The best of times, the worst of times: Housing policy in Great Britain, 1945-1997
(2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Outputs (53)
Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
Journal Article
This article is a response to Patrick Fridenson's call for more research into the life cycle of enterprises and especially into business failure. Its subject is the textile group established in 1945 by Cyril Lord, which went on to encompass merchanti... Read More about Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968.
Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s (2006)
Journal Article
The completion of this peer reviewed journal article was supported by AHRC Research Leave funding and constitutes the first study to situate C. P. Blacker's realignment of the Eugenics Society in the 1940s and 1950s in terms of the convergence of psy... Read More about Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s.
The romantic poets and higher education (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
This inaugural professorial lecture begins by describing what it was like to be a student at Oxford or Cambridge – then the only universities in England – in the late eighteenth century, exploring contemporary debates on their failings and tracing th... Read More about The romantic poets and higher education.
All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome (2006)
Journal Article
The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter
Crofts was invited to contribute this chapter to Munford's volume which is recognised as 'the first to focus entirely on [intertextuality] in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.... Read More about The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism".
Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
Journal Article
Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
Journal Article
A submitted article in an onomastics journal, accepted without major revision, whose main thesis is that the place-name Maiden Castle, recurrent in Scotland and England, has its immediate origin in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He transposed it f... Read More about Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid.
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. (2006)
Book
In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subvers... Read More about George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country..