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University of Sheffield5y
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Research Area
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Research Group within the School of English at the University of Sheffield is home to a large and dynamic group of staff. We provide expertise in poetry and prose ...
University of Bristol1y
The long nineteenth century
Pam's research focuses on alcohol in nineteenth-century literature. Her monograph, The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture, is forthcoming with EUP. Pam co-directs or co-leads the Drinking ...
Nature6d
The nineteenth century roots of 'everything is everywhere'
The mid-nineteenth-century refutation of spontaneous generation ... his formulation of this topic has finally produced a thriving research programme that looks set to offer insights into microbial ...
The Conversation1mon
Queer theatre in the 19th century was a place of codes, cross-dressing and blackmail
With amateur dramatics becoming increasingly popular in the 19th century, in my ongoing research I propose that by looking sideways at other men who exploited this opportunity, a whole range of ...
Study uncovers mercury treatment in 19th-century French child suffering from rickets and scurvy
A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived ...
The New York Times22d
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Most botanists from the mid-19th century viewed their study as a research backwater. Miss Banning herself was an outcast. “She wanted very much to be part of the scientific community,” said ...
lse2y
Social Change and Racial Inequalities in the Post-Slavery Plantation Societies 19th – 21st century
This research is framed by a sociohistorical approach to social ... which has enabled the pervasiveness of the socio-racial inequalities since the 19th century. All things considered, the purpose is ...
Stuck in the past: Trump tariffs and other policies are dragging the U.S. back to the 19th century
The Trump administration’s current use of 19th-century tools to solve 20th-century problems threatens to take America back to ...