All Outputs (53)

The best of times, the worst of times: Housing policy in Great Britain, 1945-1997 (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

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.

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.

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".

All that melts into air is solid: Rematerialising capital in Cube and Videodrome (2006)
Journal Article

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.

Innovations in learning and teaching approaches using game technologies – can 'the movies' teach how to make a movie? (2006)
Journal Article

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..

Social housing and the new welfare state in England (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

Critical 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

White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love (2006)
Book Chapter

The 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 Contribution

A global assessment of the large enterprise on the eve of the first world war: Corporate size and performance in 1912 (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Information exchange among late nineteenth and early twentieth century British iron and steel companies (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The “Knowledge Economy”: The European experience of information technology and its contribution to economic growth, development and corporate performance (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Women, mechanization and cost-savings in twentieth century British banks and other financial institutions (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Modern economic growth and the rise of big business: From services to industry and back again? (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution