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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 168-182, March 2026.Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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‘Three Circles’: Winston Churchill's Approach to International Relations
History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 155-167, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces a special issue that explores Winston Churchill's relationship with different countries. As its starting point, this piece takes Churchill's world view that Britain derived her status from its position at the focal point of three intersecting circles: Europe, the British Empire and the wider English‐speaking world ...
ALLEN PACKWOOD +2 more
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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-32, March 2026.Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry +2 more
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Fugitive or orphan? The Shanghai yen in the early days of the Sino‐Japanese war, 1938–1939
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 58-80, March 2026.Abstract We explore a phenomenon observed during the Second Sino‐Japanese War in which the value of the yen in Shanghai fell below the official rate. Shanghai provided a parallel market in which yen could be traded indirectly against British pounds through the intermediation of the Chinese yuan.
Shinji Takagi
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"The Activities of a Japanese Bank in the Interwar Financial Centers: A Case of the Yokohama Specie Bank" [PDF]
This paper aims to analyze the role of a branch of a Japanese bank in the internationals financial centers and its change during the Interwar period. Branches of international exchange banks generally buy bills for goods exported from where they exist ...
Makoto Kasuya
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Enduring and the horizon of repair: French Caribbean post‐stroke rehabilitation amid health inequity
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2026.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic research with patients and therapists in post‐stroke rehabilitation, this article explores how Guadeloupeans strive to exist on their own terms amid postcolonial health inequities, forms of marginalization and institutional disrepair.
Raphaëlle Melissa Rabanes
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Norbert Hopster (Hg.), Die Kinder- und Jugendliteratur in der Zeit der Weimarer Republik
Strenae, 2013 Mathilde Lévêque
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The Late Works of Dame Ethel Smyth: A Musical Microcosm of Interwar British Culture [PDF]
, 2015 This paper examines the late musical compositions of Dame Ethel Smyth in the context of British society and culture between the two World Wars. It focuses on Smyth\u27s large-scale works, especially her operas The Boatswain\u27s Mate (1914) and Entente ...
Morin, Emily
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Religion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 2, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT In September 1976, British Tidings, a publication of the Neo‐Nazi political organisation, BM, announced they were to begin a women's division. Their Headquarter was based in Queensferry, Flintshire, North Wales; on the cusp of the English border.
Katherine Niamh McCoubrey
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U.K. World War I and interwar data for business cycle and growth analysis [PDF]
This article contributes new time series for studying the U.K. economy during World War I and the interwar period. The time series are per capita hours worked and average tax rates of capital income, labor income, and consumption.
James M. Nason, Shaun P. Vahey
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