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Malta and the Nineteenth Century Grain Trade: British free trade in a microcosm of Empire? [PDF]

open access: yes
It is often assumed that Britain’s colonies followed the British doctrine of free trade in the second half of the nineteenth century. Malta, which became a British colony in 1814, did indeed become an early free trader.
Paul Sharp
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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 3, no. 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. “Creole Saga”: The Gambia’s Liberated African Community in the 19th
Allen, Gabriel Leonard   +4 more
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Reception Baseline Assessment and ‘small acts’ of micro‐resistance

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In September 2021, following the global COVID‐19 pandemic, the Department for Education introduced a national standardised digital Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) for all English 4‐year‐old children. We analyse RBA and its associated Quality Monitoring Visits, as a further intensification of the new public management of early years ...
Guy Roberts‐Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Congo in literature

open access: yesTydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018
The year 2008 marks the hundredth anniversary of King Leopold II’s relinquishment of his Crown colony on the equator in favour of the Belgian State. In modern Belgium there were hardly any celebrations of this centenary.
Luc Renders, Henriette Roos
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Nogeens: watter kerk vergesél die Groot Trek?

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2011
It is sometimes argued that the Great Trek of 1835-1840 removed its participants from the Cape Colony, under British control, thereby also taking them out of the congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) based in the Cape.
P. J. Strauss
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Historical Exploration - Learning Lessons from the Past to Inform the Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This report examines a number of exploration campaigns that have taken place during the last 700 years, and considers them from a risk perspective. The explorations are those led by Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, John Franklin, Sir Ernest ...
Bedford, Tim   +3 more
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Jews and the British Empire c.1900 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In the years of high imperialism at the beginning of the twentieth century what bearing did the British Empire have on the Jews, or Jews on the British Empire? The silence of scholarship might lead us to answer ‘not very much’.
Feldman, David
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

British Zenana missions of the XIX century and their projects for the liberation of Indian women [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения
The article studies the goals, objectives, directions of work of the British zenana missions in the XIX th century based on the analysis of reports and articles in missionary magazines.
Yablonskaya, Olga V.
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Marine Flora and Fauna of the Northeastern United States: Erect Bryozoa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
Forty-nine species of erect Bryozoa from a broad range of Cyclostome, Ctenostome, and Cheilostome families are described and illustrated, and an artificial dichotomous key is provided for their identification.
Hayward, Peter J., Ryland, John S.
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