... Party Aberdeen Dundee Parish Council Dundee School Board Dundee Town Council Hutchison I G C Walker William W Barnes George Gladstone William Ewart MacDonald Ramsay United Irish League Wilkie Alexander middle classes Prohibitionism Good Templars Independent Order of Good Templars...

... in 1935 brought both ends of the paper under female control. Exploring a conversation about art, money and religion between these two women in and outside the pages of the magazine and noting a new emphasis on class in the paper’s columns, the chapter argues that Rhondda’s materialist feminist...

...This chapter reviews the historical development of the contemporary middle class in Egypt. This class has grown in number since the 1960s and has experienced the greatest shake-up in Nasser’s era when the upper bourgeoisie of industrialists was replaced by the new class of bureaucratic...

... woven into the debates in the city about how to respond to Calcutta's rise as a competitor, along with the response of Dundee's working class to the insecurities brought about by competition. British Empire empire free trade imperialism Mackenzie John popular culture Porter Bernard Trentmann...

...This chapter offers an overall theoretical explanation of why Glasgow’s council housing was so inadequate in spite of Herculean construction efforts. This was because offensive and Calvinistic Victorian class attitudes to working-class people were incorporated uncritically within 20th century...

...-British or Scottish nationality), class consciousness and political identity, religion and social activities. This chapter widens the picture of how men in reserved occupations experienced the war, arguing that male reserved workers were aware of ‘imagined’ collective subjectivity on a national level...

... to class and marital status than age, and in which representations of unmarried working girls and young wives had complex roles to play in defining national culture. The chapter suggests that reading the interwar film magazine is a distinct new way to re-read the narrative of ‘home and duty’, complicating...

... members seemed older than those in other parties. The SNP membership is also largely middle class. The profile of SNP members in terms of age, social class, education and religion is not markedly dissimilar to the Scottish population, and quite similar to most other parties based on previous membership...

...This chapter examines what happens when Michael Caine’s 1960s and 70s working-class lover is remade with a new British actor, Jude Law, in the lead. Such remakes tend to follow their predecessors more closely, rejecting formulaic resolutions or upbeat Hollywood endings. Starting with Alfie...

... and periodical culture created rigid gender roles and delegitimized women who could not have access to those newly available commodities, Freeman’s stories underwrote the magazine’s feminist stance, providing her upper-middle-class readers with tools to question their own lives. Read in the thick cultural...

... academic and public discourse of despair over the future of the middle class, beginning in the late 1980s. It then studies how the contours of an existing effendi social contract have shaped the partial implementation of the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment program since the 1990s. The chapter...

... of state–middle class relations and how these relations have shaped Egyptian society. It studies why and how a social contract that had been reformed in the aftermath of World War II became the core of state-citizen relations under President Nasser. Moreover, it looks at how this social contract channeled...

... in metropolitan literary circles. This chapter identifies a consistent focus on working-class themes across contributions to The English Review and outlines Ford’s interest in the conte, or what he termed ‘the real short story’, which was in Ford’s eyes best modelled by Henry...

... and Rosamond Lehmann, the emerging writer William Sansom and working-class writers B.L Coombs and Jim Phelan, are the main focus of this chapter. The international outlook of the journal, which promoted satire from China alongside short, mocking works by Graham Greene, is also evaluated as an often overlooked...

...: Dracula in Brianza / Dracula in the Provinces (Lucio Fulci, 1975) liken the then-contemporary ruling political caste and capitalist class to greedy, self-serving vampires that are undefeatable due to their power of adaptation, thereby providing an apocalyptic view on the post-economic-miracle...

... to the present day, and the history of the relationship between mistress and maid. It suggests that service is still crucial in the making of class difference and fostering racial assumptions, especially today when those doing society’s dirty work are often low-paid migrants. Burrell Paul Englishness Sackville...

...Like ghosts, orphans in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction represent what domesticity and the family cannot accommodate, whether in Anglo-Ireland, upper-middle-class England, or wartime London. Laden with a variety of simultaneous meanings, these orphans are distilled remnants of the persistent past...

... inspirational role models. Social class was a powerful determinant of the representation of female ageing, ranging from the upper middle-class ‘do-gooder’ to the cheerful Cockney matriarch. The case studies include Great Day (1945), The Demi-Paradise (1943), Went...

...This chapter approaches Lost in America (1985) as a comedic investigation into the contradictions of middle-class life. Starting with the film's skewering of yuppie angst and its complicated relation to the hippie counterculture that somehow gave rise to yet was also betrayed...

... in the twentieth century; socioeconomic class; the anti-nuclear policy; New Zealand in the twenty-first century; population distribution; the Maori language in New Zealand; Pacific Islanders in New Zealand; the Asian population in New Zealand; and relations with Australia. Australia New Zealand Canterbury Cook...