The British Jesus 1850 1970

Author : Meredith Veldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000565959

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The British Jesus, 1850-1970 by Meredith Veldman Pdf

The British Jesus focuses on the Jesus of the religious culture dominant in Britain from the 1850s through the 1950s, the popular Christian culture shared by not only church, kirk, and chapel goers, but also the growing numbers of Britons who rarely or only episodically entered a house of worship. An essay in intellectual as well as cultural history, this book illumines the interplay between and among British New Testament scholarship, institutional Christianity, and the wider Protestant culture. The scholars who mapped and led the uniquely British quest for the historical Jesus in the first half of the twentieth century were active participants in efforts to replace the popular image of “Jesus in a white nightie” with a stronger figure, and so, they hoped, to preserve Britain’s Christian identity. They failed. By exploring that failure, and more broadly, by examining the relations and exchanges between popular, artistic, and scholarly portrayals of Jesus, this book highlights the continuity and the conservatism of Britain’s popular Christianity through a century of religious and cultural transformation. Exploring depictions of Jesus from over more than one hundred years, this book is a crucial resource for scholars of British Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Keith Laybourn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000623895

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The Football Pools and the British Working Class by Keith Laybourn Pdf

This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling activity became a significant leisure opportunity for the working class - a way to feel that the individual skill of the punter could lead to the winning of some life-changing jackpot cheque being presented by a sporting personality of celebrity. Dominated by Littlewoods, and other large commercial companies, the weekly filling-in of the coupons was considered to be a safe form of investment, guaranteed by the integrity of the pool companies, rather than some seedy gambling operation. The Football Pools and the British Working Class looks at different elements of the football pools from what attracted people to this form of gambling to how the industry developed and adjusted to the suspension of the football fixtures in 1936, and the bad winter of 1962-3. Above all, it examines the deep hostility that surrounded the filling in of the football pools arising from the National Anti-Gambling League, religious groups, the football authorities and MPs. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of British football and 20th century British working class culture.

Author : Kevin Manton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000801163

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The Modern British Data State, 1945-2000 by Kevin Manton Pdf

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating and deploying population data. It dates this biopolitical data turn in British politics to the arrival of the Labour government in 1964. It analyses government’s increased desire to know the population, the impact this has had on British political culture and the institutions and systems introduced or modified to achieve this. It probes the political struggles around these initiatives to show that despite setbacks along the way and regardless of party, all British governments since the mid-1960s have accepted that data is the key to modern politics and have pursued it relentlessly.

Author : John Benson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000688931

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Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain by John Benson Pdf

Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley (1860–1936), who was barred from working by the Law Society, twice declared bankrupt, and in 1919 was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment with hard labour for bigamously marrying a woman practically forty years his junior. If Pawley did not suffer the revenge of respectable society, it is difficult to think who would. Drawing upon the fact that the disgraced and the disreputable have always tended to attract a disproportionate amount of attention, the book ranges widely, exploring such important issues as middle-class education, career choices, the dynamics of family life, and the workings of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century legal system. It shows that Pawley was able to hold on to his professional – and even gentlemanly – status for far longer than seemed likely. This all suggests, the book concludes, that although respectability was as important to the middle class as we have always been told, it was both easier to acquire and easier to retain than we have generally been led to believe. This book will appeal to all those interested in British society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Derek Fraser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000781632

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The Beveridge Report by Derek Fraser Pdf

This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State aims to offer a definitive analysis of the famous document, so influential in the founding of the Welfare State and the National Health Service, which still resonates in current debates about ‘getting back to Beveridge’ and a ‘Beveridge for the 21st Century’. It is based on extensive research into the papers of the Beveridge Committee, official Government archives and the papers of contemporary politicians and groups. Published to coincide with the Report’s 80th anniversary, the book is treated as a case study in policy formulation during the 1940s. Key features of the book include The first systematic review and assessment of the work of the Beveridge Committee and the evidence submitted to it Detailed analysis of the enthusiastic reception of the Report and the government’s lukewarm attitude A full survey of the detailed planning for welfare reform and Beveridge’s role when excluded from it An assessment of the influence of Beveridge upon the creation of the Welfare State by Attlee’s Labour Government This important book will be of interest to scholars of twentieth-century British, social history, political history and contemporary politics and comparative health and education systems. Derek Fraser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Teesside, where he served as Vice-Chancellor for 11 years.

Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905

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The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 by Alun C. Davies Pdf

This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.

Author : James Simpkin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000812206

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Labour’s Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997-2010 by James Simpkin Pdf

This book uses the ‘strategic-relational approach’ to explain how the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown integrated the United Kingdom into the US ballistic missile defence system in order to maintain national security and to uphold the ‘special relationship’ while at the same time recognising that voters were in general opposed to missile defence. Labour’s Ballistic Missile Defence Policy 1997–2010 examines how the Labour administration was tasked with navigating a domestic political environment in which they had to appear tough on defence in general in order to appeal to a broader range of the electorate while recognising that voters were opposed to missile defence in particular. This book seeks to answer the question of why the centre-left government of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, elected on a mandate of multi-lateralism in international relations and espousing an ‘ethical dimension’ to foreign policy, committed the United Kingdom to US ballistic missile defence – an internationally divisive military project associated with the US Republican Party and George W. Bush in particular. This book is essential for students and researchers interested in British military history, international relations, strategic studies, British politics, Labour politics and political theory.

Author : Samuel Aylett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000827262

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Legacies of an Imperial City by Samuel Aylett Pdf

This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries’ shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations. At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public’s evolving social and political attitudes, the museum’s 1993–1994 ‘The Peopling of London’ exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums’ role in enacting change in the public’s understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London’s theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions. Legacies of an Imperial City is a useful resource for academics and researchers of postcolonial history and museum studies, as well as any student of urban history.

Author : Bruce Clifton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1726393631

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Jesus in Britain by Bruce Clifton Pdf

This book tells the story of Jesus and his relationship with the British royal family, his love of Britain and how on his first trip he became involved with paganism, druids and the Celtic Kingdom.

Author : Michael Sanderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429836381

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The Universities and British Industry by Michael Sanderson Pdf

Originally published in 1972, The University and British Industry examines the lively and controversial relationship between British industry and the university. The book looks at the impact of industry on the development of British universities from the 1850s to the 1970s, and with contribution from the universities to industry through scientific research and the supply of graduate skills. The book argues that the close involvement of the universities and industry has been one of the chief beneficial forces shaping the British universities movement in the last hundred years. It gives an account of the changes which took place within the universities to make them more suitable for industries purposes, describing for example the early rise of the English civic universities, strongly financed by, and closely supporting industry. The book also considers how, during the two world wars, industry became highly reliant on the universities for the war technology, and how, despite the depression between the wars, university research and graduate employment embraced the widening opportunities of the new industries. The book also discusses the expansion of the university in the sixties and points out that industrial motives have merged with those of social justice, posing dilemmas for present and future relations between universities and industry.

Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1488 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317722236

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The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus by Craig A. Evans Pdf

This Encyclopedia brings together the vast array of historical research into the reality of the man, the teachings, the acts, and the events ascribed to him that have served as the foundational story of one of the world's central religions. This kind of historiography is not biography. The historical study of the Jesus stories and the transmission of these stories through time have been of seminal importance to historians of religion. Critical historical examination has provided a way for scholars of Christianity for centuries to analyze the roots of legend and religion in a way that allows scholars an escape from the confines of dogma, belief, and theological interpretation. In recent years, historical Jesus studies have opened up important discussions concerning anti-Semitism and early Christianity and the political and ideological filtering of the Jesus story of early Christianity through the Roman empire and beyond. Entries will cover the classical studies that initiated the new historiography, the theoretical discussions about authenticating the historical record, the examination of sources that have led to the western understanding of Jesus' teachings and disseminated myth of the events concerning Jesus' birth and death. Subject areas include: the history of the historical study of the New Testament: major contributors and their works theoretical issues and concepts methodologies and criteria historical genres and rhetorical styles in the story of Jesus historical and rhetorical context of martyrdom and messianism historical teachings of Jesus teachings within historical context of ethics titles of Jesus historical events in the life of Jesus historical figures in the life of Jesus historical use of Biblical figures referenced in the Gospels places and regions institutions the history of the New Testament within the culture, politics, and law of the Roman Empire.

Author : Thomas Fuller,John Sherren Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:58884232

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The Church History of Britain by Thomas Fuller,John Sherren Brewer Pdf

Author : Walter P. Weaver
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1563382806

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The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century by Walter P. Weaver Pdf

Written in a clear and engaging style, Weaver's story chronicles not only the progress of Jesus research but also the cultural drifts and sociological phenomena that relate to the varying pictures of Jesus that scholarship has produced.

Author : Thomas Fuller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015070186930

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The Church History of Britain by Thomas Fuller Pdf

Author : Ian Hesketh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Anonymous writings, English
ISBN : 9781442645776

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Victorian Jesus by Ian Hesketh Pdf

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue-The Forgotten Story of Ecce Homo -- Chapter One-Authority and Authorship -- Chapter Two-By the Author of Essays on the Church -- Chapter Three-Father and Son -- Chapter Four-The Victorian Jesus -- Chapter Five-A Dangerous Book -- Chapter Six-Vomited from the Jaws of Hell -- Chapter Seven-A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing -- Chapter Eight-Shrewd Conjecture -- Chapter Nine-White Lies -- Chapter Ten-Behold the Man -- Chapter Eleven-Behold the Historian -- Chapter Twelve-Fulfilling a Promise -- Chapter Thirteen-By the Author of Ecce Homo -- Chapter Fourteen-Remembering the Author of Ecce Homo -- Epilogue-Anonymous Publishing and Universal History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Book and Print Culture