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The colonial presence in early modern Ireland is usually viewed as being thoroughly English, and in places Scottish, with the Welsh hardly featuring at all. This book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that there was in fact a significant Welsh involvement in Ireland between 1558 and 1641. It explores how the Welsh established themselves as soldiers, government officials and planters in Ireland. It also discusses how the Welsh, although participating in the 'English' colonisation of Ireland, nevertheless remained a distinct community, settling together and maintaining strong kinship and social and economic networks to fellow countrymen, including in Wales. It provides a detailed picture of the Welsh settler communities and their networks, and discusses the nature of Welsh settler identity. Overall, the book demonstrates how an understanding of the role of the Welsh in the shaping of early modern Ireland can offer valuable new perspectives on the histories of both countries and on the making of early modern Britain. Rhys Morgan completed his doctorate in history at Cardiff University.

Great Britain --- Ireland --- History --- History. --- Welsh --- Cymri --- Cymry --- Welch --- British --- Celts --- Ethnology --- English. --- Tudor. --- Welsh settler identity. --- Welsh. --- colonisers. --- distinct community. --- early Stuart Ireland. --- early modern Britain. --- government officials. --- planters. --- settler communities. --- shaping of early modern Ireland. --- soldiers.

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"This volume addresses a perennial question in the history of English religion: to what extent did the late-medieval dissenters known as lollards influence the Protestant Reformation? To answer this question, it examines the afterlife of the lollards as shaped by sixteenth-century evangelicals, especially John Foxe, and their seventeenth-century successors. Foxe's Acts and Monuments (1563) is second only to the Bible as the most influential book in early modern England, a juggernaut in Tudor historical writing that solidified the emergent national church. His reorientation of the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects portrayed these medieval dissenters as Protestants' ideological forebears. This volume offers a strong corrective to the traditional interpretation that Foxe heavily edited radical Lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. Instead, it shows that a wealth of non-mainstream material is present in Foxe's text that allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions, including the act of separation.Lollards in the English Reformation traces the ensuing struggle for the Lollard legacy between conformists and nonconformists, arguing that the same lollards that Foxe used to bolster the fledgling English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth. This fresh and exciting research promises to shake up our assumptions about Foxe, the levels of radicalism in post-Reformation Protestantism and the significance of historical precedent in post-Reformation polemic." -- Back cover. This book examines the afterlife of the lollard movement, demonstrating how it was shaped and used by evangelicals and seventeenth-century Protestants. It focuses on the work of John Foxe, whose influential Acts and Monuments (1563) reoriented the lollards from heretics and traitors to martyrs and model subjects, portraying them as Protestants' ideological forebears. It is a scholarly mainstay that Foxe edited radical lollard views to bring them in line with a mainstream monarchical church. But this book offers a strong corrective to the argument, revealing that the subversive material present in Foxe's text allowed seventeenth-century religious radicals to appropriate the lollards as historical validation of their own theological and political positions. The book argues that the same lollards who were used to strengthen the English church in the sixteenth century would play a role in its fragmentation in the seventeenth..

Lollards. --- Reformation --- Early movements --- Influence. --- Foxe, John, --- England. --- Angleterre --- England --- Religion --- Histoire religieuse --- Church history --- Early Modern Britain. --- History. --- John Bale. --- John Foxe. --- John Wycliff. --- Radicalism. --- Reformation England. --- Religious Culture. --- William Tyndale.

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Public relations was established in Britain by a group of liberal intellectuals in the aftermath of the slump. Central to the startling story of Britain's early public relations pioneers is Sir Stephen Tallents, the inaugural President of the Institute of Public Relations. Tallents was a public sector entrepreneur who lent his patronage to John Grierson's documentary film movement, the BBC Overseas Service, the development of Listener Research and the staging of the Festival of Britain.A compelling portrait of how the social, economic and media revolutions of early twentieth century reshaped national life, Public relations and the making of modern Britain reveals a country struggling to cope with austerity and crisis that is at once very different from, and yet surprisingly similar to, our own.This book includes the first reprint of Tallents' influential 'The Projection of England' for over fifty years. It will interest students and scholars of media studies and modern British culture, history and politics.

Public relations --- Business --- Industries --- PR (Public relations) --- Advertising --- Industrial publicity --- Mass media and business --- Propaganda --- Publicity --- History. --- Tallents, Stephen, --- History --- E-books --- Civil Servants. --- EMB Film Unit. --- Empire Marketing Board. --- General Post Office. --- Great Depression. --- Great War. --- Institute of Public Relations. --- Ministry of Information. --- Sir Stephen Tallents. --- early twentieth-century Britain. --- modern Britain. --- postwar period. --- propaganda. --- public relations.

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"Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob Bloomfield provides fresh perspectives on drag and recovers previously neglected episodes in the history of the art form. Despite its transgressive associations, drag has persisted as an intrinsic, and common, part of British popular culture--drag artists have consistently asserted themselves as some of the most renowned and significant entertainers of their day. As Bloomfield demonstrates, drag was also at the center of public discussions around gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Victorian sex scandals to the 'permissive society' of the 1960s. This compelling new history demythologizes drag, stressing its ordinariness while affirming its important place in British cultural heritage"--

Drag queens --- History. --- Great Britain. ǂ2 fast ǂ0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 --- British history of drag performance. --- censorship. --- entertainment. --- female impersonation. --- gender and sexuality. --- gender variance. --- humor. --- impersonators. --- male cross dressing in England. --- modern Britain. --- social and cultural attitudes. --- subculture. --- theater studies. --- Great Britain.

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In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control.In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making. They developed sophisticated theories of trust and credit as crucial background conditions for prudent risk-taking, and offered complex depictions of the relationships and behaviors that would make risk-taking more palatable. They also developed two narratives that persist in subsequent accounts of risk-risk as a threat to security, and risk as an opportunity for profit. Looking at how these narratives are entwined in early modern thought, Nacol locates the origins of our own ambivalence about risk-taking. By the end of the eighteenth century, she argues, a new type of political actor would emerge from this ambivalence, one who approached risk with fear rather than hope.By placing a fresh lens on early modern writing, An Age of Risk demonstrates how new and evolving orientations toward risk influenced approaches to politics and commerce that continue to this day.

Economics --- Risk --- History --- Philosophy. --- Adam Smith. --- David Hume. --- John Locke. --- Lockean political trust. --- Michel Foucault. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- civil war. --- commerce. --- commercial actors. --- early modern Britain. --- early modern period. --- economic risk. --- eighteenth century. --- future uncertainty. --- geometry. --- human ambivalence. --- knowledge. --- liberalism. --- mercantile policies. --- monopolies. --- moral theory. --- nineteenth century. --- philosophical skepticism. --- political authority. --- political economy. --- political order. --- political risk. --- political subject. --- political theory. --- political thought. --- political trust. --- probabilistic calculation. --- probability. --- risk control. --- risk prediction. --- risk taking. --- risk-taking. --- risk. --- safe political community. --- security threat. --- seventeenth century. --- uncertainty. --- unknown future. --- writings.