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Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House (2023)
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Sobers, S. (2023). Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House. Oxon: Routledge

This book is an exploration of everyday life as experienced through the lens of Black British cultural history and creative practice. The structure of Black Everyday Life, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings In The House examines everyday life... Read More about Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House.

Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream (2022)
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Nartey, M. (2023). Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Using the socio-political discourse of Kwame Nkrumah, a pioneering Pan-Africanist and Ghana’s independence leader, Nartey investigates the notion of political myth-making in a context underexplored in the literature. He examines Nkrumah’s constructio... Read More about Political Myth-making, Nationalist Resistance and Populist Performance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah's Construction and Promotion of the African Dream.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
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Spicer, A. (2022). Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
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Harrison, L. (2022). Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939. Manchester: Manchester University Press

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries (2022)
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Crofts, C., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2022). Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Representing a shift in Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Angela Carter scholarship. It gives new insights into Carter's pyrotechnic creativity and pays tribute to her inc... Read More about Angela Carter's Pyrotechnics: A Union of Contraries.

Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century (2019)
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Butler, C., & Alston, A. (Eds.). (2019). Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In this collection the multidimensional story of children’s literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, questioned, and, in some respects, rewritten. Children’s literature might be characterised as the love-ch... Read More about Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Global Frankenstein (2018)
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Davison, C. M., & Mulvey-Roberts, M. (Eds.). (2018). Global Frankenstein. New York: Palgrave

Entanglement (2018)
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Mahood, K. (2018). Entanglement. London: The Borough Press (Harper Collins)

On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away, is a man called Charlie. From this moment, Stella a... Read More about Entanglement.

Perspectives on the History of British Feminism (1994)
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Mulvey-Roberts, M., & Mizuta, T. (Eds.). (1994). Perspectives on the History of British Feminism. London and Bristol: Routledge/Thoemmes

Following on from Sources of British Feminism, the present six volumes contain primary source material on radicalism, marriage, motherhood, sexuality and militancy. Table of Contents Vol I: The Educators: The Fight for Female Education Vol II: The... Read More about Perspectives on the History of British Feminism.

Sources of British Feminism (1993)
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Mizuta, T., & Mulvey Roberts, M. (Eds.). (1993). Sources of British Feminism. Bristol and London: Thoemmes/ Routledge

Some of the key primary source texts central to the history of British feminism are now being made available in the six volumes of Sources of British Feminism. These anthologies are intended to signal a tribute to the collective and collaborative eff... Read More about Sources of British Feminism.

Explorations in Medicine (1987)
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Lamb, . D., Davies, T., & Roberts, M. (Eds.). (1987). Explorations in Medicine. London: Avebury