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Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial (2013)
Journal Article

The extensive commercial success of two well-made popular television drama serials screened in the UK at prime time on Sunday evenings during the winter of 2011-12, Downton Abbey (ITV, 2010-) and Call the Midwife (BBC, 2012-), has appeared to consoli... Read More about Dowagers, debs, nuns and babies: The politics of Nostalgia and the older woman in the British sunday night television serial.

Twisted winter (2013)
Book

A chilling collection of terrifying winter tales for the darkest nights

Analysing political speeches: Rhetoric, discourse and metaphor (2013)
Book

Genre, hybridity, heterogeneity; or, the noir-sf-vampire-zombie-splatter-romance-comedy-action-thriller problem (2013)
Book Chapter

Rethinking Romano-British corinium (2013)
Journal Article

It is suggested that the name generally accepted as the Romano-British name of Cirencester, Corinium, the traditional spelling deriving from a Latin rendering of that in Ptolemy's Geography, is mistaken, and that for philologically sound reasons the... Read More about Rethinking Romano-British corinium.

The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective (2013)
Journal Article

The three current theories of the origin of the name of the American state of Maine are reviewed and rejected. The connection of the colonist Sir Ferdinando Gorges with Ireland is explored, and a possible origin is proposed in the circumstances of th... Read More about The name of the state of Maine: An Irish perspective.

Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service (2013)
Book

The very idea of 'public service' came under fierce attack in the Thatcherite 1980s. Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s takes the two key services, broadcasting and the NHS, and traces the heated debates and political pressures which... Read More about Broadcasting and the NHS in the Thatcherite 1980s: The challenge to public service.

Britain and the Spanish connection, 1931-1947: Non-intervention and regime change (2013)
Book Chapter

Critiquing Calypso: Authorial and Academic Bias in the Reading of a Young Adult Novel (2013)
Journal Article

The position of authors of fiction in relation to critical discussion of their work is an unsettled one. While recognized as having knowledge and expertise regarding their texts, they are typically regarded as unreliable sources when it comes to crit... Read More about Critiquing Calypso: Authorial and Academic Bias in the Reading of a Young Adult Novel.

Knowledge Exchange as a practice (2013)
Journal Article

Knowledge Exchange has been a buzz phrase with the UK Research Councils for several years now. Initially this practice was called Knowledge Transfer until it came to be realized that that description was one-way only and that academia might in fact l... Read More about Knowledge Exchange as a practice.

Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray (2013)
Journal Article

In chapter 8 of Dorian Gray, Dorian reflects on the terrifying discovery, which he has made the previous night, that the painting has been somehow altered to express his own moral state. He speculates thus on a possible explanation for the change in... Read More about Mind and matter in the picture of Dorian gray.

Of a mythical philosophical anthropology: The transcendental and the empirical in technics and time (2013)
Book Chapter

Bernard Stiegler’s Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus is a reinvention of philosophical anthropology. The book’s central thesis is that man never exists without technics, and this means that any transcendental account of man’s emergence mu... Read More about Of a mythical philosophical anthropology: The transcendental and the empirical in technics and time.

Introduction to Edward D Wood, Jr’s Plan 9 from Outer Space for Bristol Bad Film Club (2013)
Exhibition / Performance

The Stoic tradition (2013)
Book Chapter

Poverty and progress (2013)
Book Chapter

Introduction: Slavery and the British country house (2013)
Book Chapter

This book is a collection of studies on the links between Atlantic slavery and the British country house which was co-edited and introduced by Madge Dresser who has also contributed a chapter to the book.

Slavery and West Country houses (2013)
Book Chapter

This chapter investigates the links between Atlantic slavery and selected stately homes in Somerset and Gloucestershire built or renovated in the Long eighteenth century.

Bilingual reading strategies: Insights from interactions between orthography and phonology (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939 (2013)
Journal Article

© 2013, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Beyond his work as Diego Rivera's assistant in San Francisco and Detroit, little has been written about the British mural painter Viscount ‘Jack’ Hastings, creator of the Worker of the Future Upsetting... Read More about England's Rivera: The Lost Murals of Viscount Hastings 1931–1939.

The universe in the universe. German idealism and the natural history of mind (2013)
Journal Article

Recent considerations of mind and world react against philosophical naturalisation strategies by maintaining that the thought of the world is normatively driven to reject reductive or bald naturalism. This paper argues that we may reject bald or‘thou... Read More about The universe in the universe. German idealism and the natural history of mind.