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Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations”

E-REA, 2018
This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. Paying particular attention to textiles in the opening and closing of Fors Clavigera (1871-1885), and highlighting educational texts by two women cited there (Kate Stanley and
Rachel M. W. DICKINSON
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Des traductions de Ruskin à celle du « livre intérieur »

Catalonia, 2023
Proust devoted six years of his life, from 1899 to 1905, to translating and annotating John Ruskin. How did a collective project, involving his mother and friends such as Marie Nordlinger, lead Proust, once the «age of translations» was over, to devote ...
Christophe Pradeau, Matthieu Vernet
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Standards for Hospital Falls Prevention and Management: An International Comparative Analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Hospital falls and associated injuries are a global issue associated with harm and significant costs to individuals and society, especially for older adults. Hospital standards specify the minimum level of care required to optimise patient safety, quality and outcomes. Standards are often used during hospital accreditation.
Jonathan P. McKercher, Casey L. Peiris, Claire Thwaites, Hazel Heng, Deborah Gleeson, Gillian Janes, Meg E. Morris   +6 more
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'This Immense Expense of Art':George Eliot and John Ruskin on Consumption and the Limits of Sympathy [PDF]

, 2010
Emily Coit, "'This Immense Expense of Art': George Eliot and John Ruskin on Consumption and the Limits of Sympathy" (pp. 214–245) This essay attempts to better our understanding of George Eliot's conservatism by examining a body of ideas ...
Coit, Emily
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, Volume 50, Issue 1, Page 77-95, March 2026.
The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Geochronology of the Whittlesey sedimentary succession, eastern England: The ‘Pompeii’ of the British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 260-287, February 2026.
ABSTRACT The sedimentary succession at Whittlesey preserves a unique British late Middle Pleistocene to Holocene record back to a time equivalent to at least marine oxygen isotope stage 8 (ca. 250 ka). This study builds on previously published sedimentology, geochronology and palaeoecology results to establish 20 sedimentary facies associations, with ...
H. E. Langford, M. D. Bateman, R. M. Briant, D. J. Horne   +3 more
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Nineteenth‐Century Watercolour Reproductions of Old Masters in the Ruskin Teaching Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: Materials and Techniques of ‘Heaven‐Borne’ Copyist Charles Fairfax Murray

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 64-83, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of the pigments and techniques used by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849–1919), a leading expert in Italian Renaissance attribution, influential art collector and primary copyist for John Ruskin.
Victoria Kemp, Andrew Beeby, Kelly Domoney, Daniel Bone   +3 more
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Assessing the success of a horizon scanning approach in predicting invasive non‐native species arrival

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2026.
We conclude that horizon scanning provides a rapid, affordable and successful mechanism to predict the arrival of high‐risk INNS. We highlight the importance of citizen science, including biological recording, and of local expertise for detecting and documenting arrival of INNS.
Jodey M. Peyton, Stephanie Rorke, David C. Aldridge, Oliver L. Pescott, Katharina Dehnen‐Schmutz, David G. Noble, Jack Sewell, Alan J. A. Stewart, Tim Adriaens, Björn C. Beckmann, J. Robert Britton, Juliet Brodie, Peter M. J. Brown, Imogen C. N. Cavadino, Paul F. Clark, Alison M. Dunn, Jim Foster, Colin Harrower, Martin C. Harvey, Michelle C. Jackson, Tomos Jones, Christine A. Maggs, Gabrielle Martin, Fiona Mathews, Aileen C. Mill, Debbie Murphy, Ellie Paganini, Robin Payne, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Trevor Renals, Karsten Schönrogge, Richard H. Shaw, Graham C. Smith, Paul D. Stebbing, Pete A. Stroh, Hannah Tidbury, Elena Tricarico, Jeanne Vallet, Kevin J. Walker, Louisa E. Wood, Christine A. Wood, Ben Woodcock, Helen E. Roy   +42 more
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Concerns over colour durability in the nineteenth-century industrial revolution: insights from John Ruskin’s teaching collection

Heritage Science, 2023
The numerous new pigments that gradually became available to artists during the nineteenth-century Colour Revolution were received with contrasting attitudes.
Tea Ghigo, Michele Occhipinti, Andrew Beeby, Kelly Domoney, Daniel Bone   +4 more
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Gandhi’s Many Influences and Collaborators [PDF]

, 2015
In Gandhi's Printing Press, Isabel Hofmeyr introduces readers to the nuances of the newspaper in a far-flung colony in the age when mail and news traveled by ship and when readers were encouraged by Gandhi to read slowly and deeply. This article explores
Presbey, Gail
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