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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, 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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Ecclesiastical Adaptation and Reformation: The Evolution of Dutch Reformed Urban Church Architecture in Sri Lanka (1658–1796)

Religions
Sri Lanka, then known as Ceylon, was ruled by three Euro-Christian colonisers for over 450 years. Alongside their pursuit of trade and wealth, these colonial powers—the Portuguese (1505–1658), Dutch (1658–1796), and British (1796–1948)—sought to ...
Sagara Jayasinghe
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Déconstruire le patriarcat dans l’Église d’Angleterre : enjeux et résistances

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2018
This paper aims to analyse how the issue of women’s access to priesthood and episcopacy in the Church of England has challenged patriarchy. Indeed, the point is not simply to ordain women alongside men, but to reconsider several issues such as the ...
Églantine Jamet-Moreau
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Historical aspects of religious conflicts in England and their reflection in the caricature of the late XVIII - early XIX century

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
The article analyzes the process of reflection of the most important religious conflict s i n English caricature at the turn of XVIII-XIX centuries: Anglo-French, anglicano-dissenters and ProtestantCatholic.
Elena Sergeevna Stetskevich, Mikhail Stanislavovich Stetskevich   +1 more
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The Anglican Contribution to Spanish Liturgical Life: Spanish Translations of the Book of Common Prayer and the liturgy of the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2017
Spanish translations of the Book of Common Prayer in the 17th and 18th century and their use by various groups of Spanish Protestant exiles are a testimony to early interactions between the Anglican Church and Spain.
Don Carlos López-Lozano
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Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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The Constitutional Revolution in England (1828- 1832) and Anglican episcopate

Управленческое консультирование, 2018
The article analyzes the role and place of the episcopate of the Church of England in the Constitutional Revolution (1828-1832), which was the turning point in the process of democratization of English state.
Elena Sergeevna Stetskevich, Mikhail Stanislavovich Stetskevich   +1 more
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ROMANTIC SELF IN SEARCH OF GOD: PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS IDEAS OF S. T. COLERIDGE [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2016
The article deals with spiritual progress of S.T. Coleridge from his youthful interest in the followers of Locke (his direct predecessors in English intellectual tradition) to his fascination with pantheism, to his study of Kant and Shelling, and to his ...
Ekaterina P. Zykova
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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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