Studies in Photography
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View Rights PortalBetween 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians' war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became, thus, frames of experience.
Mi lügt fast nie – aber heute will ihr niemand glauben. Zu Hause beschuldigt Mama sie, ihrer übelsten Nachbarin eine Regenbogenzwergin ins Gartenbeet gepflanzt zu haben. In der Schule behauptet ihr Lehrer, dass sie schummelt. Unfair! Als sich Mi auf Polly (so heißt ihr Bike) die Wut aus dem Leib strampelt, bricht ein gigantisches Gewitter los. So landet sie bei Kafka, einem geheimnisvollen Laden mit einem noch geheimnisvolleren Inhaber, der Mi den geheimnisvollsten Kaffeesack mit auf den Heimweg gibt. Und dann ist Mi plötzlich mittendrin in Geschichten, die sie selbst kaum glauben kann. Warum schleicht sich ihre große Schwester nachts heimlich raus? Was sind das auf einmal für seltsame Gerüche im Haus? Und was verbirgt Uroma Urmel? Die Geheimnisse zu lüften, ist Mis Mission. Zum Glück hat sie Kafkatz, Roya und Isso … oder haben die etwa auch was zu verbergen? Der Auftakt einer neuen Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Isabel Abedi, die alle ab 9 Jahren mit auf die Reise nimmt. Es geht um Freundschaft und Familie , um Kinderrechte – und um das kleine Glück , das unser Leben liebenswerter macht. Und mittendrin ist Mi – die man nach dieser Geschichte nicht mehr missen möchte.
Zauberhaftes Sommerabenteuer mit einer Riesenportion Freundschaft, einer Prise Krimi und einem Hauch Magie So sollen Sommerferien sein: ein ultrablauer Himmel, eine ultrawarme Sonne und ein ultraneues Wohnwagen-Café, das Mis Wahl-Opa Emil Knopf neu eröffnet. Das Allerbeste: Mi darf mitmachen, zusammen mit ihrer Freundin Roya, ihren Freunden Isso und Elliot und natürlich ihrer Katze Kafkatz, die stets den richtigen Riecher hat.Das Allerschlimmste: Mi hat einen Albtraum und der droht wirklich wahr zu werden: Die schönen Schrebergärten ringsum sollen dem Erdboden gleichgemacht werden und noch dazu wird Mis Nachbarin Frau Wagner angefahren. So ist Mi mit ihren Lieben mittendrin in einem großen Sommerabenteuer: auf der Spur von vierundzwanzig ungeahnten Fakten, einem feigen Fahrer und einem raschelnden Rätsel. Denn manchmal kommt das Glück auf leisen Pfoten ... Band zwei der neuen Reihe von Bestsellerautorin Isabel Abedi, die alle ab 9 Jahren mit in einen großen Sommer nimmt. Es geht um Freundschaft und Familie, ums Zusammenhalten und auch mal Querstellen – und darum, dass die Kleinsten manchmal das Größte bewirken können. Und mittendrin ist wieder Mi – eine Freundin, die das Leben liebenswerter macht.
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, both internal and international, that influenced the actions of the various major players, it highlights British efforts to maintain a grip on India even as the decolonization process spun out of control. Drawing on extensive archival research in India, Pakistan, and Britain, combined with innovative use of cartographic sources, the book paints a vivid picture of both the partition process and the Radcliffe line's impact on Punjab. This book will be vital reading for scholars and students of colonialism, decolonization, partition, and borderlands studies, while providing anyone interested in South Asia's independence with a highly readable account of one of its most controversial episodes.
A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life. A queer scrapbook offers a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland. Packed with materials, from interviews and newspaper articles to photographs and flyers, the book explores urban, rural and regional queer life since 1945. Commentaries and short essays introduce a changing queer landscape, spotlighting four broad themes: home and family, sex and socialising, arts and culture and politics and activism. The book delves into the meaning and experiences of domesticity and parenting and explores the sometimes unexpected places LGBTIQ+ people met to have fun. It examines the importance of creative work in forming community and identity and shows how people fought injustice and advocated for equal rights. Collecting has been a way for the marginalised to explore and assert identity and community. A queer scrapbook vividly illustrates the diversity of queer and trans lives across the British and Irish isles since the Second World War.
People's ordinary, everyday lives - and more specifically, their leisure activities - are often obscured within existing academic research on 1920s-30s Ireland. This book seeks to redress that neglect by exploring the relationship between identity, recreation, and culture both North and South of the border, with particular attention to women's lived experiences. Leisurely pursuits during this period were commonly overshadowed by religious influence and the nation-building projects in post-partition Ireland. Nevertheless, there existed alternative spaces, where people enjoyed dancing, singing, listening to music, shopping, glamour, reading magazines, swimming, travelling, and going to the cinema. Such activities reflected international trends beyond national borders. This book documents those activities and spaces through a feminist lens and intersectional analysis of gender, class, religion and rural/urban identities. It brings together multi-disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, architecture, geography, fashion, and musicology. In so doing, we present new insights and advance understanding of this under-researched aspect of Irish history.
A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.