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Focusing my study on one manumission case from early 1931 documented within the records of the British India Office, I argue that the conflict described within where the Sheikh of Sharjah sought to challenge British authority to manumit... more
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      British HistoryHistory of SlaveryAbolition of SlaveryBritish Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - )
Interracial sex mattered to the British colonial state in West Africa. In Crossing the Color Line, Carina E. Ray goes beyond this fact to reveal how Gold Coasters—their social practices, interests, and anxieties—shaped and defined these... more
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      African StudiesBritish HistoryMaritime HistoryRace and Racism
The Gouzenko Affair is referred to as the event that started the Cold War. This article draws on recently declassified documents that shed new light on Britain’s role in this affair, particularly that of the Foreign Office and the British... more
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      American HistoryCanadian StudiesBritish HistoryCanadian History
From Henry David Thoreau to Bill McKibben, critics and philosophers have long sought to demonstrate how a sufficient life—one without constant, environmentally damaging growth—might still be rich and satisfying. Yet one crucial episode in... more
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      Political EconomyVictorian StudiesBritish HistoryChildren's Literature
The publication of the 'First Report of the National Advisory Council on Art Education' (1960), otherwise known as the first ‘Coldstream Report’, is a graspable moment of displacement in the British art world. It represents a shift... more
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      Art HistoryBritish HistoryModern British HistoryDrawing
NAIEVE AND QUIXOTIC GOVERNOR GENERAL HARDINGE HAD SEEN NO MILITARY ACTION SINCE 30 YEARS AND WAS A TOTAL NOVICE AS FAR AS INDIAN WARFARE WAS CONCERNED- HIS DECISION TO WAIT FOR LITTLER’S DIVISION WAS A MASSIVE BLUNDER –BECAUSE LITTLER’S... more
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      Military HistoryBritish HistoryLeadershipSikh Studies
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      Cultural HistoryGender StudiesTheatre StudiesTheatre History
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      Economic HistoryBritish HistoryColonial AmericaLegal History
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      British HistoryIndustrial Revolution
This is the catalogue to an exhibition of the same name, which took place at the Worshipful Company of Mercers and Leeds University Art Gallery. It presents fifty outstanding artworks by fifty British Women artists working between 1900 -... more
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      Gender StudiesArt HistoryWomen's StudiesWomen's History
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      TechnologyBritish HistoryHistory of TechnologyModern British History
Tourists are told that ravens at the Tower of London first had their wings clipped in the reign of Charles II, who heard an ancient prophesy that Britain would fall if they left. In fact, the tower ravens are entirely a Victorian... more
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      British HistoryAnthrozoologyHistory Of LondonAnimals in Myth (Anthrozoology)
This conference paper examines the historical battle of Mons Badonicus in the sixth century, and it's ties to the semi-mythical figure of Arthur, as well as the equally vague historical figure of Ambrosius of Aurelianus.
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      British HistoryEarly Middle Ages (History)Gildasking Arthur
ABSTRACT: Portrayals of noblewomen and the courtly love ideal are familiar themes in medieval songs and romances. This essay challenges the legitimacy of these themes, tracing an archeology of courtly love as a scholarly and cultural... more
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      Gender StudiesMusical TheatrePopular MusicBritish History
Archives and the documents within them are at the heart of the practice of history and the occupational culture of historians. A majority of historical work has been characterized and defined by research in archives of varying kinds. Yet... more
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      Research MethodologyBritish HistorySports HistoryArchives
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      HistoryLanguages and LinguisticsBritish HistoryAnglo-Saxon Studies
In 1980, three Republican women prisoners held in Armagh prison in Northern Ireland joined the hunger strike being conducted by male Republican prisoners in Maze Prison. Overshadowed by the fatal 1981 strike, the 1980 strike involved... more
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      Modern HistoryMarxismBritish HistoryBritish Politics
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      British HistoryMedieval English LiteratureLate Medieval English HistoryMedieval British Literature
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      MythologyBritish HistoryCelts (Archaeology)Celtic History
Margaret Thatcher was one of the most controversial figures of modern times. Her governments inspired hatred and veneration in equal measure and her legacy remains fiercely contested. Yet assessments of the Thatcher era are often divorced... more
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      HistoryModern HistoryBritish HistoryGovernment
How a private English Company conquered India and Chastised Afghanistan and Nepal. The Role of the Bengal Army in the British Conquest of India The British employed the Bengal Army in various campaigns starting from the Battle of Plassey... more
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      Military HistoryCorporate Social ResponsibilityBritish HistoryLeadership
SHORNCLIFFE LECTURES BOOK 5 Book 5 of the Shorncliffe Lectures series explores the development of the Baker Rifle and the Experimental Corps of Riflemen of Colonel Coote-Manningham that became the 95th Rifles. This was the first permanent... more
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      Military HistoryBritish HistoryHistory Portuguese and SpanishArgentina
This thesis will examine how British male cross-dressing performance remained commercially and critically popular from 1918-1970, despite increased cultural anxieties about the links between gender variance and transgressive acts,... more
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesGender StudiesQueer Studies
Üç semavi dinin kutsal mekânı, Müslümanların ilk kıblesi Kudüs hakkında ne biliyoruz? Uğrunda mücadeleler verilen ve asırlarca farklı hâkimiyetler altında kalan Kudüs tarih boyunca hep “Halilullah” şehri olarak saygı görmüştür. Mukaddes... more
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      German StudiesOttoman HistoryMiddle East StudiesBritish History
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      HistoryAmerican HistoryFilm StudiesTelevision Studies
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural HistoryFrench HistoryBritish History
This short article considers the life and political activities of Mrs. Flora Drummond, a former Suffragette who, in 1920, founded the Women's Guild of Empire and took a rightwing direction in the 1920s, to the point where she was prepared... more
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      British HistoryFascism
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      American HistoryCultural HistoryLatin American and Caribbean HistoryGlobalization
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      British HistoryBritish PoliticsScottish StudiesBritish and Irish History
This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary... more
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      British HistoryEnglish ReformationEighteenth-Century British History and CultureBritish Empire
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      American HistoryDiplomatic HistoryBritish HistoryWoodrow Wilson
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryIrish StudiesBritish History
THE MODERN CONCEPT of visual appropriation implies a 'talcing' to oneself of a view or an object in a view. One thinks of the viewpoint and the visual construction as one's own, but the land and objects making up this view are one's... more
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      British HistoryPropertyPicturesque TheoryHumphry Repton
A Private English Company Defeats Persia and Forces It to Evacuate Afghanistan
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      Military HistoryPolitical Geography and GeopoliticsCritical GeopoliticsBritish History
Un 24 de enero del 76 d.C. nace el emperador romano Adriano quien ordenó la construcción del muro que separaba britanos de los pueblos del norte. El segundo (sucediendo a Trajano) de los emperadores romanos de origen hispánico,... more
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      Ancient HistoryBritish HistoryRoman military historyRoman Army
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      American HistoryArt HistoryGilded Age and Progressive EraBritish History
Book review. Overall, this book makes significant contributions to the project of understanding the history of the socio-political movements to improve women’s condition in Europe as well as making a persuasive argument for the centrality... more
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      European HistoryWomen's HistoryBritish HistoryWomen's Rights
This chapter examines how the First World War is still talked about in Britain within political, media and public discourse. In advance of the centenary of its outbreak, the First World War has been a regular feature of discussion within... more
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      Modern HistoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesMedia Studies
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      Victorian StudiesBritish HistoryAnthropology of FoodFood History
Review of a cultural history of LSD book
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      British HistoryEntheogensEntheogens and Religion
The use of material culture methodologies within the historical discipline has prompted scholars to redefine how and what we might consider primary source material. Subsequently, objects and their ‘process of making’ have come to play a... more
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      British HistoryHistory of TextilesPolitical CultureGender
Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. The origins of Scottish nationalism lie not in the medieval battles for Scottish... more
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      British HistoryBritish PoliticsScottish StudiesScottish History
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The largely fictitious History written in twelfth-century England by Gregory of Monmouth is shown to reveal more about contemporary British mentality, culture and political ambition than the earlier period of history that the work... more
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      British HistoryMiddle Ages
ISABELLAS SON ENSIGN WILLIAM HENRY NAPIER –BORN IN PARIS , RAISED IN MADRAS,FOUGHT AT GHAZIABAD AND DIED AT MEERUT read on linbk below as Academias document conversion is HIGHLY INEFFICIENT AND UNRELIABLE:----... more
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      British HistoryIndiaHistory of Indian Mutiny 1857British East India Company
The book is now public access. Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association... more
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      British HistorySpace and PlaceHistory of Colonial IndiaMughal Architecture
This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals’ vision of a 'godly' commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and intellectual changes in Tudor England. Using the clergyman and bestselling author,... more
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      Early Modern HistoryHistory of ReligionBritish HistoryReformation History
Presentation of edited volume. Texts by John Colin, Charles Manby Smith and William Duthie. Translated by Sabine Reungoat and edited by Fabrice Bensimon
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      French HistoryBritish HistoryAutobiographyLabor Migration