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Working life of women in the seventeenth Century
Revista de História, 1991 CLARK, Alice. Working life of women in the seventeenth Century.
Lina Gorenstein Ferreira da Silva
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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Hedelmöittymisestä vanhemmuuteen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia syntymän historiaan
J@rgonia, 2018 Arvio teoksesta Evans, Jennifer & Ciara Meehan (eds.) Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave, MacMillan. 2017. 251 s. ISBN 978-3-31944167-2.
Pasi Saarimäki
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Bulletin KNOB, 1998 How can we be sure that we understand seventeenth-century classicism? Not the rules of the art, but the beauty of it. Take for instance the Amsterdam town hall by Jacob van Campen, a building which has the appearance of an unattractive block, at least in
Wim Denslagen
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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«Fearless therefore Powerful» Sociability and Emotions in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Governare la paura, 2008 This paper analyses the role played by fear as the motive of both Victor Frankenstein and his monster’s behaviour. Moving from the natural horror the monster excites, fear is mostly considered by Mary Shelley as a normal reaction, and its absence marks ...
Cristina Paoletti
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\u27Ministering Confusion\u27: Rebellious Quaker Women (1650-1660)\u27
, 2014 This paper assesses the position of women within the Quaker community, concentrating on their ministerial roles. Female prophets and preachers were visible during the first decade of Quakerism, and the early years prove fruitful for exploration of women ...
Gill, Catie
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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, 2015 This article examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Quaker methods of biblical interpretation, comparing them to Puritan and Spiritualist methods.
Angell, Stephen W.
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Using Geographic Information Science to Map the Flight of the Regicides in Seventeenth- century New England [PDF]
, 2016 In mid-seventeenth century two of the judges who condemned King Charles I of England to death became regicide fugitives when his son came to the throne as Charles II. The two men fled to New England and eluded their Royalist pursuers for twenty years.
Cowley, Steven
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