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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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DEPARTMENT OF PEDAGOGY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Вестник Мининского университета, 2017 The article is devoted to one of the most difficult periods in the activities of the Department of pedagogy of the Gorky pedagogical Institute - the period of the great Patriotic war. The article discusses the situation in the higher education system, the main activities and the difficulties encountered teachers in this period, and those results that ...
L. V. Zagrekova, L. V. Kilyanova
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Turning point in the Great Patriotic War
MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2010 .
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Maternalism and new imperialism in Russia: "good mothers" for a militarizing state-expectations, implications, and resistances. [PDF]
Front Sociol, 2023 Gradskova Y.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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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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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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The Day They Brought Ol' Liberty Down: The Reality of the Threat. [PDF]
Postdigit Sci Educ, 2021 McLaren P.
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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