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Reptilian State: Florida at the American Museum of Natural History One Hundred Years Ago
(University of North Carolina Press, 5 July 2021)This article explores the American Museum of Natural History's (AMNH) Florida Group display that opened in 1918 and provides insight into evolving US conceptions of Florida as a reptilian state on the eve of modernity. ... -
The Impact of Poverty on End of Life and Bereavement Experiences: Lived Experience of Bereaved Individuals and Professionals Working in Low-Income Communities in the United Kingdom
(SAGE Publications, 19 April 2021)Background: Research shows that people living with severe economic disadvantage are less likely to access palliative care services in the United Kingdom and that funeral poverty is growing. However, little is understood ... -
The Antirevolutionary Commemoration: The Centenary of 1917 in Russia
(Indiana University Press / Association for Jewish Studies, 3 September 2021)The Russian state’s commemoration of the centenary of the Russian Revolution was not marked by any national events and there were few official pronouncements. Yet this article argues that the Kremlin did not simply avoid ... -
Mass Observation, apathy and electoral politics in England, 1937 - 1950
(Cambridge University Press, 20 April 2021)While various historians use Mass Observation sources to study popular engagement with politics in the 1940s, they tend to rely on file reports summarizing research or the writings of the national panel, which paid limited ... -
Children against slavery: Juvenile agency and the sugar boycotts in Britain
(Cambridge University Press (CUP) / Royal Historical Society, 11 November 2020)In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, many contemporaries observed a striking phenomenon: that children were especially active in the boycotts of sugar produced by enslaved people. First-hand accounts ...