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Public Inquiries and UK Press Regulation: A Case of ‘Fading into Forgetfulness’?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Why were the proposals for reform of UK press regulation made by Lord Leveson in 2012 not implemented in full, despite popular and parliamentary support for the report's recommendations, and despite the creation of the legal framework for the reformed system of regulation?
John Street   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

Hannah Morison [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The history of Hannah Morison, one of the many "disappeared" women writers hitherto lost in the field of cultural amnesia, can only be conjectured from her sole volume of verse, Poems on Various Subjects, published in Newry, County Down, in 1817.
Kossick, Kaye
core  

Semper floreat [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
Title varies: Gamut; Time off: Semper; The press.

core  

European communication networks in the Early Modern Age [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Recent contributions to knowledge about early journalism developed in different parts of Europe*Italy, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain . . . *have made it possible to trace a fairly precise map for the historical origin of this
Arblaster Paul   +27 more
core   +1 more source

Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
wiley   +1 more source

Utilitarianism and Economic Behavior. Looking for Benthamite Traces [PDF]

open access: yes
In spite of the use of a utilitarian language in Rational Choice Theory, economists do not acknowledge any link to this current of moral philosophy, and have made great efforts to rid economics from its legacy.
Jimena Hurtado, Johanna Mick
core  

Rural land rental markets in developing countries: Can survey design innovations improve land market participation statistics?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract A longstanding puzzle in the African land rental market literature is the often‐observed discrepancy between the number of tenants (renters‐in) and the much smaller number of landlords (renters‐out) in survey data. If this discrepancy derives from systematic biases in survey data responses on rental market participation, then the existing body
Gashaw T. Abate   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Online chilling effects in England and Wales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Open and free internet-based platforms are seen as an enabler of global free expression, releasing writers from commercial and space constraints. However, many are working without the assistance of an in-house lawyer, or other legal resources.
Townend, Judith
core   +2 more sources

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