Brand Royal: Meghan Markle, feuding families, and disruptive duchessing in Brexit era Britain

A Post - Imperial Power ? Britain and the Royal Navy

F or a century and a half, from the Napoleonic Wars to World War II, the British Empire was the greatest power in the world. At the core of that power was the Royal Navy, the greatest and most advanced naval force in the world. For decades, the distinctive nature, the power and the glory, of the empire and the Royal Navy shaped the character and provided the identity of the British nation. Toda...

Humphry Davy and the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

The abortive attempts of Sir Humphry Davy to introduce modest reforms at the Royal Society of London during his Presidency (1820-27) contrast with his (largely unstudied) earlier experience of administration at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI). Davy's attempts to combat the systemic weaknesses in governance and funding, and his role in effecting changes at the RI, in association with...

Huntington's disease in two New Britain families.

In East New Britain, Papua New Guinea, two Melanesian families were studied in which the typical features of Hungtington's disease were observed in clinically affected members. Mendelian autosomal dominant inheritance was indicated by the respective family trees.

Feuding Families and Former Friends: Unsupervised Learning for Dynamic Fictional Relationships

Understanding how a fictional relationship between two characters changes over time (e.g., from best friends to sworn enemies) is a key challenge in digital humanities scholarship. We present a novel unsupervised neural network for this task that incorporates dictionary learning to generate interpretable, accurate relationship trajectories. While previous work on characterizing literary relatio...

The museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.