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... labour in the shadows, they are themselves partly to blame. In general, press historians stick rigidly to the press; television historians stay rooted in television; and film historians remain wedded to film. Within each of these ...
... Labour Party and the archbishop of Canterbury because they had departed from the government's hymnsheet. However, the BBC subsequently inched its way to freedom, with occasional tactical reverses and pauses. This slow journey was marked ...
... labour. A gendered pattern of political involvement developed in which it became acceptable for women to take up certain public issues as an extension of their family and charitable roles. By the 1840s, women were speaking at public ...
... Labour government introduced an import duty which led Hollywood to ban the export of new films to Britain. This provoked a furious outcry from the British public, and led to a humiliating government reversal of policy. Paul Swann argues ...
... labour. This was a key moment in the mobilization of popular animosity against gay men. Wilde was widely denounced in the press as an evil corrupter of youth, encouraging what one London newspaper gleefully called at the time a 'dash of ...