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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
wiley   +1 more source

Il digitale che diventa archivio. Le fonti on-line per la storia economica italiana

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
In this paper we will describe the online sources for economic history, underlining how they have been changing the approach to the discipline. First, we will resume quickly the methodology of the economic history and its changes in the last years, then ...
Matteo Troilo (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1976) si è laureato in Storia all’Università di Bologna ed ha ottenuto il dottorato di ricerca in Storia Economica all’Università di Verona. Attualmente è assegnista di ricerca presso la facoltà di Economia di Rimini e di recente è stato visiting fellow alla Wilfrid Laurier University (Ontario – Canada). Si occupa di vari temi di ricerca di storia economica moderna e contemporanea. Ha pubblicato le monografie: Un’economia di famiglia. Strategie patrimoniali e di prestigio sociale degli Aldrovandi di Bologna (secoli XVII-XVIII), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010; Storia e protagonisti del turismo a San Marino. Un contributo essenziale all’economia della Repubblica, San Marino, Collana sammarinese di studi storici, 2011.
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Using Geographic Information Science to Map the Flight of the Regicides in Seventeenth- century New England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In mid-seventeenth century two of the judges who condemned King Charles I of England to death became regicide fugitives when his son came to the throne as Charles II. The two men fled to New England and eluded their Royalist pursuers for twenty years.
Cowley, Steven
core   +1 more source

Exploring the information behaviour of users of Welsh Newspapers Online through web log analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Purpose – Webometric techniques have been applied to many websites and online resources, especially since the launch of Google Analytics (GA). To date, though, there has been little consideration of information behaviour in relation to digitised ...
Gooding, Paul
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Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
wiley   +1 more source

La lezione di Prometeo e il filologo nell’era digitale. Rassegna di risorse informatiche per lo studio dell’antichità classica

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
This paper provides a brief overview of the IT resources available for classical studies, focusing on three different types of tools in particular: a) free cross-platform applications that handle Unicode effectively, making it is easy to type and edit ...
Gianluca Canè è dottore magistrale in Lettere Classiche. Si è occupato soprattutto di letteratura greca e in particolare di problemi della tradizione testuale dei testi antichi, tecniche di traduzione, letteratura frammentaria (scoliografica e lessicografica) e storia della storiografia antica, conseguendo la laurea in Storiografia greca presso l’Università di Bologna. Dal 2008 si interessa alle applicazioni delle risorse informatiche nello studio delle discipline classiche, collaborando con il Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Medioevale a un progetto di digitalizzazione di un manuale di lingua greca e allo sviluppo di una banca dati sulla permanenza del classico. Dal 2009 è consulente della Zanichelli Editore SpA e dal 2011 è webmaster di Diacronie.
doaj  

Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Développement et mise en œuvre d’un Système d’Information Géographique pour l’étude de l’expansion pavillonnaire dans l’agglomération lyonnaise depuis 1950

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2012
The study of urbanization of the built up area on in Lyon, parceled out into plots of land, is based on the identification and counting of a large number of files and heterogeneous sources.
Licencié en Histoire et en Géographie, Nicolas Ferrand est Docteur en Géographie et Aménagement. Sa thèse – Approche Morphologique de l’urbanisation: Lyon et son agglomération de 1945 à 2005 – a été soutenue au mois de juin 2010 à l’Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
doaj  

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Learning-Based Classification of Historical Fashion Silhouettes Through a Digital Approach to Cultural Heritage

open access: yesHeritage
The need to evaluate automated approaches arises not from a lack of expertise among historians but from the challenge of scaling, reproducing, and systematizing dress silhouette classification across large digital datasets.
Liliana Indrie   +5 more
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