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    De la campagne écossaise aux milieux aristocratiques londoniens : le déracinement de Thomas Carlyle? by Catherine Heyrendt

    Published 2008-12-01
    “…Despite his humble Scottish background, and the rigid Victorian social hierarchy, Thomas Carlyle was able to « write his way up » in the world, and was eventually invited into the highest London circles. …”
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    « Parlez-vous franglais ? » La galimafrée des langues dans Henry V  by Jean-Michel Déprats

    Published 2022-01-01
    “…Translators have often resorted to regional dialects (such as Alsatian, Occitan variants, Breton language, Creole…) to render the Irish, Scottish and Welsh accents of Shakespeare’s Captains in the play. …”
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    Plato scholars and their research in the collection of letters to Lewis Campbell (1830–1908) by Tomasz Mróz

    Published 2018-12-01
    “… The paper presents Lewis Campbell (1830–1908), his research on Plato, and the collection of letters sent to this Scottish scholar by: James Martineau (1805–1900), William Hepworth Thompson (1810–1886), Paul Shorey (1857–1934), Wincenty Lutosławski (1863–1954), Eduard Gottlob Zeller (1814–1908), Franz Susemihl (1826–1901), and Theodor Gomperz (1832–1912). …”
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    Just Who Was Wearing the Trousers in Victorian Britain? Violent Wives and Violent Women by Anne-Marie Kilday

    Published 2005-12-01
    “…Evidence from nineteenth century Scottish and English church and court records suggest that abusive behaviour by wives against their husbands was not uncommon, and indeed, more often than not, the violence meted out by these women was in a physical sense, more ‘damaging’ than that inflicted by their male counterparts.The intention of this paper therefore, is to examine—through a balanced gendered perspective—the ways in which domestic violence was carried out, the apparent reasons for this behaviour and the consequences of this type of aggressive activity for both offender and victim, regardless of sex.In doing this, it is hoped that the paper will shed new light on a traditionally one-sided argument.…”
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    Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

    Published 2019-06-01
    “…Two of the twenty-five tales featured take place in Garveloch, a remote Scottish island which provides the setting for a socio-demographic experiment. …”
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    Polysémie de HOW dans la King James Version by Mathilde Pinson

    Published 2009-01-01
    “…Finally, it will be shown that the causal value of how has not disappeared altogether from Present-Day English, contrary to what the Oxford English Dictionary indicates, and it will be hypothesized that the use of causal how in Scottish Vernacular English is related to that in the KJV.…”
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    Ewolucja statusu prawnego dzieci pozamałżeńskich w prawie szkockim (1836–2006) by Mateusz Szymura

    Published 2025-02-01
    “…This article concerns the process of redressing the difference in the legal situation of marital and extramarital children in the Scottish legal system. The extent of discrimination against the latter group concerned not only the spheres of their relationship with their father and his family, but also personal private legal rights (such as the right to dispose of property mortis causa by means of a will), as well as public rights. …”
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    Poručík proti maršálovi. Dvojí výzva post-vaubanovské tradici v textech skotského vojenského inženýra Charlese Bisseta z let 1751–17781 by Petr Wohlmuth

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…One of the very few critics of this new concept, which favoured field operations and decisive battles over established methods of siege warfare, was Scottish military engineer Charles Bisset, an author of highly advanced book on theory of fortification, published in 1751, which offered a way out of the perceived crisis. …”
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    Avoir-lieu ? : quelques expériences théâtrales de la scène britannique contemporaine by Jeanne Schaaf, Julien Alliot

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…It produces innovating plays and performances hand in hand with existing Scottish companies and building-based theatres. Off-stage installations, site-specific performances, or even non-places are becoming common features in contemporary plays such as the Ignition project (2013). …”
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    Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…In the face of this colonial rebellion, British playwrights produced images of metropolitan cultural consolidation, mobilizing Scottish characters to forge a broader, Celtically inflected British identity that ideologically aligned the people of England and Scotland in clear opposition to the mutinous hordes of India. …”
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    Réflexions sur l’appropriation du théâtre historique élisabéthain par la scène britannique contemporaine : usages de Macbeth dans Thirteenth Night de Howard Brenton (1981) et Dunsi... by Line Cottegnies

    Published 2022-01-01
    “…Of the two adaptations it is Greig’s that manifests the most dialogical relationship to the Shakespearean source: by offering an alternative sequel to the play which puts the Scottish fight for independence centre-stage, Greig offers a critical reading of Macbeth, implicitly that the question of English imperialism is a blind spot in Shakespeare’s play.…”
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    Do final-year medical students in Scotland have the knowledge and confidence to deliver the physical activity guidelines? A cross-sectional online survey to evaluate changes over a... by Gemma C Ryde, Isabelle Schlegel

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…This follows a 2013 survey finding that this cohort lacked this knowledge and confidence; thus, authors recommended improvements to undergraduate medical PA education and re-evaluation of these measures thereafter.Design A cross-sectional online survey.Setting The survey was distributed across four Scottish universities.Participants Final-year undergraduate medical students; n=166 completed the survey. 69% women, 23.3±1.8 years old and 69% met the PA guidelines.Results 27% correctly identified the UK PA guidelines, despite 52% stating awareness of these. …”
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    (Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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