Honest to God and the South African churches in 2016 by M. Prozesky

“…This paper examines Robinson’s views from three  perspectives, namely Christian and secular practical ethics, the recent history of the church, to which the Bishop belonged in England, and the contemporary South African situation, in particular. …”
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Joseph Addison en voyage : quelques remarques sur la France ou la mise en intrigue de l’identité anglaise by Antoine Eche

“…The war is then transposed onto the papers co-edited with Steele, and England triumphantly emerges out of a Francophobe discourse. …”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…Secondly, it presents circumstances, relationships and personal qualities which helped these godly clergymen to continue ministering within the Church of England post 1662. Through their autobiographies and their diaries, this article analyses the personal narratives of Ralph Josselin of Earls Colne (Essex), Edmund Trench (Kent), and Oliver Heywood (Yorkshire).…”
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History, hagiography, romance… by Lisa M. Ruch

“…Athelstan’s reputation and accomplishments as the king credited with being the first to rule over all of England led to his being celebrated in the Middle Ages in art, coinage, romance, travel narratives, and chronicles. …”
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Searching for the holy grail – excellent staff and carers who work with children by Kate Skinner

“…Since Utting's report, Children in the Public Care (1991), Warner's seminal report, Choosing with Care (1992) in England and Wales, and Another Kind of Home (Skinner, 1992) in Scotland, social work managers responsible for recruiting and selecting staff and carers who work with children have been exhorted to improve the methods they use. …”

Io Moth Automeris io (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Donald W. Hall

“…With the exception of Cape Cod and some of the Massachusetts islands, it is now rare in New England where it was once common, and its populations have declined in most of the Gulf States since the 1970s. …”
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La fouille du fort Saint-Georges à Chinon (Indre-et-Loire). Premiers résultats by Bruno Dufaÿ

“…The excavation enabled us to clarify the function of the fort, built in the 2nd half of the 12th century at a time when Chinon was the administrative centre of the continental possesions of the Plantagenet King of England. From a military point of view, it formed an advanced fortification protecting the main castle, within a structure that Richard the Lionheart would apply to the Chayeau Gaillard. …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…The result is a moral ambiguity which is difficult to square with virtue ethics, and which calls for a reading in terms of the totalitarian contexts of the revenge play and the Tacitean history play then gaining ascendancy in Jacobean England. Ironically the Duchess is restored to her honesty by conversing with her murderer at the climax of the play.…”
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Some Thoughts on the Remembering (and Dismembering) of Lucretius’s De rerum natura in Translations, Commentaries, and Philosophical Poems, 1650-1750 by John Baker

“…This essay will review some of the ways in which Lucretius’s De rerum natura was remembered, but also misremembered and dismembered, in England in the period 1650-1750. The domain of inquiry will, in particular, concern translations, published or unpublished at the time, essentially in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and the advent of that magnum opus of eighteenth-century poetry which is the philosophical poem, looking briefly at two of the many, and diverse, philosophical poems of the period, Sir Richard Blackmore’s Creation and Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man. …”
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La controverse sur l’archiprêtre, ou les catholiques élisabéthains dans les coulisses de la clandestinité by Sandra Jusdado-Mollmann

“…We will demonstrate that, contrary to what might have been expected, not only was this controversy — and the divisions it provoked within the persecuted community — the very element that ensured the survival of Catholicism in England, but it also brought about the advent of a specifically English form of Catholicism.…”
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Heroic Deeds and Heroic Failure by Carol Sweetenham

“…This paper traces the evolution of the portrayal both of the crusade and of Robert’s part in it in 12th and 13th Century England, exploring how perceptions both of the crusade and Robert changed in line with political priorities and attitudes to crusade.…”
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Radical Innocence: Margaret Fuller’s Utopian Rome by Leslie Elizabeth Eckel

“…Transcendentalist New England was animated by utopian dreams throughout the 1840s, but even as she occupied its intellectual center, Margaret Fuller stood apart from these enthusiastic projections. …”
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Dilemmas Faced by Polish Migrants in the UK Concerning Brexit and Return Migration by Stanisław Fel, Jarosław Kozak, Marek Wodawski, Jakub Isański

“…Those are the length of stay in England, their financial situation, their knowledge of English, their ability to assimilate culturally, their relations to the families in Poland, homesickness, and better religious education of children. …”
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Exploratory study of patients’ and carers’ preferences for postdischarge surgical wound monitoring using survey and interviews by Keith Wilson, Nigel Westwood, Catherine Wloch, Pauline Harrington, Luke J Rogers, Judith Tanner, Gavin Murphy, Colin S Brown, Jeremy Dearling, Ricky Vaja, Melissa Rochon, Lyn Brierley Jones

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Exploring clinicians’ perspectives on the ‘Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury Care Bundle’ national quality improvement programme: a qualitative study by Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Nick Sevdalis, Edward Morris, Posy Bidwell, Ranee Thakar, James M Harris, Louise Silverton, Alexandra Hellyer, Robert Freeman, Vivienne Novis

“…The OASI Care Bundle quality improvement programme was introduced in 16 maternity units across England, Scotland and Wales (January 2017 to March 2018) to address increasing OASI rates.Objectives To explore clinicians’ (midwives’ and obstetricians’) perspectives of the OASI Care Bundle with respect to (1) acceptability, (2) feasibility, and (3) sustainability.Design A qualitative exploratory study using focus groups methodology.Setting A total of 16 focus groups were conducted in 16 maternity units in England, Scotland and Wales where the OASI Care Bundle was implemented. …”
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Effective dietary interventions during pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behavior change techniques to promote healthy eating by Hannah O’Connor, Nina Meloncelli, Shelley A. Wilkinson, Anna Mae Scott, Lisa Vincze, Alita Rushton, Samantha Dawson, Jenna Hollis, Bree Whiteoak, Sarah Gauci, Susan de Jersey

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De la controverse à la conversion : Venise et la défense de la rhétorique dans The Ephemerides of Phialo de Stephen Gosson by Anne Geoffroy-Piscou

“…Controversy was raging in England in the late 1570s and early 1580s as Puritans attacked the evils of the age and above all the stage. …”
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“The Ages Humble Servant” : l’écriture de la catastrophe entre modernité et tradition dans The Storm (1704) de Daniel Defoe by Nathalie BERNARD, Emmanuelle PERALDO

“…Daniel Defoe’s first book-length work, The Storm, was published in 1704, i.e. a few months only after the violent storm that destroyed the southern counties of England and Wales in November 1703. An eye-witness of this disaster, Defoe borrows from records his own experience according to the methods of the New Science and also quotes over sixty letters purportedly written by observers from all over the nation. …”
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