Women S Amateur Theatre In Rural Britain 1919 1945

Author : Bonnie White
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000997958

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Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919–1945 by Bonnie White Pdf

Women’s Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes’ amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women’s amateur drama. This work addresses a key historical gap by covering the activities, lives, and labour of women in rural England, Wales, and Scotland. It challenges gender-based assumptions about the value of women’s amateur theatre, highlighting the need for leisure opportunities and social connections in rural villages. The rapid expansion of women’s amateur drama groups is assessed in conjunction with major developments of the period, including the effect of post-1918 reconstruction efforts in rural regions, the revaluation of informal adult education schemes, the law’s influences and restrictions on amateur performances, and the impact of the Second World War on the ability of the Women’s Institutes to carve out a space for all-women’s drama groups that empowered women through education and skill-building programmes to aid in personal and community development. The broad scope of this research will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists interested in cultural history and the lives of rural women after the First World War.

Author : Bonnie Jean White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Feminist theater
ISBN : 1032291303

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Women's Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919-1945 by Bonnie Jean White Pdf

"Women's Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women's Institutes' amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women's amateur drama. The broad scope of this research will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists interested in cultural history and the lives of rural women after the First World War"--

Author : Bonnie Jean White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11
Category : Feminist theater
ISBN : 1003300170

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Women's Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain, 1919-1945 by Bonnie Jean White Pdf

"Women's Amateur Theatre in Rural Britain is the first book-length study of the National Federation of Women's Institutes' amateur drama groups, which served as an umbrella organisation for women's amateur drama. The broad scope of this research will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars, and non-specialists interested in cultural history and the lives of rural women after the First World War"--

Author : Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003830726

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An Historiography of Twentieth-Century Women’s Missionary Nursing Through the Lives of Two Sisters by Sara Ashencaen Crabtree Pdf

This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and women’s active expression of faith, practised at the critical confluence of historical and global changes. The study focuses on two English Methodist missionary nursing Sisters and siblings, Audrey and Muriel Chalkely, whose words and experiences are captured in detail, foregrounding tumultuous socio-political changes of the end of Empire and post-Independence in twentieth century Kenya and South India. The work presents a timely revision to prevailing postcolonial critiques in placing the fundamental importance of human relationships centre stage. Offering a detailed (auto)biographical and reflective narrative, this ‘herstory’ pivots on three main thematic strands relating to people, place and passion, where socio-cultural details are vividly explored. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, both the interested public and the academic alike, where a lively, entertaining, literary style introduces readers to the politics of women’s lives, and principle and professional service foreground ethno-class-caste oppression, emancipation, conflict, commitments and religious tensions. It reveals the human, vulnerable qualities of these women, illuminating their stories and courageous choices.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040009512

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Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934 by Hoda Mahmoudi Pdf

This volume examines the life of the remarkable woman, Susan Moody, and her travels to Iran in the early 20th century during seismic changes in the world. Dr. Susan I. Moody’s Travels to Iran 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey captures a fleeting moment of arresting change and shimmering possibility. Exploring the fading values of the 19th century and the emergent understandings of the 20th century, the author shows how one individual navigated such challenging times. This book explores the Industrial Revolution, the rise of the women’s movement, advances in medicine and healthcare, and the start of a new religion – The Baha’i Faith – of which Moody became a devoted member. Susan Moody was a pathbreaking artist and educator who became a physician later in life. She made the bold decision to leave the United States and travel to Iran in 1909 to serve women who effectively had no access to medical care. In examining Dr. Susan Moody’s story, this volume seeks to reflect on our own changing moment and the ever-present possibilities of improvement and advancement. By tracing her own courageous odyssey, we are invited to more deeply understand our own. This book will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in Women’s and Gender history and Social and Cultural history.

Author : Chunjie Zhang,Elisabeth Krimmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003821793

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Gender and German Colonialism by Chunjie Zhang,Elisabeth Krimmer Pdf

This book addresses the intersection between gender and colonialism primarily in German colonialism. Gender and German Colonialism is concerned with colonialism as a historical phenomenon and with the repercussions and transformations of the colonial era in contemporary racist and sexist discourses and practices relating to refugees, migrants, and people of non-European descent living in Europe. This volume contributes to the broader effort of decolonization, with particular attention to concepts of gender. Rather than focus on only one European empire, it discusses and compares multiple former colonial powers in context. In addition to German colonialism, some chapters focus on the role of gender in Dutch and Belgian colonialism in Indonesia, Africa, and the Americas. This volume will be of value to students and scholars interested in women’s and gender studies, social and cultural history, and imperial and colonial history.

Author : Beatrice Moring
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003847410

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Women and Family Property by Beatrice Moring Pdf

This book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history. Traditionally the prevailing view has been that women have been disadvantaged in the distribution of property and therefore less interesting as objects of study. This volume challenges this view and explores the securing of property for families or for individuals through transfers in the shape of dowries, marriage contracts, wills and other arrangements, as well as how women used and distributed the property they were holding.The scope of the volume is both urban and rural, analysing the position of women in relation to family property through contributions from a wide geographic area. The chapters investigate the situation in southern and northern Europe, across the Atlantic and Africa throughout the 18th to the 20th century. This volume will be of value to academics, undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in gender and history and social history.

Author : Don Watson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350232051

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Theatre with a Purpose by Don Watson Pdf

This study of British amateur theatre in the inter-war period examines five different but interwoven examples of the belief, common in theatrical and educational circles at the time, that amateur drama had a purpose beyond recreation. Amateur theatre was at the height of its popularity as a cultural practice between the wars, so that by 1939 more British people had practical experience of putting on plays than at any time before or since. Providing an original account of the use of drama in adult education projects in deprived areas, and of amateur theatre in government-funded centres for the unemployed in the 1930s, it discusses repertoires, participation by working- class people and pioneering techniques of play-making. Amateur drama festivals and competitions were intended to raise standards and educate audiences. This book assesses their effect on play-making, and the use of innovative one-act plays to express contentious material, as well as looking at the Left Book Club Theatre Guild as an attempt to align the amateur theatre movement with anti-fascist and anti-war movements. A chapter on the Second World War rectifies the neglect of amateur theatre in war-time cultural studies, arguing that it was present and important in every aspect of war-time life. Don Watson builds on current scholarship and makes use of archival sources, local newspapers, unpublished scripts and the records of organizations not usually associated with the theatre. His work explores the range and diversity of amateur drama between the wars and the contributions it made to British theatre.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079755651

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Simon Trussler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521794307

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The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre by Simon Trussler Pdf

Written with style, imagination and insight, and packed with interesting illustrations, this authoritative book traces the development through the ages of plays and playwriting, forms of staging, the acting profession and the role of the actor - in fact all aspects of live entertainment. From satire and burlesque to melodrama and pantomime, this is a major history of British theatre from the earliest times to the present day. Shifting its focus constantly between those who played and those who watched, between officially approved performance and the popular theatre of the people, The Cambridge Illustrated History of British Theatre will be invaluable to anyone interested in theatre, whether student, teacher, performer or spectator.

Author : Keith Robbins,American Historical Association,Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0198224966

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A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 by Keith Robbins,American Historical Association,Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020570482

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Historical Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UCAL:B5120358

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Humanities Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Pickering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351573511

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Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain by Michael Pickering Pdf

Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the significant role it played in Britain as a form of song, music and theatrical entertainment. Minstrelsy had a marked impact on popular music, dance and other aspects of popular culture, both in Britain and the United States. Its impact in the United States fed into significant song and music genres that were assimilated in Britain, from ragtime and jazz onwards, but prior to these influences, minstrelsy in Britain developed many distinct features and was adapted to operate within various conventions, themes and traditions in British popular culture. Pickering provides a convincing counter-argument to the assumption among writers in the United States that blackface was exclusively American and its British counterpart purely imitative. Minstrelsy was not confined to its value as song, music and dance. Jokes at the expense of black people along with demeaning racial stereotypes were integral to minstrel shows. As a form of popular entertainment, British minstrelsy created a cultural low-Other that offered confirmation of white racial ascendancy and imperial dominion around the world. The book attends closely to how this influence on colonialism and imperialism operated and proved ideologically so effective. At the same time British minstrelsy cannot be reduced to its racist and imperialist connections. Enormously important as those connections are, Pickering demonstrates the complexity of the subject by insisting that the minstrel show and minstrel performers are understood also in terms of their own theatrical dynamics, t

Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271086538

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Sewn in Coal Country by Robert P. Wolensky Pdf

By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly attractive to New York City’s “runaway shops”—ladies’ apparel factories seeking lower labor and other costs. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) soon followed, and the Valley became a thriving hub of clothing production and union activity. This volume tells the story of the area’s apparel industry through the voices of men and women who lived it. Drawing from an archive of over sixty audio-recorded interviews within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Oral and Life History Collection, Sewn in Coal Country showcases sixteen stories told by workers, shop owners, union leaders, and others. The interview subjects recount the ILGWU-led movement to organize the shops, the conflicts between the district union and the national office in New York, the solidarity unionism approach of leader Min Matheson, the role of organized crime within the business, and the failed efforts to save the industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert P. Wolensky places the narratives in the larger context of American clothing manufacturing during the period and highlights their broader implications for the study of labor, gender, the working class, and oral history. Highly readable and thoroughly enlightening, this significant contribution to the study of labor history and women’s history will appeal to anyone interested in the relationships among workers, unions, management, and community; the effects of economic change on an area and its residents; the role of organized crime within the industry; and Pennsylvania history—especially the social history of industrialization and deindustrialization during the twentieth century.