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

open access: yesHistory, 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 First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance

open access: yesHistory, 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

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

How England got to mandatory biodiversity net gain: A timeline. [PDF]

open access: yesAmbio
Stuart A   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Education in the Scottish Parliament

open access: yesScottish Educational Review, 2004
openaire   +1 more source

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