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Housing Since 1945: The Impact of Policy Change and Ideology
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Housing policy in England has undergone significant reform on several occasions since 1945. Consensus approaches in the late 1940s and 50s to build large numbers of council houses and new private homes gave way to more ideologically driven policies in the 1970s and 80s.
Tony Travers
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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[Review of] Cary D. Wintz. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance [PDF]
, 1990 In 1925 Professor Alain Locke argued in The New Negro that the Negro was moving forward under the control largely of his own objectives ... which were none other than the ideals of American institutions and democracy.
Walter, John C.
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Where's the beef? The feminisation of weight‐loss dieting in Britain and Scandinavia c.1890–1925
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract Representations of the slim body have traditionally been at the centre of scholarly interest in dieting culture, whereas food often remains a shadowy presence compared with more persistent themes of body discipline, slenderness and anti‐fat messages.
Emma Hilborn
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Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature
, 2018 Gerry Milligan, Frank Lacopo
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Alliances and treaties: co-operation in war and peace [PDF]
, 2016 This article explores how the use of alliances and treaties changed along with the developments in the European international order in the modern era. Fundamentally, European international relations remained based on an "anarchic" system of competing ...
Rapport, Michael
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Management of Diffuse Low-Grade Glioma: The Renaissance of Robust Evidence [PDF]
, 2020 Karanbir Brar +7 more
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The nuclear power renaissance in the UK: democratic deficiencies within the 'consensus' on sustainability [PDF]
, 2010 This paper focuses on New Labour’s policy towards the nuclear renaissance. It places this policy in the context of wider discussions on the democratic implications of the new constellations of governance emerging from the drive towards more sustainable ...
Johnstone, Philip
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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