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The business of correspondence: Politics, friendship, and intimacy in suffragists’ letters
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James Keating
Published: 22 September 2020
... Smith Lucy Woman’s Signal Women’s National Liberal Association Macdonald Charlotte Pan Pacific Women’s Association Australia cartes-de-visite Contagious Diseases Acts correspondence intimate practices letter writing material culture New Zealand scrapbooks In March 1902, Margaret Sievwright...
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Introduction
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Simon James Morgan
Published: 22 June 2021
... in the newspapers and periodical press. Anti Corn Law League Bastiat Frédéric Burdett Sir Francis Cobden Richard Epstein James Joyce Patrick Reform Act 1867 patronage Tower of London Vernon James historian Wilson George emotions material culture Old Bailey public sphere Corn Laws Devonshire...
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Celebrities
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Simon James Morgan
Published: 22 June 2021
... Thomas Disraeli Benjamin Gaskell Elizabeth heroes Kingsley Charles League material culture Northern Star platform theatre Anti Slavery League Bonaparte Napoleon caricature Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal children crime Fox Charles James Gillray James Humphrey George photography poetry...
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Material culture and Sierra Leone’s civilising mission in the nineteenth century
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Bronwen Everill
Published: 01 December 2015
..., dressing as British subjects, building houses with British brick, and buying British luxury goods. But how did different groups of Sierra Leoneans adopt and adapt British material culture? Did trading connections foster a sense of British identity, or were these products used in particularly “West African...
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Moving memories, 1970–2009
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Scott Soo
Published: 30 September 2013
... of the chapter reveals how Spanish republicans have constructed a sense of home through material culture and everyday rituals. Their narratives evoke the long-lasting effects of exile, but also underline how any understanding of exile necessarily involves a consideration of the attitudes and reactions...
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Introduction
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Michael Brown and Joanne Begiato
Published: 01 October 2019
...This introduction offers a rich overview of the scholarship on the histories of the body, emotions, and material culture as they relate to gender. It explains how Manliness in Britain develops this work to understand how bodies, emotions, and materiality helped construct...
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Brawn and bravery: glorifying the working body
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Joanne Begiato
Published: 27 February 2020
... of working-class manliness on the material culture of trades unions and friendly societies. However, the emotions associated with them were subtly different and deployed in different ways. For middle-class men, the attractive working man was reassuring and admirable, for working-class men he was a measure...
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The measure of a man: an epilogue
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Joanne Begiato
Published: 27 February 2020
...This epilogue explores the continued resonances of emotionalised bodies and material culture for contemporary masculinities. It considers men’s ‘spectacular bodies’ in entertainment and advertising, along with their more sinister political associations and uses. Then it explores the imaginative...
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Conclusion: remembering the souvenir
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Emma Gleadhill
Published: 26 April 2022
... history material culture thing theory Grand Tour Walter Benjamin Susan Stewart Beverley Gordon connoisseurship eighteenth century Taking Travel Home has exposed the gendered nature of the souvenir. By viewing the souvenir through a gendered lens, we see how women of the past...
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Hot Metal: Material Culture and Tangible Labour
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Jesse Adams Stein
Published online: 18 May 2017
Published in print: 19 November 2016
... of material culture and design, even in ‘clean’ computerised environments. Workplace culture is not only made up of socio-political relationships and dynamics. It is also bound up with a world of things, with and through which the social and gendered processes of workplace life are enacted...
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Cheap Street: London's street markets and the cultures of informality, c. 1850-1939
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Victoria Kelley
Published online: 23 January 2020
Published in print: 01 November 2019
... in London and be a Londoner. The book analyses the street markets through their legal and economic informality, material culture, sensory affects, and performative character, using varied documentary and visual evidence. It reshapes the interpretation of London’s urban geographies and consumer cultures...
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Published online: 21 January 2021
Published in print: 24 March 2020
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Political and Sartorial Styles: Britain and Its Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Kevin A. Morrison (ed.)
Published online: 21 September 2023
Published in print: 24 January 2023
... form. The book assembles an international slate of academics specialising in literary criticism and material culture, social and cultural history, and imperial history to document the role of clothing in forming political identities and in communicating social and political messages. It sheds light...
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Where do Polish carpets come from?
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Tomasz Grusiecki
Published: 05 December 2023
... Catholicism costume nobility Orientalization Story of a Yatagan Weyssenhoff Henryk yatagan dagger Lithuania Grand Duchy of Pawłowska Aneta origins of artefacts provenience geographical misinterpretations doublethink material culture nationalism [Carpets] transform somewhere that is outside...
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Introduction: sensorial interactions: interior design through the five senses
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Marie-Éve Marchand
Published: 05 September 2023
... anthropology attunement Conran Terence evolutionary psychology existential phenomenology experience economy feeling Habitat shop House Book The sensory marketing shag sociology synaesthetic senses gender design architecture interior design modern history visual culture material culture One...
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Introduction: crafting identities
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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
Published: 14 December 2021
... halls galleries Goldsmiths’ Hall rebuilding inventories guild material cultures parlours Pewterers’ Hall rebuilding of guild halls Tallow Chandlers’ Company guilds overview of identity knowledge social status architecture assessment expertise journeymen masterpieces plots political...
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From Ajanta to Sydenham: ‘Indian’ art at the Sydenham Palace
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Sarah Victoria Turner
Published: 23 February 2017
...Discussions about the display of Indian art and material culture in the Victorian imperial metropolis have largely focused on the Great Exhibition of 1851 and its progeny, the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). However, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill was an important...
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‘I still don’t have a country’ The southern African settler diaspora after decolonization
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Jean Smith
Published: 01 February 2016
... preceding and following independence. By displaying material culture from across the nation, the museum participated in Ghana’s ongoing nation building. However, it also had a duty to avoid presenting the diversity of cultures in a divisive way to accord with Nkrumahist efforts to promote national unity...
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Recalling the comforts of home: bachelor soldiers’ narratives of nostalgia and the re-creation of the domestic interior
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Helen Metcalfe
Published: 01 October 2019
...This chapter brings together bodies, emotions, and objects through the most desirable idealised man of all: the martial man. Fictional and real military men were imagined through emotionalised bodies, with material culture often acting as the point of entry for the cultural work they performed...
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A Woman Killed With Kindness
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Catherine Richardson
Published: 30 October 2006
... between men quite the same in Heywood's play. The prologue sets up both the strictures of representation and the privations of low status, making suggestive comparison between the way material culture negotiates both types of difference. The insistence on the interrelationship of domestic spaces gives...