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The contrast between north and south in England, 1918-1939 : a study of economic, social and political problems with particular reference to the experience of Burnley, Halifax, Ipswich and Luton [PDF]
, 1974 The thesis begins with a discussion of present views on the nature of the contrast between North and South in England. It proceeds to test those views against the experience of four English towns - Burnley, Halifax, Ipswich and-Luton - between 1918 and ...
Smithies, Edward Draper
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Operational Art and the German 1918 Offensives [PDF]
, 2009 At the tactical level of war the Germans are widely regarded as having had the most innovative and proficient army of World War I. Likewise, many historians would agree that the Germans suffered from serious, if not fatal, shortcomings at the strategic
Zabecki, D T
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'BROTHERS IN ARMS'?: The American and British Coalition on the Western Front, 1918 [PDF]
, 2009 This dissertation examines in detail, the organisation, training and operations of the 27 th and 30th American Divisions during the period of Summer 1917 to the announcement of an armistice in November 1918.
Yockelson, M
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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 245-274, October 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 256-281, April 2023., 2023 The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Bringing the Emigration State Back In
The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 298-305, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract The decades between 1948 and 1980 are often remembered as a time of mass immigration, yet almost 2 million more people left Britain than arrived in those years. Mass emigration has been an enduring part of Britain's modern history and this article explores its effects on British politics.
Freddy Foks
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Women and the Labour Party: Gender and the Writing of British Political History
The Political Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 251-257, April/June 2023., 2023 Abstract This article takes stock of the state of women's political history in the twentieth century and suggests new lines of enquiry, drawing on the authors’ own work on the Labour Party. It identifies a number of key themes which have enriched histories of women and gender in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and considers how these might ...
Lyndsey Jenkins, Stephanie Ward
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Blue days: A mid‐20th century war memorial swimscape and the persistence of memory
New Zealand Geographer, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 186-199, December 2022., 2022 Abstract War memorials were intended to console the living, honour the dead and remind future generations of duty and sacrifice. In living memorials, the combination of remembrance with celebrating life introduces a tension between the sacred and the profane, affecting the memory work of the memorial. Here, the persistence of memory in living memorials
Gretel Boswijk
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Privileged Injuries: Defining Disability Among Veterans Of The Irish Revolution (1916–1923)
History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 707-726, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Following its War of Independence from Britain (1919–21) and subsequent Civil War (1922–3), the Irish Free State government introduced disability pension legislation to compensate revolutionaries and soldiers who had been wounded and the dependants of those who had died in the conflicts.
MARIE COLEMAN
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History, Volume 107, Issue 377, Page 727-746, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This article analyses the ideological, political and medical positioning of mentally ill veterans of the Finnish Civil War of 1918 in inter‐war Finland. Using pension applications, the writings of veteran activists, parliamentary debates, psychiatric examinations and military documents this article shows that war‐related mental disability was ...
VIRVA LISKI
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