Antoine Haumont : une patiente collecte photographique des paysages ordinaires du sport by Olivier Pégard

“…For 41 years (1969-2010), Antoine Haumont, a former professor at the École des Ponts, photographed a wide variety of spaces related to sports during his university trips in France and abroad, as well as during his private trips. …”
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Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…The narrator of Vanity Fair, warns his reader just as he is about to start his description of Waterloo, “We do not claim to rank among the military novelists.” …”
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Dans les marges de l’orientalisme britannique : le cas d’Isabella Bird et de Journeys to Persia and Kurdestan (1891) by Laurence Chamlou

“…She became a writer thanks to a genre on the fringes of literature (correspondence and travel writing), to which she added the status of photographer and gained renown during her lifetime. …”
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‘One man’s meat is another man’s poison’. The Rhetoric of Dissent in John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) by Bertrand Lentsch

“…John Henry Newman has been blamed for being highly strung. A man who would make amends, to atone for a lambasted decision to abide by a rule, which he now deemed honourable though he then branded it as dishonest, could only be expected to keep his secrets secret. …”
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The Homosexual Exception? The Case of the Labouchère Amendment by William Fize

“…However, that being said, in some respects there is a case for considering that English law regarding male homosexuality in Victorian England was not so ‘exceptional’ after all, and indeed could even be seen as representing a potentially more lenient evolution of the criminal law. …”
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Révolution sociale et utopie chez les premiers Fabiens (1884-1890) : un positionnement complexe by Marie Terrier

“…On the one hand, they openly sought to distinguish themselves from early 19th-century socialism that had been called ‘utopian’. …”
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Memorising the Mutiny: Felice Beato’s Lucknow Photographs by Claire Bowen

“…Before moving to Japan, and following a period in the Crimea where, with James Robertson, he took over the work of Fenton, Beato spent two years in India. …”
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Measurement of Harm Outcomes in Older Adults after Hospital Discharge: Reliability and Validity by Alison Douglas, Lori Letts, Kevin Eva, Julie Richardson

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Laurence Housman (1865–1959): Fairy Tale Teller, Illustrator and Aesthete by Audrey Doussot

“…But, above all else, his fairy tale collections are among the illustrated books which contributed, at the turn of the century, to creating a golden age of book illustration (critics generally regard the 1890s as “the second golden age of illustration” in Great Britain, after the 1860s), an exceptional period during which illustration finally won acclaim as a newly-recognized art while Art Nouveau was gradually promoting new standards for artistic creation.…”
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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…This essay explores the vestigial influence of natural theology, and its discourse of divine design, on H. G. Wells’s fictions of technology. …”
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‘In physical things a man may invent; in moral things he must obey’: Addressing the Child(like) in George MacDonald’s Fairy Stories by Audrey Doussot

“…MacDonald actually wrote for children as much as for adults, insofar as he wanted to address a reader in particular that he conceptualized as the ‘childlike’, that is, an ideal ageless individual characterized by remarkable innocence and open-mindedness who would be able to grasp his progressive message. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…This article explores the notion of intercultural and intertextual crossing (in the combined senses of migration and intersection) in Sarah Howe’s poetry collection Loop of Jade (2015). Born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and British father, Howe grew up in the UK. …”
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Historical hypotheses of chimpanzee tool use behaviour in relation to natural and human-induced changes in an East African rain forest by Thibaud Gruber

“…Chimpanzees and humans have co-existed in Africa for millennia. The forests inhabited by chimpanzees have experienced numerous changes in recent time, most notably during the last 12,000 years, as the current interglacial age started. …”
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‘Gall and wormwood’ – The Compositors’ Chronicle (1840–43) as Collaborative Journal by Françoise Baillet

“…Printed and published by the London Union of Compositors, an organisation founded in 1834 to defend the interests of print workers, The Compositors’ Chronicle was launched in September 1840 as a monthly and existed for three years. Its main object was to protect printers from their masters’ ‘misconduct and tyranny’: ‘To these petty tyrants, the Chronicle will be gall and wormwood; and, by occasionally giving them a friendly hint, we shall endeavour to make them more considerate rulers, if not better men’ (‘Address’). …”
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Restructuring of Rural Governance in a Rapidly Growing Resource Town: The Case of Kitimat, BC, Canada by Laura Ryser, Greg Halseth, Sean Markey

“…Drawing upon our case study in Kitimat, British Columbia, we highlight transformations associated with neoliberal policies that have affected rural governance. …”
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De la Mer du Nord à la Méditerranée, l’imaginaire maritime des Victoriens by Béatrice Laurent

“…This dichotomy becomes a cliché in scientific publications of the first half of the 19th century and justifies the development of British sea resorts where cold baths are prescribed to the upper classes. …”
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Images of War in Late Victorian War and Adventure Novels for Children by Dorothea Flothow

“…Although the most prominent of these strategies, the “war-games metaphor,” which trivialized war by comparing it to a football or a cricket match, has been examined by a number of studies, little attention has so far been paid to other conventions of the genre which also serve to familiarize war and suggest its basically harmless nature: the characterization of the novels’ prototypical English boy-hero; their formulaic plot and conventionalized cast; the way the novels remember Britain’s glorious military past to predict her equally victorious future; or the ways by which military defeats and difficulties are glossed over. …”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…The article focuses on the social comedies where a reception is being held, these passages offering a key to understanding not only the lasting popularity of the productions, but also the symbolic value and general ambivalence of Wilde’s theatrical picture of the Victorian upper class. …”
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The Role of Lifestyle Behaviors on 20-Year Cognitive Decline by D. Cadar, H. Pikhart, G. Mishra, A. Stephen, D. Kuh, M. Richards

“…This study examined the association between smoking, physical activity and dietary choice at 36 and 43 years, and change in these lifestyle behaviors between these ages, and decline in verbal memory and visual search speed between 43 and 60–64 years in 1018 participants from MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD, the British 1946 birth cohort). …”
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Marie Corelli, Wormwood, and the Diversity of Decadence by Jessica DeCoux

“…Her great popularity and the apparently moralistic elements of her work have excluded her from the ranks of the fin-de-siècle British Decadents, a group (such as it exists) traditionally defined by its rejection of mainstream middle-class values and its desire to appeal to a select readership of aesthetically-minded intellectuals. …”
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