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...de Bromhead et al (2019 ) have argued that the EMB underlay two-thirds of this change, Higgins and Varian (2019, 2021) argue that ingrained consumer preferences (for instance for Danish over empire butter, and Argentinian over Australian beef), and consumer price sensitivity, amongst other things, meant the impact was far less. Examining the data for trade shifts after...

...de Bromhead, alan; Alan Fernihough; Markus Lampe; Kevin O’Rourke; Kevin Hjortshøj, ‘When Britain Turned Inward: the impact of Interwar British Protection’, American Economic Review, 2019, Vol.109 (2), pp. 325-352. Buck, Tim. ‘Imagining Imperial Modernity in British Colonial West Africa: Gerald Spencer Pryse’s Work for the Empire Marketing Board’. Art History...

...des Sciences observatory in Paris. As Galileo had suggested, he used the moons of Jupiter to map the world. The eclipses of Jupiter’s moons were timed in Paris using a pendulum clock. In 1681, Cassini travelled to the island of Goree in the West Indies to repeat his measurements. Absolute time was found on the island by observing the eclipses, and this was compared to...

...de siècle fantasy, how it manages to be simultaneously sensational, supernatural, romantic and realist. Milly Williamson, in her book The Lure of the Vampire, nails some of the reasons for Dracula’s impact – now and then – and why we are so fascinated by the dishy undead. And over recent years – who would have thought it! – the television series Buffy the...