School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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For the State or for the Student: Changes in Career Advice in New South Wales Secondary Schools in the Twentieth Century David Hugh Southwood A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of B.A. (Hons) in History. University of Sydney October
Published 2012-11-01This thesis looks at how changes in the Australian Federal Government’s economic policy have affected career advice practices in New South Wales Secondary Schools. From 1927 – 75, career advice practices were primarily ...Open AccessThesis -
Ill-conceived History: An Analysis of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Pill
Published 2012-01-01The fiftieth anniversary of the pill was an international commemorative event celebrated in 2010, and this thesis is an analysis of the use of history within this anniversary literature. Within the fiftieth anniversary, ...Open AccessThesis -
Making and breaking order via clothing Clothing regulation, cross-dressing, and the ordering mentality in later medieval and early modern England
Published 2012-11-01Following the events which disrupted social stability in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, individuals from a variety of social contexts demonstrated a particular necessity to see order visibly displayed in society. ...Open AccessThesis -
“Petticoat Government”: The Eaton Affair and Jacksonian Political Cultures
Published 2012-11-01Though typically trivialised by historians, the Eaton Affair preoccupied Andrew Jackson throughout his first presidency and lived on in nineteenth-century popular memory. This thesis sets aside dismissive, partisan and ...Open AccessThesis -
'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War
Published 2012-11-01Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve ...Open AccessThesis