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'Nature takes no notice of morality': Singleness and married love in interwar Britain (2002)
Journal Article
Holden, K. (2002). 'Nature takes no notice of morality': Singleness and married love in interwar Britain. Women's History Review, 11(3), 481-503. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020200200332

This article draws attention to the dominance of marriage during the twentieth century and the strain this institution was, and still is, under. This is achieved by focusing upon the single as a problematic category in the context of interwar Britain... Read More about 'Nature takes no notice of morality': Singleness and married love in interwar Britain.

The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London (2002)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2002). The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(4), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369022000024650

This article examines the way in which the spaces, practices and pleasures of reading books became inscribed within a heteronormative geographical imaginary in Britain after the end of the Second World War. The active state provision of cultural welf... Read More about The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London.

The eclipse of private enterprise? Housing policy in the 1940s (2002)
Presentation / Conference
Malpass, P. (2002, October). The eclipse of private enterprise? Housing policy in the 1940s. Paper presented at Entrepreneurship and New Community Development in Twentieth Century Britain, University of Reading, UK

Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy (2002)
Journal Article
Malpass, P., & Mullins, D. (2002). Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy. Housing Studies, 17(4), 673-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030220144402

Since 1988 stock transfer has been transformed from a local initiative into a central part of government policy for housing in the UK. It began as a largely rural and suburban phenomenon, generating substantial capital receipts, but has also become a... Read More about Local authority housing stock transfer in the UK: From local initiative to national policy.

Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) (2002)
Journal Article
Ord, M. (2002). Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570). Renaissance Studies, 16(2), 202-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-4658.00011

This article seeks to show that a consideration of the use of Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570) is illuminated by a study of the structural progression of book 1 (from educational methodologies, to a declamation against courtly vices, t... Read More about Classical and contemporary Italy in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570).

Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English (2002)
Journal Article
Charteris-Black, J. (2002). Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English. Applied Linguistics, 23(1), 104-133+156. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/23.1.104

This paper explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay and anticipating second language learner difficulty. A comparative an... Read More about Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English.

Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies? (2002)
Journal Article
Tincknell, E., & Raghuram, P. (2002). Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(2), 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/1364942002005002159

The emergence of a relatively new genre, ‘reality television’, has helped to break down the division between text and audience in significant ways, and this presents us with interesting questions for cultural studies. In this article we consider one... Read More about Big Brother: Reconfiguring the ‘active’ audience of cultural studies?.