http://hdl.handle.net/10034/22488 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:27:22 GMT 2013-06-20T11:27:22Z http://hdl.handle.net/10034/128051 Title: The 'social-realist' phase in the painting of Luke Fildes, Hubert Herkomer, and Frank Holl: The making and unmaking of a sub-genre Authors: Watson, Peter Joseph Abstract: This dissertation discusses three Victorian artists, Luke Fildes, Hubert Herkomer, and Frank Holl, who emerged partly or mainly through their drawinsg for the Graphic magazine. All used images of the poor created for this work as motifs for major paintings which have come to be called 'social-realist', and all went on to devote their careers largely to portraiture. Yet to group them this way, and to apply the 'social-realist' label can be deeply misleading, firstly because they never worked together as a 'movement' with an ideology or manifesto, secondly because the label has more radical or socially-critical connotations as applied to other movements of that name in the twentieth century, and thirdly because it was applied only retrospectively in the twentieth century in the wake of those movements, implying ideological comparability. Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10034/128051 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10034/72094 Title: The Irish in north-east Wales 1851 to 1881 Authors: Jones, Peter Abstract: This study derives from the interest of recent years in the Irish during the late Victorian period in the smaller towns of Britain. Much work has been done on the Irish in the larger conurbations of industrial England and Scotland, particularly in the 1830s and 1840s - work that has overshadowed the experience of the Irish elsewhere, skewing the historiography and locking the migrants into a huddled mass in a northern city. However, the 'Wild Milesians' of Thomas Carlyle, living cheek-by-jowl with Engels's pig in the slums of Liverpool and Manchester, have come to be seen as less than typical of the Irish, especially the second and third generations of the migrants living in provincial towns. Furthermore, the representation of the Irish as uniformly poor, wretched and Catholic has been revised. Again, the phenomenon of 'ethnic fade' was assumed to have occurred as the nineteenth century progressed, so that after the initial troubled years, the Irish merged with the 'host' population. However, differing rates and degrees of assimilation have been revealed; indeed, religious and political differences among the Irish themselves, frequently violent in their expression, were often defining characteristics of Irishness. Following in the footsteps of micro - studies of the Irish in the regions and smaller towns, this study aims to examine the experience of the Irish in the later nineteenth century in an area hitherto neglected in the historiography, namely, North-East Wales, with particular reference to the towns of Wrexham, Mold, Holywell and Flint. Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10034/72094 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10034/22692 Title: An assessment of the impact of the annual codes of the Education department on the development of a rural school Authors: Skinner, Katherine Abstract: This masters dissertation discusses the impact that Codes of the minutes of the Education department (contained in the Annual Report of the Committee of the Council on Education) had upon Thornton-le-Moors Elementary School, 1875-1902. The curriculum, managers, attendence, punishment, and gender studies are discussed. Sat, 01 Oct 1994 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10034/22692 1994-10-01T00:00:00Z