Whose Story is it Anyway? The Challenges of Conducting Institutional Histories
Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, 2012 This paper is based on my experiences as an oral historian on the 'Museum Lives' project, a joint undertaking between Kingston University and the Natural History Museum in London, which seeks to record the lives and careers of the Museum’s curators and ...
Sue Hawkins
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Moneta e Credito, 2013 L' articolo riguarda la grande e continua crescita delle spese per lo "stato sociale" . Esso analizza le ragioni per la nascita dello Stato sociale e il suo impatto sulla crescita economica .
A. MADDISON
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Mapping Historical Archaeology and Industrial Heritage: The Historical Spatial Data Infrastructure
Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, 2021 While a vibrant and growing research literature exists on the value of GIS to archaeology in general, the application of geospatial digital data to the subfield of historical archaeology is less well developed, especially in North America.
Dan Trepal +2 more
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Origins and impact of the welfare state, 1883-1983
PSL Quarterly Review, 2013 The article is concerned with the large and continuous growth of “welfare state” expenditures. It analyses the reasons for the emergence of the welfare state and its impact on economic growth. The work is intended as a diagnosis of this growth since 1883,
A. MADDISON
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African-European contacts in the Kongo Kingdom (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries): new archaeological insights from Ngongo Mbata (Lower Congo, DRC) [PDF]
, 2015 Ngongo Mbata, the main and most affluent center of the Kongo kingdom’s Mbata province in the 17th century, is well known from the historical sources, but virtually unexplored in archaeological publications.
Bostoen, Koen +7 more
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Accuracy of the mean sea level continuous record with future altimetric missions: Jason-3 vs. Sentinel-3a [PDF]
Ocean Science, 2016 The current mean sea level (MSL) continuous record, essential to understanding the climate evolution, is computed with the altimetric measurements of the TOPEX/Poseidon mission, succeeded by Jason-1 and later Jason-2.
L. Zawadzki, M. Ablain
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Linking the Historical Sample of the Netherlands with the USA Censuses, 1850–1940
Historical Life Course Studies, 2020 During the 19th and early 20th century about 220,000 Dutch born persons migrated to the USA. The Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN) contains about 85,500 persons born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1922. In this article we report the way we
Diogo Paiva +2 more
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The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2016 New developments in the collection of palaeo-data over the past two decades have transformed our understanding of climate and environmental history in eastern Africa.
Anacleti A. Odhiambo +47 more
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Historical Databases Now and in the Future
Historical Life Course Studies, 2021 Kees Mandemakers has enriched historical databases in the Netherlands and internationally through the development of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, the Intermediate Data Structure, a practical implementation of rule-based record linking ...
Kris Inwood, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
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Restrictive covenants in Xanadu [PDF]
, 2012 Legal scholarship is naturally inclined towards explanations and justifications of contemporary law. In the case of restrictive covenants and building schemes this has led to a distorted perception of the historical record, as revealed in recorded case ...
AWB Simpson +14 more
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