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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

The Lesson of Sleeping Beauty: Person-Centred Care for the Unconscious, Unresponsive ICU Patient in the Face of Levinas' Radical Alterity. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Clement T, Zeillinger PA, Mayer H, McCormack B.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Steam Engine His Lordship at Bolton Rally

Burrell showman's road locomotive steam traction engine No.3444 'His Lordship' registration 'CK3403' (built 1913).
Kinder, Ron
core  

The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
wiley   +1 more source

Jurisdiction in Employment Matters Post-Brexit. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
Grušić U.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

Speculative Expropriation. [PDF]

Polit Theory
Wapeemukwa W.
europepmc   +1 more source

School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?

History, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
wiley   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

History, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

The Surco canal, an ancient irrigation canal in Lima, Peru, and a citizens' campaign for its protection. [PDF]

Water Hist, 2020
Lizarzaburu J.
europepmc   +1 more source