/library/oar/handle/123456789/38728 2025-12-28T10:38:39Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25186 Title: Enlightenment and propaganda : prohibited literature in Malta between 1700 and 1798 Authors: Zammit, William Abstract: The lecture, based upon on-going doctoral research, focused upon the presence in Malta of literature prohibited on religious or political grounds during the period 1700 to 1798. The local dissemination of such material was by no means an eighteenth-century innovation. The availability of Lutheran works is documented during the early decades of the sixteenth century, while prohibited classics, comprising the works of Nostradamus and Galileo are known to have reached the Island during the following one. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25185 Title: Health policy under self-government 1921-1934 Authors: Brincat, Violet Abstract: 'Owing perhaps to Malta's role as a fortress in the Mediterranean very little attention seems to have been given to its Medical and Health History’. By the First World War, Malta was again to play the role of nurse in the Mediterranean. This was certainly not the first time. At the time of the Hospitallers, Malta was not only used to fight the infidel but, with the Knights' Sacra Infermeria also to provide comfort and shelter for the sick and wounded. As a result of the Crimean war when Turkey joined the Central-Powers and it became necessary for the Allies to attack the Gallipoli Peninsula and the Dardanelles, Malta was also called upon to house the sick and the wounded. The Maltese rose to the occasion and housed and gave assistance to hundreds of men. Even schools were turned into hospitals. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25184 Title: Towards a bibliographical understanding : the Maltese printed product 1642-1839 Authors: Zammit, William Abstract: Within the overall context of a nation's cultural heritage, due importance should be given to the literary patrimony inherited from the past. This has traditionally often been subjected to low priority at the decision-making level as to how to utilise the limited resources assigned to historical preservation in small states.· Such an attitude has probably been a direct result of misconceptions as to what constitutes cultural heritage, with the term being reserved for the more monumental or otherwise visually appealing masterpieces from the past. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/25174 Title: Banco di Roma's Mediterranean thrust 1900-1952 Authors: Consiglio, John Alfred Abstract: The years between 1911 and 1945 constitute a period when, given the concurrent presence on the island of banks of French, Italian, British, and Maltese origin, Malta already contained elements that could have been the foundation for an internationalisation process of the financial sector in the country. In subsequent years this would certainly have been for the benefit of the island's economy, the hopes for which started getting closer to reality after the 1988 Malta International Business Act (Cap.330), subsequently further amended in 1994. In this study I propose a close look at the Maltese, and more specifically Mediterranean, link with one of the major banks to be located in Malta during the first years of the twentieth century, i.e. the Banco di Roma. 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z