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History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain [PDF]
, 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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XVII-XVIIIFrom 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
Cahiers 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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Book review: the Scottish diaspora: understanding the forces which stimulate emigration [PDF]
, 2012 There are many detailed accounts of nineteenth-century emigrants, of their journeys and settlements abroad – but what of those they left behind? This book delves into the heart of Georgian Britain to explore the role that the men and women of the ...
Cameron, Ewen
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A programmable interpenetrating double‐network architecture, created via 3D‐TIPS printing and resin infusion, synergistically combines thermoplastic and thermosetting elastomers to balance structural rigidity and surface softness—crucial for paediatric laryngeal stents.
Elizabeth F. Maughan +14 more
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Sport as Spectacle: Swimming in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2004 The development of sport during the Victorian and Edwardian period, from a predominantly rural activity pursued mainly by the landed gentry to a mass participation and spectator activity pursued in an urban setting by the middle and working classes, was ...
Win Hayes
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The Naval History of Great Britain
, 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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Experiences of a settler in the early days of Van Diemen's Land [PDF]
, 1935 The Reverend John West, author of The History of Tasmania, writing in 1852, made these observations (p. 66): 'The landing of settlers, direct from Great Britain, was an important event: their efforts were experiments, and their achievements were ...
Hudspeth, Wilfred Hugh
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Britain and genocide: historical and contemporary parameters of national responsibility [PDF]
, 2011 This article (originally given as the Annual War Studies Lecture at King's College, London, on 25 January 2010) challenges the assumption that Britain's relationship to genocide is constituted by its `vigilance towards the genocide of others.
Shaw, Martin
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Guided by the golden ratio, a class of aperiodic architected metamaterials is introduced to address the intrinsic trade‐off between strength and toughness. By unifying local geometric heterogeneity with global order, the golden‐ratio‐guided aperiodic architecture promotes spatial delocalization of damage tolerence regions, leading to more tortuous ...
Junjie Deng +9 more
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