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Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth
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Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky
(2021)This article provides the first discussion of the unpublished treatise De crepusculis (“On twilight”), written in the second half of the thirteenth century by the Dominican scholar Giles of Lessines. It is shown that De ... -
GIS Cartography Map Figures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 for Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry?s Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes,
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020)Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes, Special Issue University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, International Journal ... -
'Government, war and society in English Ireland: a guide to recent work',
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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
(2022)This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn ... -
The Great War and Paramilitarism in Europe, 1917 23
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In this comparative conclusion, the authors consider some of the most influential trends in the historiography of political and paramilitary violence, with particular reference to the relationship between wartime and ... -
Guillaume des Moustiers treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe
(2021)This article is devoted to a thirteenth-century Latin text on how to construct, set up, and use a version of the so-called armillary instrument (instrumentum armillarum), which was first described in Ptolemy’s Almagest as ... -
Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin
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Heart of Darkness Redux
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How should historians approach elites?
(Springer, 2020)This paper probes the various methodologies that an historian of elite groups and elite culture can approach their work. Written from the perspective of an historian of nineteenth century elite education the paper segments ... -
Humanities for the Environment – a Manifesto for Research and Action
(2015)Human preferences, practices and actions are the main drivers of global environmental change in the 21st century. It is crucial, therefore, to promote pro-environmental behavior. In order to accomplish this, we need to ... -
The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People's Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
(2022)History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people's understanding of their nation's modern ... -
Improving pathways to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: first lessons from the SHAPE-ID project - Policy Brief
(2020)This policy brief presents key issues and challenges for fostering interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in Europe, focusing on the participation of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in such research. It ... -
Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
(Palgrave, 2023)This “injection” comes from the point of view of a historian of slavery turned historian of sexuality. The history of sexuality sits very uneasily with the history of enslavement, however, because of the problem of agency ...