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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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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville and the Moral Geography of the Medieval World [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Mandeville’s Travels was, for more than two centuries after its appearance in  c.1356, of enormous influence and popularity in many fields of European culture. This paper discusses first its unprecedented generic eclecticism and its casting into the form
Moseley, Charles
core   +3 more sources

Magic for the dead? The archaeology of magic in later medieval burials [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper examines patterns in the placement of apotropaic objects and materials in high- to late-medieval burials in Britain (11th to 15th centuries).
Gilchrist, R.
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Change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the First World War, with especial reference to peal ringing at Glasbury [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses the development of change ringing in eastern Breconshire before the start of the First World War in 19 14, with special reference to peal ringing at Glasbury.
Lewis, Colin A
core   +1 more source

Spas, steamships and sardines : Edwardian package tourism and the marketing of Galician regionalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
From 1901 until the First World War, alongside its principal business of shipping rubber and leather to and from the USA and Northern Brazil, Liverpool's Booth Steamship Company (familiarly known as the ‘Booth Line’) ran a portfolio of highly successful ...
Hooper, Kirsty
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When COVID-19 came to town: Measuring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on footfall on six high streets in England. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Plan B Urban Anal City Sci, 2022
Enoch M   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Continental women mystics and English readers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden.
Barratt, Alexandra
core   +1 more source

The DM Environment: From Annotation to Dissemination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
DM (formerly Digital Mappaemundi) is an online environment that allows users to easily assemble collections of images and texts for study, produce their own rich analysis data, and publish online resources for individual, group or public use. DM is ready
Dorothy Porter   +5 more
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