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Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Ocular Ultrasound as a Key to Diagnosing Uveitis-Masked Syndromes: Tips and Tricks. [PDF]

open access: yesClin Pract
Albano V   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

William A. Robson and the Making of English Administrative Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the role of William A. Robson (1895‐1980) in the making of English administrative law. Criticising English common lawyers who believed that the growing responsibility of officials in law‐making and dispute resolution was a symptom of ‘administrative lawlessness’ that was sapping the foundations of English liberties, Robson argued ...
Martin Loughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Phaeoisaria sp. fungal keratitis resembling corneal rust residue: a case report. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Ophthalmol
Zhao Y   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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