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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 ... -
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 ... -
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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Building, Dwelling, Dying: Architecture and History in Pakistan
There is a long history of scholars finding in architecture tools for thinking, whether this is the relationship between nature and culture in Simmel’s ruins, industrial capitalism in Benjamin’s Parisian arcades, or the ... -
Busman's stomach and the embodiment of modernity.
(2017-01-02)This paper examines the relationship between the gastric illness, 'busman's stomach' and the Coronation bus strike of May 1937 in which 27,000 London busworkers walked out for better working conditions and a seven-and-half-hour ... -
'Calculated to Strike Terror': The Amritsar Massacre and the Spectacle of Colonial Violence
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Carolina Rahm und das deutsche Jahrhundert der Extreme
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"Catharism" in questions
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