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The book review discusses "Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-1914" by Ralph Darlington, which examines the labor movement during that time period. It emphasizes the success of the labor revolt and its impact on the Labour Party, as well as the role of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and its support for strikes and syndicalist ideas. The review suggests that the ILP played a significant role in grassroots activism and electoral strategies. It also explores the influence of syndicalism in the labor movement, particularly in South Wales. The text provides a comprehensive analysis of the labor revolt and its political implications, calling for further research on the subject. [Extracted from the article]

Defining such attempts to segregate Black workers and citizens as whiteness riots, Charnley and Richmond powerfully demonstrate how racist street violence is neither extemporary nor irrational. In I Fractured i , Alex Charnley and Michael Richmond take up the daunting task of explaining it all for the layperson. In other words, by revisiting Black feminist analyses of class struggles and politics, Charnley and Richmond remind us all that identity politics are fundamentally about envisioning an identity of purpose that can sustain concrete practices of solidarity across multiple struggles against all forms of oppression; class I in primis i . [Extracted from the article]

It is through the globalised phenomenon of the military campaign that Hutchinson locates the ways in which imperialism fermented local settler colonial identity. Settlers, War and Empire in the Press: Unsettling News in Australia and Britain, 1869-1902: By Sam Hutchinson. Citing over eighty newspapers and magazines across Australia, New Zealand and Britain, Hutchinson has drawn together a deeply researched and broadly sourced study of the settler colonial and metropolitan press. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book 'The Education Papers: Women's Quest For Equality in Britain, 1850-1912,' edited by Dale Spender.

Reviews the book "'Paper Contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675," by Elizabeth Sauer.

Reviews the book 'The Brandon Papers,' by Quentin Bell.

The article reviews the book "Paper Pellets: British Literary Culture after Waterloo," by Richard Cronin.

The article reviews the book "Life in Medieval Landscapes: People and Places in the Middle Ages: Papers in Memory of H. S. A. Fox," edited by Sam Turner and Bob Silvester.

The article reviews the book "Recent Archaeological Work in South-Western Britain: Papers in Honour of Henrietta Quinnell," edited by Susan Pearce, part of the British Archaeological Reports British Series.

Reviews the book 'The Labour Party and Taxation. Party Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain,' by Richard Whiting.

Reviews the book `Lord Beaverbrook: A Life,' by Anne Chrisholm and Michael Davie. A biography of British press baron Lord Beaverbrook.

The article reviews the book "Muslims in Britain: Race, Place and Identity," edited by Peter Hopkins and Richard Gale.

Reviews the book 'Papers of British Politicians 1782-1900.'

Reviews the book `The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Bart. (1585-1645)' edited by Richard Cust.

The article reviews the book "Prostitution, Politics and Policy," by Roger Matthews.

The article reviews the book "Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care" by Alan Johnson.

This paper explores Virdee’s account of how racialized minorities in socialist movements ‘played an instrumental role in trying to align struggles against racism with those against class exploitation’ (p. 164). In so doing, Virdee makes an important intervention at a time when popular historians and other ideologues are colluding in the elevation of myths and – no doubt in their view – noble lies that preclude these stories. Moving through theoretical debates concerning the relationships between race and class, the nature and form of sociologies of ‘outsiders’, to political issues of mobilization, Virdee’s book successfully brings in from the margins an account the multi-ethnic character of the working class in England from the very moment of its inception. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The paper discusses an exhibition currently hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts and devoted to over one thousand years of Byzantine art, featuring the most important and wide-reaching collection of artifacts from the Byzantine period displayed in Britain over the last fifty years. The exhibition is revealing not merely because of the objects on display but also because of what it says in connection to our contemporary understanding of Europe itself. The study suggests that the exhibition is indicative of a shift in the images of East and West. This is not to say that we are witnessing an end to the intra-European divide between East and West, but rather that the current geopolitical context has accentuated the notion of a division between Europe and Islam. Thus, the public are inadvertently presented with the false yet dominant idea that Islam represented and still represents the end or at the very least a caesura of European culture. A deeper insight into history, however, reveals a very different picture, as the persistence and legacy of Byzantine art and religious life were more or less guaranteed under Ottoman rule. great britain [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In her long poem Solitude (1938) Vita Sackville-West explores the contrast between Nature and books and between Nature and the Christian God as she questions the purpose of life and suffering. While writing in solitude about solitude, the writer is connected to a vast community of other writers and readers. In this paper I show how Sackville-West uses classical allusions as a bridge between pagan Nature and Christian English literary history. From contemporary documents, especially her letters to Virginia Woolf, we can also see how Sackville-West kept an awkward balance in her own life between shyness and desire for connection with others which is reflected in her project of writing new verse in essentially traditional forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: Amanda Vickery (ed.), Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present Jane Moody, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840 Steve Poole, The Politics of Regicide in England 1760–1850: Troublesome Subjects Gordon Corrigan, Wellington: A Military Life George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal (ed.), Singular Continuities: Tradition, Nostalgia, and Identity in Modern British Culture Michael H. Shirley and Todd E. A. Larson (ed.), Splendidly Victorian: Essays in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British History in Honour of Walter L. Arnstein Martin Hewitt (ed.), An Age of Equipoise? Reassessing Mid-Victorian Britain Robert Sloan, William Smith O’ Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell, Rival Jerusalems. The Geography of Victorian Religion E. J. T. Collins (ed.), The Agrarian History of England and Wales Volume 7: 1850–1914 Trevor Royle, Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Edwin Jaggard (ed.), Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P. Bruce L. Kinzer, England’s Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question John K. Walton, Blackpool Archie Hunter, A Life of Sir John Eldon Gorst: Disraeli’s Awkward Disciple Mary Lynn Stewart, For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artefacts of German Memory, 1870–1990 Alastair Thompson, Left Liberals, the State, and Popular Politics in Wilhelmine Germany Annika Mombauer, Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War John Mosier, The Myth of the Great War: A New Military History of World War One Andrew Britton, Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century David Kynaston, The City of London. Volume 3, Illusions of Gold 1914–1945 Enda Delaney, Demography, State and Society: Irish Migration to Britain, 1921–1971 Kay Chadwick (ed.), Catholicism, Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century France Claire Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England, 1920–60 Andrew Shennan, The Fall of France, 1940 Ian Dear and M. R. D. Foot (ed.), The Oxford Companion to World War II Malcolm Smith, Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory Martin Conway and José Gotovitch (ed.), Europe in Exile, 1940–45: European Exile Communities in Britain Klaus Larres and Ann Lane (ed.), The Cold War Hanna Schissler (ed.), The Miracle Years: A Cultural History of West Germany 1949–1968 Peter B. Johnson, Reuter Reporter among the Communists, 1958–59. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Liberalism in West Cornwall. The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian, M.P.,' edited with an introduction by Edwin Jaggard.

The article reviews several of the permanent exhibition pieces found at the People's History Museum in Manchester, England, including artifacts from the 19th-century Chartist movement, the history of the Labour Party, and political papers from the 1640s.

This publication contains most of the proceedings of a seminar on "Theoretical Models for Fixed Scheduled and Demand Actuated Bus Routing in Urban Areas" held in May 1973. The eleven technical papers presented may be divided into three broad categories, three papers dealing with general transportation planning, three papers which are essentially surveys of various sections of the literature on public transportation and, five papers on the optimization and evaluation of bus systems. Two papers by are based on research activities of the TRANSLOK group. These deal with general transportation and location planning. Another paper contributed by Hansen is a critical comparison of behavioral and nonbehavioral transportation models. The relevance of these three papers to the study of bus systems is at best tenuous. One paper gives a concise description of the research carried out in Great Britain on bus systems. Another papers presents a discussion with examples on the tradeoffs between the power and limitations of mathematical models of public transit.

A review of the book "John Rodker's Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History," by Gerald W. Cloud, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England" edited by Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz.

The article reviews the book "Publishing, Politics, & Culture: The King’s Printers in the Reign of James I and VI," by Graham Rees and Maria Wakely.

The article reviews the book "Press Censorship in Caroline England," by Cyndia Susan Clegg.

The article analyzes the poem "The First Anniversary of the Government Under O.C." by Andrew Marvell. It examines how the poem reflects Marvell's political beliefs, specifically his views on the rule of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The author explores the poem's themes, which address the effectiveness of governments, hereditary monarchs, and dyanmism. Other topics covered include Cromwell's authority, Marvell's poem "Horatian Ode," and English history.

Focuses on British actor Ricky Gervais, who appears as David Brent in the BBC comedy series "The Office." Background on the television program, which focuses on the daily lives of employees at a paper company; Popularity of the show; Awards; Premier of the American remake of "The Office"; Information on Gervais, who is writing his next television series, "Extras"; Background on Gervais; How Gervais put together "the Office" with Stephen Merchant, the series co-creator; Comments of Gervais.

A review of the book "Peter Lunn: Children's Publisher; The Books, Authors and Illustrators," by Peter Main is presented.

A review of the book "The British Book Trade 1475-1890: A Bibliography," in two volumes, by T. H. Howard-Hill is presented.

The article reviews the book "The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1859," by James Raven.

Reviews the book 'British Book Trade Dissertations to 1980,' by T.H. Howard-Hill.

Reviews two events connected to British theater. `British Theatre in the 1890s: Essays on drama and the stage,' edited by Richard Foulkes (originally papers at a Leicester University symposium); The ingenious guises used to slip sex into the theater; Sensationalism; Closeness of drama and visual art; Vivid glimpses into the stage life of the 1890s; Review of `Trelawny of the `Wells',' a play by Arthur Wing Pinero at the Olivier Theatre; Plot; Actors; More.

Reviews the book `Churchill: A Major New Assessment of His Life in Peace and War,' edited by Robert Blake and William Roger Louis. Papers from a conference at the University of Texas in 1991; Reassessment of Winston Churchill's career; Description of Churchill's colorful relatives.

Presents information on publishing and authorship in Great Britain for December 25, 1998. `Daily Telegraph' publishing a list of `What the Papers Said,' about its choices for books of the year; Discussion of the Oxford University Press (OUP) poetry list; Plans for the poetry wing of 1999's Salisbury Festival; Other information.

Reviews the book `Guide to the Manuscript Papers of British Scientists Catalogued by the Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre and the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists 1973-1993,' by Peter Harper.

Reviews the book 'Making Books: Design in British Publishing since 1945,' by Alan Bartram.