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Between Soviet and ethnic: cultural policies and national identity-building in Soviet Belarus under Petr Masherau, 1965-1980
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‘Between the bridge and the brook’: suicide and salvation in England c. 1550-1650
(2015-04-21)That suicide was a damnable sin in Reformation England has been emphasized so far in the historiography of self-killing, but in practice the clergy were equivocal over the question of whether all self-killers were damned. ... -
Bhagat Singh's Corpse
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles, 2016-09-01)This article explores how a sense of responsibility toward the revolutionary Bhagat Singh (1907-1931) is mediated by and articulated through a relationship with the martyr’s written remains. It considers how efforts to ... -
Biles, Brian: transcript of a video interview (26-May-2016)
(05/01/2017)Interview with Mr Brian Biles, conducted by Dr Christopher Derrett and Mr Adam Wilkinson, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 26 May 2016, at the New Forest Inn, Totton. Transcribed by Mrs Debra Gee, and ... -
The Bitburg Affair and the Beginnings of Jewish Activism in 1980s West Germany
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'The Black Lines of Damnation': Double Predestination and the Causes of Despair in Timothy Bright's A Treatise of Melancholie
(Institut du Monde Anglophone, 2015-12-08)The relationship between melancholy and religious enthusiasm in England has been the subject of a number of historical studies. This article examines a lesser-known type of religious melancholy, the fear that one was among ... -
Blackburn, Tom: transcript of a video interview (22-Feb-2016)
(30/06/2016)Interview with Dr Tom Blackburn, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 22 February 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs ... -
Blackburn, Tom: transcript of an audio interview (22-Feb-2016)
(30/06/2016)Interview with Dr Tom Blackburn, conducted by Professor Tilli Tansey, for the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group, 22 February 2016, in the School of History, Queen Mary University of London. Transcribed by Mrs ... -
The Books of Tho. Hobbes
There are four books that have been advertised in sales catalogues as possessing the inscription ‘Tho. Hobbes’ and having once been owned by Thomas Hobbes. But how confident can we be that they belonged to the famous ... -
Brexit and Empire: ‘Global Britain’ and the Myth of Imperial Nostalgia
In the wake of the 2016 referendum, the idea that ‘imperial nostalgia’ motivated the Leave vote became a staple of academic commentary. Yet such claims suffer from four important flaws. They are usually polemical in ... -
The Bright Young People of the late 1920s: How the Great War’s Armistice influenced those too young to fight
(2015-01-01)© 2015, © The Author(s) 2015. The Bright Young People were a much publicized aristocratic coterie and a fragment of the generation that had been old enough to remember the Great War, yet too young to have fought in it. ... -
Bringing (The History of) Capitalism Back In
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British Contributions to Medical Research and Education in Africa after the Second World War
(Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2001)Differences in health services, research and medical education between British East and West Africa over the period to 1980, including the effects of the transition to independent states, were discussed by witnesses with ... -
Building borders in a borderless land: English colonialism and the alam Minangkabau of Sumatra, 1680–1730
(2021-01-01)This article adopts the concept of securitisation to understand the failure of the English East India Company’s attempt to build a territorial empire on the island of Sumatra in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. ...