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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"William Gladstone"”.
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Gladstone and the Bank of England: A Study in Mid-Victorian Finance, 1833-1866
… of this thesis is the confrontations between William Gladstone and the Bank of England. These confrontations have remained a mystery to authors who noted them, but have generally been ignored by others. This thesis demonstrates that Gladstone's measures taken against the Bank were reasonable, …
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Discovering the Balkans: British Travellers in Southeastern Europe, 1861--1911
… of British travellers in the region up to 1861, William Gladstone and the politicization of Balkan travel literature, and the influence of the 1870s Balkan crisis on the nature of travel to the Balkans. Section III investigates the background and influence of ethnography in British travel …
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Colour and Colour Vision in Late Nineteenth Century British Sciences
… and Lord Rayleigh, politician and philologist William Gladstone, ophthalmologists Frederick Edridge-Green and Robert Carter, and anthropologist W.H.R Rivers, I show that 19th century colour vision science was not narrowly confined to the quantification, measurement, and classification of …
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Disputing the history of Ottoman violence: an American missionary and an original counternarrative of the Bulgarian atrocities of 1876
… Schuyler, Walter Baring, Januarius MacGahan, and William Gladstone there would not be a historiography of the Bulgarian Atrocities of 1876. Their reports were formative for not one but three historiographic traditions: the dominant English-Western tradition, but also the Bulgarian and Turkish …
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The radical and nonconformist influences on the creation of the dual system of universal elementary education in England and Wales, 1866-1870
… Forster and the Liberal ministry of 1868, under William Gladstone. Educational historians, in the main, while setting out the importance of the 1870 Elementary Education Act, tend to expound an established opinion that the legislation was predominantly the work of Forster, who was ably assisted …