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    From a grand hotel to an urban symbol: the Astor Hotel in old and new Tianjin by Taoyu Yang

    Published 2024-08-01
    “…Originally built more than 150 years ago, the Astor Hotel still stands exactly where it did in the former British Concession in Tianjin. This hotel was not only a venue boasting Tianjin’s most expensive accommodations but also a crucial site where politics, technology, economics, social, and cultural changes intersected and developed in its treaty port incarnation. …”
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    Saillance des îlots textuels dans un corpus de presse britannique sur le Brexit et conséquences interprétatives associées by Laure Cataldo

    Published 2024-08-01
    “…The purpose of this contribution is to examine, in a British press corpus of 90 articles dealing with Brexit, the segments inserted between inverted commas within the narrative speech of the journalist (called “îlots textuels” in French) and to highlight the interpretative effects underlying their use by the journalist. …”
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    GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN THAI CAVE RESCUE NEWS IN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS by Rika Wahyuni Tambunan, Ridwan Hanafiah, Umar Mono

    Published 2019-02-01
    “…The sources of data were Thai Cave Rescue news in British Broadcasting Corporation, Russia Today, France 24, Voice of America and China Central Television newspapers. …”
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    Toyin Falola@65 Conference: African Knowledge and Alternative Futures by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

    Published 2021-12-01
    “… A defining moment for me at the Toyin Falola@65 Conference titled “African Knowledges and Alternative Futures” that ran from the 29th to the 31st of January 2018 at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, was the declaration at a paper presentation session by a scholar from a Nigerian university that the culture of making promotion of Nigerian academics dependent on publication in journals outside Nigeria, particularly from the West, is ultimately counterproductive to the development of a robust academic culture in Nigeria. “Do US or British academics, for example, have to publish in Nigerian journals?” …”
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    From English Gentleman to Spanish hidalgo: Frank Hall Standish (1799–1840) and his Spanish Art Collection by Xanthe Brooke

    Published 2016-11-01
    “…He befriended resident diplomats such as the British vice-consul Julian Benjamin Williams, from whom he acquired some of his collection, and authored several publications, including a travel book on the countries of the Mediterranean, and another on the art and antiquities of Spain (specifically, the art collections of Seville and its hinterlands), which was published shortly before his death in 1840. …”
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    Mind you: an enunciative description by Graham Ranger

    Published 2015-07-01
    “…The present article deals with the parenthetical sequence mind you, using examples taken from the British National Corpus. After a brief discussion evoking the methodological difficulties implied by corpus study of a polyvalent, multiword marker of this type, I will propose a description, formulated within the Theory of Enunciative Operations, according to which, in a sequence of the general form "p mind you q", mind you indicates that q operates a retroactive adjustment relative to the inferences which the utterance of p might give rise to. …”
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    Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…The proposed paper traces the representation of European wars in nineteenth-century British fiction. They were seen as a threat, spilling over into Britain, as bringing in competing flows of refugees, and most importantly perhaps, as demanding a rethinking of imperialist legacies of guilt. …”
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    The World's Evangelical Alliance and the Spanish Civil War by F Hale

    Published 2000-12-01
    “… British Christians reacted variously to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and crossed verbal swords in the campaign for the hearts and minds of the public over this heated issue at a time when many people believed that Western civilisation and the future of Christianity in Europe were hanging in the balance. …”
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    Notes on the Nests and Prey of Six Species of Pison in Australia (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Howard E. Evans, Robert W. Matthews, Allan Hook

    Published 1980-01-01
    “…Our specimens have been compared with identified material in the British Museum (Natural History), including the types of Smith's and Turner's species. …”
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    Patriotic Enthusiasm at the Beginning of the First World War by N. V. Yudin

    Published 2014-08-01
    “…This refers to an immensely successful mobilization of continental armies, a rush of volunteers to the British army, and a drop of the labor movement in all European countries. …”
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    Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

    Published 2002-12-01
    “… The Spanish Civil War pitted British Christians against each other in an intense battle for the hearts and minds of the public. …”
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    Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

    Published 2022-10-01
    “…This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. …”
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