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The industrial meaning of "gradualism": the Labour party and industry, 1918-1931
(University of Chicago Press, 1996-01)In the period from 1918 until 1931, the British Labour party adhered to the precepts of "gradualism": incrementally and by degrees, the party would gain support and pass legislation in an inexorable progress toward the ... -
Industrial Research at the Eastern Telegraph Company, 1872-1929
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)By the late nineteenth century the submarine telegraph cable industry, which had blossomed in the 1850s, had reached what historians regard as technological maturity. For a host of commercial, cultural and technical ... -
Inheritance, marriage, widowhood and remarriage: a comparative perspective on women and landholding in north-east Norfolk, 1440-1580
(Cambridge University Press, 1998)In medieval and early modern England, men's and women's rights to land were not equal. Sons were preferred over daughters in the inheritance of land. Marriage removed rights of property ownership from women and placed them ... -
Initiating therapeutic relaxation in Britain: a twentieth-century strategy for health and wellbeing.
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016-07-19)In 1972, a British charity, Relaxation for Living, was established "to promote the teaching of physical relaxation, to combat stress, strain, anxiety and the tension of modern life, and to reduce fatigue". This article ... -
Inquiring into Adultery and Other Wicked Deeds: Episcopal Justice in Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Italy
(Brepols, 2010)This article suggests that Italian bishops often had recourse to spiritual penalties to exercise their coercive authority over serious offences during the tenth and early eleventh centuries. Tracing the history of episcopal ... -
Interpreting Diversity: Excommunication Rites in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
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Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2004)For the Victorian reading public, periodicals played a far greater role than books in shaping their understanding of new discoveries and theories in science, technology and medicine. Such understandings were formed not ... -
Introduction to Special Issue: Infertility and Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern England
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)Although the history of pregnancy and childbirth have been studied extensively in recent decades, infertility has received less historical attention, especially for the pre-modern period. This collection makes steps ... -
Introduction: trade unions in the global south from imperialism to the present day
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Inventing the Lollard past: the afterlife of a medieval sermon in early modern England
(Cambridge University Press, 2007-10)This essay explores the evolving significance of a famous fourteenth-century Paul's Cross sermon by Thomas Wimbledon in late medieval and early modern England and its transmission from manuscript to print. It highlights ... -
An irrevocable shift: detailing the dynamics of rural poverty in Southern England, 1762-1834: a case study
(Wiley, 2014-10-20)Nearly every conceivable aspect of the old poor law in England appears to have been studied. Yet some fundamental questions about parish-level provisioning remain hard to answer. These include the amount that people received ... -
J.H. Thomas and the Rise of Labour in Derby 1880-1945
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Keynes, Liberalism, and ‘The Emancipation of the Mind’
(Oxford University Press, 2015-09-11)This article offers a more systematic assessment of John Maynard Keynes’s attitude to Liberalism, and his engagement with the Liberal Party, than has previously been attempted. It does so as a means of exploring how the ... -
Keynes, the Labour Movement, and "How to Pay for the War"
(Oxford University Press, 1999)This article considers the evolution of John Maynard Keynes's wartime plan for compulsory saving in 1939-40, and the ways in which this was influenced by Keynes's desire to solicit the support of the Labour movement for ... -
Killing the condemned: the practice and process of capital punishment in British Africa, 1900–1950s
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)Capital punishment in British colonial Africa was not just a method of crime control or individual punishment, but an integral aspect of colonial networks of power and violence. The treatment of condemned criminals and the ... -
The Labour party and Keynes
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The Labour Party and the Economics of Rearmament, 1935-39
(Oxford University Press, 2001)This article examines the Labour Party’s attitude to the finance of the British rearmament programme in the later 1930s, principally with reference to debates in the House of Commons. It is suggested that the party’s ... -
The Labour Party and the trade unions
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The Labour Party's external economic policy in the 1940s
(Cambridge University Press, 2000-03)This article challenges the view that, in accepting the 1945 American loan and its attendant commitments to international economic liberalization, the Labour party easily fell in behind the Atlanticist approach to post-war ...