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Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and Archipelagic Royalism
Humanities, 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
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Winston churchill and his illnesses [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2021 There are few public events that people still recall vividly after several decades have passed. For almost everyone of my generation, the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 is one of those memories. It took place at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and was a day of pageantry that probably had no parallel since the funeral of the ...
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior
Gender &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
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DNA Di Nulla AcademiaStarting from ancient texts including examples of risk communication, this paper analyzes the famous speech (13 may, 1940) in which Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised to the United Kingdom «blood, toil, tears and sweat».
Luigi Spina
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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The First World War at Sea: Death, Commemoration and Cultural Remembrance
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the ever‐increasing body of work devoted to war memorials, national days of remembrance and the commemoration of the First World War in Britain, academic focus remains firmly on the commemoration of the First World War on land. Yet, while the number of people who died at sea paled in comparison to their counterparts on the battlefield ...
ROWAN THOMPSON
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Medicina, 2000 <p>El 24 de enero de 1965 moría Sir Winston Churchill, unos dos meses después de haber cumplido su nonagésimo aniversario y a los 9 días de haber entrado en coma por un tercer y último accidente cerebro vascular.</p><p>Fue un hombre ...
Alfredo Jácome Roca
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Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
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Conflicting Visions of War: Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling’s Evocation of the Boer War
Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens, 2007 Rudyard Kipling and Winston Churchill both covered the Boer War as newspaper correspondents, working respectively for the Friend of the Free State and the Morning Post, and in later days, both authors looked back on the Boer War in their autobiographies.
Laïli Dor
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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