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The ArtsJanuary 2016Face: shape and angle
Helen Muspratt, photographer
by Jessica Sutcliffe
Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 1930s, and a working mother at a time when such a role was unusual for women of her class. She was also a pioneering photographer, creating an extraordinary body of work in many different styles and genres. In partnership with Lettice Ramsey she made portraits of many notable figures of the 1930s in the fields of science and culture. Her experimental photography, using techniques such as solarisation and multiple exposure, bears comparison with the innovations of Man Ray and Lee Miller. This book reproduces some of Helen Muspratt's most important photographic images, including documentary records of the Soviet Union and the Welsh valleys. The accompanying text by Jessica Sutcliffe is an intimate and revealing memoir of her mother that offers a fascinating insight into her life, work and politics. ;
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British & Irish historyJuly 2013The Cooke sisters
Education, piety and politics in early modern England
by Gemma Allen
This book is a study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to a formal education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians. Drawing particularly on the sisters' own writings, this book demonstrates that the sisters' education extended far beyond that normally allowed for sixteenth-century women, challenging the view that women in this period were excluded from using their formal education to practical effect. It reveals that the sisters' learning provided them with opportunities to communicate effectively their own priorities through their translations, verse and letters. By reconstructing the sisters' networks, it demonstrates how they worked alongside - and sometimes against - family members over matters of politics and religion, empowered by their exceptional education. Providing new perspectives on these key issues, it will be essential reading for early modern historians and literary scholars.
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April 2024Inverno
Roman | Wie erschafft und zerstört die Liebe ein Leben?
by Cynthia Zarin, Esther Kinsky
Inverno ist die Geschichte einer Liebe, die sich über Jahrzehnte erstreckt. Inverno ist auch die Geschichte von Caroline, die in einem Schneesturm im Central Park steht und darauf wartet, dass ihr Handy klingelt; sie steht nur wenige Meter von der Stelle entfernt, an der sich Alastair dreißig Jahre zuvor als Junge in den Bäumen versteckte. Wird Alistair sie nun also anrufen? Und wie sie da steht und wartet, rauschen die Jahre an ihr vorbei – mal gerät Caroline in eine gefahrvolle Märchenwelt, mal strandet sie in einer Kindheit aus Kummer und harschen Worten, mal wandelt sie durch ihre frühen Erwachsenenjahren, voller Aufbruch und Sehnsucht nach Alistair. Flüchtig, das alles, und kaum zu greifen: Von Dauer scheinen einzig die vertrackten Verhandlungen der Herzen. Wie erschafft und zerstört die Liebe ein Leben? Cynthia Zarin hat einen einfallsreichen, wundersam berührenden und erschreckend wahren Roman geschrieben, über die lange und viel zu kurze Geschichte von Caroline und Alistair – darüber, wie Vergangenheit und Gegenwart sich schillernd ineinander auflösen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2020Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
by Alistair Cole
This book looks at the period 2015-18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on President Emmanuel Macron. The election of Macron was greeted with relief in European chancelleries and appeared to give a new impetus to European integration, even accomplishing the feat of making France attractive after a long period of French bashing and reflexive decline. But what is the real significance of the Macron presidency? Is it as transformative as it appears? Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France provides a balanced answer to this pressing question. It is written to appeal to a general readership with an interest in French and European politics, as well as to students and scholars of French politics.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2011Moving Stories
An intimate history of four women across two countries
by Alistair Thomson
I'm not a good mother - not what Dr. Spock calls a "slow mother" who leaves her chores to make sure junior gets the right treatment. (Dorothy Wright, 1961) I must admit that I am no longer the same person who was tied to the kitchen sink at home. (Phyllis Cave, 1973) This book represents a unique collaboration between a historian and four ordinary women who were extraordinary letters-writers, family photographers and memoirists. As British migrants to Australia these women recorded in intimate detail aspects of everyday life and women's experience that are often lost to history: childcare and housework, housing and domestic appliances, friendship, family and married life. Taken together, their stories enrich and complicate our understanding of key themes in twentieth century women's history. This book will appeal to students and academics interested in British and Australian social history, oral history, women's studies and the lived experience of migration. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016The Cooke sisters
by Gemma Allen, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2010Redefining the French Republic
by Alistair Cole, Gino Raymond
Newly available in paperback, Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture. The chapters go beyond the familiar question of whether the Republic is acting in accordance with its vocation, to address the issue of whether that vocation is still viable. Drawing on contributions that reflect a variety of methodological approaches, ranging from theoretical speculations and modelling to the interpretation of fieldwork data, this study examines the dynamics of the relationship between the Republic and its constituencies, in the fields of political relations, territorial identities, social movements, public policy and foreign policy, and in each context juxtaposing what is perceived as the model for that relationship with the current reality. France in the twenty-first century is facing challenges that could not have been imagined a generation ago. The test for the Republic is whether it will resist the ongoing pressures for redefinition imposed by internal contestation and the emergence of powerful supranational and global forces, or whether it will find a way of adapting to these pressures while preserving a part of the vocation and ambition that make it characteristically French. The book concludes that, though the French polity remains characteristically different from other models of modern liberal democracy, internal and external pressures have challenged the republican model to the core. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021The security dimensions of EU enlargement
by David Brown, Alistair Shepherd
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2019Emmanuel Macron and the remaking of France
by Alistair Cole, Bill Jones
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Insects (entomology)November 2012Radar Entomology
Observing Insect Flight and Migration
by Alistair Drake, Don R Reynolds
Many of the world's most serious agricultural pests are highly migratory. Through the use of special-purpose radars we are provided with insights into their movement and how they learn about and navigate through their environment. This text examines the behaviour and regional variations of these species, as well as the altitude of migration, concentration of insects in layers and how they respond to large and small-scale wind systems. The book relates radar observation of insect movement to complementary and competing methodologies and surveys its capabilities and limitations. It also deals with the applications of these findings in the management and forecasting of both pest and beneficial insects, and is an essential reference for those working in agricultural entomology and pest management.
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General & world historyMay 2005‘Ten Pound Poms’
A life history of British postwar emigration to Australia
by A. James Hammerton, Alistair Thomson
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of their experience and fills a gaping hole in the literature of emigration. The authors, both leading figures in the fields of oral history and migration studies, draw upon a rich life history archive of letters, diaries, personal photographs and hundreds of oral history interviews with former migrants, including those who settled in Australia and those who returned to Britain. They offer original interpretations of key historical themes, including: motivations for emigration; gender relations and the family dynamics of migration; the 'very familiar and awfully strange' confrontation with the new world; the anguish of homesickness and return; and the personal and national identities of both settlers and returnees, fifty years on. Accessible and appealing, this book will engage readers interested in British and Australian migration history and intrigued about the significance of migrant memories for individuals, families and nations.
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