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Warrington, Elizabeth: transcript of a video interview (25- and 26-Oct-2006)
(26/06/2017)Elizabeth Warrington is a neuropsychologist whose work centres on how neural networks enable us to see, perceive, remember and discuss things. Her research has improved the accuracy of tests to diagnose and chart degenerative ... -
Waters, Estlin: transcript of an audio interview (14-Jul-2000)
(14/02/2017)Interview with Professor Estlin Waters, conducted by Dr Andy Ness, for the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Research Group, UCL, 14 July 2000. Transcribed by Mrs Jaqui Carter, and edited by Professor Tilli Tansey and ... -
‘We Are Left With Barely Anything’: Colonial Rule, Dependency, and the Lever Brothers in the Belgian Congo, 1911-1960
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019-07-10)When historians have examined labour relations in the Belgian Congo, the paradigmatic image is that of rapacious, avaricious metropolitan investors oppressing helpless African communities by dint of a skeletal but violent ... -
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume 1
(Wellcome Trust, 1998-04)Four Witness Seminar transcripts of meetings held between 1993 and 1996: ‘Technology Transfer in Britain: The case of Monoclonal Antibodies’ (E M Tansey and P P Catterall, eds); ‘Self and Non-Self: A History of Autoimmunity’ ... -
Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine: Volume 2
(Wellcome Trust, 1998-09)Second volume of four Witness Seminar transcripts of meetings held between 1996 and 1997: ‘Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Magnetic Resonance Imaging’ (Tansey E M, Christie ... -
What is Conservatism? History, Ideology and Party
(SAGE Publications, 2019)Is there a political philosophy of conservatism? A history of the phenomenon written along sceptical lines casts doubt on the existence of a transhistorical doctrine, or even an enduring conservative outlook. The main ... -
What is the history of anger a history of?
(2020-06-01)This article uses the history of emotions to make two arguments – one destructive and one constructive. It uses examples from intellectual and cultural history to undermine the idea that the modern English term ‘anger’ ... -
When did Britain join the Occident? On the origins of the idea of "the West" in English
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WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(Queen Mary, University of London, 2012-05-28)The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is the first global convention on public health. Comprehensive tobacco control had been the subject of 20 resolutions – consensus statements ... -
Wie westlich war das bundesdeutsche Fernsehen? Die Produktion und Rezeption von Unterhaltungsserien im Dreiländervergleich
(Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2016-02-15) -
Will, Eric: transcript of a video interview (04-Nov-2016)
(26/05/2017)Interview with Dr Eric Will, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 04 November 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra ... -
Will, Eric: transcript of an audio interview (04-Nov-2016)
(26/05/2017)Interview with Dr Eric Will, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 04 November 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs Debra ... -
Wladimir Kaminer and Jewish Identity in 'Multikulti' Germany
(University of Kent, 2019-03-13)Wladimir Kaminer has become something of a poster-boy for the ‘Kontingentflüchtlinge [Quota Refugees]’, the term applied to Jews from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Germany between 1990 and 2006, as a result of ...