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The Red–Green Electoral Threat to the Labour Party

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract For the first time, Labour faces credible electoral threats from minor parties to its left. The Greens and the newly formed Your Party offer left‐wing and Muslim voters disillusioned with Labour viable electoral alternatives and parliamentary representation. This article considers how great the threat is to Labour. It uses a model of how minor
Thomas Quinn, Nicholas Allen, John Bartle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Unionist Party and the First World War

, 2005
PhDFilling the historiographical gap created by an overemphasis upon its rival Liberal and Labour parties, this study analyses the part played by the war in shaping Unionist (later Conservative) fortunes between 1914-18.
Keohane, Nigel Thomas
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Chris Hilliard
wiley   +1 more source

Sport and the Australian war effort during the First World War: concord and conflict [PDF]

, 2018
© 2018 Dr. Xavier James FowlerThis thesis investigates sport and its relationship with the Australian war effort between 1914 and 1918. As a significant cultural element within Australian society since the settlement of European colonists, many ...
Fowler, Xavier
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach, Marta R. Eidheim, Anne L. Fimreite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting tomorrow : a study of selected Southern African war fiction. [PDF]

, 2005
Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.This research provides an analytical reading of five southern African war novels, in a transnational study of the experience of war as represented by the novels' authors.
Rogers, Sean Anthony.
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Nasze „strażniczki polskości”. Aktywność patriotyczna kobiet w Bydgoszczy pod koniec okresu pruskiego

, 2020
The author intended to reveal the significance of local patriotic women in maintaining the national identity of compatriots in Bydgoszcz just before Polish independence.
Nadolska, Anna
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