Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…A close reading of the chapters concerned with the event will reveal how the victory heralding British supremacy in the nineteenth century is in fact persistently undermined in the novel. …”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…Some shared features of these agricultural taxation systems were pointed out and their division in two basic models (the British model and the continental model), which was presented taking as example the countries in which these models operate. …”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…By turning her attention to Persia, she placed herself on the margins of the British Empire, at the heart of the Great Strategic Game between Russia and the United Kingdom. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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Wave dissipation performance of breakwater by Hu Yufan

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Fracture of Parallel Strand Bamboo Composite under Mode I Loading: DCB Test Investigation by Yurong Shen, Dongsheng Huang, Ying Hei Chui, Chunping Dai

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Decoloniality, Indigenous Resistance, and Environmental Justice in Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of C.K Janu by Midhun Mohan

“…This controversial and sensitive realm, worsened initially by the British and sustained by successive governments through Forest Policies, requires critical examination. …”
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English Slang in “Gap Year” Movies Series by Rahilla Fanny Fanny

“…In this research, the data were collected from Gap Year movie series in the form of British slangs.Then the data were checked by using dictionary, Oxford English Dictionaries Online and Etymology dictionaries online to make sure whether the data belonged to slang words or not and also to check the origin of the words. …”
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Talking Back to Virginia Woolf in Her Own Words: Gendered, Racial, and Literary Passing as Forms of Counter-Interpellation in Kabe Wilson’s “Dreadlock Hoax” by Valérie Favre

“…On 19 May 2014, British multimedia artist Kabe Wilson presented the result of a five-year-long creative endeavour, as he displayed for the first time his literary and artistic recycling of A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf’s landmark 1929 feminist essay. …”
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Fallacies and Possible Remedies of the SYNTAX Score by Yong-Ming He, Li Shen, Jun-Bo Ge

“…The Evaluation of Xience Everolimus-Eluting Stent Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery for Effectiveness of Left-Main Revascularization (EXCEL) and Nordic-Baltic-British left main revascularization (NOBLE) studies are the largest international randomized studies so far, comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) in the treatment of left main coronary artery disease. …”
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Political Tool of “Immoral Rituals” and Resilience of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea by Nam-lin Hur

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Birdwatcher profile in the Ria Formosa Natural Park by Andreia Costa, Pedro Pintassilgo, António Matias, Patrícia Pinto, Maria Helena Guimarães

“…The results show that the most frequent nationalities of birdwatchers are: British (39%), Dutch (17%) and Portuguese (17%). The majority of birdwatchers are male (55%) and married (57%). …”
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Sleep in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Evidence Gaps and Challenges by Rachel Jen, Yanru Li, Robert L. Owens, Atul Malhotra

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Native Subterranean Termites: Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks), Reticulitermes hageni Banks (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) by Nan-Yao Su, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Brian Cabrera

“…Its counterpart, the western subterranean termite, R. hesperus Banks, is found along the entire Pacific Coast ranging from southern California to British Columbia. Reticulitermes tibialis occurs in the inter-mountain region of the West. …”
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‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’. The Rhetoric of Dissent in John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) by Bertrand Lentsch

“…The diary of his conversion is yet no anticlimax, since he wilfully enshrined his apology in apologetics. A proud British, and an Oxbridge divine, with a lifelong pledge to make out the truth in the maze of a schism, needs must when the devil drives. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…The Labouchère amendment is often regarded as the piece of British legislation that criminalized male homosexuality. …”
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Fatal Pulmonary Embolism following Achilles Tendon Repair: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Asim M. Makhdom, Simon Garceau, Ronald Dimentberg

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Révolution sociale et utopie chez les premiers Fabiens (1884-1890) : un positionnement complexe by Marie Terrier

“…The ambition of the Fabians was to offer a theoretical basis to British socialism. In the process, they were soon faced with the question of utopias. …”
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Memorising the Mutiny: Felice Beato’s Lucknow Photographs by Claire Bowen

“…His initial purpose seems to have been to complete a commission from the British War Office, given to himself and Robertson, to make pictures of the sites of the Mutiny. …”
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Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives by Claudia Rauhut

“…The article analyzes the mobilization around this issue in the English-speaking Caribbean, the “reparative justice” agenda put forward by the CARICOM Reparations Commission- mainly composed by former British colonies in the Caribbean-, and the demands directed against European governments. …”
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