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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
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review: Pfeil und Bogen in der Römischen Kaiserzeit, by Holger Riesch

EXARC Journal, 2019
This book closes a gap both in the documentation of the history of the Roman army as well as the history of archery in that it provides a very comprehensive overview on the use of bow and arrow in the Roman Empire.
Antje Wilton
doaj  

Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

Imperial College School of Medicine: A History of the Future

, 1998
A brief introduction to the long and distinguished history behind each of the institutions which came together in August 1997 to form the Imperial College School of ...
Barrett, Anne, Imperial College Archives
core   +1 more source

Gladiatorial Monuments from Thyateira

Gephyra
This study focuses on five gladiatorial monuments found during the surveys conducted at Thyateira in the northeastern part of Lydia.
Pınar Özlem Aytaçlar, Sevgiser Akat Özenir   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life and death in the ancient world: the tetrarchy and the last persecution of Christians (303 – 311)

Heródoto, 2018
The present paper begins with a description of the Roman world after the Tetrarchy, with the fight for power between Constantine and, later, Licinius. We analyzed the political matters concerning the Roman world during this period.
Cláudio Umpierre Carlan
doaj   +1 more source

The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
wiley   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

A monumental apsidal building of the Roman Imperial period in Doliche

Journal of Roman Archaeology
Abstract Excavations in the city center of the ancient city of Doliche in southeast Türkiye have brought to light the remains of a monumental apsidal building. Although the structure is poorly preserved due to looting and spoliation, the results of three seasons of excavation allow for an initial analysis and preliminary ...
Michael Blömer, Lennart Wouter Kruijer, Theresa Pommer   +2 more
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
wiley   +1 more source