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The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8
Abstract In 1867–8, the British Museum sent a staff member on the Abyssinian Campaign. Richard Holmes, an assistant in the Manuscript Department, was embedded in the military invasion and looted important and sacred objects and manuscripts from the fortress of Emperor Tewodros II at Maqdala.
ZOE CORMACK
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Abstract The recent exhibition Paris 1793–1794: une année révolutionnaire at the Musée Carnavalet in Paris marked the first exhibition on the subject of the French Revolution since the museum reopened in 2021 after a five‐year period of renovation.
Laura O'Brien
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Abstract This paper reports an exploratory pilot study‐ which is part of a larger study‐ examining the impact of an innovative approach to enhancing the writing skills of primary school students with dyslexia, digital storytelling (DST), linked to critical and cultural learning. The study adopted a single‐subject design with a pre‐experimental approach
Kalliopi Kritsotaki+2 more
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Whether students with disability should be included in standardised testing is a contentious issue. In this study, we provide the first empirical evidence on what happens when principals are given discretion over exempting students with disability. Using population administrative data of children with teacher‐identified low‐moderate disability, we find
John de New, Cain Polidano, Chris Ryan
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Where do parties interact? Issue engagement in press releases and tweets
Abstract To what extent political parties engage in debates about the same issues and how they respond to each other is highly relevant to democratic processes. Existing research on issue engagement has uncovered several interesting patterns and factors, but has neglected one important feature of contemporary democracies: nowadays, political actors ...
CHRISTOPH IVANUSCH
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Abstract Experimental research has shown that political parties often, but not always, suffer reputational costs when they change their policy positions. Yet, it is not clear who accepts and who rejects party policy change. Using newly collected observational data from five European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United ...
MAURITS J. MEIJERS, RUTH DASSONNEVILLE
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They put me on a train: Assimilation and the Australian railways
This article explores the South Australian railways’ involvement in the forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families and homes. It gives close attention to the artwork and words of First Nations peoples who were taken away from their families by train under the Australian government policy of Assimilation. A key finding is that while the
Katie Maher
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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Pauses in the Dynamics of Handwriting Production: Evidence of Persistent Difficulties in French Students With Dyslexia. [PDF]
Mazur A, Quignard M.
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Endogeneity and the economic consequences of tax avoidance
Abstract Academic research investigating the economic consequences of tax avoidance is almost always interested in the consequences of intentional, deliberate actions undertaken to reduce taxes relative to income. Therefore, it is crucial that such research distinguishes between intentional and incidental tax avoidance, since failure to do so can ...
Scott D. Dyreng+3 more
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