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La vogue du jouet militaire dans la première moitié du xxe siècle

Strenae, 2021
This longitudinal study proposes a methodology for quantifying the popularity of military toys in the first half of the 20th century. From the beginning of the century to the 1920s, the vogue for military toys is as strong as it had been in the previous ...
François Mesqui
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The decline of the adult school movement between the wars [PDF]

, 2010
This article considers the decline of the adult school movement, one of the largest voluntary movements in the history of adult education, and critically examines some of the reasons that have been used to explain it.
Freeman, M.
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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JEWISH POLITICAL LIFE IN POLAND ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Pl.it, 2022
The increasingly critical situation of the Jewish minority and the bankruptcy of the previously dominant political orientations within the Jewish community created a new set of opportunities for a group, the General Jewish Workers’ Alliance, or Bund ...
POLONSKY ANTONY
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Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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Chernivtsi Central Hospital During the Interwar Period

Науковий вісник Чернівецького національного університету імені Юрія Федьковича. Історія
During the First World War, the medical sector of Bukovyna suffered serious damage. The premises were damaged, the level of qualification of medical personnel decreased, there was a catastrophic shortage of medicines, a number of organizational problems ...
Олександр Руснак, Лілія Городинська   +1 more
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From Mare Nostrum to Insula Nostra : British Colonial Cyprus and the Italian Imperial Threat [PDF]

, 2016
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Xypolia, Ilia
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‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Hungry for Power: Historical Shifts of Energy Sources in Turkey and Italy [PDF]

International Journal of Management, Accounting and Economics, 2018
The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of the industrial revolution and the economic policies on the energy transition process of two developing Mediterranean countries: Turkey and Italy.
Yavuz Duman, Onur Emre
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