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History of Modern Biomedicine Interviews (Digital Collection) [93]
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History of Modern Biomedicine Witness Seminars (Photo Collection) [64]
A photo collection of Witness Seminar participants generated by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group (2017) -
Voices of Modern Biomedicine Series [3]
A 3-volume book-series published by the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group (2017) -
Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine Series [18]
An 18-volume book-series (2013-2017) -
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine Series [46]
A 45-volume book-series (1997-2013); continues as "Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine"
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COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
(2023-01-01)This chapter explores the global history of communications and media in the interwar world. The chapter puts into dialogue a range of case studies from around the world which existing historiographies have typically treated ... -
Uprooting Identity: European Integration, Political Realignment and the Wine of the Languedoc, 1984–2014
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The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain*
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“Things I Can Remember about My Life”: Autobiography and Fatherhood in Victorian Britain
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-01)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>It is now nearly forty years since John Burnett, David Vincent, and David Mayall compiled their invaluable and much-used three-volume finding aid,<jats:italic>The Autobiography of ... -
Writing about Life Writing: Women, Autobiography and the British Industrial Revolution
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-12)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Few historical problems have attracted so much attention over so many years as the social consequences of the British industrial revolution. For the most part, historians presumed ... -
Massacre in the Clouds An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History
(PublicAffairs, 2024-05-07)In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' ... -
Habitat Diversity Mitigates the Impacts of Human Pressure on Stream Biodiversity.
(2024-10)Recent decades have witnessed substantial changes in freshwater biodiversity worldwide. Although research has shown that freshwater biodiversity can be shaped by changes in habitat diversity and human-induced pressure, the ... -
1945 Pan-African Congress
This chapter examines what made the 1945 PAC possible and what it signified. Rather than seek to define the conference as a symbol of either continuity or change, the chapter identifies aspects of both in order to reveal ... -
Introduction: Colonial Public Spheres and the Worlds of Print
(2020-08-01)A growing literature explores the varying role of print media in the colonial world and the new types of publics such newspapers and periodicals produced. However, this literature has tended to focus on specific regions, ... -
Beliefs in progress: The beguins of languedoc and the construction of a new heretical identity
(2021-01-01)In October 1319, the archbishop of Narbonne and the Dominican inquisitor Jean de Beaune surrendered to the secular arm the first members of the group of men and women known to historians as the Beguins of Languedoc. The ... -
Foreword
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Franciscans in the Attic: The Strength of Material Ties Within Religious Dissident Networks
(2024-06-30)This essay analyses the practices of material support among the actors of the dissident network known as the beguins of Languedoc, which was persecuted and nearly dismantled in the first half of the 14th century. The reasons ...