The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…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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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…Those years were crucial in the history of the country because of the two deadly conflicts fought by the British: the Anglo-Zulu War and the first Boer war, both marked by the traumatic defeats at Isandhlwana and Majuba Hill. On his return to England, Haggard decided to give an account of the events based on his own observations and perspective as an active witness. …”
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INCOGNITO AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY: THE CASE OF TSAR PETER by M. Jansson

“…The aim of this article is to put Tsar Peter's traveling incognito in Holland and England into a wider context, to demonstrate that it was not an idiosyncratic choice on the Tsar's part but a mode of behavior taken from a new diplomatic protocol. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…The focus will be on the representation of the Italian struggle for independence in novels of the 1860s by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (especially the Austrian villains in The Black Band and Run To Earth), and Meredith’s Emilia in England, later reprinted as Sandra Belloni, and the sequel, Vittoria. …”
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Founding and sustaining grassroots actions in superdiverse neighbourhoods facing socioeconomic challenges: narratives of emergent processes, actions and resources by Gabriella Elgenius, Jenny Phillimore

“…The study contributes new knowledge about civil society and non-profit action in superdiverse neighbourhoods that face socioeconomic challenges in England and Sweden. Locally based grassroot organisations are of special interest and demonstrate substantial voluntary altruism. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…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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« Un épagneul, une femme et un noyer, plus nous les battons, meilleurs ils sont » : Frances Power Cobbe, la féminité et l’altérité by Émilie Dardenne

“…It begins by explaining how the authoress of “Wife Torture in England” became the spokeswoman of beaten wives and it goes on to study her vision of femininity as conveyed through her discussion of violence, cruelty, appropriation, otherness and the fate of animals. …”
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Localization of Brutalist Architecture in Post-War Turkey: Three Unique Examples from Istanbul by BALCI ÖZTÜRK Özlem, ŞENYURT Oya

“…Brutalism, a revision of Modernism, originated in England in the 1950s and spread rapidly globally. …”
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La déviance sociale à Londres vue par une enquêtrice socialiste française : Flora Tristan et les Promenades dans Londres (1840) by Stéphane Michaud

“…As early as the Restoration and even more still during the July Monarchy, many French social investigators chose to study England. They came from all social backgrounds and political parties and analysed the most industrialised country in Europe as the laboratory of the future. …”
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Traversées, hybridations grotesques et inquiétante étrangeté dans The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) de H. G. Wells : la mort de l’humain ? by Françoise DUPEYRON-LAFAY

“…Edward Prendick, the protagonist and narrator of The Island of Dr Moreau, embarks on a hazardous and terrifying crossing (between England and an unknown Pacific island) that will lead to other types of crossings – biological, taxonomical, psychological, ontological and generic ones. …”
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John Locke, Abolitionism, and the Reactionary Enlightenment by Brian Smith

“…Right around the time England abolished the slave trade in 1807, a string of successful vindication narratives helped to liberate Locke from his linkages to slavery. …”
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Enhancing Self Esteem of Orphan Teenagers through Self Discovery Training by Ema Zati Baroroh, Nindya Juwita Utimadini, Nabila Dafik Alhumairah, Ramadhanti Alifa Fatiah

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Multi-Innovation Stochastic Gradient Parameter and State Estimation Algorithm for Dual-Rate State-Space Systems with d-Step Time Delay by Ya Gu, Quanmin Zhu, Jicheng Liu, Peiyi Zhu, Yongxin Chou

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Behavioral biases and over-indebtedness in consumer credit: evidence from Malaysia by Fazelina Sahul Hamid

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Health and Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Children and Young People: Analysis of Free-Text Responses From the Children and Young People With Long COVID Study by Natalia K Rojas, Sam Martin, Mario Cortina-Borja, Roz Shafran, Lana Fox-Smith, Terence Stephenson, Brian C F Ching, Anaïs d'Oelsnitz, Tom Norris, Yue Xu, Kelsey McOwat, Emma Dalrymple, Isobel Heyman, Tamsin Ford, Trudie Chalder, Ruth Simmons, Snehal M Pinto Pereira

“…The results were broadly similar when reweighted to the general population of children and young people in England: 78.52% (negative), 13.23% (positive), and 8.24% (neutral). …”
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The Solid Phase Distribution and Bioaccessibility of Arsenic, Chromium, and Nickel in Natural Ironstone Soils in the UK by Joanna Wragg, Mark Cave, Sean Gregory

“…Thirty soil samples (12 residential gardens and 18 allotments) were collected from the Cherwell District of north Oxfordshire in south-central England. The underlying parent geology of the area is dominated by Jurassic ironstone. …”
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Homeomorphism Mapping Based Neural Networks for Finite Time Constraint Control of a Class of Nonaffine Pure-Feedback Nonlinear Systems by Jianhua Zhang, Quanmin Zhu, Yang Li, Xueli Wu

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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…We also perform numericalsimulations, conduct sensitivity test on a few parameters related totweets, and compare modeling predictions with surveillance data ofinfluenza-like illness reported cases and the percentage of tweetsself-reporting flu during the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak in England andWales. These results show that social media programs like Twittermay serve as a good indicator of seasonal influenza epidemics andinfluence the emergence and spread of the disease.…”
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Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…An eclectic and prolific writer, Harriet Martineau contributed to a thorough rediscussion of the nineteenth-century cult of invalidism in England. Even today her works show how she challenged Victorian convictions on deafness and traditional medical practices, while laying the basis for a more equal and inclusive society.…”
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After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery by Johan Olsthoorn

“…Born in present-day Ghana, Cugoano was enslaved aged 13 and trafficked to Grenada, before being taken onwards to England where he reclaimed his freedom. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery [1787/1791] highlights two central injustices blighting colonial slavery – robbery (‘theft of rights’) and dehumanization. …”
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