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The Wroblewski Library History: Case of the Purchase of the Plater’s Pustynia Estate Book Collection

Knygotyra, 2019
The founder of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Tadeusz Stanisław Wróblewski (1858–1925), began to enrich the library of his parents, which he inherited in 1891, through his acquisitions of books, manuscripts, periodicals ...
Daiva Narbutienė
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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Sub-series 2: Publications

, 2003
Bimonthly magazine discussing news and events for the Society of Antique Modelers as well as topics related to aviation as well as collecting, restoring, maintaining, and identifying antique airplane models, along with ...
Augustus, Bruce, Society of Antique Modelers   +1 more
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Conservation and Digitization of Antique Books

BODHI International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science
Antique books constitute an essential part of cultural heritage, reflecting the intellectual, artistic, and technological achievements of past societies. This paper examines the complementary roles of conservation and digitization in ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and scholarly utility of these rare materials.
null C. Hemavathy, null C. Baskaran
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Origins of infographic thinking in the 19th-century Chile

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento, 2018
The present proposal is an investigation about the history of the infographics in Chile linked to the development of the educational field, the industry and the press in the country.
Gonzalo Morales Rojas
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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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Sub-series 2: Publications

, 2006
Bimonthly magazine discussing news and events for the Society of Antique Modelers as well as topics related to aviation as well as collecting, restoring, maintaining, and identifying antique airplane models, along with ...
Augustus, Bruce, Society of Antique Modelers   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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