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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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Nuestro cinema. Número 16 [PDF]

, 1935
Nuestro cinema (1935). Nuestro cinema. Número 16.
Nuestro cinema
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Nuestro cinema. Número 1 [PDF]

, 1932
Nuestro cinema (1932). Nuestro cinema. Número 1.
Nuestro cinema
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School of Music Concert Choir, December 2, 1989 [PDF]

, 1989
This is the concert program of School of Music Concert Choir performance on Saturday, December 2, 1989 at 8:00 p.m., at Marsh Chapel, 735 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.
School of Music, Boston University
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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L’Espressionismo al XXVII Maggio musicale fiorentino. Un felice groviglio di scelte audaci, tentativi falliti, accese polemiche e grandi successi.

Gli Spazi della Musica, 2019
Il XXVII Maggio musicale fiorentino (1964) fu dedicato all’Espressionismo nelle arti ed è passato alla storia come una delle edizioni più importanti e di maggior successo.
Angela Carone
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“Some Heart Stopping, Wonderful Things”: Arts and Wellbeing for People With Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities and Those Who Support Them

British Journal of Learning Disabilities, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims This article examines the impacts of the arts on the lives of people with learning disabilities, in particular Two Rhythms, an arts charity based in South Wales, UK, whose work with people of all ages with learning disabilities has had a profound impact on promoting wellbeing for all involved.
Emily Underwood‐Lee, Steven J. Walden, Hiroko Uenishi, Gray Hill   +3 more
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