The best of times, the worst of times: Housing policy in Great Britain, 1945-1997
(2006)
Presentation / Conference
Malpass, P. (2006, December). The best of times, the worst of times: Housing policy in Great Britain, 1945-1997. Paper presented at The Housing Crisis on Both Sides of The Channel: Issues and Policies, A Franco-British Conference, Paris, France
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Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s (2006)
Journal Article
Swanson, G. (2006). Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 60, 50-65The 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.
Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2006). Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968. Enterprise and Society, 7(4), 777-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khl042This 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.
The romantic poets and higher education (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Jarvis, R. (2006, November). The romantic poets and higher education. Presented at Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of the West of England, BristolThis 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.
The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2006). The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism". In R. Munford (Ed.), Revisiting Angela Carter (87-109). Palgrave MacmillanCrofts 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".
All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome (2006)
Journal Article
Vint, S., & Bould, M. (2006). All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome. Socialism and Democracy, 20(3), 217-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300600950327
Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2006). Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid. Nomina, 29, 5-60A 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.
Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2006). Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. Textiles, 1945-1968. Enterprise and Society, 7(4), 777-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khl042
Innovations in learning and teaching approaches using game technologies – can 'the movies' teach how to make a movie? (2006)
Journal Article
Flynn, R., & Newbutt, N. (2006). Innovations in learning and teaching approaches using game technologies – can 'the movies' teach how to make a movie?. ITALICS, 5(3), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.11120/ital.2006.05030002
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. (2006)
Book
Davis, M. (2006). George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. Aldershot: AshgateIn 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..
Social housing and the new welfare state in England (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Malpass, P. (2006, September). Social housing and the new welfare state in England. Paper presented at Social Housing in Europe: Markets, Policies and Doctrines, London, UK
Essential viewing: Review of Bernard Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être [Technics and time 3: The time of cinema and the question of ill-being] (2006)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2006). Essential viewing: Review of Bernard Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être [Technics and time 3: The time of cinema and the question of ill-being]. Film-Philosophy, 10(3), 39-54Critical review of the third volume of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series with a particular focus on Stiegler's theory of cinema and of cinematic consciousness therein.
The world of organized crime (2006)
Journal Article
Woodiwiss, M. (2006). The world of organized crime. Global Crime, 6(2), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440570500096817
White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love (2006)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2006). White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love. In J. McCabe, & K. Akass (Eds.), Reading Desperate Housewives (144-155). I.B. TaurisThe chapter explores the representation of feminine desire for romantic love in the TV drama Desperate Housewives. It argues that the show recalls and articulates a pre-feminist sensibility.
Podcasting and vidcasting: Delivering learning to the iTunes generation (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Newbutt, N., Flynn, R., & Ackroyd, T. (2006, July). Podcasting and vidcasting: Delivering learning to the iTunes generation. Presented at 10th International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, UK
Information exchange among late nineteenth and early twentieth century British iron and steel companies (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Wardley, P. (2006, June). Information exchange among late nineteenth and early twentieth century British iron and steel companies. Paper presented at XIV International Economic History Conference, Helsinki
A global assessment of the large enterprise on the eve of the first world war: Corporate size and performance in 1912 (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Wardley, P. (2006, June). A global assessment of the large enterprise on the eve of the first world war: Corporate size and performance in 1912. Paper presented at Global Stock Market History in the Twentieth Century, Tokyo, Japan
The “Knowledge Economy”: The European experience of information technology and its contribution to economic growth, development and corporate performance (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Wardley, P. (2006, June). The “Knowledge Economy”: The European experience of information technology and its contribution to economic growth, development and corporate performance. Paper presented at XIV International Economic History Conference, Helsinki
Modern economic growth and the rise of big business: From services to industry and back again? (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Wardley, P. (2006, June). Modern economic growth and the rise of big business: From services to industry and back again?. Paper presented at 31st Conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society, Pittsburgh, USA
Women, mechanization and cost-savings in twentieth century British banks and other financial institutions (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Wardley, P. (2006, June). Women, mechanization and cost-savings in twentieth century British banks and other financial institutions. Paper presented at 14th IEH Conference, Helsinki, Finland