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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Finding Dr Florence Buchanan: The recovered face and fuller life story of a scientific legend. [PDF]

Exp Physiol
Clark BC, Bailey DM, Ashcroft FM.
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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THE ORBITAL MOTION OF THE TRIPLE SYSTEM ZETA AQUARII

, 1941
K. Strand
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NSWGR locomotive 1235, Dubbo railway workshop, March 1941 [picture] /

, 1941
Title devised by cataloguer from inscription on verso.; Part of collection: Buckland collection of railway transport photographs.; Inscriptions: "NSWGR loco 1235 / Dubbo Mar 1941 / Main[?] West / 23.3.41 / Photo W.R.B.
Johnson, W. R. B.
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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Portrait of Rupert Sumner Ryan, M.H.R. for Flinders, Victoria, 1941 [picture] /

, 1941
Title from inscription on reverse.; Condition: Good.; Inscriptions: "Spencer Shier, 60 Collins Street, Melbourne" --Blind stamp lower right corner. "From:- Colonel R.S. Ryan, Berwick.
Shier, Spencer, 1884-1950.
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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
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GROWING GREEN IN US SUBURBIA: Property Value, Race and Domestic Landscaping Aesthetics in Mid‐Century America

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Much of the current popular and academic literature on the provision of green spaces is dominated by the assumption that ‘nature’ is an unalloyed positive, and that socioeconomic and racial exclusion from access to green spaces is a problem of unequal spatial distribution rather than of the form and content of particular urban designs.
Kiera Chapman
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