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The Rotters' club.
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ISBN: 0670892521 067089253X Year: 2001 Publisher: London Viking

Life and times of cultural studies : the politics and transformation of the structures of knowledge
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ISBN: 082233173X Year: 2003 Publisher: Durham Duke university press


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Irish music abroad : diasporic sounds in Birmingham
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ISBN: 1443843806 9781443843805 1443840378 9781443840378 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Irish music enjoyed popularity across Europe and North America in the second half of the twentieth century. Regional circumstances created a unique reception for such music in the English Midlands. This book is a musical ethnography of Birmingham, 1950-2010. Initially establishing geographical and chronological parameters, the book cites Birmingham's location at the hub of a road and communications network as key to the development of Irish music across a series of increasingly visible, publ...


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Catalogue of cuneiform tablets in Birmingham city museum. Volume 2 : Neo-Sumerian texts from Umma and other sites
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ISBN: 0856683876 0856683566 9780856683565 Year: 1993 Volume: 1 1 Publisher: Warminster : Aris & Phillips,


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Speeches that changed Britain
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ISBN: 1905036248 9781905036240 9781905036233 Year: 2015 Publisher: Alcester, Warwickshire


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The local church and generational change in Birmingham, 1945-2000
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ISBN: 1283620189 9786613932631 1782040218 0861933176 Year: 2012 Publisher: Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer,

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The ongoing debate about secularisation and religious change in twentieth-century Britain has paid little attention to the experience of those who swam against the cultural tide and continued to attend church. This study, based on extensive original archive and oral history research, redresses this imbalance with an exploration of church-based Christianity in post-war Birmingham, examining how churchgoers interpreted and responded to the changes that they saw in family, congregation, neighbourhood and wider society. One important theme is the significance of age and generational identity to patterns of religiosity amidst profound change in attitudes to youth, age and parenting and growing evidence of a widening 'generation gap' in Christian belief and practice. In addition to offering a new and distinctive perspective on the changing religious identity of late twentieth-century English society, the book also provides a rare case-study in the significance of age and generation in the social and cultural history of modern Britain. Ian Jones is the Director of the Saltley Trust (an educational charity), Birmingham.


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Industrial enlightenment
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ISBN: 1526130319 9781526130310 9780719077708 0719077702 9780719089121 0719089123 9780719089121 Year: 2008 Publisher: Manchester, UK New York New York Manchester University Press Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

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Industrial Enlightenment explores the transition through which England passed between 1760 and 1820 on the way to becoming the world's first industrialised nation. In drawing attention to the important role played by scientific knowledge, it focuses on a dimension of this transition which is often overlooked by historians. The book argues that in certain favoured regions, England underwent a process whereby useful knowledge was fused with technological 'know how' to produce the condition described here as Industrial Enlightenment. At the forefront of the process were the natural philosophers who entered into a close and productive relationship with technologists and entrepreneurs. Much of the evidence for this study is drawn from the extraordinary archival record of the activities of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) and his Soho Manufactory. The book will appeal to those keen to explore the dynamics of change in eighteenth-century England, and to those with a broad interest in the cultural history of science and technology.

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