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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Letter, Fredericksburg, to George Washington, 9 April 1796
Lewis desires to know, because others have asked him, whether Washington will exchange western lands for some improved estates in this area which might be rented to advantage -- he will pursue the purchase of Woodrow's inholding -- Mrs.
Lewis, George, 1757-1821
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Letter, Fredericksburg, to George Washington, 4 May 1796
Lewis writes that he forwarded to Howell Lewis, his brother, the papers from Washington concerning debt he owes -- it should never have gone to Washington, and Howell considers it a "rude attempt" on the part of others to collect their money -- they ...
Lewis, George, 1757-1821
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context whereby few supports existed for young pregnant women.
Isobel Bloom
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Rental Accounts, Robert Lewis to George Washington, 25 December 1795
Fragment of an account of land rents collected by Lewis for year 1795 on lands in Berkeley, Frederick, and Fauquier County, Virginia on behalf of George Washington.
Lewis, Robert, 1769-1829
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
History, EarlyView.Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Letter, Fredericksburg, to George Washington, Mount Vernon, 18 July 1795
Lewis has just returned from Kentucky -- he was unable to see either his own land or Washington's, despite his efforts -- he did meet Gen. Spotswood who said he has bought the identical land from Gen.
Lewis, George, 1757-1821
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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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Rental Account, Robert Lewis to George Washington, 25 December 1792
Rental for 1792 on lands in Berkeley, Frederick, Loudoun and Fauquier Counties -- lists tenants and amounts paid -- arrearages for years 1791 and 1792 -- a note by Lewis explains "The above arrearages have been collected by the Sheriffs and no Executions
Lewis, Robert, 1769-1829
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