borderlands in the English Channel. Jersey was not simply a stopping point in the stream of migration; it was the first and final landing for the tired and destitute seeking economic relief. The strategic significance of this island existed long before the
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Enterprising Émigrés of the Channel Islands
French Economic Migration under “Refugeedom” during the French Revolution
Sydney Watts
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Maria Kostaridou
In the spring of 1952, the Greek poet George Seferis, then acting as a counsellor at the Greek Embassy in London, gave a brief talk on BBC Radio on 'A Greek in the England of 1545' (Seferis 1981).1 The Greek of the title was Nikandros Noukios, a native of Corfu and resident of Venice, who, in the middle of the sixteenth century, travelled extensively in Europe, eventually crossing the English Channel and reaching the British Isles. Rather unusually, he also left behind a three-volume narrative of his travels, entitled Apodemiai.
Sara Crangle
that vanguard thinkers, artists and critics have long believed that England is peculiarly averse to modernism's most experimental manifestations. And since the embittered and embittering summer of 2016, as the English Channel continues its metaphoric
Brett Holman
fell and the German army arrived on the coast of the English Channel, rumours began to spread of similarly suspicious concrete floors in German-owned premises in London, Edinburgh and elsewhere. At the same time, reports of German air raids on Antwerp
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 99–118 (20 total)
Representing Sanctuary
On Flatness and Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre
Vinh Nguyen
order for him to board a boat that will take him across the English Channel to London, the shoeshiner and the refugee must say their goodbyes. Idrissa turns to the shoeshiner to say, “Thank you, I won't forget you.” Marcel responds, “Me neither.” They
In Migration and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 47–61 (15 total)
Introduction
Cultural Heritages and Their Transmission
Elizabeth C. Macknight
Samuel Bentham in Britain. The products, materials, and techniques differed between trades, but Rosenband finds that across the various locations for goods manufacture, on both sides of the English Channel, the employers “were managing to rule
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Introduction
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Nele Noesselt
the PRC as an example of suppressive one-party rule and (assumed) promoter of a worldwide wave of re-autocratization and democratic decline ( Bryant and Chou 2016 ; Diamond 2021 ), the English channels of the PRC's news agencies had constantly
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Gauging the Propagandist's Talents
William Le Queux's Dubious Place in Literary History: Part Two
A. Michael Matin
their struggle against the French and Russian invaders. In the novel, the hostilities culminate with the combined British and German fleets defeating the French and Russian fleets in the English Channel while, ‘as security against any further attempts
In Critical Survey
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- 193–218 (26 total)
Beyond Metaphor
Corporeal Sociability and the Language of Commerce in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Joseph D. Bryan
to or limited by rank or état . The production and consumption of fashionable luxury items—watches, jewelry, silks, furniture, hygiene products, and cosmetics—found a welcome home on both sides of the English Channel. By the middle of the eighteenth
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 29–50 (22 total)
It Was Not Meant to Be This Way
An Unfortunate Case of Anglo-Saxon Parochialism?
Tom Frost
place, or whether these bonds were far more tenuous than at first appreciated, especially when seen from this side of the English Channel. What follows is my attempt to add my own commentary to what has been (even including Donald Trump’s election) the
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2017
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- 53–74 (22 total)
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