British history of the First World War has often turned to the letters written between soldiers and civilians as a means to understand the experience of the conflict. With a focus on trauma, emotional survival, censorship, and testimony, what is often lacking from this analysis …
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Privateers and pirates were instrumental in the development of English and British colonies and territories through military support and economic enrichment. British policy was to use privateers to help break into the New World when it was dominated by Spain, and Britain’s navy …
The thesis examines the relationship between Britain’s Jews, both established and refugee, with the host community from 1938 to 1948. The relationship is studied in the light of events in Europe and the Near East from the 1938 Anschluss to the 1948 founding of Israel and the way…
In a period of apparent new economic, political, social and cultural configurations in Western cities, a general diminution of belief in the ability of local government itself to affect significant policy change in response to the global restructuring of the economy has facilita…
This thesis is the study of Great Power nvaliy during 1958-1963, a period of bothincreasing political and economic cooperation in Western Europe and transatlanticrelations within NATO against a background of the Cold War France and Britain are thefocus of our analysis. The two s…
This paper investigates harem images created by two European female artists, Henriette Browne (1829-1901) and Mary Walker (w. 1864-1897), in the nineteenth century. Their harem interior scenes contrast from harem images composed by European male artists, descriptions penned in t…
The problematic question "Who are you?" directed at Muslims in western countries after the 9/11 attacks in the United States, expected a singular and immutable response. Yet such an impossible response would disavow the diversity of Muslim communities and the ways in which both …
Pervasive throughout intellectual, museological and popular representations alike, West African Islam is habitually read as too provincial and far removed from Islam's heartland with its sophisticated metropolitan centers, imperial courts, and famed seats of learning (Bravmann, …
This study is concerned with the how Bahrain's merchants shaped the island's political history in the pre-oil era. It argues that the interdependent relationship between the merchants and the ruling family was interrupted by a severe structural crisis in the 1920s, which invited…
Britain's foreign relations formed a crucial component of the political nation during the eighteenth century. Foreign affairs were a key issue of state, and perceived failure within European power politics could cause the fall of government ministries. Britain's foreign relation…
Scholarship on 1950s American science fiction cinema has tended to explore the relationship between these films and their domestic contexts of production and reception. They are often characterised as reflections of US anxieties about communism and nuclear technology. However, m…
This study unites the burgeoning academic field of exhibition histories and the critiques of race-based exhibition practices that crystallised in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. It concerns recent practices of presenting and contextualising black creativity in British publicly f…
Using a comparative methodology the thesis analyses the patentability of pharmaceutical and related inventions in the UK and South Africa. The viewpoint adopted is that of the industry actors, who are engaged in the conception through to the commercialisation of inventions, alth…
In the 21st century Muslims can be found as minorities in what can be described as secular, democratic western countries. The research presented in this study will trace the process by which this community arrived in Western Europe and in particular Britain. Furthermore, it will…
This research aims to explore the lived experiences of young British Muslims in higher education at the University of Bradford and the implications this has for the construction of their identities. The increased participation of Muslims in higher education has been hailed a maj…
My research explores the tension between being and becoming modern and moral for British-born Muslim Pakistani women in Sheffield through an investigation into the judgements that surround beauty, beautification, and beauty work. Through ethnography I unpack the raced and classe…
Hizb ut Tahrir (HT) is a rapidly growing trans-national Islamic movement which aims to revive the classical Islamic Caliphate. Consequently, it has come under increasing international focus as a result of its rapid expansion beyond its traditional heartland of the Middle East in…
Early modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, and just as importantly, due to its exceptional religio…