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An Anglo-Saxon execution cemetery at Walkington Wold, Yorkshire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper presents a re-evaluation of a cemetery excavated over 30 years ago at Walkington Wold in east Yorkshire. The cemetery is characterized by careless burial on diverse alignments, and by the fact that most of the skeletons did not have ...
allison k.j.   +38 more
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Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
wiley   +1 more source

The Old Farmhouse, Blashenwell, Corfe Castle, Dorset. Archaeological Assessment. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
An archaeological assessment was carried out at the Old Farmhouse, Blashenwell, prior to building work at the site. The farmhouse is situated in an area rich in archaeological deposits dating from the Mesolithic through to the medieval period.
Dover, Mark
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The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus on the early modern era, and partially because various theories have never been tested against each other.
Mathias Mølbak Ingholt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lewis Coastal Chapel-Sites Survey: Topographic Survey 2005 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This report describes the results of topographic surveys undertaken for the second year of the Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey (LCCS) on four chapel-sites on the Isle of Lewis in 2005.
Barrowman, Rachel C, Hooper, Janet
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Living with acuteness in chronic illness: The temporal underpinnings of endometriosis

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how acuteness is experienced by people with endometriosis in Finland. Drawing on in‐depth interviews as well as anonymous written endometriosis stories, we trace instances when the sense of chronicity and cyclicality of endometriosis is disrupted by a possibility of risk to life. These instances include when endometriosis
Venla Oikkonen, Elina Helosvuori
wiley   +1 more source

Polysemy and roots: Deep versus shallow fetching

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to
John Collins, Tamara Dobler
wiley   +1 more source

Lay narratives of nationhood: Time, place and emotion in the talk of populist radical right‐wing supporters in Finland

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by previous research showing how populist radical right‐wing parties capitalise discussions around nation, this article examines Finnish lay citizens' understanding of nationhood in the context of rising right‐wing populism. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with voters of a populist party (N = 25) and using the photo‐elicitation method,
Inari Sakki   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neo‐Rurals and Tourism in the Context of Rural Crisis in Southern Europe. Case Study in the Sierra de Aracena (Andalusia, Spain)

open access: yesRural Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of newcomers in the contemporary rural world has been widely studied, but the variability of profiles they present (amenity migrants, classic economic immigrants, neo‐rurals…) suggests that not all these actors have the same effects on the rural world and its crises.
José Manuel Álvarez‐Montoya   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living a ‘shadow life’: The disorientations of losing orientation and agency while waiting through furlough

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores forms of disorientation that affected UK workers furloughed within the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme during the COVID‐19 pandemic. It draws on Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology, the work of social and cultural geographers, and the accounts of four furloughed workers drawn from a wider study of 35 participants (see Jones ...
Victoria J. E. Jones
wiley   +1 more source

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