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William Robertson Nicoll and the Liberal Nonconformist press, 1886-1923Higgins, Roisin January 1996 (has links)
William Robertson Nicoll (1851-1923) founded the British Weekly in 1886 to exploit the need for a Liberal Nonconformist newspaper. Nicoll became the most important editor of a Free Church journal in the Edwardian period. The British Weekly provided a regular focus for political Nonconformity and Nicoll was a primary raiser of the Nonconformist consciousness and shaper of the collective conscience. This thesis considers the role of newspapers as conduits of political thought. As distributors of information, newspapers had a definite role in setting the political agenda and this work considers the programme which Nicoll pressed at the British Weekly. The newspaper is also considered as a nexus of religious and financial considerations. The analysis provides an examination of the British Weekly from its foundation in 1885, placing it in political context and setting down the editorial agenda. Nonconformist concerns were threatened both by the political preponderance of Irish interests and by the extension of the franchise to working class voters more concerned with social than religious equality. This thesis therefore looks at Nicoll's alignment with the Liberal Imperialists because they would rid the party of its commitment to Home Rule and (less importantly) because they appeared to respond to the needs of the working class. In 1902 the British Weekly misplaced its national efficiency agenda and became prominent in the Passive Resistance campaign against the Education Act. The thesis examines the way in which the protest was used to energise political Nonconformity. The campaign brought Nicoll into contact with Lloyd George and this work explores the mutual benefits of this relationship and also the way in which Nicoll was compromised as a lobbyist by the association. This is the first comprehensive examination of the political nature of the British Weekly. It highlights the increasing complexity of reconciling religion and politics in the twentieth century as pressing social issues could not be repaired by Victorian moral crusades.
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Archbishop George Errington (1804-1886) and the battle for Catholic identity in nineteenth-century EnglandJames, Serenhedd January 2011 (has links)
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An attempt to assess the part played by Puritan unrest in the causes of the English civil warDowie, Donald Ian January 1965 (has links)
The problem which confronts us at the outset, is the problem which has been facing historians for the past three hundred years: What were the causes of the English Civil War? What matters were responsible for the decisive split between Crown & Parliament into two distinct parties, and which ultimately led to civil war? Many theories and interpretations have been given. In this chapter, we will find that there are three major interpretations. The first is that it was a religious struggle - and so the Civil War became known as the 'Puritan Revolution'. The second is that it was a purely political conflict between the Crown and its Ministers, on the one hand, and the House of Commons, which had by then become the 'mirror' of the Puritan element in the country, on the other. And the third is that it was a class, or economic, war. Contemporary historians tended to regard it as a twofold struggle - a conflict over religion on the one hand, and the constitution on the other. It was they who coined the phrase 'Puritan Revolution'. This interpretation, however, has subsequently been challenged, in the light of the detailed research which has been conducted - especially in the field of economic history. And so the Civil War has been interpreted in terms of a social and economic conflict - it is said to be a class war. The social and economic factors have tended to become emphasized while the religious have been pushed into the background - often excluded altogether. It is my intention in this thesis, therefore, to assert once again the very real part played by religious matters in the origins of the English Civil War. Intro., p. 1.
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Gendered nation : Anglo-Scottish relations in British letters 1707-1830Alker, Sharon 05 1900 (has links)
My dissertation argues that national tropes are continually in a state of flux as
they are employed to respond to historical, socio-political and cultural events and trends,
and demonstrates that their state at a specific moment encapsulates struggles between
various concepts of national identity. I trace shifts in the configuration of Anglo-Scottish
relations by undertaking a microanalysis of two specific recurring tropological categories
- familial and homosocial tropes — in a number of key moments in cross-border relations
between 1707 and 1830.
The first chapter, directed at the years surrounding the Union of Parliaments,
traces the suppression of cross-border dissonance in homosocial egalitarian tropes which
define Anglo-Scottish relations in the work of pro-union pamphleteers, and contrasts this
strategy of containment with the disruptive presence of familial tropes in the pamphlets
of anti-union writers. The second chapter traces the reappearance of this conflict in the
decade following Culloden. Roderick Random, written from the margins by Tobias
Smollett, reveals a discomfort with unifying tropes, although it ends with a cursory
gesture towards a national marital union. James Ramble, in contrast, written by the
English Edward Kimber, deflects dissonance onto Jacobitism, suggesting through tropes
of friendship that all aspects of Anglo-Scottish relations are seamlessly integrated into
British unity.
Chapters three and four foreground the 1760s, a decade in which Scottish agency,
in the person of Lord Bute, the Lord Treasurer, seems to reach new heights. Yet it is also
a decade of rampant Scotophobia, incited by the Wilkites to undermine Bute's authority.
Tropological warfare is an important element of this rhetorical conflict. In chapters five
and six, I uncover two competing concepts of Britishness, primarily created by English
and Irish writers, which emerge in the 1790s. The first engages with homosocial tropes to
foreground Scottish agency in nation-building and empire-building projects, but does so
at the expense of a distinct Scottish culture. The second, also produced by English and
Irish writers, reifies and celebrates Scottish culture through tropes of cross-border
courtship, but tends to represent the emergent concept as endangered, lacking national
agency. Chapter six analyzes the Scottish response to this tropological binary. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Raciological thought in Victorian culture : a study in imperial disseminationO'Leary, Daniel Ralph J. 05 1900 (has links)
My thesis revives the term raciology to describe collectively the literature which emanated
out of philological ethnology, that is, out of the studies of man inspired by the rapid advances in
linguistic science in the early nineteeenth century. Raciological Thought in Victorian Culture is
divided into two parts: it examines the development and dissemination of nineteenth-century
raciological knowledge in the works of celebrated philologists and anthropologists; and then
investigates typical features of raciological discourse in Victorian and Victorian Canadian culture.
It views this regional British literature as a field for the political and educational deployment of
British raciological conceptions, and comments on some of the implications of the circulation of
raciological doctrine.
My argument begins with discussion of the often overlooked celebrity and authority of
philologists in Victorian culture, tracing the derivation from philology of raciological typologies
which established the raciological associations of terms like "Britons," "Anglo-Saxons," and
"Teutons" during the early and middle-Victorian periods. An important aspect of the thesis is a re-evaluation
of the influence of Friedrich Max Muller, the most influential comparative philologist
and mythologist in the Victorian world. I argue that his use of etymological study for archaeological
data greatly contributed to the rapid dissemination of raciological thought among the educated and
educating classes. The first part of the thesis concludes with discussion of issues which animated
raciological discourse.
The second part follows the dissemination of Victorian raciological thought to Canada, and
illustrates its effects in an imperial context. It demonstrates the use of raciology in establishing
Canada's legitimacy as a British nation, and documents the place of raciology in establishing the
authenticity of Canadian continuity with a British culture running into deep antiquity. After
discussing neglected raciological aspects of several important Victorian Canadian source works, it
goes on to outline the importance of raciological mythology to the preservation of the Dominion
from American annexation and Fenian incursion. My epilogue briefly documents the decline of
raciological thought in Britain after the 1890s.
By investigating numerous neglected Victorian sources, Raciological Thought in Victorian
Culture establishes raciology as an important element in Victorian political-and, in particular,
nationalist-thinking. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate
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Athleticism and its transfer to CanadaArmstrong, Peter Evans 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis examines the origins of athleticism in England and its transfer
to Canada. During the course of the nineteenth century, the focus of the English
public schools changed dramatically. At the start of the century an English upper-class student's leisure time was largely employed in roaming the country-side, trespassing on neighboring estates and poaching. Teachers' responsibilities ended at the classroom door. Seventy-five years later an English public school student's life was focussed on games and team sports including cricket and the various types of football. Teachers
now ran all aspects of school life which was designed to instill the manly, Christian, virtues which would enable graduates to take their proper place as leaders in the British Empire. And team sports were a vehicle to
achieve that end. Team sports such as cricket and rugby, and the various
institutions that promoted them, occupied a central place in upper-class English life and became infused with what Professor Mangan refers to as the 'games ethic': the ideology of athleticism. When the British administrators, soldiers, and immigrants came to Canada they brought with them their love of games and this 'games ethic' that
was modified by Canadian experience. In England the 'ethic' was firmly
entrenched and supported by a unique class and social structure. Because that structure did not exist in Canada, the attempts of early British Canadians to instill the 'ethic' in the new country were problematic and played out in the conflict between amateurs and professionals. Although
an emerging working-class culture and an increasingly commercialized society challenged and eventually made the distinction between amateur and professional athletes irrelevant, belief in the 'games ethic' and in the instrumental value of team sports survived and continues to influence
Canadian sport policy today. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
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True Religion: Reflections of British Churches and the New Poor Law in the Periodical Press of 1834Dean, Camille K. 12 1900 (has links)
This study examined public perception of the social relevance of Christian churches in the year the New Poor Law was passed. The first two chapters presented historiography concerning the Voluntary crisis which threatened the Anglican establishment, and the relationship of Christian churches to the New Poor Law. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 revealed the recurring image of "true" Christianity in its relation to the church crisis and the New Poor Law in the working men's, political, and religious periodical press. The study demonstrated a particular working class interest in Christianity and the effect of evangelicalism on religious renewal and social concerns. Orthodox Christians, embroiled in religious and political controversy, articulated practical concern for the poor less effectively than secularists.
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Leaving a bittersweet taste : classifying, cultivating and consuming sugar in seventeenth and eighteenth century British West Indian visual cultureGobin, Anuradha January 2007 (has links)
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The impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on patronage structures in Yorkshire and East Anglia /Housez, Janis Claire. January 1997 (has links)
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English newsbooks and the Irish rebellion of 1641, 1641-1649O'Hara, David A., 1962- January 2001 (has links)
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