Representing Irishness in Words and Images ; Erskine Nicol’s Illustrations of Tales of Irish Life and Character by Amélie Dochy

“…He became very famous among the British during the 1850s: his canvases were sold in Great Britain and in Ireland and were also exhibited in the United States and in France. …”
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English Perceptions and Representations of Venetian Chromatic Variations by Anne GEOFFROY

“…The perception and representation of the Venetian palette will be analysed through various sources, so as to shed light on the way colours informed the imaginative construct of the city while revealing the British travellers’ ability or inability to be responsive to Venice’s ubiquitous polychromy.…”
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Postcolonial analysis of educational language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia by Zuzanna Grala

“…The aspects of language policing strategies are presented as a way of protecting linguistic human rights, but also as a way of dealing with the aftermaths of the policies implemented by the British Empire. Similarities and distinctions in the language policies of Ireland, Singapore, and Malaysia prove that the weak position of native languages originates not in the “natural” decline of a language, but rather in the policy of promoting English by the colonial forces. …”
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Does insulin resistance contribute to the ‘unbrowning’ of brown adipose tissue? by Orien L. Tulp

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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“…Central to this was Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme – an archetypal populist policy that became totemic of her broader reconfiguration of British society. Building on the demonisation of council housing that paved the way for Right to Buy, today, it stands as the implicit foil for the present right-wing government’s populist advocation of ‘beauty’ (i.e. traditional styles) as a way of removing objections to future development. …”
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Evidências de Patrocínio em Bestiários Medievais by Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva

“…The present article is part of an ongoing Master’s degree research in Universidade de Brasília (UnB), and proposes to indicate visual evidence of patronage in two British medieval bestiaries of the second family, Bodley Ashmole Ms. 1511 and Aberdeen Bestiary Ms. 24. …”
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Trump, Brexit and the Transatlantic Relationship: The New Paradigms of the Trump Era by Laëtitia Langlois

“…On 27 January 2017 during a joint press conference with the British Prime Minister Theresa May at the White House, Donald Trump praised the vote in favour of Brexit as “a wonderful thing’ and a ‘blessing for the world.’” …”
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‘What are people for?’ by Yat Shun Kei

“…This article revisits previously overlooked exchanges between pre-eminent figures in British architecture and ecology, William Holford, Julian Huxley, and Max Nicholson, which were incorporated in one of the earliest uses of the term ‘built environment’ in 1964. …”
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A Critical Recognition of the A Philosophy of War from Moseley’s View by Mohammad Reza Ahmadi Tabatabai

“…Alexander Moseley is a Political Philosophy Editor for the IEP (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and he has lectured on the Philosophy and morality of war at several British universities. In his book called The Philosophy of War, he explained why humans fight against each other? …”
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Current Hepatitis A Status in Canada by Jun Wu, Shimian Zou, Antonio Giulivi

“…The highest reported hepatitis A rates are in age groups 30 to 39 years and 40 to 59 years, and in British Columbia. Such information is important for assessing current immunization approaches and for decision-making about new preventive strategies against hepatitis A in Canada.…”
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Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum by Arash Javadinejad

“…To do so, a corpus of four major British broadsheets (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and Daily Telegraph) was collected and analysed with a combination of qualitative (Discursive News Values Analysis) and quantitative (Corpus Linguistics) methods. …”
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Once-Daily, Controlled-Release Tramadol and Sustained-Release Diclofenac Relieve Chronic Pain due to Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial by André D Beaulieu, Paul M Peloso, Boulos Haraoui, William Bensen, Glen Thomson, John Wade, Patricia Quigley, John Eisenhoffer, Zoltan Harsanyi, Andrew C Darke

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« Traduit du riddleyspeak (Anterre) par Nicolas Richard » : quand le traducteur se fait lecteur de science-fiction by Elaine Després

“…Riddley Walker (1980) by the American-born British author Russell Hoban has become a cult post-apocalyptic science fiction novel over the years, and the language in which it is written, riddleyspeak, is no stranger to it. …”
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Shoot Straight, You Bastards! Australians in the Boer War: the Breaker Morant Case by Martine Piquet

“…Between July and September 1901 the detachment summarily executed a number of Boer prisoners, in accordance, they claimed, with Lord Kitchener’s orders “to make no prisoners”—which the British authorities denied were ever given. The fairness of the court-martial has since been disputed and, rightly or wrongly, Morant has become a folk hero in Australia, as a symbol of the reckless defiance of the underdog towards the authorities. …”
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Les collections de vêtements d’enfant, problèmes et perspectives by Aude Le Guennec, Clare Rose

“…Through three case studies of French and British museums associated in different ways with the collection and study of the history of children's fashion, this article analyzes the current state of children's clothing heritage and the effect the marginalisation of children dress history has on our understanding of the socialization of children. …”
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From Ambiguity to Deceptiveness: the Case of Hybrid since- Subordinates in English by Bénédicte GUILLAUME

“…These are based on the study of the characteristics of nearly five-hundred examples of since- clauses taken from the one-hundred-million-word British National Corpus of contemporary English. Still, a handful of examples resist such a disambiguation, thus matching my definition of a ‘hybrid subordinate’ as a clause which challenges the traditional categorisation of subordinates in English, as it happens to possess at least one property which is not in keeping with the type to which it ought to belong according to most of its other characteristics. …”
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Conversation: the history of science and the ‘big picture’ by Andrew Barry, J.R.R. Christie, Andrew Cunningham, Ludmilla Jordanova, James Poskett, James A. Secord, Perry Williams, James Poskett

“…This conversation article brings together six of the original contributors to the 1993 Getting the Big Picture special issue of the British Journal for the History of Science. The contributors introduce their personal memories of the 1991 conference panel which formed the basis of that special issue. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Studies of Hypertension: Light at the End of the Tunnel by Claire E. Hastie, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Anna F. Dominiczak

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Exceptionnalisme et impérialisme dans le discours de politique étrangère américain des années Clinton by Frédéric Heurtebize

“…The United States has to a great extent asserted itself as a nation through the victories of its military and, even more so perhaps, through binary oppositions: democratic republic vs. British monarchy, progress vs. barbarity, capitalism vs. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

“…This article addresses Scottish dystopian novels that move past ideas of the British state as Big Brother to envision future Scotlands encountering global problems of climate change and its exploitation by neoliberal regimes. …”
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