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Own-made in the (post-)new South Africa : a study of theatre originating from selected townships in the vicinity of Cape Town [PDF]

, 2010
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-205).This thesis sets out to develop a framework for the analysis and description of theatre practices evident in selected Cape Town townships during the past six years.
Morris, Gay
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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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Catholic Values and Gender Politics in the Colombian Mass Media: Acción Cultural Popular (ACPO) in the 1970s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Review of Łukasz Antosik, Wczesnośredniowieczne włókiennictwo na Śląsku (XI–XIII wiek) / Early Medieval Textile Production in Silesia (10th–13th century). Łódź 2025, pp. 315, published by Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Fasciculi Archaeologiae Historicae
The textile production, and in particular drapery, was already highly developed in late medieval Silesia when the intensive urbanisation and colonisation of Silesia and the cultural breakthrough took place in the early 13th century and became, to a ...
Wojciech Kawka
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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
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Mokyklinis jėzuitų teatras – politinio Lietuvos Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės teatro dalis | Scholastic Jesuit Theatre – a Part of Political Theatre in Great Duchy of Lithuania [PDF]

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2004
At the beginning scholastic Jesuit theatre was considered to be a part of didactic teaching programme. During their performances students were trained to associate with spectators, develop their memory, articulation, review the knowledge of the Latin ...
Eugenija Ulčinaitė
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Walking Through Housing History: Creative Histories Beyond the Classroom

History, EarlyView.
Abstract How might walking be used to support a creative and historically informed approach to learning about public health, environmental health and housing and take students beyond the traditional confines of the classroom? In this article, we discuss the development and delivery of a North London walking tour close to a university campus.
Zoë Hendon, Jill Stewart
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, 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
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