The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“…Building on the arguments of the British anthropologist E. E. Evans-Pritchard, who suggests that witchcraft explains unfortunate events, this article argues that the experience of certain fortunate events, such as the punishment of evildoers or the revelation of metaphysical causes of death, confirm the existence of Ayelala as a counter-force to witchcraft and other forms of metaphysical evil. …”
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Materiality of TEI Encoding and Decoding: An Analysis of the Western European Union Archives on Armament Policy by Florentina Armaselu, Verónica Martins, Catherine Emma Jones

“…By combining traditional historical enquiry with TEI XML encoding and decoding in a corpus analysis phase, the project aims at addressing research questions mainly related to the French and British positions on the topics of armament design and production and of armament control within the Western European Union (WEU) from 1954 to 1982. …”
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: “A CAMBRIDGE MASS”. ABOUT A NEWLY DISCOVERED MANUSCRIPT AND A WORLD PREMIERE, IN CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO ALAN TONGUE by Bianca ŢIPLEA TEMEŞ

“… Acknowledged as one of the most prominent figures of British music history, the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is well known to the world for pieces like Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, A Sea Symphony, The Wasps and many others. …”
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Génocide, révisionnisme, négationnisme : la réception contrastée de la série Black Earth Rising by Sylvie Allouche

“…Adopted following the genocide by a British lawyer, she herself became a lawyer, the series depicting a stage in her life where she finds herself confronted with the complexity of what took place during this period on the political and human levels. …”
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American Studies in Norway: Historic Ideals and Contemporary Challenges by Cassandra Falke

“…These three are: the establishment of the Fulbright Program, which she uses to discuss shifts in funding American studies; the creation of the professorship of American studies in Oslo, which clarifies differences in the goals of British and American studies; and the initiation of the Salzburg Seminar, which reveals the field´s interdisciplinary core. …”
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Biophoty: The Biofilm in Biography Theory by Joanny Moulin

“…It begins by looking back to a debate going on in the 1970s and 1980s about whether film was a suitable medium for historiography and historical research, contrasting the reluctance of some American and British researchers like Robert Rosenstone, Ian Jarvie and Belén Vidal with French historian Marc Ferro’s engagement in favour of the use of cinema in history studies, and his contention that “history on film has become a force”. …”
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Developing quality indicators for learning with care by Graham Connelly

“…The project was undertaken by a partnership led by the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care (SIRCC), and including the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, Save the Children, Who Cares? …”

Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Reading Wordsworth and Woolf alongside each other should make for an enriched understanding of urban flânerie in British literature, by suggesting how its course was shaped along various ideological and gender fault lines, and also what enduring perplexities beset the writer’s task of engaging with the modern city.…”
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The Irish Catholic clergy, Stuart sovereignty and the 1650 appeal to the Duke of Lorraine by David FINNEGAN

“…This article seeks to explore the wide range of Irish Catholic political thinking in the early modern period by looking at its role in shaping events at a moment of particular stress during the British and Irish wars of the mid-seventeenth century. …”
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De la « Great Exhibition » à l’Esthétisme : entre production et poïétique by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…In spite of its official aim to celebrate British industrial power, the Exhibition also brought together many works of art, including objects from Antiquity which were apparently remote from the preoccupations of modern Victorian Britain. …”
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'Kingsman', Not 'My Fair Lady:' Dialect and Stereotype in the Films 'The Secret Service' and 'The Golden Circle' by Carla Soares

“…The emphasis is on how dialect, particularly accent, aid in the construction or deconstruction of stereotypes, both in British and North American contexts, and how they reflect particular views of the world(s).…”
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The Spread of Descriptive Geometry in Great Britain Between the XVIII and XIX Century by Stefano Chiarenza

“…Its circulation among professionals, craftsmen and designers, though well attested before, sees it grafted onto a series of independent research experiences, also fueling the attempts by British theoreticians to define a universal system of graphic communication. …”
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Gawain de Harrison Birtwistle : un opéra (extra-) national ? by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…They are also displayed in the references to Shakespeare, to other British composers (Michael Tippett and Henry Purcell for instance) and to typical English musical or musico-dramatic forms such as the masque. …”
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Naked Censorship: Stripping the Censors’ Discourse by Anne Etienne

“…Finally, we shall question the remaining existence of censorship in the post-1968 period.The paper is based on archival research carried out at the British Library (Lord Chamberlain’s manuscript collection), the National Archives (governmental papers) and on interviews with authors and theatre practitioners.…”
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Teaching how to critically read Indo-Caribbean bodies in nineteenth-century postcards by Rupa Pillai

“…Starting in 2017, the Kislak Center at the University of Pennsylvania has collected postcards dating from the late nineteenth century that depict Indo-Caribbean life and culture in Trinidad, British Guiana, Suriname and Jamaica. From village scenes to Indo-Caribbean women in studio portraits, the bodies featured in these postcards appear in ethnographic views to promote perceptions of Indo-Caribbeans as being exotic and different. …”
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Les Glasgow Rent Strikes de 1915 ou quand la désobéissance civile des femmes contraint le législateur by Olivier Esteves

“…They argued that they too contributed actively to the war effort, and that, by imposing rent hikes, the landlords of Glasgow and their factors implicitly sided with the German foe, by weakening a portion of the population so instrumental in supplying the British armed forces on the continent. After several months of actively sustained civil disobedience, Parliament passed a law that fixed rents until the end of the conflict. …”
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The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya by R. Muya

“…To explore these dynamics, the article employs witness accounts from African scholars, intertextual analysis of texts regarding Agikuyu because of the initial challenge of distinguishing British colonialists from missionaries. The results will contribute to understanding the dynamics of conflict in the reception of the biblical discourse and the reception of people by others in the world nowadays. …”
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Topsy Turvy de Mike Leigh : l’envers du décor ou la norme mise à mal by Isabelle Cases

“…In Topsy Turvy, British film-maker Mike Leigh seems to move away from the social cinema he is usually associated with. …”
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Onychomadesis in a 20-Month-Old Child with Kawasaki Disease by Alexander K. C. Leung, Kin Fon Leong, Joseph M. Lam

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Imaging of Scarce Archaeological Remains Using Microwave Tomographic Depictions of Ground Penetrating Radar Data by Francesco Soldovieri, Erica Utsi, Raffaele Persico, Amir M. Alani

“…The Romano-British site of Barcombe in East Sussex, England, has suffered heavy postdepositional attrition through reuse of the building materials for the effects of ploughing. …”
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