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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"north-west Europe"”.
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The British Way of War in North West Europe 1944-45: A Study of Two Infantry Divisions
… 53rd ‘Welsh’ - during the Overlord campaign in North West Europe in 1944 and 1945. The main locus of research centres on the fighting components of those divisions; the infantry battalions and their supporting regiments. In order to understand the way the British fought this part of the war, the …
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"Montgomery and his Legions:" A Study of Operational Development, Innovation and Command in 21st Army Group, North-West Europe, 1944-45
… specifically in Montgomery's 21st Army Group in North-West Europe. The strengths and weaknesses of how corps and divisions responded to Montgomery's command system - and in particular the commonality of doctrinal practice - has become an issue of debate among historians. This thesis examines and …
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Niche construction and plant-use in the Mesolithic
In Britain and north-west Europe, the human-plant interactions of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers have been the focus of debate and study for nearly 60 years. The archaeobotanical and pollen records from these regions suggest that Mesolithic people actively constructed their own niches through the use …
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The development of a spatial explicit agent-based modelling framework to explore past vegetation dynamics
… dramatic changes climatically and culturally in North-West Europe, with the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition perhaps the most important of them all, manifesting in the shift from hunting and gathering to farming practices. Debate still surrounds causality of these changes, but the …
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The Lincolnshire marsh : landscape evolution, settlement development and the salt industry.
… thesis, covers a region from Cleethorpes in the north to Wainfleet in the south. The study area also encompasses areas of the adjacent dry land, of the Middle Marsh and the Wolds, to the west.A wide range of data are studied to help build a picture of the methods people have used to settle this …
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A seismic study on the structural evolution of the North Celtic Sea Basin, offshore Ireland
The North Celtic Sea Basin (NCSB) is one of a number of basins related to regional Mesozoic extension across north-west Europe. Previous authors have described the NCSB as having a conventional “steer’s head” geometry or alternatively a half graben geometry. Modern 2D and 3D seismic data has now …
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Holocene climate change and peatland dynamics in southern Sweden based on tree-ring analysis of subfossil wood from peat deposits
… chronologies with corresponding material from North-west Germany, three Swedish RW chronologies were assigned absolute ages and yielded continuous, dated chronologies over the periods 5284-3728 BC and 2668-1108 BC. The obtained cross-match between RW chronologies from regions separated by …
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Data-driven prediction of saltmarsh morphodynamics
… declining in extent in the United Kingdom and North West Europe. The drivers of this decline are complex and poorly understood. When considering mitigation and management for future ecosystem service provision it will be important to understand why, where, and to what extent decline is likely …
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Microfaunal investigation of the Early Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) extinction event in N.W. Europe
… of the microfaunast hrough sequencesin N. W. Europe confirm that benthic foraminiferal. faunas were similarly affected by an early Toarcianfalciferum Zone event. Samples were analysed from Pliensbachian - Toarcian mudstone,c lay and shale sequenceso f the south Dorset Coast,t he Midlands, the …
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British personnel in the Dutch navy, 1642-1697
An international maritime labour market study, the thesis focuses on the Dutch naval labour market, analysing wartime Zeeland admiralty crews. The research is based primarily on unique naval pay sources. Analysis of crew compositions has not been made on this scale in the period before. The 1667 …