L’Année du Maghreb, 2022 The United Kingdom of Libya, established on 24 December 1951 under the crown of Idris al-Sanusi, found its legitimacy in Islam according to the way of the Sanusiyya, a religious Sufi brotherhood founded near Mecca in 1837, which had its centre of ...
Carlotta Marchi
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Nabokov’s Cold War Novels and the Containment of American Sexuality
CoSMO, 2015 This paper focuses on Nabokov's American fiction as novels of the so-called “Long 1950s” and tries to divert traditional debate of Nabokov’s work from its canon of post-modern reception, as centering on language play and upended narrative codes.
Andrea Carosso
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Hooked on a New Technology: The Automation Pioneers in Post-War Norway [PDF]
Modeling, Identification and Control, 2009 This paper presents the initial activities in servo engineering in Norway originating in the early 1950s based on contacts at the Massachusets Institute of Technology.
Stig Kvaal
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Early life factors, childhood cognition and postal questionnaire response rate in middle age: the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study. [PDF]
, 2005 BACKGROUND: Little is known about the relationship between early life factors and survey response in epidemiological studies of adults. METHODS: The Children of the 1950s cohort is composed of 12,150 children (boys 51.7%) born in Aberdeen 1950-56 and in ...
Heather Clark +11 more
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Football and Film: Comrade President – Center-Forward
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2015 The paper is the first in the planned series of texts on football in films and TV programmes in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Croatia). The film Comrade President – Center-Forward (1960, directed by Žorž Skrigin), labelled as the genre of “film humoresque ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Youth organizations, social mobility and health in middle age: evidence from a Scottish 1950s prospective cohort study [PDF]
, 2022 BackgroundInformal educational programmes focused on youth development appear to improve health and well-being at time of involvement. Less is known about long-term effects.
Adair, L; id_orcid +9 more
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Chanchadas and intermediality: On the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Watson Macedo, 1950)
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2020 This audiovisual essay investigates the intermedial nature of Brazilian film comedies produced during the 1940s and 50s by exploring the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Calling All Sailors, Watson Macedo, 1950).
Flávia Cesarino Costa, John Gibbs
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The state of police staffing in the Ukrainian SSR in the mid-1950s.
Law and Safety, 2023 A topical and insufficiently studied issue in historical and legal science is the question of structural changes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and their impact on the state of staffing of the police operating in the Ukrainian SSR in the first ...
V. A. Grechenko
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Lucien Clergue, le photographe qui « coupait la tête » de ses modèles
Photographica, 2023 The study of Lucien Clergue’s photographic nudes from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s questions their place and role in the photographer’s inclusion into the art sphere around the same period.
Jean Deilhes
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Les étudiants congolais à Bruxelles dans les années 1950
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2021 Very few of the first Congolese students in Belgium entered Belgian higher education before the independence of the Republic of the Congo. This can be explained in particular by the general education policy pursued by the Belgian authorities in their ...
Romain Landmeters
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