On French and British Freedoms Early Bloomsbury and the Brothels of Modernism by Christine Froula

“…There Vanessa and Virginia, adventurers and revolutionaries, entered into the critical and creative dialogue with ‘French’ and ‘British’ freedoms that shaped their lives, their modern arts, and early Bloomsbury.…”
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THE GENE POOL FOR TABLE BEET BREEDING (MODERN ASPECTS OF STUDY AND USE) by V. I. Burenin, D. V. Sokolova, T. M. Piskunova

“…Background. Modern production imposes increased requirements to the range of used cultivars, so the development of new cultivars and hybrids most adapted to certain soil and climatic conditions is an important task of breeding.Materials and methods. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…Virginia Woolf’s relationship with her early-modern predecessors is now a well-established field of study. …”
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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Towards Depicting the Dog in the Nineteenth Century by Beryl Gray

“…I draw on texts and images to support my belief that in late medieval and early modern England the stance towards the dog was markedly unbiblical, while the authoritatively expressed ‘contempt or aversion’ made familiar through the Geneva Bible significantly influenced society’s attitudes to dogs in Protestant Britain. …”
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Transforming the Art of Fiction: Walter Besant, Professional Service and the Society of Authors by Richard Salmon

“…Founded in 1884 by the novelist and historian Walter Besant (1836–1901), the Incorporated Society of Authors went on to become the most successful and long-lasting professional association organized by and for the benefit of authors in Britain. Established in the belief that collective action was necessary in order to defend authors’ ‘trade interests’ and to express a long-held ‘grievance’ against exploitative publishers and inadequate laws of copyright, the Society of Authors presents a valuable case-study of the wider transformation of the arts in modern professional society. …”
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A Trustworthy Collaboration: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham’s Pioneering of American Cultural Diplomacy by Camelia Lenart

“…Focusing on the collaboration between the First Lady and the modern dancer Martha Graham, it also proves that their partnership and its valuable and long lasting outcomes qualify them as pioneers of American cultural diplomacy. …”
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The return of raptors to Scotland's skies: Investigating the diets of reintroduced red kites and white-tailed eagles using stable isotopes. by Juliette Waterman, Stuart Black, Naomi Sykes, Andrew C Kitchener, William F Mills, Mark D E Fellowes

“…Reintroductions of red kites Milvus milvus and white-tailed eagles Halieaeetus albicilla to Britain, which were extirpated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, represent major conservation successes. …”
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D. G. Rossetti’s Trip to Paris and Belgium: A Journey Between Past and Present by Raphaël Rigal

“…This paper will focus on the potential political role of these poems, established through this contrast: the elaboration of a Pre-Raphaelite realm of memory through Rossetti’s and Hunt’s contact with modernity. This contact is transcribed through a hybridisation of words and images which builds on the Pre-Raphaelite program and crystallises the two artists’ experience to transmit it to Pre-Raphaelite brothers waiting for them in Britain.…”
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Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…Gurinder Chadha abandoned the documentary format as early as 1993. Meant to make everyone laugh, Bhaji on the Beach, her first mainstream comedy, produced a reconciled, all-inclusive portrait of Britain, as did Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Bride and Prejudice (2004) years later. …”
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