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The Origins of the Human Rights Act: A ‘British Bill of Rights’ the First Time Around

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconstructs the first initiatives for a British Bill of Rights from the late 1960s to the mid‐1980s and argues that their failure shaped the eventual form of the Human Rights Act. Proposals for a Bill of Rights emerged across the political spectrum, but commanded most support on the right as a means of restraining trade unions ...
Marco Duranti, Chris Hilliard
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Steam Engine His Lordship at Bolton Fair

, 2002
T. Alberts' Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.3444 'His Lordship', registration 'CK3403' (built 1913). Photographed at Bolton Fair, 27 June 1953. Digitisation and record funded by the Pilgrim Trust. The engine is also believed to
Scott, Rowland
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Retrospective Law and Release from Prison. [PDF]

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Kelly R.
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Steam Engine His Lordship at Farnworth Fair

, 2002
Photograph of Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.3444 'His Lordship', registration 'CK3403' (built 1913). The engine was purchased for preservation from Edward Silcock by Tom Alberts of Bolton in 1950.
Scott, Rowland
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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3D limb dynamics of flyball dogs turning on different box angles. [PDF]

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Blake S, Blake R.
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A Biblical Study of the Lordship of Christ

, 1960
This is an inductive study of the scriptures in an attempt to understand the true nature of the Lordship of Christ. The Apostle Paul, the Historic Confessions of Faith, and the modern Protestant ecumenical movement have all held the phrase Christ is ...
May, Hal, May, Hal J.
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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Examining Mitigation in the Law of Damages and the Limits of the Compensatory Principle. [PDF]

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Winterton D.
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