When vulnerable populations are rendered socially invisible, decisions about which cases are amplified and which are neglected reveal deeper hierarchies of value.Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead draws on criminal cases, news coverage, and media analysis from around the world to examine the thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized communities whose stories often go untold. Contributors invite ...

At the turn of the twentieth century women played a key role in debates about the nature of the Irish nation. Examining women's participation in nationalist and rural reform groups, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of Irish identity in the prelude to revolution and how it was shaped by women.

Women and the Orange Order examines the growth and activism of Orange women in England, Scotland and Canada since the mid-nineteenth century and argues that they were central to the development of Orange associational culture up to the Second World War. This study also explores how women were key participants in the formation of diasporic connections throughout the British world, building on links created by migration and the Empire. It reveals that the ordinary - and largely work...

Bringing together leading authorities on Irish women and migration, this book offers a significant reassessment of the place of women in the Irish diaspora. It compares Irish women across the globe over the last two centuries, setting this research in the context of recent theoretical developments in the study of diaspora. This collection demonstrates the important role played by women in the construction of Irish diasporic identities, assessing Irish women’s experience in Britain, Canada,...

"An exciting fantasy adventure series involving quokkas, a speedy stingray and other animals" -The West Australian NewspaperFabulously narrated by Aimee Horne (the voice of Cotton-Tail in Peter Rabbit 2), Clancy the quokka's thrilling adventure is bound to entertain the whole family.Rottnest Island is home to one of the world's cutest and happiest animals–the quokka. When Clancy the quokka gets stuck in a picnic basket and taken far from h...

"An exciting fantasy adventure series involving quokkas, a speedy stingray and other animals" -The West Australian NewspaperThe whole family will enjoy the spirited narration of Aimee Horne (the voice of Cotton-Tail in the hit movie Peter Rabbit 2) as she brings Clancy the Quokka and his friends to life in this epic Christmas adventure.Can the Quokkas save Christmas?When Santa crashes his sleigh on Christm...

"An exciting fantasy adventure series involving quokkas, a speedy stingray and other animals" -The West Australian NewspaperFabulously narrated by Aimee Horne (the voice of Cotton-Tail in the movie Peter Rabbit 2), Kylie and Clancy's thrilling adventure is bound to entertain the whole family.A school trip to Rottnest Island becomes an action-packed adventure when Kylie meets Clancy the quokka. Clancy shares the amazing sec...

"An exciting fantasy adventure series involving quokkas, a speedy stingray and other animals" -The West Australian NewspaperFabulously narrated by Aimee Horne (the voice of Cotton-Tail in Peter Rabbit 2), Kylie and Clancy's adventure on Rottnest Island is bound to entertain the whole family.Kylie and Clancy must find an old priceless artefact that contains secret information about quokkas. But they are not the only ones on the treasure hun...

Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and the diaspora. An international team of le...

This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and:* examines its historiography* assesses the context of new interpretations* considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas* offers their own interpretation.Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the context of recent revisionist debates, of contemporary pol...

The first general history of the English middle classes, based on BBC TV programme of which Will Self said "No simple overview can do justice to this programme - an exemplary series and mandatory viewing'.Afternoon tea, the Women's Institute, Mrs Beeton, department stores, suburbia, seaside holidays and cycling clubs - all preserves of the great middle class. But where did the middle classes come from? And what makes a person middle class today?Although the...

Oxford: Town and Gown is a unique look at the relationships between universities and their local communities, the result of a wide-ranging sociological survey carried out by Peter Collison in 1960s Oxford, at the pivotal moment when the world depicted by authors like Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Hardy changed forever. Surveys carried out at the same time in York and Reading, two university towns of similar size to Oxford, provide a useful comparison. This book examines political conflict, issue...