The Pro-Boer Representation of War and the Origins of New Liberalism by Françoise Orazi

“…When the (second) Boer war began in 1899, it was greeted in Britain by the usual bellicose enthusiasm—itself fuelled by the widespread feeling of British superiority. The most striking evidence of popular support can be seen in the landslide victory of the Unionists that became known as the Khaki election. …”
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Partis politiques et médias en Grande-Bretagne : entre rivalité et complicité by Karine Rivière-De Franco

“…During the weeks preceding a General Election, British political parties try to convince the electorate to vote for them, but given the limited degree of direct communication, the parties need the media to transmit their messages. …”
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A Hundred Year Old Agony And Its Reflections: Wilfred Owen`s Anthem for Doomed Youth by Metin Timuçin

“…What is perhaps the greatest body of war poetry ever written was produced by British poets from 1914 to 1918. Indeed, as emphasized by Roby (1993), those few bloody years spawned into “two generations” ofwar poets; the first caught up in the awful and blind patriotism of the hour, among them are Rupert Broke, Julien Grenfel, Robert Nichols and the second composed of anti-war satirists and soldier-poets of English Literature; Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. …”
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‘Strange old Italian dresses’: Walter Pater, Victorian fashionista? by Bénédicte COSTE

“…Such descriptions belong to a series of writings on Aesthetic dress, admittedly a core component of British Aestheticism. Pater’s descriptions should therefore be contrasted to the 1870s portraits of Whistler, and to the 1880s-1890s writings of Whistler, Oscar Wilde and Max Beerbohm, along with the caricatures of Aesthetes by George du Maurier and Sir Leslie Ward. …”
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A Case of Congenital Syphilis Presenting with Unusual Skin Eruptions by Alexander K. C. Leung, Kin Fon Leong, Joseph M. Lam

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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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John Clifford, Militant Evangelicals, and the Colonial Model for ‘Secular’ Schools (1870s-1920s) by Geraldine VAUGHAN

“…For Clifford and militant Evangelicals, British Dominions offered models of State secular schooling because of the effective separation of State and Church within their realms. …”
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“These Groups of Islands are Different”: Identity and Constitutional Change in Orkney and Shetland, 1966-1990 by Mathew Nicolson

“…Between 1966 and 1990, Orkney and Shetland experienced multiple debates concerning their form of government and participation within British and Scottish constitutional structures. Chief among these were their status in Scotland’s local government system, their inclusion within schemes for Scottish devolution and the subsequent emergence of organisations campaigning for greater autonomy. …”
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The Agrarian Question in the Views and Activities of Mahatma Gandhi by Joanna Maj

“…The British Empire’s expansive colonial policies consistently pursued in the Indian subcontinent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries led to the shaking of traditional socioeconomic relations. …”
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Genetic Detection of Quinolone Resistance in Haemophilus parainfluenzae: Mutations in the Quinolone Resistance-Determining Regions of gyrA and parC by Dennis KS Law, Michelle Shuel, Sadjia Bekal, Elizabeth Bryce, Raymond SW Tsang

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The Effect of Duolingo on l2 Learners’ Pronunciation: Vowel Analysis through Minimal Pairs by Giedrė Balčytytė, Viktorija Skerstonaitė

“…The results observed in this experiment show that Duolingo application contributed to Russian speakers’ production of tense/lax English vowel pairs /u/-/ʊ/ and /i/-/ɪ/ with F1 and F2 frequency values closer to those of British English, but no improvements were seen with the open front vowel /æ/. …”
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Bertrand Russell’s epistemology: towards neutral monism by A. B. Didikin

“…The article presents the evolution of the ideological views of the British philosopher Bertrand Russell on the nature of knowledge and the methodological principles underlying the cognition theory. …”
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The American challenge in uniform: the arrival of America’s armies in World War II and European women by David Ellwood

“…Britain, Italy, France, Austria and of course Germany all offer relevant evidence. The popular British phrase about the GI’s being ‘over-paid, over-sexed and over here’ brilliantly sums up many of the tensions the encounter threw up: over money and life-styles, courtship rituals and the treatment of local women, over sovereignty and the American impulse to requisition every local resource they could get their hands on. …”
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What makes you move? A minimalist study of object displacement in English Double Object Construction by Aleksandra Bartczak-Meszyńska

“…The analysis concerns not only globally acceptable Goal-Theme object sequence but also the Theme-Goal DOC, which grammaticality is restricted only to a few British English dialects. The processes affecting the objects in the Prepositional Construction are also mentioned. …”
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George Eliot’s ‘Greek Vocabulary’ Notebook (c. 1873) as Commodity and Rare Artefact by Linda K. Hughes

“…More particularly, the essay assesses the merits of approaching such a material object as a commodified authorial tool and as a rare artefact that illuminates the career of a canonical British author. The essay additionally sheds light on women authors’ study of classical Greek in the 1870s and 1880s, offers an informal description (and four images) of the notebook’s textual contents and inks, and explains the historical route by which the notebook arrived at Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas.…”
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TRANSNATIONAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: AN EARLY EPISODE FROM COLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA by Christian M. ROGERSON

“…The destination which was promoted as ‘South Africa’ in tourism guidebooks did not correspond with the geopolitical entity of the Union of South Africa, instead it embraced the attractions of Portuguese-controlled Mozambique and several tourism products in the British-controlled territory of Rhodesia.…”
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Lytton Strachey : l’historien intime de deux reines by Jeannine Hayat

“…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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Incest, Lit(t)erally: How Joyce Censored The Wake by Stéphane Jousni

“…All his life long as a writer, Joyce had to battle against censorship — be it political, moral or aesthetic — and censors, be they Irish, British, American, or even French. Censorship delayed the publication of Dubliners from 1907 to 1914 (Joyce was adamantly refusing to delete the adjective “bloody” in one of his short stories). …”
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On Resisting Global Disposability, Regimes of Death-Making and Accumulation by Rupinder Parhar

“…The British writer Rupinder Parhar gave a talk on feminist acts of resistance at an art exhibition workshop in London in March 2024. …”
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Living in the Making of History! Two Victorian Female Travellers’ Representations of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War by Ludmila Ommundsen

“…At the beginning of the twentieth century a quarter of the Earth’s surface was under British rule. Set in exotic places and recounting terrifying adventures with strange peoples, travel books enjoyed great popularity in the Victorian era and contributed to the culture of the imperial years. …”
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