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The Arab Legion and the 1948 War: The Conduct of 'Collusion'
The partition of Palestine and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War proved to be one of the defining moments of the twentieth century and its continued contemporary resonance has helped maintain a lively historiography. One of the key contentions remains the question of ‘collusion’ between the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan and the...Jevon, Graham
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Būmīgirāyī va ta's̲īr-i ān bar adabiyāt-i dāstānā-i mu'ās̲ir-i Irān
بومی گرایی واکنش روشنفکرانی بود که می خواستند مخاطبان خود را به اصالت ها و ریشه هایشان توجه دهند، بنابراین کشورهای فراوانی که در معرض استعمار قرار داشتند، به این موضوع توجه کردند و طبیعتا جریان های گوناگون روشنفکری در ایران نیز به آن بی توجه نماندند. در بررسی جریان...Sedighi, Alireza
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Library catalogue records as a research resource : introducing 'A Big Data History of Music'
Librarians and archivists are increasingly collecting and working with large quantities of digital data. In science, business, and now the humanities, the production and analysis of vast amounts of data (so-called ‘big data research’) have become fundamental activities. This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, a...Tuppen, Sandra ; Rose, Stephen ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Writing a Big Data history of music
This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, which set out to unlock the bibliographical data held by research libraries in order to create new research opportunities for musicologists. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are...Rose, Stephen ; Tuppen, Sandra ; Drosopoulou, Loukia
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Purcell in the 18th century: music for the 'Quality, Gentry, and others'
Henry Purcell was the only composer of his generation to be honoured with performances of his music at both the Academy of Ancient Music and Concerts of Ancient Music in the 18th century. Both organizations also programmed 18th-century music for The Tempest, believing it to be by Purcell. Excerpts from...Tuppen, Sandra
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Shrove-tide dancing: balls and masques at Whitehall under Charles II
The tradition of the Shrove-tide court entertainment with dancing and music, strong in the first half of the seventeenth century in England, was restored with the monarchy after 1660. Shrove-tide masques, balls and plays, along with dishes of pancakes and fritters, remained a feature of the court calendar to the...Tuppen, Sandra
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Art Libraries in a city: present and possible co-operation in Leeds
In addition to an art library which is part of the public library service, the city of Leeds, in the north of England, is the home of two universities and an art college, and of the Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, in each of which significant art...Coombes, Rebecca
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'We are Young. We are Trendy. Buy our Product!': The use of Latinized Arabic in printed edited magazines in Egypt
In the past decade, Latinised Arabic (LA), a popular form of writing spoken Arabic online, has made the transition from online applications such as internet chat and text messaging to offline mediums. No longer exclusive to computer mediated communication, the diffusion of LA into everyday life has been reported across...Aboelezz, Mariam
computer mediated communication, commercial and symbolic power, edited magazines, and Latinised Arabic
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The Geosemiotics of Tahrir Square: A study of the relationship between discourse and space
The year 2011 saw unprecedented waves of people occupying key locations around the world in a statement of public discontent. In Egypt, the protests which took place between 25 January and 11 February 2011 culminating in the ouster of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak have now come to be known...Aboelezz, Mariam
discourse and space, Tahrir Square, geosemiotics, linguistic landscapes, and January 25 Revolution
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Relative values: the words about non-Western art
A survey of holdings of non-Western art in British, and some North American, art libraries has by and large confirmed that it is poorly represented, and that contemporary non-Western art is especially neglected. Libraries’ freedom to acquire material in this broad area may be restricted or defined by curricula, the...Coombes, Rebecca