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A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 221-241, August 2026.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Chronological Classification of Ancient Mortars Employing Spectroscopy and Spectrometry Techniques: Sagunto (Valencia, Spain) Case

open access: yesJournal of Spectroscopy, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Forty‐two mortar samples, from two archaeological excavations located in Sagunto (Valencian Community, Spain), were analysed by both portable energy dispersive X‐ray fluorescence spectroscopy (pED‐XRF) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP‐MS) to determine major and minor elements and traces including rare earth elements (REEs ...
M. Ramacciotti   +9 more
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Assemblage, archive, and ancestor: Developing more‐than‐human historical geography with salmon

open access: yesGeographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2026.
This paper interrogates recent geographic literature on the more‐than‐human archive and argues that there needs to be more specificity when conceptualising and researching the more‐than‐human. It then answers this call for specificity by theorising three modes of more‐than‐human historical geography that are developed through empirical encounters with ...
Austin Read
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Landscape and warfare in Anglo‐Saxon England and the Viking campaign of 1006

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 329-359, August 2015., 2015
This paper outlines the state of research into early medieval conflict landscapes in England and sets out a theoretical and methodological basis for the sustained and systematic investigation of battlefield toponymy and topography. The hypothesis is advanced that certain types of place were considered particularly appropriate for the performance of ...
Thomas J.T. Williams
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FROM TRASH TO TREASURE: RILKE AND VENICE REVISITED

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 127-193, April 2025.
ABSTRACT Rilke loved Venice and visited or passed through a dozen times between 1897 and 1920. He wrote extensively about the city in prose and verse between 1898 and 1908, including a cycle of poems in the Neue Gedichte and a polemical ‘Aufzeichnung’ in Malte Laurids Brigge.
Robert Vilain
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Norman Gash: Political Historian

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 338-358, October 2024.
Abstract This article commemorates the 40th anniversary of the publication of Lord Liverpool by Norman Gash (1912–2009). It considers Gash as a historian who both wrote about 19th‐century politics and expressed political views of his own. These views became increasingly prominent in the 1980s, during Margaret Thatcher's period of office.
Richard A. Gaunt
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Napoleon Bonaparte as Hero and Saviour: Image, Rhetoric and Behaviour in the Construction of a Legend [PDF]

open access: yesFrench History, 2004
The media of the day represented three predominant models around Napoleon: the all-conquering victorious general, the virtuous republican who stood above factions, and the man who brought peace to the Continent. These images became the foundation of a 'hero-saviour' myth that helped Napoleon take power on his return from Egypt at the end of 1799 ...
openaire   +1 more source

Writing the History of the Papacy in the 21st Century

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Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 376-387, September 2025.
Simone Maghenzani
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