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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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Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927
Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
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The Meaning Changes of the Annona Militaris in the Later Roman Empire
Journal on European History of Law, 2015 During the period of the late Roman Empire in addition to transforming the government structure of the empire, Diocletian`s (284-305) reforms changed the foundations and methods of administration and finance significally.
Miklós Kelemen
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The vices of emperor Constans I in the fourth century histories [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2008 The aim of this paper is to analyze the negative characteristics of the Roman emperor Constans I (337-350), according to the earliest preserved information from the late 4th century histories of Aurelius Victor, Eutropius Pseudo-Victor and Eunapius of ...
Milivojević Uroš
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Storage Pits from the Late Roman Fort by the Rákos Stream Data on the Supply of the Late Roman Army
Hungarian Archaeology, 2023 The paper analyses fourteen storage pits unearthed in a Roman fort established by the Danube in the Barbaricum, at the estuary of the Rákos Stream, in today’s District 13 of Budapest. Two types of storage pits were unearthed; their find material and context dated both to the second half of the 4th century AD. The pits, which were most probably used for
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Terendak Military Cemetery: Bodies, Burials, and ‘Operation Bring Them Home'
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Terendak Military Cemetery occupies an unusual position in the history of Australian war cemeteries. Initially established to service the needs of the community at Terendak Garrison—the operational base for Commonwealth forces in Malaya during the early years of the Cold War—it became the official overseas burial site of Australian dead during the ...
Hannah Swaine, Kate Ariotti
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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After Sulla: study in the settlement and material culture of the Piraeus peninsula in the Roman and Late Roman period [PDF]
, 2005 Modem text-based and ancient historical accounts take the sack of Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, by the Romans under Sulla in 86 ВС as the terminal point of the history of the area in antiquity.
Grigoropoulos, Dimitris
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Le Fähnlein: Antiche bandiere di guerra dei cantoni svizzeri
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2023 When we have the chance to see a flag display in Switzerland we can notice side to side modern style flags and flags modelled on other patterns, such as the so called “geflammt” (flaming flags) or in some cases the fähnlein, ancient flags used in war ...
Roberto Bicci
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The Late Roman Field Army in Northern Britain? Mobility, Material Culture and Multi-Isotope Analysis at Scorton (N Yorks.) [PDF]
Britannia, 2015 ABSTRACTAt Hollow Banks Quarry, Scorton, located just north of Catterick (N Yorks.), a highly unusual group of 15 late Roman burials was excavated between 1998 and 2000. The small cemetery consists of almost exclusively male burials, dated to the fourth century.
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