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    <title>Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique</title>
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    <title>Etchart, Joana, Community Relations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Policy History</title>
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      <p class="texte"><em>Community Relations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Policy History</em>, by Joana Etchart, was published in 2024 by Liverpool University Press, with a cover by Mathew Staunton. The author examines the conditions in which community relations policy emerged and evolved between 1969 and 1990. This close analysis uncovers tensions in governance due to different interpretations of the problems at hand and contributes to understanding the dynamics of the conflict in Northern Ireland itself.</p>
      <p class="texte">The study is structured into 4 main sections, with a diachronic approach. Following a first section providing historical context to community relations, the author explains the creation of a community relations policy and the adjustments implied, between 1969 and 1972. Then, focusing on a second period spanning 1972 to 1979, she dissects why and how this first draft of a community relations policy was put into question. The last section explores the creation and implementation of a new community rela...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Elodie Gallet</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Clément, Guillaume, et Tranmer, Jeremy, (dirs.), Musique rock et chronique sociale au Royaume-Uni (1963-2023), Des Beatles au Brexit</title>
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      <p class="texte">Cet ouvrage s’attaque frontalement à une thématique majeure de l’histoire sociale et culturelle du Royaume-Uni depuis l’après-guerre, tant sont nombreux les groupes de rock anglais qui ont volontiers porté un regard sur la société de leur temps à travers leur musique — regard plus ou moins humouristique, distancé, critique, voire parfois explicitement politisé, selon les groupes et les époques. Le rock anglais se différencie ainsi assez sensiblement d’autres types de musiques populaires et d’autres traditions nationales et ne peut se décrire que comme un style de musique populaire intrinsèquement britannique. </p>
      <p class="texte">L’ouvrage se donne largement les moyens de cette ambition, avec 9 chapitres tous très bien documentés et clairement argumentés et une introduction particulièrement robuste par Guillaume Clément qui s’appuie sur une discussion riche de références à la sociologie contemporaine des musiques populaires — notamment certains de ses fondateurs les plus influents comme Simon Frith ou D...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Romain Garbaye</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-04-12</dc:date>
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    <title>Bonnet, Alma-Pierre and Kilty, Raphaële (eds), Towards a very British version of the “culture wars”: Populism, social fractures and political communication</title>
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      <p class="texte">This is a very interesting book and covers a range of issues relating to culture wars. The work of James Davidson Hunter, who first coined the term in the 1990s about American politics, is central to the theoretical framing of the book.  Hunter argued that the public can be divided into two opposing camps - conservatives and progressives - and that culture wars polarise these camps so that each perceives the other as an existential threat. In applying Hunter’s thinking, the editors and authors set out to explore the specificities of culture war politics in the UK rather than assuming the universality of US culture wars. For example, as the editors note in the conclusion, evangelical Christianity is less influential in the UK than the US (p.209).</p>
      <p class="texte">The edited collection covers a range of topics. The Brexit vote and Boris Johnson’s term as Prime Minister feature prominently. Education is also an important area of focus, because the Right perceives it as a site of Left indoctrination and ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Kirsten Forkert</dc:creator>
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    <title>Online Journeying within the Pitt Rivers Cook-Voyage Collections</title>
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      <p class="resume">Les voyages d’exploration ont constitué un moyen par lequel des objets – aujourd’hui qualifiés d’« ethnographiques » – ont été accumulés puis transportés en Europe. Éloignés dans l’espace et dans le temps, ces artefacts, devenus porteurs de discours, peuvent être considérés comme des traces non textuelles rendant compte de ces voyages. Dans ce contexte, les collections ces artefacts font aujourd’hui l’objet d’analyses décoloniales, qui interrogent notamment les pratiques muséales d’exposition. L’étude des mécanismes contemporains de médiation de ces objets peut ainsi être envisagée comme un travail de recherche relevant des études sur les voyages. J’aborderai ici le tournant décolonial dans ce champ à travers le concept de « cargaison ». Dans cette étude de cas, en prenant comme point d’entrée la présentation en ligne de la collection Cook-Voyage du Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford), l’accent sera mis sur la présentation numérique non pas d’expositions (<em>in situ</em> ou en ligne), mais de catal...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Sandhya Patel</dc:creator>
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    <title>“They shall not pass!”: British Anti-fascists and the Politics of Violence</title>
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      <p class="resume">In the 1970s, British anti-fascists resorted to force to prevent the National Front from operating in public. In the 1980s and 1990s, similar tactics were used against the British National Party. This violence was politically motivated and was the latest episode in a long history of militant anti-fascism. It bore only superficial similarities with other forms of mass disorder such as football hooliganism. From 2009, British anti-fascists had to face a new adversary in the form of the English Defence League (EDL), created by extreme right-wing activists and football hooligans. Despite the provocative nature of the EDL’s activities, anti-fascists did not mount a serious campaign of violent opposition. This can be explained by the evolution of the far left, the specificities of the EDL, changes in the labour movement, as well as more repressive policing.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jeremy Tranmer</dc:creator>
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    <title>“If It Means Lives Lost That is How it Must Be”: The Ethics of Strike Action in the NHS, from the Winter of Discontent to the Nurses’ Strike of 2022-2023</title>
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      <p class="resume"><em>Ethical </em>questions are seldom asked about trade union activities and of trade unionists themselves. Both scholars of labour history and industrial relations and trade unionists themselves would regard the altering of the balance of forces with the employers and the state as the key <em>political </em>question in relation to collective action. Still, there exists an area of trade union activism and scholarly interest where one finds a body of literature discussing the place of ethics in collective action, namely in health service unionism and in research on collective action taken by health service workers. This article first discusses the foregrounding of ethical concern as a key discursive device in anti-union, anti-strike coverage of industrial disputes in the UK National Health Service. It then looks at how the development of health service trade unionism in the 1970s was conceived, by trade unionists and scholars alike, as a move away, a liberation from ethical concern, in a mirror image ...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Marc Lenormand</dc:creator>
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    <title>George Orwell and the Spirit of Protest</title>
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      <p class="resume">This article examines George Orwell’s lifelong cultivation of what is termed the ‘spirit of protest’, a commitment to individual heterodoxy, truth‑telling, and resistance to political orthodoxy. Drawing on Orwell’s essays, fiction, diaries, and political activities, it traces his scepticism toward collective protest movements and his preference for dissent expressed through individual judgement and literary integrity. The discussion situates Orwell alongside writers such as Koestler, Zamyatin, and Camus, highlighting a shared belief in the necessity of perpetual protest against ideological conformity. The article argues that Orwell conceived protest primarily as a writerly vocation, rooted in linguistic clarity and moral honesty, and that <em>Nineteen Eighty‑Four</em> functions as a warning about the annihilation of this spirit through repression, surveillance, historical erasure, and manufactured conformity. Ultimately, it contends that Orwell’s work champions the preservation of heterodoxy...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Glenn Burgess</dc:creator>
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    <title>“The Interests of All Exploited People Are the Same”: An Analysis of Orwell’s Socialist Perspective</title>
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      <p class="resume">Les satires de George Orwell, <em>La Ferme des animaux</em> (1945) et <em>1984</em> (1949), expriment avec force comment les révolutions, corrompues par la soif de pouvoir, peuvent engendrer un ordre pire que celui qu’elles prétendaient abolir. Ce qui n’était à l’origine qu’une critique interne du socialisme a été progressivement transformé en une prise de position contre le socialisme et l’idée même de révolution. Depuis sa mort prématurée en 1949, la gauche dénonça ce qu’elle considérait comme une trahison de ses idéaux de la part d’Orwell, tandis que la droite s’appropria sa rhétorique antitotalitaire pour en faire une arme antisocialiste. En situant la pensée politique et morale d’Orwell dans son contexte historique — les décennies turbulentes des années 1930 et 1940, marquées par la plus grave crise du capitalisme, l’essor du fascisme et du communisme soviétique, ainsi que par la Seconde Guerre mondiale — cet article cherche à réexaminer la pensée politique d’Orwell à la lumière des crises polit...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Farouk Lamine</dc:creator>
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    <title>The Liberal Radicalism of T.H. Green and Edward Caird</title>
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      <p class="resume">This article gives a new perspective on the relationship between liberalism, class and protest in the late-Victorian and Edwardian political thought and activism. It focuses particularly on two leading British idealists, Thomas Hill Green (1836-82) and Edward Caird (1835-1908). Section one introduces the topic. Section two argues against a wide-spread scholarly interpretation of the British idealists as moralising middle-class collectivists. Section three argues that Green was a radical who foregrounded the experiences of the working classes in his practical activism. Section four argues much the same for Edward Caird, relying on his understudied lectures on social ethics. The article concludes that this analysis demonstrates that socially-embedded liberalism can ground a theory of radical class-sensitive politics. Throughout, the article uses a range of sources including previously obscure newspaper reports in local newspapers.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Colin Tyler</dc:creator>
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    <title>The Periodical The Examiner’s Coverage of the Crimean War in 1854 and the Problems of the Concept of Progress</title>
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      <p class="resume">The weekly periodical <em>The Examiner</em> is well-known by name to historians of Victorian Britain but no serious attempts appear ever to have been made to investigate its precise profile over its approximately eighty-year publication run or to identify exactly what justifies its habitual qualification as ‘progressive’ or ‘radical’ or whether such ‘progressivism’ or ‘radicalism’ implied different, fluctuating values as the nineteenth century wore on. Famously, the periodical was where Alfred Tennyson chose to publish his <em>Charge of the Light Brigade</em>, itself an ambiguous reflection on aristocratic military ‘blundering’ during the Battle of Balaclava (1854), and the Crimean War of 1853-1856 offers itself up as rich case study material revealing markers of the <em>Examiner</em>’s purported progressive values and their evolution over time. After establishing a reasonably solid understanding of the nature and profile of the periodical’s editorial staff, this article draws on extensive, and hitherto large...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Matthew Smith</dc:creator>
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