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Climate change and health
(Elsevier, 2016-11-19)This paper provides an overview of the environmental, demographic, economic and social context in which climate change is occurring, and assesses its impacts on human health and wellbeing at primary, secondary and tertiary ... -
Communist MP: Willie Gallacher and British communism
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The Communist Party and the New Party
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)The New Party was never at the centre of the concerns of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). However, the CPGB had to take a line on the new organisation when it was formed, and tried to use it to smear Labour and ... -
'Community and Exclusion: The Torrey Canyon Disaster of 1967'
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015)Oral historians have only recently begun to record the memories of communities affected by major oil spills. In this article we investigate how the first supertanker oil spill in 1967, the Torrey Canyon, is remembered in ... -
The ‘Compleat Physician’ and Experimentation in Medicines: Everard Maynwaring (c.1629-1713) and the Restoration Debate on Medical Practice in London
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018-03-19)Restoration London saw a wave of publications by physicians advocating that the ‘compleat physician’ should be one who experimented and produced his own medicines. Only thus, they argued, could the medical hierarchy be ... -
Computer-Assisted Processing of Intertextuality in Ancient Languages
(Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2017-09-07)The production of digital critical editions of texts using TEI is now a widely-adopted procedure within digital humanities. The work described in this paper extends this approach to the publication of gnomologia (anthologies ... -
Conservative Party agents in Second World War Britain
(Oxford University Press, 2007)The Second World War placed great pressures on the machinery and personnel of all political parties. Conservatives formed the view that their own machine had been especially hard hit by the challenges of the war years, and ... -
Constituencies and Interests: An Afterword
(Yoshida Shoten Publishing, 2015)The essays in this volume each probe an aspect of the relationship between parliamentary constituencies and interest groups in the workings of the parliament at Westminster between the mid-sixteenth and mid-nineteenth ... -
Covering Up Chelmno: Nazi Attempts to Obfuscate and Obliterate an Extermination Camp
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)The centrality of deception and secrecy to the Nazi extermination of the Jews has long been recognised, yet numerous questions remain regarding its significance for the ‘Final Solution’. This article examines Nazi attempts ... -
The Criminal Corpse, Anatomists, and the Criminal Law : Parliamentary Attempts to Extend the Dissection of Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century England
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) for North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), 2015-01-01)In the later eighteenth century, two schemes were introduced in Parliament for extending the practice of handing over the bodies of executed offenders to anatomists for dissection. Both measures were motivated by the needs ... -
Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism
(Royal Society Publishing, 2007-01-22)Cromwell Fleetwood Varley is chiefly remembered as a leading Victorian electrical engineer who was closely involved in the testing and laying of the successful transatlantic telegraph cables of the 1860s. Historians of ... -
Cultural competence in migrant healthcare
(Edward Elgar, 2016-12-30)The 2004 Amsterdam Declaration called for countries across Europe to take adequate measures to ensure that health provision is accessible, appropriate and sufficiently ‘culturally competent’ to meet the needs of migrants ... -
Deadlier than the male? Women and the death penalty in colonial Kenya and Nyasaland, c.1920-57
(Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 2007)The position of women and the operation of justice were both contentious issues in colonial Africa. However, when combined in the discussion and sentencing of African women charged with murder and facing the death penalty ... -
Decorum or Deterrence? The Politics of Execution in Malawi, 1915-1966
(Berg, 2008)Capital punishment - specifically public execution - is here investigated not simply as a judicial punishment, but as a lens through which to view the civil and socio-political development of Malawi from the colonial to ... -
Developing multilateralism: the Havana charter and the fight for the International Trade Organization, 1947-1948
(Simon Fraser University, 2003-06)Since the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established, it has been the subject of vocal, and sometimes violent, international protests. Much of the criticism levelled at it has charged that the WTO régime puts developing ... -
Discrimination, opportunity, and middle-class success in early Communist Hungary
(Cambridge University Press, 2005-06)This article explores the middle-class response to life under the early Communist state in Hungary. It is based on an oral history of the Budapest bourgeoisie, and challenges some of the dominant indigenous representations ... -
Dismembering and remembering the body: execution and post-execution display in Africa, c.1870-2000
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-09-27) -
›Do not burden one’s own army and its hinterland with unneeded mouths!‹ The Fate of the Soviet Civilian Population Behind the ›Panther Line‹ in Eastern Belorussia, October 1943-June 1944
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‘Elderly years cause a Total dispaire of Conception’: old age, sex and infertility in early modern England
(Oxford University Press, 2015-07-04)This article examines early modern ideas about old bodies, sex and reproduction. The old body in early modern thought was particularly connected to barrenness and sterility: it was understood that old women were barren ...