The African presence

The African presenceThis book considers the ways that representations of Africa have contributed to the changing nature of British national identity. Using interviews, photo archives, media coverage, advertisements, and web material, the book focuses on major Africa campaigns: the abolition of slavery, anti apartheid, drop the debt, and Make Poverty History.

Seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand against an unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture in post-WWII Japan

Liberalism is shown to be best understood as a political tradition that has been profoundly shaped by Britain’s unique and evolving political culture and by political realities

examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against humanity

It offers a new thematic reading of Hill's entire body of work and touches on questions of poetry's ultimate value

from the British government’s scant regard for the arts after World War II to the onset of Thatcherism and its long-lasting effects on the theater industry

It explores art’s role and inquiries in response to changing sociopolitical realities in the welfare state and in the wider world

in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores

Draws upon a number of academic disciplines

Social democracy and urban politicsdelves into the changing relationship between social democratic

and is a major contribution to British cultural history

Rethinking Right-wing Women traces the mobilization of women for the UK Conservative Party from the period before their enfranchisement to Theresa May

much of which formed the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the Hwicce