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    Britomart Quest Anew, Victorians Revive the Elizabethan Faerie Queene as Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage Intensify by Susan Clayton

    Published 2010-06-01
    “…We shall address the questions of links between gender and power, and consider how the past is used to consolidate the present.Our analysis starts by contextualising Victorian revivals of Britomart’ story, paying special attention to a prose adaptation by Mary MacLeod, then assessing these revivals in relation to women’s demands for change, bearing in mind that British suffragettes also looked across the Channel to another female knight-at-arms, Joan of Arc, for a model for their campaigns. …”
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    Le film de fiction comme lieu de mémoire historicisé. Du signe-monument à la trace-interstice Pour l’exemple (Joseph Losey, 1964) by Sylvain Louet

    Published 2010-10-01
    “…Thus law and justice were used by the British government in order to eradicate desertion from national history. …”
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    10 Questions for Professor David Crystal by David Crystal, Thomas Tinnefeld

    Published 2023-12-01
    “…The world-renowned British linguist, Professor David Crystal, kindly provided insightful responses to ten pertinent questions within his field of expertise for JLLT. …”
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    Gambling and Consumption by Riitta Matilainen

    Published 2011-01-01
    “…Sociologist Emma Casey (2008: 3), who has studied British working-class women’s  xperiences of the National lottery, points out that buying a lottery ticket is a very popular routine purchase with unique mass appeal. …”
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    World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera by Gilles TEULIÉ

    Published 2017-06-01
    “…This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal resorts. …”
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    The language ecology of a new Afrikaans Bible by F. Ponelis

    Published 2002-06-01
    “…The sweeping transformation of Cape society by British colonial rule gave great impetus to Dutch as a local language of culture. …”
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    Design of Normal Concrete Mixtures Using Workability-Dispersion-Cohesion Method by Hisham Qasrawi

    Published 2016-01-01
    “…Results were compared to the ACI and British methods of mix design. The method can be extended to cover all types of concrete.…”
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    Land conflict, murder, and the rise of “timeless culture” and girl blaming (Samburu, Kenya) by Bilinda Straight

    Published 2020-01-01
    “…Through a close examination of a well-publicized Kenyan court case surrounding the suspicious death in 1931 of Theodore Powys, a British settler, this paper documents the shaping of a discourse about feminine agency and masculine bravado among the youth that eventuated in harsh state-sponsored collective punishment of a pastoralist Samburu community. …”
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    The Impact of the Covid Pandemic on UK Economic Policy and Its Legacy by Nicholas Sowels

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…It emphasises that while today’s high public debt is not unprecedented in British history it will weigh heavily on public spending in the years, if not decades, to come.…”
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    De la réforme agraire à l’hyperinflation : l’expérience zimbabwéenne (1997-2008) by Daouda Drabo

    Published 2018-12-01
    “…Our contribution to the understanding of Zimbabwean hyperinflation is show how policy decisions aimed at expropriate the land of British farmers has led to a collapse of the monetary order.…”
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    History and trajectory of Rossetti's works ‘after Dante’: between private collections and museums by Yannick Le Pape

    Published 2025-01-01
    “… If we trace masterpieces by Rossetti "from Dante", we can observe that the most part remains in British or North American collections, although we had in mind that museums of the whole world would have got such emblematic items. …”
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    Que nous apprennent les « artistes officiels » sur le front de l’intérieur (Home Front) dans la Grande-Bretagne en guerre, 1940-1945 ? by Antoine Capet

    Published 2006-09-01
    “…Yet, it can be argued that fundamentally, at a deeper level, these official artists indirectly praise the indestructibility of British values. Compared with the less subtle propaganda of the Ministry of Information, these works may have been subliminally more convincing―and therefore more valuable for the war effort.…”
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    Discours direct : syntaxe et prosodie by Sylvie HANOTE

    Published 2015-06-01
    “…It is based on the acoustic analysis of an oral corpus drawn from the radio (BBC Radio for British English and National Public Radio for American English) which has been compiled at Poitiers University and contains about 8 hours of audio files (= ca 80,000 words) from various types of documents (political speeches, interviews, news broadcasts, scientific programmes…), most of them recorded from 2004 to 2013. …”
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    The Laws of Ine. Report of a Digital Edition of a Renaissance Manuscript by Fabio Soncin

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…The Laws of Ine are an important juridical text for the Anglo-Saxon period and in the context of Tudor England for the creation of British identity. The objective is to demonstrate the usefulness of the digital medium for the valorization of the historical dimension of the manuscript and the text. …”
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    Faut-il se souvenir du républicanisme anglais ? L’héritage intellectuel du républicanisme anglais dans le temps long by Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…However, if one considers its intellectual origins, the abundance of theoretical debate at the time of the First English Revolution, the importance of its reception across the British Isles, Europe and America and the manifest or subterranean role it played in transatlantic revolutions and its legacies, it appears as a legitimate object of study for historians of political thought; which is why there has been sustained interest in the history of this intellectual tradition over the past few decades.…”
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