... Domingo traffic in enslaved Africans Smith Captain John Virginia Parliament of England Raynal colonisation French Empire British Empire trading companies The Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes...

...The consolidation of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century did not only coincide with the systematic dismantling of the British Empire but was significantly shaped by the empire that preceded it. The story that tends to be told about the welfare state, however, situates it firmly...

...This chapter examines the development of military and British imperial uniforms among the West India Regiments in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries and the role of military dress as a visual representation and conveyer of class, status, power, and identity. The British colonial rulers had...

... Avon tall poppy syndrome Atkinson Lord Rebecca Syal Meera British Asian Desi pubs Black Country Wolverhampton postcolonial fiction popular culture Meera Syal Before we proceed on foot into the Black Country – defined by local folklore within a radius of ‘an hour’s weary trudge’ from Dudley...

... spectacle hawker railway urban British Optical Association BOA College of Optometrists Spectacle Makers’ Company SMC British Medical Association dioptric Johnson Lindsay orthopaedics Aitchison James design British Optical Association Spectacle Maker’s Company The Optician medical capitalism...

..., at six locations around the country, to instigate a public discussion about history. Expanding on this notion, this chapter shows how world revolution – and not just British imperial history – is an important discursive frame for examining the Cenotaph Project and, by extension, the Whitehall Cenotaph...

... republicanism sovereignty survival s Beke László performance art history of revolution revolution Stuart Brisley mise en abîme frame analogy sovereignty art and revolution post-war British art installation art durational performance As this book has demonstrated, performance is situated...

... China to explore the question of Hong Kong’s long-term future via the immediate issue of New Territories land leases. Deng Xiaoping seized the initiative by claiming that sovereignty over Hong Kong belonged to China. Having been rebuffed by Deng, the British decided to go slow regarding an approach...

... Colley Thomas Archdeacon Luther Martin Comrade in White Battle of Gallipoli Carrington Hereward battlefields Western Front Will R. Bird premonitions military history British Expeditionary Force British Dominions chaplains One night in the trenches surrounding Vimy Ridge, a newly arrived...

...In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, approximately 100,000 British and Irish women crossed the Atlantic to enter indentured servitude in the British colonies. The endemic poverty of many early modern women was a significant factor in inducing many women to agree to indenture contracts...

...British Guiana (Guyana), like elsewhere in the Black Atlantic, felt the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917. The rise of the left in Guyana in the period was initially marked by the work of trade unionists like Hubert Critchlow and others. On his return to Guyana from a visit to Soviet Russia...

... in the US, and anti-Garveyism Communist activity in the British West Indies. The result of this joint project was an amalgamated anti-racism initiative, American rather than Caribbean. In practical terms, the inclusion of race in the Communist agenda caused a severing of the traditional ties between...

... industry Muscovy poverty Bry Theodore de Gilbert Humphrey monstrosity theories of American origins clothing nakedness sixteenth century America England Europe print culture Atlantic history cultural frameworks cultural encounters colonisation British Empire In 1606 King James I of England...

...This chapter provides a review of British historians’ work on Norman Italy from 1912 to 1976. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the major account in English of the arrival of the Normans in southern Italy was still that of Edward Gibbon. This would change with the appearance of Edmund...

..., or more incidental activities such as school trips. The British Empire in particular was central to the sense of the world that was imparted within the schoolroom, and imperial pride was bolstered by rituals such as the annual celebration of Empire Day or attendance at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition...

... in relation to governance and health system arrangements. Sources include accounts by British medical officers and administrators, archival records from Indian and British collections, contemporary policy documents and primary ethnographic data from research in late twentieth and early twenty-first century...

...This chapter charts the evolving role of the Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA) to the Cabinet Office of the British Government – from its unaccountable inception under Churchill through to interim termination of the role by the Conservative government led by Edward Heath. The respective personalities...

...In the mid-1960s the British Government began issuing commercial licences for the exploration of the North Sea for gas and oil. Companies were required to share their geophysical findings with the Ministry of Power, and by 1967 officials in the Ministry were aware that they had a great deal...

...This chapter examines the little known part played by British Catholics in the development of worldwide devotion to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux after her death. Focusing on the pivotal part played by Monsignor Thomas Nemo Taylor in the cultivation of her cult, this chapter also explores the role...

... relationships between Great Britain, the Irish Free State and the British Dominions. The time and effort of the case had the effect of identifying the civil service organisations with those civil servants who were retiring, and of making them seem of little relevance to the vast majority that were staying...