It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography's
history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British …

My dissertation demonstrates how a new and distinctive musical culture developed in the
industrialising society of early Victorian Manchester. It challenges a number of existing …

In 1869, a Manchester journalist, Mr Townsend, wrote to John Howard Nodal, the editor of
the Manchester City News (1864-1934), asking for help in finding a job.“The literary world,” …

During the final three decades of the eighteenth century, Manchester, along with many other
towns and cities, was host to periodic musical festivals. These festivals, frequently spread …

The explosive growth of British clubs over the 18 th Century has been understood to have
major implications for the histories of sociability, the public sphere, civil society, and …

The mid-nineteenth century has been presented in popular and academic narratives as a
crucial period in the history of modern leisure in Britain, as urbanisation and changes to …

This thesis is about bohemian associational culture in London and Manchester between
1850 and 1914. It is concerned with how the ideas of bohemianism and bohemia influenced …

This thesis argues that a group of eleven reformers who worked and lived in Manchester,
known throughout this study as the Little Circle, presented a unique understanding of how …

This chapter argues for the centrality of urban culture in the history of outdoors leisure.
Walkers and climbers from England and Germany enthusiastically engaged in some city …

In 1869, a Manchester journalist, Mr Townsend, wrote to John Howard Nodal, the editor of
the Manchester City News (1864-1934), asking for help in finding a job.“The literary world,” …