Genteel women

Genteel womenThis book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.

Mathilde Roman explores the resonances that fields of theatre – stage

this book charts the changing status of the media as a moral voice

and in widely varying circumstances

68 b/w and 8 col

Leading on from this political background

Synopses highlight numerous film scenes spanning the city

from astrophotography

an emergent-memory theory

Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis

and South Africa to demonstrate the diverse ways people continued to interact with imperial authority in the decades before and after their colonies gained self-government

including work that explores media materiality and the past

Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982