{"results":[{"id":"doaj_10.4000/133dj","title":"La citoyenneté des Anglaises, 1850-1914. À la conquête de l’opinion publique","authors":[{"name":"Myriam Boussahba"}],"abstract":"Following the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the women’s suffrage campaign was forged around the slogan “on the same terms as men”. The suffrage, though restricted at the time to men, was gradually extended to include some workers (1867), farm workers who were heads of households (1885) and finally all men, with the advent of universal male suffrage in 1918. In 1884, those wives who now had control over their own bodies, joined single women in demanding representation and the right to vote at local and national level. Citing their irrefutable status as citizens in their own right, British women opposed and denounced the clear injustice of biological arguments used to justify political inequality. In calling for social and political reform based on the equality of the sexes, such women asserted both their status as political subjects and their place in history. In so doing, they called on the state to provide financial assistance to poorer pregnant women and to take action in the struggle against wage inequality and the doctrine of “separate spheres”. Women’s history in the 1970s, and gender history in the 1980s, precipitated the emergence of new approaches in the vast majority of academic fields. Gender inequalities – linked to themes such as masculinities, consent or sexual violence – are thus constitutive of history.","source":"DOAJ","year":2025,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","English literature"],"doi":"10.4000/133dj","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/13284","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":69},{"id":"doaj_10.14324/111.444.jhs.2024v55.23","title":"Review: Ageing in Medieval Jewish Culture, Elisha Russ-Fishbane","authors":null,"abstract":"","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","Judaism"],"doi":"10.14324/111.444.jhs.2024v55.23","url":"https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/article/3084/galley/18119/download/","pdf_url":"https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/article/3084/galley/18119/download/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/12vly","title":"Defining Human Rights in Times of Covid: Human Rights Discourse in the UK and Devolved Legislatures","authors":[{"name":"Anne Cousson"}],"abstract":"The British government’s reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant wide-ranging restrictions imposed on people living in the UK with minimal parliamentary oversight. Thus, human rights and civil liberties were affected, as far as both individual freedoms and constitutional guarantees are concerned. However, given the urgency created by the health crisis and the controversial nature of human rights speech in the UK, using it to criticize the government’s measures was bound to be a politically charged choice. Through an analysis of parliamentary discourse in the main Covid-related debates both in the British Parliament and in the devolved legislatures, this article argues that human rights were not used as an expression of common values in a time of national crisis, but as a divisive rhetorical tool. Focusing thus on political discourse rather than on the effective effects of Covid restrictions on human rights allows us to identify ideological fault lines. Indeed, the analysis shows a highly differentiated definition of human rights between political parties on the one hand and between the different nations on the other.","source":"DOAJ","year":2024,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","English literature"],"doi":"10.4000/12vly","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/12652","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":68},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/cve.12955","title":"The Author Inside: Celebrity Photography 1840‒1902","authors":[{"name":"Audrey Doussot"}],"abstract":"The invention and popularization of photography in the nineteenth century revolutionized portraiture. From the beginnings, many writers posed in front of the camera to have their portraits captured by the successive developments of the daguerreotype, the carte-de-visite and other cheaper as well as more practical and portable photographic processes that brought portraiture outside the professional studio. A simultaneous growing interest in literary celebrities and the places related to them and their works led photographers to produce pictures of writers in their habitat, including pictures that were disseminated among the public through collectibles or publications. The representation of interiors in most photographic portraits of Victorian and Edwardian writers appears as a key element contributing to constructing the writer as a sociocultural type and a public figure. What can be perceived, at first, as a mere backdrop to the representation of a human being can actually reveal much about the fashioning of an author’s literary identity through images. Portraits of Charles Dickens or George Bernard Shaw, for instance, testify to the importance of staging and accessories when seeking to construct authors’ images and to depict their universe as a materialization of their character and psychological interiority.","source":"DOAJ","year":2023,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain"],"doi":"10.4000/cve.12955","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12955","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":67},{"id":"ss_d8e1ef9089aee7fe2d3ccc72e88baffaf195b165","title":"Recent history, current status, conservation and management of native mammalian carnivore species in Great Britain","authors":[{"name":"K. Sainsbury"},{"name":"R. Shore"},{"name":"Henry Schofield"},{"name":"Elizabeth Croose"},{"name":"Ruairidh D. Campbell"},{"name":"R. Mcdonald"}],"abstract":"Katherine A. SAINSBURY Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK. Email: ks547@exeter.ac.uk Richard F. SHORE Centre for Ecology \u0026 Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster LA1 4AP, UK. Email: rfs@ceh.ac.uk Henry SCHOFIELD The Vincent Wildlife Trust, 3 \u0026 4 Bronsil Courtyard, Eastnor, Ledbury HR8 1EP, UK. Email: henryschofield@vwt.org.uk Elizabeth CROOSE The Vincent Wildlife Trust, 3 \u0026 4 Bronsil Courtyard, Eastnor, Ledbury HR8 1EP, UK. Email: elizabethcroose@vwt.org.uk Ruairidh D. CAMPBELL Scottish Natural Heritage, Great Glen House, Inverness IV3 8NW, UK. Email: Roo.Campbell@nature.scot Robbie A. MCDONALD* Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn TR10 9FE, UK. Email: R.McDonald@exeter.ac.uk","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2019,"language":"en","subjects":["Geography"],"doi":"10.1111/mam.12150","url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d8e1ef9089aee7fe2d3ccc72e88baffaf195b165","pdf_url":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/mam.12150","is_open_access":true,"citations":62,"published_at":"","score":64.86},{"id":"doaj_Beckett%E2%80%99s+Queer+Atavism","title":"Beckett’s Queer Atavism","authors":[{"name":"Byron Heffer"}],"abstract":"Queer readings of Samuel Beckett’s antipathy to reproduction have focused on his refusal of futurity. This essay expands on previous studies of anti-futurity in Beckett’s work by exploring his fascination with atavism, regression, and decadence. Beckett’s anti-vitalist modernism departs from James Joyce’s preoccupation with the fruitful potentialities of the degenerate body; from his early story “Echo’s Bones” to his final full-length novel How It Is, he links atavism to the queer refusal of generative life. By extension, Beckett’s “queer atavism” presents a striking alternative to recent neovitalist affirmations of the inhuman in queer theory and modernist studies.\n\u0026nbsp;","source":"DOAJ","year":2019,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","Language and Literature"],"url":"https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DEF.HEFFER.pdf","pdf_url":"https://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/DEF.HEFFER.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":63},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/rfcb.1576","title":"The 2016 Scottish Parliament Elections: Unionist Parties and the Constitutional Divide","authors":[{"name":"Fiona Simpkins"}],"abstract":"If voting for the Conservative party had become somewhat of a rarity in Scotland since the Thatcher era, the May 2016 Scottish Parliament election ushered in a new era, as it saw the resurgence of the Scottish Conservatives after they obtained a total of 31 seats. A comparative perspective on Labour and Conservative Party attitudes to devolution and post-devolution Scottish politics will shed light on the electoral demise of the former and the rising fortunes of the latter. This article seeks to examine the main unionist parties’ differences in terms of structural and ideological adaptation to devolution within the broad centre-left consensus that characterizes the current Scottish political landscape.","source":"DOAJ","year":2017,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","English literature"],"doi":"10.4000/rfcb.1576","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1576","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":61},{"id":"doaj_The+image+of+Great+Britain+in+the+interpretation+of+journalists+of+the+military+periodical+%E2%80%9CThe+Chronicle+of+the+War+against+Japan%E2%80%9D","title":"The image of Great Britain in the interpretation of journalists of the military periodical “The Chronicle of the War against Japan”","authors":[{"name":"Frolov Vasiliy Vladimirovich"}],"abstract":"The article examines and analyses the image of Great Britain which at the beginning of the last century was formed by Russian journalists on the pages of the pro-government periodical “The Chronicle of the War against Japan”. Within this work the British Empire appears to be one of Russia's main competitors in the struggle for the leading positions in the international arena. This research analyses more than 60 issues of this periodical. In conclusion, in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century periodicals had a special role in informational impact on people's minds.","source":"DOAJ","year":2017,"language":"","subjects":["History of scholarship and learning. The humanities"],"url":"http://st-hum.ru/en/node/549/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":61},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/cve.3233","title":"Jacques Carré, La Prison des pauvres. L’Expérience des workhouses en Angleterre","authors":[{"name":"Tri Tran"}],"abstract":"","source":"DOAJ","year":2017,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain"],"doi":"10.4000/cve.3233","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3233","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":61},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/rfcb.1688","title":"The British Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s: Redefining the Personal and the Political","authors":[{"name":"Florence Binard"}],"abstract":"This article aims to present the main aspects of the British Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s. It traces the history of the movement from the first national conference held at the University of Oxford (Ruskin College) in 1970 to the last national conference held in Birmingham in 1978. It focuses on the beginnings of the movement, on its influence in the adoption and improvement of gender equality legislation in Britain and it underlines the profound changes brought about in the perception and understanding of gender roles in British society. This article stresses the importance of feminist publications in the dissemination of feminist ideas beyond feminist circles. It also insists on the crucial role of the practice of consciousness-raising in the development of feminist theories, notably in the distinction between sex and gender and in the realisation that “the personal is political”.","source":"DOAJ","year":2017,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","English literature"],"doi":"10.4000/rfcb.1688","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/1688","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":61},{"id":"ss_61e9f6742c59daa9ecca57a02f2911a37df1ff17","title":"A history of great Britain","authors":[{"name":"Ashutosh Acharya"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2017,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/61e9f6742c59daa9ecca57a02f2911a37df1ff17","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":61},{"id":"doaj_Leaning+%E2%80%9Cwell+beyond+the+plumb%E2%80%9D+of+His+Native+Language%3A+Heaney%E2%80%99s+Tone+and+the+International+Style","title":"Leaning “well beyond the plumb” of His Native Language: Heaney’s Tone and the International Style","authors":[{"name":"Nick Norwood"}],"abstract":"In the last decades of his life Seamus Heaney enjoyed phenomenal worldwide success, outselling, or so it was widely held, all other poets writing in English combined, a fact attesting to the existence of an international component in his work. A close study of the entire body of his poetry, as well as a study of the concurrent poetic interests he himself professed and which other critics have identified, reveals a subtle and gradual shift toward what may be referred to as the “international style”. The reader encounters such a style, prominently manifest, in the work of some of Heaney’s poetic influences, especially Eastern European poets like Czeslaw Milosz and Zbigniew Herbert. This article argues, however, that Heaney’s stylistic shift was too slight to account for the enormity of his international success and asserts instead that his far-ranging appeal is a matter of tone: Heaney’s attitude toward his material, but more so, deep characteristics of his personality – what Ted Hughes refers to as “the ultimate suffering and decision” in him –occupy space below the surface of his work and imbue it with a quality to which readers around the world are drawn.","source":"DOAJ","year":2016,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","Language and Literature"],"url":"http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nick-Norwood_EI11.pdf","pdf_url":"http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nick-Norwood_EI11.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":60},{"id":"doaj_10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v48.037","title":"Book review: Jews and Photography in Britain, Michael Berkowitz","authors":null,"abstract":"","source":"DOAJ","year":2016,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","Judaism"],"doi":"10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v48.037","url":"https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/article/574/galley/14579/download/","pdf_url":"https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/article/574/galley/14579/download/","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":60},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/cve.396","title":"Clinton Machann, Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics : A Darwinist Reading","authors":[{"name":"Yann Tholoniat"}],"abstract":"","source":"DOAJ","year":2013,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain"],"doi":"10.4000/cve.396","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/cve/396","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":57},{"id":"doaj_10.4000/cve.12195","title":"‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom","authors":[{"name":"Zelma Catalan"}],"abstract":"Charles Dickens is a writer who has always featured in the literature textbooks for the English language secondary schools in Bulgaria. In this paper I look at the way he has been presented in them in the different periods of Bulgarian history since 1945. The investigation is motivated by the belief that his status of a world-renowned literary figure depends on the dissemination of his works in non-Anglophone countries not only through the traditional mechanisms of reception but also by his inclusion in the curriculum. My examination is placed in the context of the changing institutional protocols of the Bulgarian school and the pressures they exert on the teaching of literature. In the communist past Dickens’s texts were treated exclusively as examples of social history. During and after the transition period his value has been questioned by educational ideologies that privilege language proficiency over literary competence, as well as by the efforts to redress the gender balance in the canon of British literature. Finally, I propose a change of emphasis. A greater attention to Dickens’s relation to popular culture will allow students from non-Anglophone countries to tap into the richness and variety of his art.","source":"DOAJ","year":2012,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain"],"doi":"10.4000/cve.12195","url":"https://journals.openedition.org/cve/12195","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":56},{"id":"crossref_10.1007/978-0-387-09453-3_2","title":"A History of Archaeology in Great Britain","authors":[{"name":"John Schofield"},{"name":"John Carman"},{"name":"Paul Belford"}],"abstract":"","source":"CrossRef","year":2011,"language":"en","subjects":null,"doi":"10.1007/978-0-387-09453-3_2","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09453-3_2","is_open_access":true,"citations":2,"published_at":"","score":55.06},{"id":"doaj_Responses+to+the+Holocaust+in+Modern+Irish+Poetry","title":"Responses to the Holocaust in Modern Irish Poetry","authors":[{"name":"Benjamin Keatinge"}],"abstract":"This essay examines twentieth and twenty-first century responses by Irish poets to the Holocaust. It argues that, despite the illiberal tendencies of the Irish state towards Jewish immigration during and after the 1939-1945 war, recent commemorative activities in Ireland have included the Holocaust and are part of a wider commemorative ‘opening up’ in Ireland towards twentieth-century historical events. Important contemporary Irish poets have written Holocaust poems of notable merit including: Seamus Heaney, Harry Clifton, Derek Mahon, Pearse Hutchinson, Paul Durcan, Paul Muldoon, Thomas Kinsella and Tom Paulin, all of whom are discussed here. These poets are noted as second-generation Holocaust poets, more at home in the lyric form and less troubled by communicative dilemmas than their precursors such as Paul Celan and Samuel Beckett whose resemblance is briefly discussed. The essay concludes by arguing that Giorgio Agamben’s arguments about testimony after Auschwitz are strikingly pertinent to some of the poems under discussion. It also suggests that the historical essays of Hubert Butler may have acted as an unseen influence on some of these writers.","source":"DOAJ","year":2011,"language":"","subjects":["History of Great Britain","Language and Literature"],"url":"http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Benjamin_Keatinge.pdf","pdf_url":"http://www.estudiosirlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Benjamin_Keatinge.pdf","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":55},{"id":"ss_70c741c3631236f4635cece7dfb0f7f238b39c8c","title":"The History of Great Britain","authors":[{"name":"Robert Henry"}],"abstract":"","source":"Semantic Scholar","year":2010,"language":"en","subjects":["History"],"url":"https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/70c741c3631236f4635cece7dfb0f7f238b39c8c","is_open_access":true,"published_at":"","score":54},{"id":"ss_06de13bb69cfa824d875c5502e61f7806cfec301","title":"The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939","authors":[{"name":"Robert Graves"},{"name":"A. 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