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Finding a Role?
In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's economic revolution had occurred, terrorism in Northern Ireland was waning, 'multi-culturalism' was in place, family structures were changing fast, and British political institutions had become controversial. Seven analytic chapters pursue these changes and accumulate rich detail on changes in international relations, landscape and townscape, social framework, family and welfare structures, economic policies and realities, intellect and culture,...
Seeking a Role
In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and with Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then claim to be a great power, whose welfare state exemplified compromise between Soviet planning and the USA’s free market. When the volume ends in 1970, no such claims carried conviction. The empire had gone, central planning was in trouble, and even the British political system had become controversial. In an unusually wide-ranging, yet impressively detailed volume, Harrison approaches the period from unfamiliar directions. He explains h...
Separate Spheres
The British feminist movement has often been studied, but so far nobody has written about its opponents. Dr Harrison argues that British feminism cannot be understood without appreciating the strength and even the contemporary plausibility of ‘the Antis’, as the opponents of women’s suffrage were called. In a fully documented approach which combines political with social history, he unravels the complex politics, medical, diplomatic and social components of the anti-suffrage mind, and clarifies the Antis’ central commitment to the idea of separate but complementary spheres for the two sexes. Dr Harrison then analyses the history of organised anti-suffragism between 1908 and 1918, and...
Prudent Revolutionaries
Highlighting the first generation of women to have the vote in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s, this book presents a portrait gallery of sixteen prominent but very different feminists, and underlines the achievements of the British feminist movement in advancing women's political, occupational, and family roles at home and abroad.
From Antiquity to Ethnography
From Antiquity to Ethnography: Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke is the first time a collection of these interviews is being published as a book. They have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions form a part a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three of Britain’s foremost social and cultural historians. The study of historical traditions...
Wolff's Law
With the outlandish odds of losing two partners to disease, it takes everything to overcome life's hardships--from a rebellious teen to a broken adult.
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Peaceable Kingdom
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Transported
"Transported: Tales of Misfortune and Roguery is an illustrated series of fictional stories created in rhyme. Harrison-Lever suggests that written with a simple rhythm, like folk song lyrics, the fictional people they briefly bring to life, may prompt the reader's imagination to travel a little beyond the numerical data of dry historical records.--Publisher's website, teaching resources.
Three Kings
"As the sun sank below the western horizon the new star, the Star of Wonder, appeared in the night sky. The travellers packed up and moved on: three kings, three wise men, their shepherds and servants, and their animals loaded high with colourful packages." ---- This exquisite color illustrated childrens book from award-winning artist Brian Harrison-Lever follows the journey of three young kings Melchior, Balthasar, and Gaspar in pursuit of a dazzling star and the mystery which lies at its end. Conveying a universal message of generosity, tolerance, and hope, this is a timeless book for all ages.
