... brother as Bede later wrote, who brought the four nationes of Britain under his sway in any meaningful sense. It was also he who established the Aeðilfrithing dynasty as permanent overlords of the Deirans, paving the way for the union of the regnum Nordanhymbrorum...

...By the end of the seventh century, northern Britain was in the midst of a transition from its late Antique period to its early medieval one. The status quo which had emerged by the end of the third century was becoming a thing of the past. The Maiatian and Uotadinian nations of outer Brigantia had...

...This chapter takes a look at the myth of the artist, which is an authorial construct considered as problematic and crucial for women writers in 1963, starting with a section on sexual revolution, and then moving on to discuss sex in Britain in 1963, which was associated with demise, political...

... of the provenance and purpose of the book reveals that the real author of Chapters, James Myles, had a rather different view of early industrial Britain than that with which he has usually been identified by misreadings of his text. The second section shows that depictions of Dundee as a ‘frontier...

...This chapter offers an analysis of heroic identity in the movie Centurion, focusing on the heroism of the Roman soldiers Virilus and Quintus Dias of the legendary Ninth Legion, traditionally considered to have disappeared in Roman Britain. Through an examination of their differing...

... these understandings helped shape the employers' responses. It also discusses the raw jute issue in relation to protectionism and empire, with particular emphasis on the export tax assessed on Bengal's raw jute and its remittance for exports to Britain. Finally, it analyses Dundee employers' views of the conditions...

...Conservative revisionists such as John Charmley and Alan Clark argued that the Battle of Britain had been a mistake, and that the country would have been better off in terms of global power and influence if Winston Churchill had not rejected peace overtures from Adolf Hitler. However, traditional...

...Film noir and its various iterations were certainly not confined to America. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was still a market, and a social need, for the ‘B’ feature in Britain. In 1956, Edward J. and Harry Lee Danziger opened their New Elstree Studios dedicated to the production of low...

...Britain put the Northern Territories under its control in order to prevent European rivals from establishing themselves along the trade routes from Kumasi to the north. As part of their pacification of the region and the mobilisation of labour to carry goods and build roads, the British decided...

..., interpreters, and employees on British perceptions, as well as ‘tribal laws and customs’. From the start, Britain's intellectual colonisation of the North-West was a process of communication marked by many misunderstandings and mutual manipulations. In the course of time, a growing number of Africans began...

... threat of French Principles loyalism defining loyalist associations Napoleon I patriotism British constitution information provision Ireland loyalist ideology loyalist pamphlets pamphlets policy initiatives clergy loyalist resolutions morality Revolutionary France North Britain...

...The chapter outlines the critical and contextual foundations for the case study chapters that follow, establishing in greater depth the three interlocking contexts of moviegoing, print culture and modernity in interwar Britain. It offers an overview of the interrelationship between key framing...

... the pathways that geographical and other spatially-oriented research on Muslims in Britain and beyond might pursue in future. It is noted that the economic disadvantages experienced by British Muslims manifest themselves spatially. The links between beliefs, texts and associated rituals lend an inherent...

...This chapter addresses the questions about the formation of identities, contemporary experiences of Islamophobia and emancipatory politics in the lives of Muslims in Britain. It specifically presents an overview of current discussions among British Muslims about Islamophobia and its relationship...

...All of the chapters in this book, which were presented at the Royal Society of Edinburgh's symposium, focus on the British incorporating union of 1707. Each chapter offers a fresh perspective on this momentous event in Scotland's — and Britain's — history. This chapter examines the union-related...

... at Britain's extensive experience in combating terrorism in Northern Ireland for lessons that could be applied to counter-terrorism efforts in other contexts. At Sinn Féin's 1983 Ard Fheis, Gerry Adams boldly declared that ‘armed struggle is a morally correct form of resistance in the six...

...This chapter first examines the historical relationship between Britain and the United States. It discusses how American power eclipsed British power in the world stage by the end of the nineteenth century, and the Lend-Lease Act in early 1941 — a measure designed to relieve the exhausted British...

... Britain Museums History After relinquishing the title ‘Second City’ to Birmingham, Glasgow was left to reinvent itself. But before we proceed we must keep in mind that such epithets, honorary in nature, can become arbitrary. What good is having the title if four or five other cities still claim...

... understanding these volunteers as the representatives of Scotland, or even the Scottish left, it is argued that they are best understood as a more concentrated mobilisation of quite narrow socio-political sphere, defined by formal and informal links to the Communist Party of Great Britain. Army of Africa...

... and Protestantism and the rising power of the Ottoman Empire as an Islamic superstate was a watershed. This chapter examines the evolution of war aims elucidated by the Kingdom of Great Britain; the urge of establishing Russia as a European power in the early eighteenth century; the greatest power in Europe...