Nea Paphos as a center of pottery production in the Hellenistic period: the contribution of Polish research in Maloutena and the Agora by Ewdoksia Papuci-Władyka

“…Samples of various categories of ceramics, analyzed at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens, were taken both from material collected during the research of the University of Warsaw conducted since 1965 in the area of Maloutena (i.a. …”
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Ambivalent and Contradictory: Victorian Architects’ Responses to Technology by Richard W. Hayes

“…Technophilia and technophobia commingled in British architectural culture of the second half of the nineteenth century. …”
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English Loanwords in Urdu Language: A Study of Borrowing by Zuhair Ahmad, Ilyas Khan

“…English language has been in contact with Urdu during the British colonization in India. This has resulted into borrowing so many lexicons into Urdu which must be studied linguistically. …”
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Strategic Partnership between Russia and India from the Perspective of National Elites by Alexey Kupriyanov

“…This attitude has been shaped by historical factors, such as the formation of the Indian elites under the influence of British political, economic, and military culture, and the reckless admiration of the victors of the Cold War by the Russian elites, which attempted to abandon the Soviet legacy after the collapse of the USSR. …”
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Covenanting Exchanges with the French Court during the Wars for the Three Kingdoms by Allan I. MACINNES

“…But these events cannot be viewed solely as British and Irish Civil Wars. They must be contextualised in relation to the Thirty Years War and particularly to the determination of France under both Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin to supplant the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs as the foremost European power. …”
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From the Qing Court to the Museum Vitrine by Kexin Ma

“…Furthermore, the paper delves into the dynamics surrounding the acquisition of artworks from British military officers during the 20th century, exploring the controversies inherent in such acquisitions. …”
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Literary Cycling and Its Importance in the Accounts of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell by Orkun Kocabıyık

“…In this respect, Our Sentimental Journey and A Canterbury Pilgrimage can both also be read as the texts that give way to this recent invention to be perceived as a liberating vehicle; for it gave the first taste of freedom not only to working-class and middle-class people, but also to young British women such as Elizabeth Pennell herself. Considering this reciprocal relation of the two fin de siècle trends of literary travel and cycle travel, including the above-mentioned texts of the Pennells, this paper argues that cycling both enhanced and complicated the experience of literary travel for the Pennells throughout their different itineraries. …”
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Calving Out a Space to Exist: “Marked” Identities in Polar Science’s “Unmarked Spaces” by Anya Lawrence, Luis Escobedo

“…For minority employees at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the organisation has enriched their careers, while offering equality, diversity and inclusivity (EDI) measures to mitigate some of the issues affecting them. …”
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Popularising Gardening: William Robinson and the Transmission of Garden Knowledge in the Illustrated Press by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…His publishing empire in particular can be considered as one of the strongest impetuses that fostered the self-definition of the British people as a nation of gardeners. Robinson’s journalistic work and editorial enterprises, rather than his landscape creations, have indeed contributed to the recording and cataloguing of a national tradition in the late 19th century by giving written and visual space—a voice and views—to an imagined community of gardeners. …”
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Življenje kralja Petra II. Karađorđevića po drugi svetovni vojni v luči ohranjenih britanskih dokumentov by Blaž Torkar

“…Based on an analysis of British archival documents and published literature, this article discusses the life of Peter II Karađorđević, King of Yugoslavia, after the Second World War. …”
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ESSENTIAL OILS PHARMACOPEIALIDENTIFICATION TESTS AND USES by Mobeen Islam

“…The various identification tests for essential oils described in the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) involve physical, chemical, and chromatographic tests. …”
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Antoine Haumont : une patiente collecte photographique des paysages ordinaires du sport by Olivier Pégard

“…The ambition is to provide students and teachers access to an "Antoine Haumont" collection of images relating to leisure sports facilities and social practices, including photographs of British green-fields, fitness centres, road races, street sports, indoor tennis complexes, and cycling and walking practices in urban spaces. …”
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Has Education in the United Kingdom Become a Marketable Product Like Other Value-Added Services? by Louise Dalingwater

“…The rise of neo-liberalism from the late 1970s and the increasing internationalization of the British economy have certainly challenged the traditional notion of education as a public good. …”
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Waterloo in Vanity Fair or the Art of not Representing War by Marianne Camus

“…A close reading of the chapters concerned with the event will reveal how the victory heralding British supremacy in the nineteenth century is in fact persistently undermined in the novel. …”
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The Taxation of Agriculture in the European Union Countries by Kinga Gruziel, Małgorzata Raczkowska

“…Some shared features of these agricultural taxation systems were pointed out and their division in two basic models (the British model and the continental model), which was presented taking as example the countries in which these models operate. …”
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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

“…By turning her attention to Persia, she placed herself on the margins of the British Empire, at the heart of the Great Strategic Game between Russia and the United Kingdom. …”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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La jamaʿat al Tabligh en Asie centrale : réactivation des liens islamiques avec le sous continent indien et insertion dans un islam mondialisé by Bayram Balci

“…This Islamic organization established in British India in the 1920s defines itself as a non-radical and non-political movement, promoting a "basic" Islamic faith and practice. …”
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Wave dissipation performance of breakwater by Hu Yufan

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Fracture of Parallel Strand Bamboo Composite under Mode I Loading: DCB Test Investigation by Yurong Shen, Dongsheng Huang, Ying Hei Chui, Chunping Dai

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