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“To give the British credit for things that were never intended to benefit India is a mistake” – Shashi Tharoor [PDF]
, 2017 Dr Shashi Tharoor was recently in the UK to promote his new book Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India. While visiting LSE, he spoke to Sonali Campion about the need to challenge existing narratives about the British in India, the uniquely ...
Campion, Sonali, Tharoor, Shashi
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
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Race, identity and the meaning of Jazz in 1940s Britain [PDF]
, 2014 During the Blitz, on 8 March 1941, a bomb fell on the Café de Paris, an exclusive London nightclub, just as the Guianaian-born bandleader Ken “Snakehips” Johnson and his West Indian Dance Orchestra were in full swing.
Tackley, Catherine
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Review and prospects of shear test of bolted rock joints
Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.The laboratory shear test equipment, test method, and numerical simulation of bolted rock joints were summarized. The shortcomings and limitations of the current research were analyzed, and the research prospects were proposed. Abstract Rock bolting is a critical approach in geotechnical engineering for supporting weak rocks.
Shulin Ren +4 more
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Urbanism, Environment and the Buildings of the Anglo-Egyptian Nile Valley, 1880s-1920s
ABE Journal, 2021 Sam Grinsell
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The Sick Man’s Last Fight: The Role of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War [PDF]
, 2009 The Great War in 1914 to 1918 destroyed mighty empires, and created nations from their ashes. Both the Allied and Central Powers had been dominated by powerful empires. The Ottoman Empire, established by the Turks was at one point the largest empire in
Crouse, Henry A
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Ecography, EarlyView.Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche changes, and truncation. Invasive species often occupy only a fraction of their potential environmental and geographic ranges, as their spatiotemporal dynamics ...
Erola Fenollosa +4 more
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The Boer War 1899-1902: the Beginning of Decline of the British Empire
RUDN Journal of World History, 2011 The article analyses the Boer War 1899-1902 and its impact on the decline of the British Empire. This War played an important role in the History of the British Empire and mostly determined its final disintegration.
V Mitrofanovich Zabolotny
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Toward the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory in Software Development [PDF]
, 2006 “The Sun never sets on the British Empire,” was a notion emphasized during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to highlight that the British Empire was far-flung, and that the sun was always visible from some part of this vast empire.
Seshasai, Satwik
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Considerations for drug trials in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 2, Page 1095-1112, April 2025.Abstract Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a heterogeneous condition with potentially serious manifestations. Management has traditionally comprised therapies to palliate symptoms and implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators to prevent sudden cardiac death. The need for disease‐modifying therapies has been recognized for decades.
John P. Farrant +17 more
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