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El joven Winston y El instante más oscuro: Winston Churchill como líder político en una Europa cambiante

open access: yesFotocinema: Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía, 2020
Las películas El joven Winston (Young Winston, R. Attenborough, 1972) y El instante más oscuro (Darkest Hour, J. Wright, 2017) se estrenan en dos momentos críticos en Europa y el Reino Unido, vinculados a la revolución del 68 en el primer caso, y al ...
Marta Frago, Daniel Sierra
doaj  

Ultra-broadband Polarisers Based on Metastable Free-Standing Aligned Carbon Nanotube Membranes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A carbon nanotube free-standing linearly dichroic polariser is developed using solid-state extrusion. Membrane cohesion is experimentally and numerically demonstrated to derive from inter-tube van der Waals interactions in this family of planar ...
Cole, MT   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Destroying Hitler’s Berghof: The Bomber Command Raid of 25 April 1945 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper examines the Royal Air Force raid on Adolf Hitler’s Berghof on the Obersalzberg in April 1945. Arthur Harris, the head of Bomber Command, wanted to emphasize the air power’s decisive role in the defeat of Nazism. However, Winston Churchill and
Haller, Oliver
core   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

WHO DROPPED THE SWORD OF STALINGRAD? [PDF]

open access: yesEnglish Studies at NBU
On November 29, 1943, at a ceremony at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran in the presence of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill presented Marshal Stalin with a Sword of Honour as a gift from King George VI to the 'steel-hearted citizens of ...
Boris Naimushin
doaj   +1 more source

Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
Divi Britannici (1675) is a major restoration history that deserves to be more widely known. The work’s author, Sir Winston Churchill (1620–1688), is certainly less well-known than his celebrated descendant of the same name.
Willy Maley, Richard Stacey
doaj   +1 more source

‘They shall reap the whirlwind’: how Churchill harnessed Christianity in the service of war [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
For centuries the Church of England buttressed a sense of Christian nationhood – which was ably deployed during the second world war by Winston Churchill.
Spencer, Nick
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Semantic browsing of digital collections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Visiting museums is an increasingly popular pastime. Studies have shown that visitors can draw on their museum experience, long after their visit, to learn new things in practical situations.
G. Landow   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

A ‘Wholly Unjustifiable Treatment of British Subject’? The Detention of W. T. Goode in the Baltic, 1919

open access: yesHistory, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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