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“It Is Difficult to Investigate a Phenomenon That the Community Does Not Believe Exists” Sociological Research on Poverty in Hungary, 1960–2010

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study presents the history of poverty research in Hungary from the socialism of the 1960s to the post of regime‐change period, up to 2010. The decline of social research during the socialist period had a significant impact on the development of poverty research.
Ibolya Czibere
wiley   +1 more source

Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750

open access: yes, 2016
The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early
Hitchcock, D.
core  

Breeding-site vagrancy and hybridization in albatrosses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Given the rarity of hybridization in seabirds, which presumably relates to their very high philopatry, the degree of breeding‐site vagrancy should correspond with the incidence of mixed‐species pairing, although not necessarily of hybrids if there are ...
Cooper, John   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Legislating for Madness: Legal Exceptionalism and the Professional Identity of UK Mental Health Nursing. A Discussion Paper

open access: yesJournal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Mental health nursing in the United Kingdom has developed along a distinctive historical and legal trajectory shaped by statutory frameworks governing mental distress, detention, capacity and coercion. While adult/general nursing largely professionalised through Nightingalean reform, biomedicine and public health, mental health ...
Victoria Sweetmore
wiley   +1 more source

A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

The overlooked importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution [PDF]

open access: yes
Vagrancy is the occurrence of individuals outside the normal geographic range of their species. These rare and unpredictable events have long been neglected by the scientific community, belying a growing body of evidence that vagrancy can have an ...
Pierre-André Crochet (44226)   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

La Figure de l’enfant viator chez Le Clézio, un nouveau type de pícaro

open access: yesQuêtes Littéraires, 2014
The first short story in the volume Mondo and Other Stories serves as a model for the other stories in the collection in terms of the themes, the representation of the child’s portrait and the stylistic peculiarities of the text.
Diana Presadă
doaj   +1 more source

Tactics of Evasion

open access: yesSjuttonhundratal, 2020
Legal restrictions on vagrancy and day labour in Iceland became increasingly strict in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, culminating with a decree in 1783 which prohibited any form of masterless labour and proscribed compulsory service on a ...
Vilhelm Vilhelmsson
doaj   +1 more source

The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher: New Archival Discoveries on the Siblings of Playwright John Fletcher

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596. Navigating the epistemological limits of adversarial legal records from Chancery and the Star Chamber, the study reveals the tumultuous ...
Domenico Lovascio
wiley   +1 more source

The New Economics of Cape Slavery

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In this survey, I argue that the Cape Colony has become one of the most useful settings for studying the economics of unfree labour. The Cape offers a distinctive combination: a slavery regime linking the Indian Ocean and Atlantic worlds, an urban and agrarian economy, overlapping labour regimes and archives rich enough for linked micro‐data ...
Johan Fourie
wiley   +1 more source

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