The intelligence battle in the Gulf of Guinea: Espionage and counter-espionage operations in Spanish Guinea by Saliou Abba

“…The archival sources and the bibliographic data analysed from the perspective of Intelligence Studies, revealed the consideration of the colony of Spanish Guinea as a target of paramount importance by the German, French, British and American units in charge of the underground war, an offensive strategy, which inaugurated a new paradigm from military and security view points for Cameroon under the League of Nations trusteeship.…”
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Forced Evictions as Urban Planning? Traces of Colonial Land Control Practices in Yangon, Myanmar by Elizabeth Rhoads

“…Despite purported ideological differences, successive Burmese regimes have adopted urban planning and housing policies, especially with respect to the urban poor, that vary only slightly from the precedents set by the British colonial administration. Recent actions and pronouncements by the current government suggest that further forced evictions will occur and the National League for Democracy (NLD) will continue to follow colonial precedents in state policies towards forced evictions and the urban poor.…”
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‘Bringing the divided Powers of Europe nearer one another’. The Congress of Soissons, 1728-1730 by Frederik Dhondt

“…This contribution reconstructs the Congress of Soissons (1728-1730), a consequence of the Parisian Preliminaries (31 May 1727), an agreement that prevented the eruption of a general war in Europe between the League of Hanover (France, Britain-Hanover, Dutch Republic) and the League of Vienna (Emperor, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia). …”
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La linea dell’odio: la frontiera nella letteratura della <i>Partition</i> by Rossella Ciocca

“…When, after a series of violent riots, the Congress Party decided to accept the request of the Muslim League for a separate and independent Muslim state, the British authorities drew the boundaries that split up the regions of Punjab and Bengal creating East and West Pakistan. …”
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Comparative analysis of recommendations for the management of patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis and kidney damage by I.Yu. Golovach, Ye.D. Yehudina

“…This literature review is a comparative analysis of published recommendations from the British Society for Rheumatology and the British Health Professionals in Rheumato­logy (2014); Canadian Vasculitis Research Network (2015); European League Against Rheumatism ­(EULAR)/European Renal Association (ERA) — European Dia­lysis and Transplant Association (2016), developed by the international task force EULAR, ERA and the European Vasculitis Society, and the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology (2017) for the mana­gement of patients with AAV. …”
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Beyond famines: wartime state, society, and politicization of food in colonial India, 1939 – 1945 by Sarkar, A

“…Further, it demonstrates how the Muslim League government’s failure to prevent the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 was politically used by the Mahasabha to oppose the League’s emerging demand for the creation of Pakistan.…”

Activity of Albanian emigration in the West towards the issue of Kosovo and Metohija (1945-1969) by Vukadinović Igor Đ.

“…Although the operation failed, strong ties were forged between US and British intelligence and Albanian nacionalist emigration, which were further intensified in the 1960s. …”
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South Asian Muslim politics, 1937-1958 by Samad, Y, Yunas Samad

“…These factors combined with the weakness of the Congress due to their incarceration during the war resulted in the widespread shift away from the regional parties to the Muslim League.</p> <p>Jinnah was able to achieve for a brief moment political unity and used this as the basis to extract the maximum constitutional concessions from the British and the Congress. …”

Newspaper as source of history: A case study of daily “Zamindar” of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan by Suleman, Zahida

“…He not only preached the loyalty to the British but his journalism was also aimed at the social reforms.Sir Syed formed a society called the scientific society in 1863 and it brought out a paper, the Scientific Society Magazine. …”
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Irish journalists and litterateurs in late Victorian London, c. 1870-1910 by Sheehy, I, Sheehy, Ian

“…Moran - and they were to be influenced by the Irish cultural revival rather than British Liberalism, becoming involved in the Southwark Irish Literary Club, the Irish Literary Society and the London Gaelic League during the 1880s and 1890s. …”

Imperial Questions and Social Identities by Lauren Banko

“…These new statuses for the former Ottoman subjects, the majority of whom were Arab, reflected colonial and imperial norms and they incorporated the changing international terminology of identity issued from the League of Nations and post-World War I treaties. The article analyses how the development of new social and political understandings of identity was shaped by both the British legislators and the Arabic-speaking national leadership in Palestine. …”
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The sporting lives of Sir Shenton Thomas and the male European internees at Changi Prison camp during the Japanese occupation of Singapore, 1942–1945 by Lim, P.H., Aman, M.S.

“…During the Japanese occupation of British Malaya and Southeast Asia from the years 1942 to 1945 there were reports of POWs being allowed to play cricket, football, rugby and basketball, as told by Kevin Blackburn in The Sportsmen of Changi published in 2012. …”

The abstraction of sovereignty: the Ottoman Empire in early twentieth-century socialist thought by Zaman, F

“…This article examines the way British socialists came to provide intellectual and political weight to the ‘internationalizing’ of non-European territory during and after the First World War. …”

Capturing seizures in clinical trials of antiseizure medications for KCNQ2‐DEE by John J. Millichap, Cynthia L. Harden, Dennis J. Dlugos, Jacqueline A. French, Noam N. Butterfield, Celene Grayson, Ernesto Aycardi, Simon N. Pimstone

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Iraqi Public Opinion and the 1930 Agreement: Its Role and Impact on the Agreement by Kazim AlNemaa

“…The 1990 Agreement was the conclusion of a series of treaties and agreements concluded between the monarchy and Britain through which the British authorities exercised their colonial policy in Iraq from behind the veil of international legitimacy approved by the League of Nations in the name of the mandate. …”
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Validation protocols for blood pressure measuring devices: the impact of the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol and the development of a Universal Standard by O’Brien, E, Stergiou, G, Palatini, P, Asmar, R, Ioannidis, JP, Kollias, A, Lacy, P, McManus, RJ, Myers, MG, Shennan, A, Wang, J, Parati, G

“…In the last three decades protocols for the validation of blood pressure measuring devices have been developed by the US Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, the British Hypertension Society, the German Hypertension League, the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on blood pressure Monitoring and the International Organization for Standardization. …”

Investigating the delivery of health improvement interventions through professional football club community trusts-strengths and challenges by A.R. Pringle, S. Zwolinsky, L. Lozano-Sufrategui

“…The online survey showed most managers were male (n ​= ​23/67.7%) and white British (n ​= ​30/88.2%). Two thirds held management roles, (n ​= ​23/67.6%) and represented Championship (n ​= ​12/35.2%), League 1 (n ​= ​13/38.2%) and League 2 clubs (n ​= ​9/26.5%). …”
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Learning from the nurses and the paramedics: the experience of a Kenyan medical officer intern-a call for research by Aruyaru Stanley Mwenda

“…The Kenyan medical system borrows heavily from the Pre-Registration House officer (PRHO) British medical system. In such a system, upon graduation from medical school, one is expected to complete a year of internship through the main departments of medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology and surgery before they are licensed to join the league of medical practitioners either as government employees, private sector employees or private practitioners. …”
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JUDICIAL MURDER : The Bangladesh Judiciary on Trial

“…The Awami League (AL) of BAngladesh Prime Minister Sheikh HAsina won a landslide victory in the 2008 elections. …”

Covenanting Exchanges with the French Court during the Wars for the Three Kingdoms by Allan I. MACINNES

“…The Scottish Covenanters’ alliance with the English Parliamentarians was formalised by the Solemn League and Covenant which again sought to impose permanent checks on monarchy throughout the three Stuart kingdoms. …”
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