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Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
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This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
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Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan
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The 1980s are often viewed as marking the repudiation of the political order marked by the New Deal and the 1960s, both periods of enormous social, political, and cultural change. Yet the decade symbolised by President Ronald Reagan, far from being a period of triumphant conservative counterrevolution, was a period...
Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan
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Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
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The Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini understood more than other leaders of his generation the power of images and used them to great effect in building his personality cult which was central to Italian Fascism. In this illustrated webinar, Professor Giuliana Pieri will explore the evolution of the iconography of...
Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
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Film: Finance in Britain and Ireland: 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 5, Professor Anne Murphy (University of Portsmouth) examines the development of finance in Britain and Ireland, from the emergence of the Bank of England during the Nine Years’ War into a system that would facilitate the growth of the British Empire and Britain’s Industrial Revolution.
During this period...
Film: Finance in Britain and Ireland: 1714 to 1785
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Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 7, Professor Carl Griffin (University of Sussex) discusses the changing landscape of England as enclosure accelerates, transforming the social dynamics of the countryside as peasants become wage labourers and their rights to use the ‘common land’ is diminished.
Professor Griffin reflects on this period of protest over enclosure,...
Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785
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Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 9, Professor Alison Cathcart (University of Stirling) discusses who held power in Scotland in 1714 and how the Union with England, together with the arrival of the Hanoverian dynasty, transformed the nation. She examines the central role of the Church of Scotland, the influence of the Royal Burghs,...
Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785
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Film: Power and Protest in Wales – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 8, Dr Eryn White (Aberystwyth University) discusses who had power in Wales in 1714, the changing relationship between Wales and the wider United Kingdom and the key developments that took place in Wales between 1714-1785.
Dr White reflects upon the rapid expansion of print and literacy in Wales...
Film: Power and Protest in Wales – 1714 to 1785
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Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
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Ym Mhennod 8, mae Dr Eryn White (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) yn trafod pwy oedd mewn grym yng Nghymru ym 1714, y berthynas newidiol rhwng Cymru a'r Deyrnas Unedig ehangach a'r datblygiadau allweddol a ddigwyddodd yng Nghymru rhwng 1714-1785.
Mae Dr White yn myfyrio ar ehangu cyflym print a llythrennedd yng Nghymru...
Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
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Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In Episode 6, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) discusses the development of ideas around, and responses to, disability in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century.
Dr Kavanagh examines the definition given in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in 1755 and looks at the medical and charity models of responding to disability...
Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
