Floating Cities: Xi Xi, Magritte, and the Insouciance of Allegory by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

“…Xi Xi’s short-story `Marvels of a Floating City’ is clearly linked to a reflection on Hong Kong’s hand-over from London to Beijing in 1997, but it also passes through that fixed date to ask how such an image-text might operate along different registers as we pass from Aristotle toward Benjamin and Deleuze. …”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“… The Setswana language is one of the Southern African languages that was “reduced” into a written language through the translation of Christian literature by the London Missionary Society. The introduction of the Setswana spelling book in 1826 epitomised the vernacularisation and standardisation of Setswana. …”
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An Update to the Central England Temperature Series—HadCET v2.1 by Tim Legg, Stephen Packman, Thomas Caton Harrison, Mark McCarthy

“…The CET record from 1659 represents a roughly triangular area of England extending from the Lancashire plain in the north, to London in the south‐east and south‐west of the Midlands of England. …”
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« Between the heaven and man came the cloud » : John Ruskin et la représentation des états de la matière dans Modern Painters by Lawrence Gasquet

“…I have elsewhere endeavoured to show, that no inconsiderable part of the essential characters of beauty depended on the expression of vital energy in organic things, or on the subjection to such energy, of things naturally passive and powerless » (The Seven Lamps of Architecture, London, George Allen, 1880, 1906, p. 271). In this article, I shall try to establish a synthesis of the representations of the four elements so as to determine the role they play in Ruskin’s aesthetics.…”
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No Easy Way In by Kalev Aasmäe

“…This article aims to study the impact the 2012 criminalisation of residential squatting in England and Wales has had on the lived experiences and communal logics of squatters in London. Through the story of a former homeless person named Keith, this paper explores how an individual squatter with limited experience tries to navigate the complex communal logics of squatter crews and identify larger networks in order not to lose the roof over his head. …”
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Abnormally Low HbA1c Caused by Hemolytic Anemia, a Case Report and Literature Review by Sajjad Bakhtiari, Nathan E. Timbrell, Sènan M. D’Almeida

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Running to Freedom: The Flight of the Fathers of Illegitimate Children to the Colonies of the British Empire, 1875-1901 by Florence Pellegry

“…Through the close study of private correspondence extracts and first-hand testimonies found in the London Foundling Hospital archives, this paper will analyse the phenomenon of the flight towards the colonies of the British Empire in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. …”
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Entropy and Selection: Life as an Adaptation for Universe Replication by Michael E. Price

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The research museum – a place of integrated knowledge production by Helmuth Trischler

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Grand canyons on the Moon by David A. Kring, Danielle P. Kallenborn, Gareth S. Collins

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Cornelia de Lange Syndrome: A Newborn with Imperforate Anus and a NIPBL Mutation by Rose H. Mende, David P. Drake, Raimos M. Olomi, Ben C. J. Hamel

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Use of Methadone for Neuropathic Pain by Dwight Moulin

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Discovery and Designation of Type Specimens of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) From Argentina Described by E. von Harold in 1875 by David G. Furth, Ingolf S. Askevold, Catherine N. Duckett

“…A few specimens from some other museums such as the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität (Berlin), The Natural History Museum (London), Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (Brussels), Museo Nacional de Hungaria (Budapest) are also apparently from the original series. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov’s Tektology: A Proletarian Science of Construction by Poustilnik Simona

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« Culture for the million, or society as it may be » by Françoise Baillet

“…From the vantage point offered by such publications as The Illustrated London News and, of course, Punch, cartoons became the missing link between highbrow and lowbrow culture, thus contributing to the long-lasting fascination exerted by Aestheticism on the rest of society.…”
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Les manuscrits à peintures de furūsiyya : illustrations d’un art militaire équestre de la période mamelouke by Mohamed Ibrahim

“…Khalili collection in London. Mohamed Ibrahim has identified the copies and the parts of the original manuscript.…”
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Background, problems and solutions for introducing Islamic insurance in the United Kingdom by A. N. Zhilkina, M.-H. R. Orusbiev

“…In addition, an ambitious target has been set for London to become an Islamic finance centre. There are currently positive trends in the takaful market. …”
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Working thematically: changing the path to leadership for the third space by Fiona Denney, Emily McIntosh

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Making a lot with little – Modular architecture, starting with Walter Segal by Niccolò Di Virgilio

“… This paper examines the remarkable design journey of the Jewish architect Walter Segal and his fifty-year career in London. After his early experiments in Ascona (Switzerland), Segal developed a system of construction in wood that was based on using the modular components of materials in the forms that were available on the market. …”
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