Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820 (2025)
Thesis
Hardiman, E. R. Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1109990

This thesis explores the subject of elite masculinity in the late eighteenth century. Specifically, I focus on the discussion of, and resistance to, normative conceptions of genteel masculinity and how efforts to refashion and reimagine those dominan... Read More about Unbecoming Gentlemen: Idleness, Occupation, and Masculinity, 1760-1820.

1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response (2024)
Thesis
Crawley, S. M. 1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1018726

This critical-creative dissertation explores memory, loss, and the past, present and futures of the mudscapes of the Isle of Sheppey, to enquire how the mudscapes can speak to contemporary issues around the current global environmental crisis. Mud, a... Read More about 1. Fixed Link 2. Isle of Sheppey mudscapes: an ecocritical-creative response.

Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations (2022)
Thesis
Mora, L. Examining the self-representation of hijab fashion bloggers as a postfeminist phenomenon: discourses of empowerment and their limitations. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/422673

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.

Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall (2018)
Thesis
Rogers, C. Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/410298

This thesis examines the impact of the social and economic policies of two aristocratic landowners on the development of Staffordshire towns. The integral role of land agents is demonstrated by comparing the earl of Bradford’s Walsall estate with the... Read More about Land agents and urban aristocratic estates in nineteenth century Staffordshire: a comparison of Longton and Walsall.

Contesting police-protest relations in the June 1999 London demonstrations (2008)
Thesis
Michael, C. (2008). Contesting police-protest relations in the June 1999 London demonstrations. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1236962

The juxtaposition of policing and protest promote narrative, descriptive and analytic structures through which it becomes possible to explain demonstration events. The police-protest relational pair facilitates assessments and explanations of events... Read More about Contesting police-protest relations in the June 1999 London demonstrations.

Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership.
Thesis
Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/408048

This study begins with the clinical observation that psychopathic patients distort and disrupt the organisation containing and caring for them on one hand, and that organisational leaders manage to galvanise followers into realising his vision on the... Read More about Managerial agency: Personality, psychopathy, structure and leadership..