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Towards an understanding of the phases of goodwill accounting in four Western capitalist countries: From stakeholder model to shareholder model [PDF]

open access: yes
The objective of this paper is to illustrate that the change in shareholders’ attitude towards firms (from stakeholder model to shareholder model) influences the accounting treatments of goodwill. This study is based on four countries (Great Britain, the
Ding, Yuan   +2 more
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Rail privatisation in Britain - lessons for the rail freight industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Until 1994, the rail industry in Britain – as in most of Europe – was organised in the form of a single integrated state owned company providing passenger and freight services, and the infrastructure on which they ran, throughout the country.
Fowkes, A.S., Nash, C.A.
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History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The journalist and politician Edward Baines (1800–90) succeeded his father as editor of the Leeds Mercury and as MP for Leeds. From a dissenting family, he was a social reformer but passionately believed that the state should not interfere in matters such as working hours and education.
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The Naval History of Great Britain

open access: yes, 2010
William James (1780–1827) was a lawyer and naval historian best known for this magisterial history of the Royal Navy between 1793 and 1827. James began to research the role of the Royal Navy in the Revolutionary Wars, publishing five volumes between 1822 and 1824. This was expanded up to 1827 in later editions.
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The Forgotten Campaign: Newfoundland at Gallipoli [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Gallipoli has no place in the collective memory of most Canadians and even among Newfoundlanders, Gallipoli has not garnered as much attention as the ill-fated attack at Beaumont Hamel.
Cook, Tim, Humphries, Mark Osborne
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Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the Construction of National History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite the reflexive nature of historical enquiry and the degree of national interconnectness now theorized by historians in the United Kingdom, education debates over history teaching in Britain often yield a comforting defence of Britain's 'island ...
Barton   +55 more
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Faut-il se souvenir du républicanisme anglais ? L’héritage intellectuel du républicanisme anglais dans le temps long

open access: yesXVII-XVIII
From a purely superficial institutional perspective–the Interregnum spanned eleven years (1649-60), and the republican regime proper, the Commonwealth, only lasted three (1649-53) – it may seem that English republicanism was but a brief parenthesis which
Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq
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Voir la musique chez James McNeill Whistler

open access: yesCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004
Whistler occupies a unique position in Britain as both practitioner and theoretician of musicalism in art. A herald of modern painting, he also became emblematic of the avant-garde artist for writers and painters alike during his trial against Ruskin in ...
Catherine Delyfer
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HOW DID DEVELOPED COUNTRIES INDUSTRIALIZE? THE HISTORY OF TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY: THE CASES OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE USA [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines the history of trade policy in Great Britain and the United States and also refer to the cases of Germany and France. This paper indicates that it is a fallacy that early industrializers could have developed their industrial sector ...
Mehdi SHAFAEDDIN
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Shakespearean Crosswords [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
It is fairly well known that, according to the generally accepted history of the puzzles, crosswords were first created in the USA in 1913 and crossed the Atlantic to Great Britain some eleven years later.
Head, Brian
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