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'Poised to become a cornerstone in media and audience studies, Happer's book offers a ground-breaking model for understanding how demands for change are accommodated into systems of power.'> 'This elegantly written book offers an empirically rich examination of the media's influence on public opinion and social change in the context of public disaffection and a transformed media landscape.'>> Drawing on a decade of empirical research, this ambitious book demonstrates the role of demographics, identity groupings and socio-economic conditions in producing patterns in opinion. With an emphasis on the importance of language, value systems and differentiated media cultures - from BBC News to TikTok shorts - it offers new insights into whether age is replacing class as the key marker of political divisions. The construction of public opinion explores how new mechanisms for controlling thought and opinion limit the potential for social change - and how this might be resisted.

The second volume of this highly collectable series, covering the pivotal years of 1969-70. The Island Book of Records Volume II documents the years 1969-70, during which Island sought to build on its success with the Spencer Davis Group by seeking out new British rock talent. By the end of the period, Island was emerging as a major British label, one that could boast releases from Jethro Tull, Nick Drake, King Crimson, John and Beverley Martyn, Fairport Convention and Cat Stevens. Featuring material from recent interviews and from media interviews of the time, and including a comprehensive discography of 45s, The Island Book of Records Volume II is lavishly illustrated with gig adverts (very many at venues that no longer exist), concert tickets, flyers, international LP variants, labels, LP and 45 adverts and other ephemera. This LP-sized edition is a collector's dream, offering a truly unparalleled resource for those interested in music history and a perfect gift for any music lover.

The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf's novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist masterpiece that has remained popular since its publication in 1925. Its dual narratives follow a day in the life of wealthy housewife Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, capturing their inner worlds with a vividness that has rarely been equalled. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel offers new readers a lively introduction to this enduring classic, while providing Woolf lovers with a wealth of information about the novel's writing, publication and reception. It follows Woolf's process from the first stirrings in her diary through her struggles to create what was quickly recognised as a major advance in prose fiction. It then traces the novel's remarkable legacy to the present day. Woolf wrote in her diary that she wanted her novel 'to give life & death, sanity & insanity... to criticise the social system, & to show it at work, at its most intense.' Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel reveals how she achieved this ambition, creating a book that will be read by generations to come.

This book analyses the role of ideology and identity in the North Caucasus insurgency, exploring how rebel leaders balanced local, national, and global factors in their efforts to justify and promote armed struggle against the Russian state. -- .

An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book details the fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an "ideal" family size. The author situates fertility medicine, artificial insemination by donor, and child adoption within larger concerns about the French birthrate. -- .

Straight Nation expertly dissects nationalism in postcolonial Singapore, exposing its profound reliance on the governance of sexuality. Dispelling liberal theories of the nation, the book highlights nationalism's perpetual generation of threats and calls for an expansive, non-identarian approach to dismantle the entrenched force of heteronormativity central to nation-making. -- .

Jake Morris-Campbell sets out on a pilgrimage from Lindisfarne to Durham Cathedral, exploring thirteen-hundred years of social change and asking what stories the North East can tell about itself in the wake of Christianity and coal. -- .

As the ravages of climate change throw our future into question, many of our stories are turning to the subject of extinction. This book is about what they are saying and why it demands our attention. -- .

Centralizing the prolific English novelist, Phebe Gibbes, in a lineage of women writers of the revolutionary period, this study traces Gibbes' evolution from satire to irony through detailed discussion of five novels representing women's struggle for agency in the context of a shifting British patriarchy and its growing global imperialism. -- .

This book explores how Canadians and Canadian readers have fashioned their self-image as an antislavery haven, showing a more complicated picture of Canada as a slaveholding, exploitative and racist place. -- .

This book offers a series of critical reflections on the ethics of researching the far right from a range of contributors. It provides a starting point for researchers and considers issues such as terminology, positionality, safety, and dissemination. -- .

Based upon over 300 personal testimonies, the book traces the everyday experiences of teenage girls of the post-war period, illuminating how matters of romance, sex and intimacy shaped their young lives. In doing so, it reveals the pivotal role that young women played in changing English sexual culture in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. -- .

Investigating the rise of the social media 'cleanfluencer', this book asks why women are still the ones tidying up in the twenty-first century. -- .

The book offers a study of Roma racialisation. Through the idea of unbelonging it demonstrates how the community is placed in a position of visceral visibility by local, national and international institutions and media discourses. It critically evaluates how the unbelonged position impacts Roma's self-representation and political mobilisation. -- .

This book demonstrates the continuity of Roman Catholicism in English Literature in a Biblicist age which established the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer. In a challenging view of inherited literary culture, important figures include William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Queen Henrietta Maria, John Donne, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. -- .

Studio Electrophonique tells the story of the Sheffield home studio that helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in British pop: The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and more. -- .

This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account of statelessness in her Origins of Totalitarianism. -- .

This book explores how events within the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland shaped the affairs of the wider Irish and British Isles during the later medieval and early modern periods. -- .

This book analyses experimental performances by British music ensembles in the twenty-first century. It shows how theatrical approaches to presenting orchestral music can facilitate unique and powerful experiences for audiences, enable new interpretation of repertoire, and connect music-making to contemporary social issues. -- .

The first book-length, historical study of invasion-scare and future-war fiction in Britain before and during the First World War in half a century, and the definitive cultural and political history of the genre. -- .

This book explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire. It not only examines how these medical professionals became embroiled in the conflict, but also how they used their knowledge to further the interests of the state. -- .

This work explores the censorship of film at local level and charts the chronological development of local film censorship systems, mechanisms and apparatus. Using archival material from a range of different locations across the UK, a more nuanced and complex picture of local film censorship activity is drawn. -- .

This book enterprises a quest to crack open the secrets of diplomatic knowledge production by building and applying the tools to map, assess, and trace the impact of descriptions of international actors that inform policy. -- .

This art book presents the award-winning portrait-based series 'Slaves of Fashion' by British artists The Singh Twins. -- .

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume.

In a context where digital media are reshaping the futures of conservation, environmentalism, and ecological politics - for better and for worse - Digital ecologies draws together leading scholars in the humanities and social sciences to establish a research agenda for making sense of these transformations. -- .