This concluding chapter emphasises the role of ships in migrant journeys and the symbolic importance of the ship as a transporter of people from persecution and exploitation to freedom and acceptance. It summarises the refugee escape to Britain, the role of the Navy in the suppression of slave trade, and the symbolic and political importance of migrant journeys to the British nation.

This chapter focuses on the works of Maura Laverty and Patrick Kavanagh. It first analyses Kavanagh' two versions of the Bildungsroman: his autobiography The Green Fool (1938) and his novel Tarry Flynn (1948). It then compares his works with Maura Laverty, whose works depict sexuality, rural life and Irish underdevelopment. The chapter argues that Laverty's and Kavanagh's youth narratives and their visions of rural Ireland were important innovations in the history of the Irish Bildungsroman.

The end of twentieth century and the beginning of twenty-first century were marked by two phenomena, the increasing production of, and interest in biography and autobiography, alongside an intense (re)engagement with traditional, creative, craft-based labours, particularly cookery and horticulture. The arrival on the booksellers' shelves since 1990 of a number of autobiographic 'escape' narratives is testimony both to the act of migration and the act of writing about it. Richard Sennett claims in The Craftsman 'that the craft of making physical things provides insight into the techniques of experience that can shape our dealings with others'. A recent British Academy debate, Posterity: Present concerns with the future suggested that 'post-war social and economic debacles and looming ecological disaster have bred despair and anomie' and that 'without hope for posterity, life becomes bleak and society self-destructs'.

Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, a favorite of Louis XIII, died of scarlet fever at about three o'clock on the afternoon of 15 December 1621 at the château of Longuetille near Condom in southwestern France. Luynes was a shrewd politician who controlled the distribution of royal patronage at court. François Du Val, marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil, thought Luynes had little intelligence or ability. A stony-faced Louis XIII saddled up and rode out upon hearing of his favorite's death because he did not wish to show grief in public. Luynes's political enemies, particularly Cardinal Richelieu and his successor Mazarin, were the patrons of contemporary historians, and gave royal pensions to those who portrayed them and their policies in a favorable light. The portrayal of Luynes as a timid, inept bungler originated in the anti-Luynes pamphlets commissioned by the Queen Mother that Richelieu incorporated into his memoirs.

The Epilogue briefly summarizes the results reached in the preceding chapters; highlights the principal six hypotheses of Part I, and the five principal hypotheses of Part II; points out that these hypotheses, being data-supported, should be taken into account in all future work on the undeciphered Aegean scripts, at least until such time as we have data-supported reasons for doing otherwise; but nevertheless exhorts the reader for a final time to regard these hypotheses as what they are: hypotheses, not supposed proof of what they hypothesize.

This chapter explores the multiple determinants of the television actors' agency and creativity. The science fiction genre poses unique challenges for actors. The chapter focuses on the two best-known captains, William Shatner, James Kirk in the original Star Trek and Patrick Stewart, Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, supplementing the analysis with discussions of Trek actors. Genre seems a particularly strong determinant of television performance style, science fiction requiring actors to suit their interpretations to the oft-times larger-than-life nature of the text. But genre must be considered in conjunction with those determinants of television acting: time, the actor's status within the cast, the visual nature of the medium and input from other creative personnel. Stewart and Marina Sirtis adapted to acting science fiction by believing in the universe and making it believable for their viewers, but other actors never feel at ease in the science fiction genre.

Chapter Five turns to questions around the ageing self and the ways in which a normative middle-aged self does not necessarily accommodate experiences of body and of self in older age. For example, if ‘doing’ is an essential part of ‘being’ and of self, as the people who participated in this research continually stated and demonstrated, what then transpires to being and self if what one can do shifts over time? Put another way, what are the connections between temporality, embodiment and subjectivity in older age? Chapter Five considers what light the ageing self can shed on Western notions of self and subjectivity and considers what a theory of self might look like if it made room for lessons learned from older age such as ‘the remembered self’ versus ‘the inhabited self’.

Chapter 1 presents the reader with an overview of each of the seven ancient scripts in the Aegean family: Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A, the script on the Phaistos Disk, Linear B, Cypro-Minoan, Cypriot Syllabic, and Eteocypriot. So far, only two of these scripts have been deciphered (Linear B and Cypriot Syllabic), though it is clear that all seven scripts are “syllabaries,” with a separate sign for each syllable in the languages they encode. For each script, the reader is given (a) a brief description of the script, and when and where it was used, as well as a photograph of an inscription in the script, (b) a summary of the corpus of inscriptions in that script, (c) the structure of the script’s syllabary (including a table containing the syllabic signs in the script), and (d) a description of the “standard edition” of the script’s corpus—i.e., the work recognized as the authoritative edition of inscriptions in that script. The chapter ends by discussing the prospects for decipherment of the five undeciphered scripts in this family.

This chapter explores the concept of Britishness and discusses British migration starting with the Huguenots onwards, including the responses of the state and public to these newcomers in Britain. It discusses the intensification of later migratory movements to Britain and the immigration process implemented for the entry and restriction of migrants. The chapter also explores cases reflecting intense anti-alienism of British society to immigrants and refugees.

This chapter provides an overview of the types and frequency of leisure activities reported by deaf clubs in British Deaf News. The chapter includes a statistical analysis of reports taken from British Deaf News to determine types and popularity of leisure activity. Regional variations are highlighted together with patterns across the research period (1945-1995) as wider social trends developed and declined. Changes in communal deaf leisure which reflected changes in the nature of the British deaf community are also explored. This chapter provides a national context for the next section of the book, which comprises a case study of north-west England.

Jurisdiction institutionalizes shipping regulation, rooted in State sovereignty. States act as flag, coastal, or port authorities. While UNCLOS prioritizes flag States’ jurisdiction, it also recognizes ports as enforcers of international maritime compliance and provides the legal foundation for State jurisdictions. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) creates treaties. The synergy between UNCLOS and IMO adapts the legal framework to emerging challenges. This paper examines the interplay between UNCLOS and IMO regulating MASS and its implications for port and coastal States’ responsibilities and navigational rights. This study assesses the navigational rights to MASS. While port States possess discretion in setting entry conditions, it discusses the legal basis of port State jurisdiction and key elements of autonomy. It explores the rights of semi- and fully autonomous ships to call at foreign ports and analyzes port States’ discretion in regulating MASS entry. Despite UNCLOS and IMO regulations hesitating to regulate ports directly, the advent of MASS operations necessitates port States’ role in ensuring compliance with international norms. This paper examines IMO’s mandate regarding the introduction of MASS. It questions whether IMO plays a proactive role in encouraging Member States, through developing Generally Accepted International Rules and Standards (GAIRS), to welcome such ships in ports.