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Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain since 1850
No full textThis unique book examines the role of political intellectuals in Britain since 1850 in shaping the public identities of their societies and national identity. Julia Stapleton explores the writings and activities of a diverse range of figures. She also looks at the cultural anxieties and ideals which moved them, and their attempts to enhance their country's self-knowledge
Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain
No full textThe following text is taken from the publisher's website: "Sir Arthur Bryant and National History in Twentieth-Century Britain is a significant new study of the work of the popular historian and journalist, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). Since his death, scholarly interest in Bryant has focused on his Nazi sympathies in the late 1930s. Julia Stapleton broadens our understanding of the man and the writer. Stapleton illuminates Bryant's romantic ideal of his nation. She explores the historian's success in writing for a broad middlebrow audience, aided by his firsthand experience of two world wars; and she traces the decline of Bryant's authority beginning in the 1960s as the discipline of history diversified and new ties were forged between professional historians and popular readerships. Stapleton suggests that Bryant prefigured and sustained a form of nationalism that remained nascent within the British population (though not always its elites) deep into the twentieth century, as the Falklands episode and the recent resurgence of English national identity well illustrates. Twenty years after his death, when history has scaled new heights of popularity, a study of the historian whose work made perhaps the largest public impact in twentieth-century Britain could not be more timely.
Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood: The England of G.K. Chesterton
No full textThis book links the concepts of patriotism, Christianity, and nationhood in the journalistic writings of G.K. Chesterton and emphasizes their roots within the English attachments that were central to his political and spiritual persona. It further connects Chesterton to the vibrant debate about English national identity in the early years of the twentieth century, which was instrumental in shaping not only his political convictions, but also his religious convictions. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood explores his changing conception of the English people from an early, menacing account of their revolutionary potential in the face of plutocracy to the more complex portraits he drew of their character on recognizing their political passivity after the First World War. As Chesterton was above all a journalist, the study considers some of the varied outlets in which he expressed his ideas as a distinctly Edwardian man of letters of a strongly patriotic persuasion. His connection with The Illustrated London News over more than three decades proved pivotal in strengthening his patriotism and discourse of nationhood vilified elsewhere, not least in advanced Liberal organs such asThe Nation. Julia Stapleton shows that he was increasingly distanced by fellow Liberals before 1918, on account of the priority he gave nationhood over the state, and patriotism over citizenship. But she argues that his English loyalties were the last echo of an aspect of Victorian Liberalism that had been progressively eroded by loss of confidence among elites in the democratic aptitude of the English people. Christianity, Patriotism and Nationhood emphasizes that Chesterton upheld a cultural rather than racial conception of national homogeneity, in keeping with the Victorian sources of his thought and the popular patriotism of Edwardian England. It argues that his anti-semitism was ancillary, rather than integral to his understanding of England, and that it was matched by a similar conception of the antithesis between Islam and the patriotic ideal. Stapleton relates his abiding concern for national 'authenticity' to global imperialism, enhanced international co-ordination of states and civil society after 1918, and the increasing role of the British state in defining the nation. This book will be valuable to intellectual and political historians of early-twentieth-century England, as well as to scholars and students of English national identity in the twenty-first century. The author gratefully acknowledges the permission of A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of the Royal Literary Fund to quote unpublished material in the Chesterton Papers, British Library
Letter, Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869
No full textALS of Julia Gardiner Tyler to Mrs. Laura Holloway, author of First Ladies, dated September 20, 1869, about interviewing other first ladies. ALS.Found in:Mss. 65 T97 Additions, Series 1: Mss. Acc. 1993.19 Addition, 186
Meeting Children’s Author Julia Donaldson
No full textA report from a meet and greet with Julia Donaldson, a best-selling children's author. The event was organized by Ibis grafika publishing house and held in bookshop "Bookara" in Zagreb, 20 May 2018
Portrait of Julia Ward Howe
No full textPortrait of author and activist Julia Ward Howe.From Daughters of America: or, Women of the century by Phebe A. Hanaford, published by True and Co. in 1882
From Julia Ward Howe to Mister Silsbee
No full textabstract: Concerning a letter written in rhymes about Howe's thanks for a new hood, her relief and good wishes towards Silsbee.Curator's Note: Handwritten note reads: Julia Ward Howe 811 H8384PCondition of Original: Glue marks. Previously glued into a book, then removed.Creation Date Details: Undated. Range is the contributor's lifespan
Fashion and Physique Symposium: Julia Twigg “Dress, Embodiment, and the Performance of Age”
No full textJulia Twigg presenting “Dress, Embodiment, and the Performance of Age” at The Museum at FIT's 19th fashion symposium, Fashion and Physique, held on Friday, February 23, 2018.The one-day symposium featured lectures and panels on topics such as the emergence of the plus-size fashion industry in the early twentieth century, the impact of popular culture on how we assess the female body, and fashion accessibility for the disabled in the technological age.Julia Twigg is professor of sociology and social policy at the University of Kent, U.K. She has written widely on age, embodiment, and dress, and is the author of "Fashion and Age: Dress, the Body and Later Life.
Envisioning migration: drawing the infrastructure of Stapleton Road, Bristol
No full textThis paper is an exploration of the different ways drawing can be practised to understand how migration shapes the infrastructure of the so-called ‘British’ high street. The research emerges from a cross-disciplinary study of migrant economies and spaces on Stapleton Road, a high street in a comparatively deprived and diverse part of Bristol, UK. Our primary aim is to contribute to discussions about the role of drawing as a critical visual practice in social research, highlighting methodological and substantive potentials. The second aim of our paper is to elaborate on the relationships between urban migration, urban marginalization and ‘migrant infrastructure’ (Hall, King and Finlay 2016), and we visualize through four drawings, how power, materiality and place constitute the infrastructure of Stapleton Road. We engage with infrastructure as a lively system of shared resources that situates migrant entrepreneurs in the city, and is configured by an array of migration processes across time and space. We suggest that drawing is an exploratory and critical visual practice, providing us tools to see socio-spatial relationships in temporal and scalar dimensions. To ‘envision’ migration is to encounter and re-present the varied dimensions of street life in relation to the structural production of urban migration, marginalization and diversity
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