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Health‐related quality of life following total minimally invasive, hybrid minimally invasive or open oesophagectomy: a population‐based cohort study

open access: yesBJS (British Journal of Surgery), EarlyView., 2020
All patients operated for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to April 2018 were identified, and 246 patients were recruited to this population‐based nationwide Swedish study. The results show that longitudinal health‐related quality of life after minimally invasive oesophagectomy was similar to that of the open surgical approach.
F. Klevebro   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classical Histories, Colonial Objects: The Specimen Table Across Time and Space

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2021
This article seeks to contextualise the production, purchase, and display of specimen tables in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, considering their fragmentary forms as a material result of both British neoclassicism and imperialism.
Freya Gowrley
doaj   +1 more source

Thinking Black in the Blitz: Harold Moody, the League of Coloured Peoples and its shift of Pan-African ideas in Second World War London

open access: yesEsboços, 2021
London, as the capital of the British Empire, was the centre for imperial structures and networks in the middle of the 20th century. The city enabled and regulated the transport of people, ideas and wealth. Similarly, it offered space for the development
Simeon Marty
doaj   +1 more source

Scottish architects, imperial identities and India’s built environment in the early twentieth century: the careers of John Begg and George Wittet

open access: yesABE Journal, 2019
Two Scottish architects, John Begg and George Wittet, created some of the most famous of Mumbai’s landmarks and notable buildings elsewhere in India in the early twentieth century. They were also instrumental in the development of architectural education
Sarah Longair
doaj   +1 more source

Children of Empire

open access: yesGroundings, 2022
While the British Empire is acknowledged to have functioned from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was during the nineteenth century that its greatest expansion in terms of size, population, and wealth occurred. Dominating the nineteenth century,
Molly Finlay
doaj   +1 more source

Home, Colonial and Foreign: Europe, Empire and the History of Migration in 20th-century Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This essay reviews the increasingly rich recent literature on 20th-century transnational movements from empire and Europe to Britain and in the opposite directions, particularly on migration.
Webster, Wendy
core   +1 more source

The Great War and the British Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The subject of music and the British Empire, from the end of the nineteenth century to the period after the Second World War, has been the subject of a handful of histories in the last fifteen years.
Hanna, Emma
core   +1 more source

Sir Richard Francis Burton Reconsidered and His Travels to Slovenian Lands

open access: yesActa Neophilologica, 2018
Sir Arnold Wilson delivered a lecture before the Royal Asiatic Society on 27 May 1937 in London at 74 Grosvenor Street as the Fifth Burton Memorial Lecture.
Igor Maver
doaj   +1 more source

Scottish Internationalisms at the 1938 Empire Exhibition: Between Britain, Europe, and Empire

open access: yesOpen Library of Humanities, 2020
The 1938 British Empire Exhibition held in Glasgow was the last of its kind, a spectacular event that celebrated the British Empire and sought to bring global attention to Scotland.
alexandra peat
doaj   +2 more sources

Changing patterns of imperialism and education: the United Kingdom

open access: yesRevista Española de Educación Comparada, 2018
Education has been central to the maintenance of modern empires. Educational policies and practices under British imperialism reflected the complexities, tensions and conflicts in the different territories of the Empire.
Leslie Bash
doaj   +1 more source

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