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Cows, Communities, and Religious Responses to the 1865–66 British Rinderpest Outbreak*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 153-171, June 2024.
The devastating outbreak of rinderpest in the British Isles in 1865–66 — the so‐called “cattle plague” — was a significant event in Victorian Britain, one that did much to shape British agriculture, animal disease control, and veterinary medicine. This article argues that the cattle plague also had long‐term significance for the relationship between ...
Joseph Hardwick
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Industrieschnee: An overview of some European anthropogenic snowfall events, with a case study from Bern (Switzerland)

open access: yesWeather, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 4-9, January 2024.
Industrieschnee or anthropogenic snowfall is a local winter hazard in many European cities and towns under suitable anticyclonic conditions and in the vicinity of persistent local water vapour sources and air pollution. Here, we overview the formation of Industrieschnee and describe a case study event from Bern, Switzerland, comparing the estimated ...
Edward Graham
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Introduction: Lincoln Cathedral and its Bishop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The papers presented in this book originate from an international symposium, “Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and Bishop Robert Grosseteste (1235–53),” hosted by Lincoln Cathedral on the 21st and 22nd January 2012, and funded by the Paul ...
Temple, Nicholas
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Peals in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate
Lewis, Colin A
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Worcester College of Technology: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 70/97 and 47/01) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The Further Education Funding Council has a legal duty to make sure further education in England is properly assessed. The FEFC’s inspectorate inspects and reports on each college of further education according to a four-year cycle. This record comprises

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Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 2008 Pittsburgh Conference

open access: yes, 2008
Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, Volume 2008, Issue 1, 2008.
Peter B. Stockwell
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Conflict, consensus and charity: politics and the provincial voluntary hospitals in the eighteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] The voluntary hospitals were amongst the most original and enduring monuments of Georgian England. Financed on the seemingly flimsy basis of voluntary benefactions and annual subscriptions, they nevertheless flourished in the ...
Wilson, A.
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Careful investigation and a bit of luck yield map’s secrets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
While scholars consider Herford’s Mappa Mundi to be among the most important medieval English maps, for centuries there were no firmly grounded theories about its original placement or purpose.
Hatch, Rachel
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On Certain Sepulchral Effigies in Hereford Cathedral [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeological Journal, 1877
The Archaeological Journal, 34, 406 ...
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