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‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
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Population of Cities and Towns in Latvia (within Interwar Borders), 1897-1939
, 2021 This dataset contains data on population of cities and towns in Latvia (within interwar borders) in 1897-1939. Dataset "Population of Cities and Towns in Latvia (within Interwar Borders), 1897-1939" was published implementing project "Historical ...
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita +4 more
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Review: The Lights That Failed. European International History, 1919–1933 (Zara Steiner)
Reviews in History, 2006 Review of The Lights That Failed. European International History, 1919–1933 by Zara Steiner.
Patricia Clavin
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Capital views: interwar London in the photographs of Aerofilms Ltd
, 2010 A new imagery of London emerged through the widespread circulation of aerial photographs that followed World War I. This article focuses on the work of the air-survey company Aerofilms Ltd, which established itself as the main provider of aerial imagery ...
Deriu, D., Davide Deriu
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
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Population of Cities and Towns in Lithuania (within Interwar and Contemporary Borders), 1897-1939
, 2021 This dataset contains data on population of cities and towns in Lithuania (within interwar and contemporary borders) in 1897-1939. Dataset "Population of Cities and Towns in Lithuania (within Interwar and Contemporary Borders), 1897-1939" was published ...
Markevičiūtė, Jurgita +4 more
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The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections
Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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