Insights into the pathways of spread and potential origins of Dothistroma septosporum in Britain
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DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2017.01.002
Abstract: Dothistroma needle blight (DNB) is a disease caused by two fungi, Dothistroma septosporum and Dothistroma pini, that has resulted in significant damage to pine forests worldwide. Analysis of 1194 British Dothistroma isolates revealed that only D. septosporum… read more here.
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Review: JOHN MULLEN. The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series. Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 250. $34.95 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2016.167
Abstract: Island. In the end, almost all involved met a violent end. Despite efforts in the British and American press to portray Pitcairn as a utopian community, new imperial ventures in the Pacific could not escape… read more here.
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Ron Geaves. Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in the Age of Empire. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Pp. 240. $114.00 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.219
Abstract: muted—and were reinforced afterwards. The main strength of the book lies in Fara’s vivid picture of women in science in this period. Indeed, the extent of their involvement and achievements might be surprising to many… read more here.
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Christine Grandy . Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 242. $28.95 (paper).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2018.36
Abstract: have had at least nine children and many grandchildren. Another area that is, in my estimation, insufficiently explored in the book relates to the way in which class, race, and gender manifested in favorable ways… read more here.
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Expanding the Narrative: The Reception of Ignatius of Antioch in Britain, ca. 1200–1700
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720000049
Abstract: Recent studies of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch have helpfully located seventeenth-century Ignatian scholarship in its ecclesial and political context. Of particular importance, these new works have demonstrated that seventeenth-century British analysis of the… read more here.
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Reconfiguring Rights in Austerity Britain: Boundaries, Behaviours and Contestable Margins
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DOI: 10.1017/s0047279418000375
Abstract: Abstract This paper addresses policy change in Britain since 2010 across the three fields of domestic welfare, migration and asylum, and analyses the association between welfare, conditionality and control through the lens of civic stratification.… read more here.
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Dereliction, decay and the problem of de-industrialization in Britain, c. 1968–1977
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DOI: 10.1017/s0963926819000245
Abstract: Abstract De-industrialization and the rise of the service sector have formed the basis of recent attempts to develop a new metanarrative of economic change in twentieth-century Britain. Their effects have been taken as writ through… read more here.
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Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age
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DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4
Abstract: Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age 1 . To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals,… read more here.
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Fighting antisemitism with numbers in early twentieth-century Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/0031322x.2018.1536348
Abstract: ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, the Jewish Health Organization of Great Britain (JHOGB) and its president, Redcliffe Nathan Salaman, championed the collection and analysis of demographic data about the Anglo-Jewish community as a way… read more here.
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‘I can’t remember a more depressing time but I don’t blame anyone for that’: remembering and commemorating the wartime internment of enemy aliens in Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/0031322x.2018.1539288
Abstract: ABSTRACT In October 2000, David Cesarani decried the unnecessary internment of refugees from Nazi Germany in Britain during the Second World War on the BBC Radio 4 programme Behind the Wire. Until the last few… read more here.
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Acting for the Silent Screen: Film Actors and Aspiration between the Wars
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DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2017.1345133
Abstract: core concern for the British producers (pp. 27–28), and in 1927 ‘legislation was brought in that made it mandatory for British cinemas to screen a certain proportion of British-made films to counter the penetration of… read more here.
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