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'Our English visitors' : some British women in Malta during the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2011 Recent historiography has challenged an exclusively male reading of empire. In Malta, however, the presence of British women has been generally limited to the philanthropic activities of the wives or widows of visiting dignitaries. While acknowledging
Refalo, Michael
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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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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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E-REA, 2017 This essay explores memorial and historiographical aspects of British India in World War One. In India today there is little interest in either commemorating or researching the topic.
Thierry DI COSTANZO
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The First World War Centenary in the UK: ‘A Truly National Commemoration’? [PDF]
, 2014 Prime Minister David Cameron has called for ‘a truly national commemoration of the First World War’. This article shows this to be problematic, politicised and contested. This is in part due to the elision of English and British histories.
Andrew Mycock +6 more
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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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John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad [PDF]
, 2018 This article traces the rise of John Lamont, a Highland planter in nineteenth-century Trinidad. The island was subsumed into the British Empire in 1802, the third wave of colonization in the British West Indies and just thirty-two years before slavery ...
Mullen, Stephen
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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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Nineteenth-Century Bahia\u27s Passion for British Salted Cod: From the Seas of Newfoundland to the Portuguese Shops of Salvador\u27s Cidade Baixa, 1822-1914 [PDF]
, 2015 Dried cod has played a similar role to sugar in the international chain of commerce. It became a major traded commodity between British North America (Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Gaspe) in the nineteenth century.
Herold, Marc W.
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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