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Situating the theater as a site of broad cultural movements and conflicts, Lisa A. Freeman asserts that antitheatrical incidents from the English Renaissance to present-day America provide us with occasions to trace major struggles over the nature and balance of power and political authority. In studies of William Prynne's Histrio-mastix (1633), Jeremy Collier's A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), John Home's Douglas (1757), the burning of the theater at Richmond (1811), and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley (1998) Freeman engages in a careful examination of the political, religious, philosophical, literary, and dramatic contexts in which challenges to theatricality unfold. In so doing, she demonstrates that however differently \"the public\" might be defined in each epoch, what lies at the heart of antitheatrical disputes is a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.By situating antitheatrical incidents as rich and interpretable cultural performances, Freeman seeks to account fully for the significance of these particular historical conflicts. She delineates when, why, and how anxieties about representation manifest themselves, and traces the actual politics that govern such ostensibly aesthetic and moral debates even today.

An introduction to adaptations between theatre and film, considering these as distinct from literary adaptation. Places emphasis on performance and event, including the recent growth of digital theatre with phenomena such as NT Live. Case studies show how adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced.

'Immigrants, Literature and National Integration' explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences.

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations and good health have all been greatly affected by those changes, as have all aspects of life. Consequently, each post-war generation has been like no other before or since. Britain, uniquely, has five large-scale life course studies that began at intervals throughout that period. They have shown how lives are shaped by individual characteristics, their past and current experiences and opportunities, and so reflect their times. This book describes those fundamental changes that affected life chances differently in each generation, and how governments struggled to accommodate the changes with new policies for improving and managing the nation’s capital in terms of education, family policy, health, human rights and economics. A Companion to Life Course Studies provides a resource for the interpretation of the findings and design differences in the five studies, and the stimulus for new comparisons of the life course between these differing generations that would contribute to policy and to understanding.

The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes a window onto British politics of race, place, and nation, and Liverpool’s own contentious origin story as a gloriously cosmopolitan port of world-historical import that was nonetheless central to British slave trading and imperialism. This ethnography also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity. It captures the contradictions of diaspora in postcolonial Liverpool, where African and Afro-Caribbean heritages and transnational linkages with Black America both contribute to and compete with the local as a basis for authentic racial identity. Crisscrossing historical periods, rhetorical modes, and academic genres, the book focuses singularly on \"place,\" enabling its most radical move: its analysis of Black racial politics as enactments of English cultural premises. The insistent focus on English culture implies a further twist. Just as Blacks are racialized through appeals to their assumed Afro-Caribbean and African cultures, so too has Liverpool--an Irish, working-class city whose expansive port faces the world beyond Britain--long been beyond the pale of dominant notions of authentic Englishness. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail studies \"race\" through clashing constructions of \"Liverpool.\"

This essay considers the potential of histories of transnational movements of people, and the erosion of boundaries between British domestic and imperial history, to expand and revise the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British domestic life and work. Literatures on migration demonstrate how far the history of home involves transnational themes, including the recruitment of migrants and refugees who crossed national borders to do domestic work--in Britain and empire--and their development of what has been called the 'transnational family'. Domestic life, including motherhood, cannot be fully understood outside the history of the control and orchestration of national borders: which people were allowed inside for settlement, which people were refused entry, which people were positively encouraged to enter. The essay considers refugee movements as part of transnational movements--a neglected area in historical work, including work on Britain--developing a case study that compares the recruitment of people from displaced persons camps to the Australian and British labour markets in the late 1940s, situating both recruitment schemes in the context of post-war British migration to Australia.

Recent historiography has revealed the importance of scientific culture in British society during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with scientific knowledge shown to have been central in a wide range of sites and contexts, from botanical gardens to mechanics' institutes. The article draws upon the insights of historians of science, urban historians and others to argue that the concept of the English 'urban renaissance', the Habermasean model of the public sphere, various aspects of post-structural, post-modern and feminist theory, and attention to 'the space' and geography can all be used to enhance the understanding of this culture. Given that scientific culture has often been associated with social groups that have sometimes been described as 'marginal', the article explores the historiography of various aspects of what it defines as the 'marginal model' of cultural expression. Aspects of its various manifestations are explored with special reference to groups often perceived as 'alternative' or 'peripheral' to 'dominant' or majority culture, such as women, dissenters, gays or immigrants, including recent work in the United States concerning the activities of the 'creative class'. It is contended that this can illuminate our understanding of British scientific culture, for instance through its emphasis on urban and regional differentiation and on the irrational aspects of intellectual endeavour. The study assesses how successfully models of social marginality account for the varied character and geography of this culture, using case-studies of scientific societies in different types of English town and a review of Scottish Enlightenment science.

This article examines the nature of Jewish identity in British politics through a case study of the first Jewish Members of Parliament. The 1858 achievement of the right to sit in Parliament marked the culmination of the struggle for Jewish emancipation in Britain. Consequently, the first Jewish MPs were at the forefront of debates concerning Anglo-Jewry's place in British society and were confronted, in particular, with the dichotomy that equality presented European Jews: existing as a minority subculture in a modern nation-state. Between 1858 and 1887, Jewish MPs grew in number and successfully combined Jewish and general interests with little antisemitic reproach, demonstrating a remarkable confluence between the community's and the nation's concerns. However, certain issues raised tensions that forced Anglo-Jewry to defend their specificity within British politics against the perceived terms of their inclusion. This article reveals the ambiguous nature of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish identity, highlighting its integration but also continuing particularity and precariousness.

Most education in the pre-colonial Middle East and South Asia was inextricably permeated by religion, in that it relied heavily on study or memorization of religious scriptures and rituals for the purpose of training believers, or on the use of religious texts or stories to teach ostensibly secular subjects such as geography or history. Colonial penetration of these areas introduced a new model of Western education, in which the curriculum was dominated by material whose truth claims were not based on religious faith, and which were not taught through the medium of religious texts. Religion, if allowed at all, was confined to discrete classes on the topic. This marginalization or exclusion of religious material did not necessarily mean that the resulting education was inexorably secular: Gauri Viswanathan has demonstrated that British educators in India circumvented policies forbidding the teaching of Christianity in government schools by creating English literature courses designed “to convey the message of the Bible.” In contrast to its predecessors, however, Western-style education was based on the conceptualization of religion as a discrete subject separate from and incapable of shedding reliable light upon worldly matters, and on the premise that it was mastery of these worldly matters, rather than knowledge of sacred scriptures and rituals, that would bring students success. In this model, religion would be understood “as a new historical object: anchored in personal experience, expressible as belief-statements, dependent on private institutions and practiced in one's spare time.”

An initial investigation into the early dissemination of Scottish music in Australia considers Scottish immigration into Australia, the different paths of Scottish music dissemination in the early period and its effect on the Australian folklore scene. Manuscript music books and published music are examined for evidence of dissemination predominantly among the middle and upper classes while biographical and genealogical sources like passenger lists, diaries, letters, common-place books and field recordings will allow to build a picture of the oral tradition among 'ordinary folk'. Much of the material studied has only survived in libraries and archives though a few sources can also be found in historic houses. A general introduction will outline the types of schemes under which Scots emigrated to Australia, the different occupations of immigrants, and their influence on Australian political and public life. Furthermore the musical background of immigrants and their musical activities in Australia will be examined. This paper is intended to provide a first introduction into this hitherto little investigated subject and to identify areas for further research including case studies. L'enquête préliminaire sur les premières diffusions de musique écossaise en Australie s'intéresse aux questions d'immigration en Australie dès l'origine, les chemins qu'a emprunté la musique écossaise lors de ses premières diffusions et ses effets sur le public australien. Elle examine des manuscrits de livres de musique ainsi que des partitions, pour montrer que cette musique s'est développée dans les classes moyennes et hautes alors que des sources biographiques et généalogiques comme des listes de passagers, des journaux, lettres, bloc-notes, et enregistrements sur le terrain pousseraient plutôt à dresser un portrait de la tradition orale prenant place dans la classe ouvrière. Un grand nombre des documents étudiés sont conservés en bibliothèques et dans des archives, bien que certaines sources proviennent d'anciennes maisons. Une introduction présente les types de schémas selon lesquels les écossais ont émigré en Australie, les emplois que ces personnes ont exercé, ainsi que la manière dont elles ont influencé la vie publique et politique sur place. Elle propose enfin une étude du bagage musical et des activités musicales des immigrants. Cet article sert d'introduction à ce sujet négligé jusqu'ici, en dégage des champs de recherche, avant d'approfondir et d'envisager des études de cas. Die Voruntersuchung der frühen Verbreitung schottischer Musik in Australien beschäftigt sich mit der Immigration von Schotten nach Australien, den verschiedenen Wegen der Verbreitung schottischer Musik in der frühen Periode und deren Auswirkung auf die Volksmusiksszene. Musikhandschriftenbücher und Musikdrucke werden auf Hinweise für die Verbreitung durch hauptsächlich der höheren Schichten untersucht, während biographische und genealogische Quellen wie Passagierlisten, Tagebücher, Briefe, Albumbücher und Tonaufnahmen es ermöglichen, sich ein Bild über die mündliche Überlieferung des einfachen Volkes zu machen. Ein Grossteil der untersuchten Materialien hat nur in Bibliotheken und Archiven überlebt, jedoch sind auch einige Quellen in historischen Herrenhäusern zu finden. Eine allgemeine Einführung behandelt die Auswanderungsprogramme, mit denen die Schotten auswanderten, die verschiedenen Berufe von Immigranten und ihr Einfluss auf das politische und öffentliche Leben. Weiterhin wird auch der musikalische Vergangenheit der Immigranten sowie ihre musikalischen Aktivitäten in Australien untersucht. Dieser Artikel soll eine erste Einführung in dieses bis jetzt nur wenig untersuchte Thema bieten und Gebiete für weitere Forschung und Fallstudien aufzeigen.