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A minority and the state
Travellers in Britain in the twentieth century
Becky Taylor

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Beginning film studies
Andrew Dix

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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
James M. Smith

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PRIZE WINNER

Congratulations to James Smith, author of Ireland’s Magdalen laundries and the nation’s architecture of containment, whose book has won the 2007 Donald Murphy Prize for a Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies.

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PRIZE WINNERS
Historians of British Art Prize 2007
Fragments of History: Rethinking the Ruthwell and Bewcastle monuments by Fred Orton, Ian Wood and Clare Lees has won the prestigious multi author category of The Historians of British Art prize. Congratulations to them! Details of the book can be found here.

The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award
Marek Bartelik has received The Waclaw Lednicki Humanities Award for his book Early Polish Modern Art: Unity in Multiplicity. Find out more about this title.

Best Book published in Anglo-Saxon Studies
Congratulations to Daniel Anlezark. The ISAS Publications' Committee has bestowed the award for the Best Book published in Anglo-Saxon Studies, 2005-2007, for his book Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood. The have heralded it as "an important volume, exceptionally impressive in its range and sustained erudition". Details of the book are available here ...

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EU security governance
Devolution and power in the United Kingdom
The Alternative Comprehensive Spending Review 2007

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