http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/239 History publications and papers. 2013-05-23T12:44:43Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/639 Title: Die Macht des Faktischen: britische Labourabgeordnete und der Mauerbau 1961 Authors: Laporte, Norman. H Abstract: The article explains why the British Left, primarily Labour Party MPs, reacted to the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 with resignation and a high degree of acceptance that it would stabilise the Cold War. 2013-01-03T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/636 Title: Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform Authors: Evans, Christopher 2013-01-03T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/618 Title: Crucible steel as an enlightened material Authors: Evans, Christopher Abstract: Crucible steel is usually seen as a product of Sheffield. It is defined as a key element of Britain’s Industrial Revolution; in turn, it defines the Industrial Revolution as something essentially provincial and vernacular. This paper proposes a shift in perspective. It examines the alternative genealogy of crucible steel to be found in Henry Horne’s Essays concerning Iron and Steel (1773). Horne presented crucible steel as something metropolitan and enlightened: it was a product of London and its scientific community. It is a suggestion that runs counter to the accepted history of crucible steel as a process and a product, but it there something to be gained by taking Horne’s suggestion seriously? 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z http://dspace1.isd.glam.ac.uk:80/dspace/handle/10265/617 Title: Errand into the wilderness: the cursed earth as apocalyptic road narrativ Authors: Ireland, Brian Abstract: Mobility is a significant feature of American history and culture. This is reflected in the literature and cinema of the road genre, in influential novels such as Jack Kerouac's On the Road and John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, and in films like Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Easy Rider (1969). However, when non-Americans create road stories they tend to employ symbols and narratives that are often considered intrinsically American. These storytellers appear to have absorbed or internalized aspects of American national identity, and this is reflected in their work. This is demonstrated in The Cursed Earth, an apocalyptic road story in twenty-five parts, which was published in the British weekly comic 2000AD from May to October 1978. Written by British writer Pat Mills, with contributions from John Wagner and Chris Lowder, The Cursed Earth features the character Judge Dredd, perhaps the most popular and most recognizable icon of British comics of the last thirty years. Through close textual analysis of the Cursed Earth story, this article reveals how thematic elements of the road genre are linked to significant themes in American history and culture. 2012-12-21T00:00:00Z