Modern History: Recent submissions

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    • Middle class radicalism and the media : banning the bomb in Britain, 1954-65 

      Hill, Christopher Robert (University of St Andrews, 2013) - Thesis
      The dissertation explores the relationship between middle class radicalism and the media in Britain between 1954 and 1965. It demonstrates how developments in media communications and discourse influenced the radical ...

    • Robert Beale and the Elizabethan polity 

      Taviner, Mark (University of St Andrews, 2000) - Thesis
      Robert Beale (c. 1541-1601) was one of the foremost (and certainly the best documented) of the 'second-rank' figures that inhabited the inner rings of the Elizabethan polity, and who in many senses characterised the ...

    • England, the English and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) 

      Marks, Adam (University of St Andrews, 2012) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the role of England and the English during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), and provides the first major study of the between 50,000 and 60,000 Englishmen who fought for the ‘Protestant cause’ ...

    • The English provincial book trade : bookseller stock-lists, c.1520-1640 

      Winters, Jennifer (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London’s publishers wholly dominated the production of books, and with Oxford and Cambridge the booksellers of the capital also played the largest ...

    • Shaping popular culture : radio broadcasting, mass entertainment and the work of the BBC Variety Department, 1933-1967 

      Dibbs, Martin G. R. (University of St Andrews, 2012-11-30) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the extent to which the BBC was able to shape the output of popular culture on radio in Britain, according to its own system of beliefs, between the years 1933 and 1967. This research will show that ...