Oliver Wynne Hughes was born in Pwllheli and lived his boyhood years in Cricieth Caernarfon and Ffestiniog. Educated in Liverpool and at London University he also took an MSc in Strategic Studies at Aberystwyth. He has been a schoolmaster was Bursar at Coleg Harlech... Lees meer.

Citing a social political scientific and artistic revolution that took place between the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 and World War I a history of Britain s Edwardian period draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters to challenge current misconceptions.... Lees meer.

Challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernismIn this ground-breaking study Jonathan Wild investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period long overlooked by critic... Lees meer.

Knights and ladies giants and dragons tournaments battles quests and crusades are commonplace in stories for children. This book examines how late Victorians and Edwardians retold medieval narratives of chivalry--epics romances sagas legends and ballads. Stories... Lees meer.

This innovative text draws on theories and methodologies from the fields of multimodality ethnography and literacy studies to explore the sociocultural significance of book ownership and book inscriptions in Edwardian Britain.... Lees meer.

Taking examples from Gothic island adventure imperial and children s literature this book addresses the remarkable metaphorical disparity between and cultural implications of orphans in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth British fiction and in more recent instan... Lees meer.

Before the First World War there existed an intellectual turmoil in Britain as great as any in Germany France or Russia as the debates over Nietzsche and eugenics in the context of early modernism reveal. Before the First World War there existed an intellectual tur... Lees meer.

This is a compelling case study of a distinctive theological theme - the eschatological interpetation of the historical Jesus in Edwardian England - as an attempt to add greater precision to the history of theology in a neglected period. Looking at the impact of Adolf H... Lees meer.

Roy Hattersley has been given exclusive access to many new documents to produce this authoritative new appraisal of a legendary age. Edwardian Britain was an age of invention as well as tradition and a time of vastly improved education. It saw the rise of the Suffragett... Lees meer.

Childs discusses working-class family life and considers the changes that becoming a wage earner and a contributor to the family economy made to a youth s status within the home. He explores the significance of publicly provided education for the working class and analy... Lees meer.

Edmund Spenser s epic poem The Faerie Queene is the most challenging masterpiece in early modern literature and is praised as the work most representative of the Elizabethan age. The poem was later made over as children s literature retold in lavish volumes and schoolb... Lees meer.

The essays in this revised and expanded volume explore a variety of structuring taxonomies the relationships between the aesthetic forms styles and methodologies of detective and crime fiction in the late-Victorian and Edwardian period. The influences on the artists i... Lees meer.

This book tells the story of how women first fought for inclusion among scientific societies in Edwardian Britain. Though educational opportunities in schools and universities were improving there were few fellowships or chances of paid employment in the sciences. Excl... Lees meer.

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The figure of the detective has long excited the imagination of the wider public and the English police detective has been a special focus of attention in both print and visual media. Yet while much has been written in the last three decades about the history of unif... Lees meer.