Martin Johnes. Christmas and the British: A Modern History. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. Pp. 295. $102.60 (cloth).

Anne Stobart, Household Medicine in Seventeenth-Century England (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), pp. 304, £21.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-472-58034-4.

Marius Turda (ed.), The History of East-Central European Eugenics, 1900-1945. Sources and Commentaries (London: Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 656, £85.50, hardback, ISBN: 9781472533562.

Until recently, the history of European eugenics has been framed primarily within the history of Western Europe or of race and racism, most notably during World War II. Overlooked and under-researched is the early development of the ‘wellborn science’ at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as its impact on East-Central European social politics and, conversely, the impact of East-Central ...

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

David Gentilcore, Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450-1800 (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. x, 249, £19.99, paperback, ISBN: 978-1-4725-3497-2.

The stories shared in this book show contemporary readers that within nurses’ disciplinary heritage there exists vast knowledge and skills to address these challenges, if nurses will broaden their view to encompass not just a narrow slice of current scientific evidence but also the sound evidence and theoretical wisdom that the discipline has amassed since Nightingale sailed for Scutari and tra...

iCollections – Digitising the British and Irish Butterflies in the Natural History Museum, London

BACKGROUND The Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK) has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collections . The first phase of this programme has been to undertake a series of pilot projects that will develop the necessary workflows and infrastructure development needed to support mass digitisation of very large scientific collections. This paper presents the results of one of th...