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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
wiley   +1 more source

New Goods and New Habits: Cleanliness as a Class Marker and the Making of the Peasant Homemaker, Sweden 1850–1910

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines what cleanliness, that is, hygiene and tidiness, meant for landowning farm households in the county of Härjedalen in the inland of northern Sweden from the 1860s to the 1910s. The period is characterised by a growing understanding of bacteria and of how infectious diseases could be prevented through improved hygiene ...
Marie Ulväng
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

‘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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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

Origenes de la Educación Física en las escuelas públicas: El caso particular del ayuntamiento de Barcelona durante el siglo XIX. The origin of Physical Education in state schools: The specific case of Barcelona town hall during the XIX century.

Cabás, 2015
(ES) Hacia finales del siglo XIX, cuando el deporte pretendía tomar carta de naturaleza en Barcelona, el Ayuntamiento emprendió un proyecto para hacer llegar la educación física a las escuelas municipales.
Xavier Torrebadella-Flix
doaj  

Engaging patients in health research: identifying research priorities through community town halls. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2017
Etchegary H, Bishop L, Street C, Aubrey-Bassler K, Humphries D, Vat LE, Barrett B.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source