Cultural Heritage of Port Cities (CHPC) is a symbol and reflection of how people interact with the sea. It comprises both material (e.g. docklands, landscapes) and immaterial aspects (e.g. lifestyle and activities of local ...

The thesis reassesses the activity of the Northumbrian cleric Willibrord (658 739) on the continent between 690 and 739. Traditionally, Willibrord has been perceived as the first representative of a new wave of Anglo-Saxon ...

This thesis is a study of a particular dimension of American political and historical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period American writers and intellectuals acknowledged, ...

From 1912 to 1949, especially under the administration of the Nanjing Government from 1927 to 1937, Shanghai witnessed drastic changes in its political structure, medical culture and social lifestyles through the construction ...

This doctoral thesis examines the words and speeches recorded in the 1641 depositions. The 1641 depositions documented words of treason but also words of insult or name-calling, which this thesis will focus on primarily. ...

This thesis explores methods employed by the Dublin administration during the long thirteenth century in its efforts to manage the colonial frontiers and to minimise their impingement on government activities and finances. ...

This thesis illuminates the history of Irish fisheries from 1500 to 1603 by utilising a range of digital research methods. Previous monographs on the history of Irish fisheries have been unfocused and anecdotal. In contrast, ...

If no copies had survived of ‘þe proporcions’, the assumption might have been that the audience for Boethian music theory in fifteenth-century England was scholarly, clerical, and Latinate. The discovery of a third copy ...

From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ...

This research is focused on forest-related discourse in the Irish Parliament and in expert literature around the time of the foundation of the Irish state in 1922. In contrast to most European Countries, but in tandem with ...