History (School of): Recent submissions
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Visual commonplacing : the transmission and reception of printed devotional images in Reformed England
(University of St Andrews, 2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis introduces the framework of ‘visual commonplacing’ as a way of analysing the repeating illustrations printed in early modern English books and ephemera. This research focuses on religious relief-cut images ... -
The new now : German modernists and news media, 1918-1951
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThe thesis explores how German modernists understood the interrelation between news media and the experience of present time. The German modernists whose formative cultural and political experience was the Weimar Republic ... -
The 1939 New York World’s Fair : cultural diplomacy in the age of Fascism
(2024-06-13) - ThesisFewer than five months before the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the world was invited to New York City to celebrate the opening of the final international exposition of the interwar period. Touted by Fair ... -
Decolonising white Africa : examining the experiences of Kenyans
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-22) - ThesisLegitimised during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through racial views based upon pseudo-scientific rhetoric, and routinely simplified in the present, historical literature about white colonial communities ... -
Voices of medieval English maritime towns : petitions concerning the Cinque Ports, 1272-1377
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06) - ThesisThis thesis explores the political communication between royal and local governments in late medieval England. It focuses on the petitionary language used by medieval English maritime towns, especially by the confederation ...