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    “I shall not concern the Union in this Discourse” : Prétérition et engagement dans l’écriture pro-unioniste de Daniel Defoe, voyageur en Écosse by Emmanuelle PERALDO

    Published 2016-12-01
    “…This essay explores the singular political commitment and rhetoric of Daniel Defoe in his writings related to the Treaty of Union between Scotland and England in 1706. Several genres are analyzed in this essay but the stress is laid more particularly on a poem, Caledonia (1706) and a travel narrative dealing with the economic situation of Great Britain published between 1724 and 1726, the Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain. …”
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    Invisible Men: Unlocking Compassion and Understanding the Needs of Older Men Behind Bars by Louise Ridley, Kathryn E. Waldegrave

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…Men over 50 years of age are the fastest-growing population group in the prison system, leading to the prison service of England and Wales now becoming recognised as the largest provider of residential care for older men. …”
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    On sound change and gender: the case of vowel length variation in Scottish English by Florent Chevalier

    Published 2019-11-01
    “…Considering the situation of permanent contact between Scotland and England, one could expect Scottish speakers to gradually adopt the Anglo-English pattern; several studies on the realisation of the SVLR have indicated this change is under way. …”
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    The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

    Published 2017-06-01
    “…Despite Tasmania’s location on the other side of the world, the fertility decline had remarkable similarities with the historical fertility decline in continental Western Europe, England and other English-speaking countries. Fertility started to decline in the late 1880s and the fertility decline became well established during the 1890s. …”
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    Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

    Published 2015-03-01
    “…The British writer Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) wrote biographies of the two most eminent Queens of England : Queen Victoria (1921) and Elizabeth and Essex (1928). …”
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    A Critical Review of the End of Development, Post-Developmentalism and Development Paradigm Impasse by Ghodrat Ahmadian

    Published 2018-01-01
    “…Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development” by Trevor Parfitt who is a Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and International Relations, University of Nottingham, England.…”
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    Imaging the Climate Crisis. The Ceramic Art of Horie, Galloway, Snider, and Rhymer-Zwierciadlowska by Mary Ann STEGGLES

    Published 2021-06-01
    “…Galloway was so shocked at the decapitation of the Wandering Albatross and its near extinction that she set about to create classical funerary urns to draw attention to the endangered species of New England. Amy Snider’s objects concern the world’s melting glaciers and the climate crisis that is causing their disintegration. …”
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    Setting Them Up To Fail by David Allan

    Published 2017-07-01
    “… This paper looks at post-16 progression opportunities for a group of previously disaffected 14–16-year-old students who undertook vocational learning in their final two years at school in the north-west of England. The paper argues that advanced forms of vocational learning at key stage 4 are leading to over-skilling and educational limbo for many young people. …”
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    Dangerous Liaisons? by Norman L Jones

    Published 2000-01-01
    “…A case in point was a few days last month during which I attended a well-sponsored meeting of the Ontario Lung Association, reviewed a couple of papers reporting drug trials, read of the threats of litigation made by pharmaceutical companies to two Ontario researchers, heard of a public apology made by the New England Journal of Medicine regarding reviewers' conflicts of interest and received a critical letter from Dr Rob McFadden, an associate editor of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, about a sponsored publication that accompanied the last issue of 1999. …”
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    A shared tradition: transmitting maritime knowledge in print by Margaret E. Schotte

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…This article recommends adopting a comparative perspective, since much can be learned by tracing the evolution of these shared practices as they traveled from Spain and Portugal to the Netherlands, France, and England, and back again. …”
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    English Perceptions and Representations of Venetian Chromatic Variations by Anne GEOFFROY

    Published 2015-06-01
    “…As early as the 15th century, the city boasted a flourishing industry of colour relying on trades such as, among others, dyers, glassmakers, tailors, or pigment sellers (i.e. vendecolori).This paper explores the material, cultural and linguistic influence of Venice on early modern England, focusing more precisely on glass, dyes and pigments. …”
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    ‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

    Published 2007-03-01
    “…Saki radically disrupts the English fantasy of dominance and imagines the end of the British Empire culminating not just in a German invasion but in a lasting occupation of England. In representing the Germans as admirable imperialists, Saki deconstructs national difference—the very criterion upon which both invasion fiction and imperialist politics are based. …”
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    A Study on the performance of Four Regression Models in Predicting Weather Temperature Based on Python by Li Taobei

    Published 2025-01-01
    “…This study assesses how well four regression models—linear regression, random forest regression, support vector regression (SVR), and K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)—predict weather temperatures using a dataset from England. Standardizing and expanding features were part of the data preprocessing process to capture non-linear interactions. …”
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    Camellias at a Glance by Sydney Park Brown

    Published 2012-04-01
    “…Native to Asia, the first camellia plants were brought to America in 1797 and grown in New England greenhouses. Over the last 200 years, they have proven to be dependable additions to the southern landscape, where they grow and bloom with minimal care in most inland areas of North and Central Florida. …”
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    In Front of the Distorting Mirror of the Vortex: the Reception of Vorticism in the British Political Press (1913-1916) by Oriane MARRE

    Published 2016-06-01
    “…The Vorticist movement appeared in 1914, after a fight between the English avant-garde and Italian Futurism, just as England entered World War One, and when the country was facing an uneasy transition from an old and stable order to a new era of trouble reinforced by different strikes conducted by suffragettes, Unionists and workers. …”
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    Tracking Couples who leave the Study Location in Historical Studies of Fertility: an Australian Example by Helen Moyle

    Published 2016-06-01
    “…However, because of the high mobility in Australia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, couples who moved out of the colony were tracked to other places, and births and deaths that took place in other Australian colonies and other countries, such as New Zealand and England, were included in the database. A wide variety of data sources were used for this task, most of which are available on the internet. …”
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    “To Preserve This Remnant:” William Apess, the Mashpee Indians, and the Politics of Nullification by Neil Meyer

    Published 2018-06-01
    “…In seeing the political treatment of the Cherokee by the federal government, Apess rhetorically recasts the Mashpee community as “nullifying” state law as a means to both barter for enhanced rights for the community and, more importantly, call into question what Indian citizenship and sovereignty meant for the most vulnerable forms of Indian community in antebellum New England.…”
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