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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

open access: yes, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index.Introduction : Abolitionism and political argument in Britain and East Africa / Derek R. Peterson -- African political ethics and the slave trade / John Thornton -- And all that : why Britain ...
Peterson, Derek R.edt
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Thinking With Care About Animals in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine: Gender and the Politics of Care in Scotland, 1910–30

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, we ‘think with care’ about gender in Scotland in the early twentieth century, undertaking an ethnographic approach to the archive of OneKind, formerly the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Vivisection (SSPV), which has only recently been catalogued.
Elizabeth Vander Meer, Alette Willis
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Limiting the High Court's Inherent Jurisdiction over Children: Re X and Y (Adoption Order: Setting Aside)

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The Supreme Court in Re X and Y (Adoption Order: Setting Aside) confirms that there is no power under the High Court's inherent jurisdiction to set aside a properly made adoption order, even if the child's welfare would be better served by un‐doing the adoption.
Rob George
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

open access: yesHistory, 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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Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
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