Conversing with Readers in Aunt Judy’s Magazine: Building a Community of Young Middle-Class Philanthropists to Fight the ‘Grim Nurses’ by Matthew Dunleavy

“…Dr Charles West founded the hospital in 1852 and it quickly became popular with philanthropists, most notably, in the early years, Charles Dickens who described the hospital as counteracting the destructive effects of the ‘Grim Nurses: Poverty and Sickness’. …”
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Les Archives de la planète, entre ressource documentaire et matière à récits by Valérie Perlès

“…The technical developments of the late 19th century, which favoured travel and the mechanical recording of reality, gave rise to world-documentation ventures. Banker, philanthropist and pacifist Albert Khan created The Archives of the Planet, one of the richest collections of colour images and films between 1909 and 1931. …”
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Designing and Implementing Educational Philanthropic Scale by Джахангір Алам

“…Syed Ragib Ali is one of the renowned philanthropists in Bangladesh, there are a good number of studies on his philanthropic contribution but very few of them focused on the level of educational philanthropy of Dr. …”
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«Sincere friend of Siberia» V. I. Semevsky by S. V. Gavrilov, Yu. O. Kurenkova

“…Potanin, the famous Irkutsk philanthropist I. M. Sibiryakov in the context of a research project related to the study of the situation of workers in Siberian gold mines. …”
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Koncept dětské abnormality v 19. století by Martina Halířová

“…The first part concerns the theoretical view of enlightenment and the view of philanthropists and the searching of the causes of abnormality. …”
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Victorian Designs of Industrial Desire by Béatrice Laurent

“…The necessity to look beyond the surface and into the hidden mechanical devices demanded a level of abstraction that some philanthropists deemed essential to improve the condition of the artisans. …”
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Russian entrepreneurship in the formation of charitable activities: Yesterday, today, tomorrow by N. A. Shatalova

“…The study of this subject area involves the use of historiographical method and the study of biographies of prominent philanthropists. This allows us to understand more accurately the cause-and-effect relationships that condition the emergence and development of philanthropic practices. …”
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Gifting representations’ analysis in the digital environment of Moscow museums by V. D. Romanov

“…Considering a long history of philanthropists’ influence on the formation and development of museums, and evidence of existing museum support practices, the author does not argue about low intensity of donations in museum institutions, but offers to draw a conclusion about the relationship between low articulation of gift intentions and donations in the collections and functioning of the museum field in Moscow, its rules and shared norms.…”
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LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE MINOR GUARDIANSHIP SYSTEM IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE XIX - EARLY XX CENTURIES USING THE EXAMPLE OF UFA PROVINCE by Timur T. Khasanov

“…Archival data show that in the province there were initiatives to create orphanages with funds from philanthropists, which ensured their sustainability in the context of insufficient state funding. …”
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