English history

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English history (V214): Historical studies of England.

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Central Government & Volunteering	Extracts from government correspondence discussing the potential, and indeed pitfalls, of local volunteer initatives. Note the central dilemma the...	1792, Terror, volunteers, william pitt, Georgian Britain, revolutionary war	view
Manly men and angelic women: Gender and nostalgia in George Elgar Hicks’s watercolour The Sinews of Old England (1857) and in an advertisement for Cadbury's Cocoa (1886). Karen Walker	The Sinews of Old England depicts an idealised labourer and his family at the door of their cottage. Cadbury's Cocoa used a similar image for an...	History	view
Labour Theories and Paper Currencies: The Economic Concerns of William Cobbett’s ‘Address to the Journeymen and Labourers,’ and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Men of England &c- A song’, Paul Stephens	Cobbett’s reformist pamphlet ‘Address to the Journeymen and Labourers’ (1816) attempts to demystify the political and economic causes of the...	History	view
Loyalty & its Limits?	Two documents relating to Local Volunteer movements during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Period. Note the highly localised nature of these...	volunteers, English history, revolutionary war, Napoleonic Wars, Georgian Britain	view
‘It is the past alone that can explain the present’: a comparison between a passage in Disraeli’s Sybil and a membership card of the National Chartist Association, Darren Ormandy	Benjamin Disraeli’s novel Sybil, or, The Two Nations was published in 1845. It is both a story of romantic adventure and a manifesto for the...	History	view
When costume became fashion in Victorian dress: An exploration of historicity, exoticism and convention in E.W. Godwin’s ‘A Lecture on Dress’ and Lady Clementina Hawarden’s ‘Study from Life’, Kenya Hunt	Many modern day ideas about women’s dress in fact have their origins in concepts that began in the Victorian era: beauty and utility, historicity...		view
Nova Albion Revealed: Drake’s claim of California celebrated by Hakluyt and Hondius, Martha Doerr Toppin	In this essay I will examine two accounts of Sir Francis Drake’s acquisition of Nova Albion for England. I will compare and contrast a text, ‘The...		view
Local Government & Volunteering	Two documents related to Local Government and its role in Volunteer movements, both from Birmingham - something of a hot bed of local politics...	Georgian Britain, revolutionary war, volunteers, eighteenth century history, middle classes	view
The English electoral hustings as depicted by William Hogarth and Anthony Trollope, David Potter	This essay discusses aspects of ‘Old Corruption’ in the English electoral process of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through a comparison...	History	view
Volunteer Songs	An extract from a Local Volunteer song, clearly designed to whip up patriotic support.	English history, volunteers, 1803, french invasion, loyalism	view

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