Troubles of the past?

Troubles of the past?This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re constructed, commemorated and then harnessed to mobilise politics in present day society.

Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s notion of a 'second poetic geography'

Despite the massive literature on the Holocaust

demonstrating that both pro- and anti-smokers have consistently failed to understand the position of smoking within popular culture

political and technological sense

and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London

Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves

A great resource for those whose professional or creative lives encompass multiple aspects of art

Glasgow and Seville

Anthology of key extracts

recent developments in British Party Politics

the interaction of party and state

A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century