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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Feasibility Study of Angels? Network at Imperial College Business School

, 2011
Imperial Users ...
Kapoor, Nidhi
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Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
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Monarchy of Late Rome in Development. Review of Wienand, J. (Ed.). (2015). Review of Wienand, J. (Ed.). (2015). Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire in the Fourth Century AD. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press

Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016
The review opens the conceptual and substantial parties of the collection of articles mainly American and German specialistes in antiquity, analyzing features of the form and functioning of a political mode of Roman empire the urgency of subjects ...
Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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Jingjiao under the Lenses of Chinese Political Theology

Religions, 2019
Conflict between religion and state politics is a persistent phenomenon in human history. Hence it is not surprising that the propagation of Christianity often faces the challenge of “political theology”.
Chin Ken-pa
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The representation of Christianity in religious education in England : the shaping of a tradition [PDF]

Christianity holds a central place in Religious Education (RE) in England. Since the Education Reform Act of 1988, it has been formally named in legislation relating to Religious Education; formerly its presence in the curriculum was assumed, but there
Hayward, Mary
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African Christianity : an African story [PDF]

, 2005
1. The shape and flow of African church historiography -- 2. African Christianity: an overview -- 3. Early Christianity in North Africa -- 4. Christianity in Sudan and Ethiopia -- 5. Islamic challenges in African Christianity -- 6.

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Folklore Studies, Fieldwork and the Making of a Domestic Anthropology in Fin‐de‐Siècle Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article follows the ‘communities of knowledge‐making’ that formed around folklore collection at the end of the nineteenth century. Often regarded as eccentric or marginal figures in the history of human science, these collectors in fact engaged in lively and sophisticated discussions about the methodologies needed to study the mental ...
HARRY PARKER
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The Final Period of the Roman Constitutional History: the Later Roman Empire and the Dominate or Period of the Absolute Monarchy

Journal on European History of Law
One of the aspects that caracterizes the period of the so-called Dominate (Dominatus) or Absolute Monarchy is the fact that the imperial power makes use of religion to legitimize itself.
Carlos Sardinha
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