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The British disease: A British tradition?

British Journal of Educational Studies, 1988
(1988). The British disease: A British tradition? British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 126-174.
Margaret Mathieson, Gerald Bernbaum
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British livers and British alcohol policy

The Lancet, 2006
Background Rates of mortality due to cirrhosis of the liver are an important indicator of population levels of alcohol harm. Total recorded alcohol consumption in Britain doubled between 1960 and 2002, giving rise to a need to examine and assess cirrhosis mortality trends. Methods Mortality rates were calculated for all ages and for specific age-groups
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BLACK BRITISH, BROWN BRITISH AND BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Studies, 2009
Caryl Phillips has queried the absence, in British fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, of black and brown people from the British Commonwealth who had migrated to the UK in highly significant numbers in this period. His lament echoes earlier observations by Paul Gilroy critiquing similar ‘strategic silences’ in the work of the widely recognized major ...
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Black British, White British, ‘Oriental British’?

2015
Having dealt with how discourses of Orientalism shape young Vietnamese peoples’ subjective understandings and navigation of perceptions in British society in the last chapter, this current chapter engages with the more structural aspects of their positioning. In particular, it explores how structural positionings both enable and constrain participants’
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The British Museum and British Antiquities

Antiquity, 1954
In the year 1849 a Trustee of the British Museum, Mr W. R. Hamilton, at that time a man of 73 noted for his great interest in archaeology, particularly that of Greece and Egypt, was giving evidence before a commission enquiring into the affairs of the Musuem.
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Nation: British Politics, British History and British-ness

2008
During the national campaign to elect British members to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, which was fought out in May 1994, the then Conservative Prime Minister, John Major, offered this version of the history of the country whose government he led: This British nation has a monarchy founded by the Kings of Wessex over eleven hundred years ago,
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1. The Britishness of British politics

2013
What makes the British political system distinctive? ‘The Britishness of British politics’ explains Britain’s long and remarkable history of stability. Despite relatively late universal suffrage in 1918; the bitterly adversarial politics of the 1970s and 1980s; and ongoing reluctance to engage with the legacies of Empire, immigration, and Northern ...
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