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Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change (2022)
Thesis
Drummond, M. G. (2022). Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change. (Thesis). Keele University

This project explores the contribution of considerations of safety to communities and sites of social change. In this thesis, the concept of safety is grounded in contemporary conceptualizations and ongoing debates about safety found in discussions o... Read More about Safe Spaces and Good Places: The contribution of safety to community sites and social change.

Adapting Dickens for the screen (2022)
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Kelsall, H. A. (2022). Adapting Dickens for the screen. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis examines the value of film and television adaptations of Dickens’ novels; Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Bleak House and Great Expectations. Adaptations are bound to the multiple landscape, where they emerge from social, economic, comme... Read More about Adapting Dickens for the screen.

‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest (2022)
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Pickering, A. D. (2022). ‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest. (Thesis). Keele University

List of publications submitted in the order published 1) Pickering, Andrew, ‘Witchcraft and evidence in a seventeenth century Somerset parish’, The Local Historian: Journal of the British Association for Local History, Volume 48, Number 1, Januar... Read More about ‘A Hellish Knot of Witches’: a regional approach to early-modern witchcraft beliefs and accusations in and around Selwood Forest.

Military logistics and supply during the British Civil Wars, 1638–1653 (2022)
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Price, G. W. (2022). Military logistics and supply during the British Civil Wars, 1638–1653. (Thesis). Keele University

The aim of this thesis is to analyse the logistics and supply systems of the armies during the British Civil Wars at an operational level. Current historical works have neglected to fully evaluate the events of the British Civil Wars with respect to... Read More about Military logistics and supply during the British Civil Wars, 1638–1653.

Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram (2022)
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Annisa, F. (2022). Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram. (Thesis). Keele University

This thesis aims to ascertain how, through the social media platform Instagram, Muslim women internet celebrities represent themselves as public figures who can represent the ummah. Through their self-representation on social media, Muslim women inte... Read More about Contesting piety: representations of Indonesian internet celebrities on Instagram.

Gravitonicity: towards a model of the ‘Gravitation’ in Music (2022)
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Shufflebotham, J. D. (2022). Gravitonicity: towards a model of the ‘Gravitation’ in Music. (Thesis). Keele University

This research develops a model of the ‘gravitation’ in Music. In the literature on the ‘gravitational’ properties of melody and harmony, two sub-metaphors are apparent: ‘distance’ and ‘motion’. Gravitation and Music’s ‘gravitation’ are, therefore, fu... Read More about Gravitonicity: towards a model of the ‘Gravitation’ in Music.

Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations (2022)
Thesis
Mora, L. (2022). Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations. (Thesis). Keele University

In the last decade, hijab fashion bloggers on Instagram have gained remarkable levels of popularity among young Muslim women. While scholars have recognised the importance of describing and celebrating the empowering sides of hijab fashion as a subcu... Read More about Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations.