the workplace more flexible. Specifically it focuses on variable or flexible compensation plans. After identifying the key features of various forms of flexible compensation, it examines approximately 30 plans being used in British Columbia. The case studies assist in identifying the advantages and disadvantages of each type of plan, from the perspectives of the employer, the employees and the trade union. Finally it suggests steps that can be taken by government to encourage variable compensation.
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Beare, Michael. "British clarinet playing from 1940." Title page, contents and summary only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MUM/09mumb368.pdf.

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Gregg, Jennifer. "Youth gambling in British Columbia." access full-text online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium, 2003. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?MR15199.

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Lawrence, David. "British agricultural policy, 1917-1932." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=55612.

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Wright, Eamon David. "British women writers and race." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298874.

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Bevir, W. Mark. "British socialist thought 1880-1900." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303495.

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London, Christopher W. "British architecture in Victorian Bombay." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385562.

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Karatani, Rieko. "Defining British citizenship, 1900-1971." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310352.

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Coombs, Benjamin. "British tank production, 1934-1945." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590028.

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This thesis examines the governmental, industrial and strategic factors that influenced British tank production from 1934 until 1945 against the wider context of the British war economy arid the tank programmes of Canada and the United States. The changing organisational structure of controlling the British tank programme has been reviewed alongside the mutual considerations of war planning for the armed forces generally. A central theme of this research has been to provide a history of war production by highlighting the specific demands placed upon individual firms against the different pressures of war, such as the threat and effects of bombing and shortages of skilled labour and components. This study has shown that the priority for aircraft production, together with the immediate requirement to provide large numbers of tanks to the army during the first half of the war, meant that the initial problems associated with British tank design were unavoidable. The transformation from quantity to quality tank output during the second half of the war was achieved by the introduction of new tank designs, improvements in assembly efficiency, and by accepting greater numbers of Lend-Lease tanks to supplement General Staff requirements. This reliance upon American armour originated from the first orders during 1940 until the end of the war, although British over dependency was demonstrated when both nations contracted their respective tank programmes prematurely during 1944. The Canadian tank programme greatly assisted British efforts to supply the Russian authorities with the preferred Valentine tank, which was necessary to achieve their operational doctrine of standardised equipment. Finally, the post-war British tank programme inirrored the pre-war arrangement of Vickers- Armstrongs and the new state controlled Royal Tank Arsenal, whilst the civilian tank firms transferred to their core industries to supply the re-emerging peacetime markets.

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Morgan, Graham C. "Romano-British mortars and plasters." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27695.

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This thesis is a study into the extent to which the comments of the classical writers regarding plaster, mortar and pigments can be tested by archaeological science applied to a data base from the Roman period in Britain. My original interest in this project was stimulated by reading Davey and Ling's excellent book on wallpainting in Roman Britain (Davey and Ling 1982), which, although very enlightening, I felt lacked some technical aspects which required proper scientific study. Whilst art historical studies are fairly common, they often contain little technical information. Technological aspects of painting and plastering have been reported on (Weatherhead 1987), but the scientific analysis of the materials is rarely encountered (Ashurst 1984; Davey 1961; Plesters in Rahtz 1963: 337 - 341; Wetzel 1980, have all commented on various selected aspects of mortar and plaster composition). The art historical aspects of wall painting are not discussed here, being detailed elsewhere by recent authors (Davey and Ling 1982; Ling 1985; 1991). Pigment and mortar analyses have been carried out in the past, notably by Sir Humphry Davy in Rome, who carried out perhaps some of the earliest detailed chemical analysis in attempting, with considerable success, to investigate the nature of Egyptian blue and other pigments (Davy 1815), and Buckman in Cirencester, who made useful studies into the composition of plaster and pigments (Buckman 1850). However, a comparative study of Romano - British material currently does not exist, and I saw the need for a systematic study into the scientific aspects as yet only touched upon. Such a study I thought would provide a data base for the comparison of past and future analyses. [Taken from the Introduction]

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