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Archive for January, 2010
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British Library Launches New Virtual History Timeline
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsComparing the Peasants’ Revolt with the Punk Revolution or medieval astrology with the Apollo moon landings might appear unconnected at first, but the British Library’s new interactive website Timelines: Sources... -
Research to inspire new interest in Victorian sculpture
Posted on January 26, 2010 | No CommentsA major new research project will provide a fresh perspective on the rich artistic culture of Victorian Britain. Sculpture from the Victorian era is found in public spaces in the... -
Stories, legends and memories wanted about underground Norwich
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsStories, legends and memories about subterranean Norwich are being sought by Norwich Heritage Economic and Regeneration Trust (HEART) for a new research project into the city’s underground assets. Norwich has... -
Sanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsSanctuary and the Legal Topography of Pre-Reformation London By Shannon McSheffrey Law and History Review, Vol. 27:3 (Fall 2009) Introduction: In early sixteenth-century England, the presence of ecclesiastical sanctuaries in the... -
Hull History Centre opens its doors
Posted on January 23, 2010 | No CommentsAfter years of planning and months of moving, the state-of-the-art Hull History Centre opens on Monday, providing historians and researchers with a brand new archive. The centre will bring together... -
Gladstone and Laura Thistlethwayte, 1865–75
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsGladstone and Laura Thistlethwayte, 1865–75 By Jenny West Historical Research, Volume 80, Issue 209 (2007) Abstract: Gladstone’s recent biographers – most notably H. C. G. Matthew – have discussed his... -
New light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsNew light on the ‘Drummer of Tedworth’: conflicting narratives of witchcraft in Restoration England By Michael Hunter Historical Research, Volume 78, Issue 201 (2005) Abstract: This article presents hitherto unpublished... -
Why Poetry?
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsWhy Poetry? Keith, Jennifer The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract In a cultural climate and scholarly marketplace that increasingly marginalize poetry, especially eighteenth-century poetry, relatively few... -
Give Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsGive Me Not Poverty, Lest I Steal Backscheider, Paula R The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract “The Judges sat Grave and Mute, gave me an easy... -
Samuel Johnson and the Aesthetics of Complex Dynamics
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsSamuel Johnson and the Aesthetics of Complex Dynamics Wildermuth, Mark E. The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract After Bertrand Bronson, Johnsonians have been aware of the... -
Abolition Poetry, National Identity, and Religion: The Case of Peter Newby’s The Wrongs of Almoona
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsAbolition Poetry, National Identity, and Religion: The Case of Peter Newby’s The Wrongs of Almoona Tomko, Michael The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract British antislavery poetry... -
Good cursed, bouncing losses: Masculinity, Sentimental Irony, and Exuberance in Tristram Shandy
Posted on January 21, 2010 | No CommentsGood cursed, bouncing losses: Masculinity, Sentimental Irony, and Exuberance in Tristram Shandy Kim, James The Eighteenth Century, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2007 Abstract Haunting in its strangeness, Sterne’s famous... -
2008 VanArsdel Prize Graduate Student Essay: The Random Selection of Victorian New Media
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments2008 VanArsdel Prize Graduate Student Essay: The Random Selection of Victorian New Media Fyfe, Paul Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract Faced with floods of what... -
Oh! I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!: Lancashire Seaside Publications
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsOh! I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside!: Lancashire Seaside Publications Beetham, Margaret Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract In the late nineteenth century, Manchester’s... -
The Sudan Sensation of 1898
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsThe Sudan Sensation of 1898 Fulton, Richard Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract In early September 1898, after a two-year campaign reported in detail by some... -
“Now Inhale the Gas”: Interactive Readership in Two Victorian Boys’ Periodicals, 1855–1870
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments“Now Inhale the Gas”: Interactive Readership in Two Victorian Boys’ Periodicals, 1855–1870 James, Louis Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract This article examines two mid-Victorian periodicals... -
Ephemeral Journalism and Its Uses: Lucie Cobbe Heaton Armstrong (1851–1907)
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsEphemeral Journalism and Its Uses: Lucie Cobbe Heaton Armstrong (1851–1907) Mitchell, Sally Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract Both the anonymity of much nineteenth-century journalism and... -
Cohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: Form, Genre and Periodical Studies
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsCohering Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century: Form, Genre and Periodical Studies Mussell, James Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2009 Abstract This paper argues that as we reimagine... -
The Abolition of the Slave Trade 200 Years On
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsMarking the bicentenary of the abolishment of the transatlantic slave trade, British historian Simon Schama spoke to a full house on the different responses in America and Britain to this... -
The Care of Brute Beasts: A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsThe Care of Brute Beasts: A Social and Cultural Study of Veterinary Medicine in Early Modern England By Louise Hill Curth Brill, 2010 ISBN: 978 90 04 17995 0 This... -
Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsDangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious, and Treasonable Speech in Pre-Modern England By David Cressy Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-19-956480-4 Dangerous Talk examines the ‘lewd, ungracious, detestable, opprobrious, and rebellious-sounding’ speech... -
Religious Reform and Religious Orders in England, 1490-1540: The Case of the Crutched Friars
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsReligious Reform and Religious Orders in England, 1490-1540: The Case of the Crutched Friars By Michael Hayden The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 86.3 (2000) Introduction: Thirty years ago the then... -
Trombe, Trombe d’argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsTrombe, Trombe d’argento, Trombe squarciate, Tromboni, and Pifferi in Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Koldau, Linda Maria & Kurtzman, Jeffrey Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol.... -
Reflections on Four Charpentier Chronologies
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsReflections on Four Charpentier Chronologies Thompson, Shirley Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2001) Abstract To date, four scholars have attempted to establish a chronology of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s... -
Response to Kimberlyn Montford
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Kimberlyn Montford Kendrick, Robert Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2000) Abstract Emphasizes importance of special occasions, such as feast days of titular or founding saints... -
L’Anno santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music of the Holy Year in Rome (1675)
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsL’Anno santo and Female Monastic Churches: The Politics, Business and Music of the Holy Year in Rome (1675) Montford, Kimberlyn Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract The... -
Response to Edmond Strainchamps
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Edmond Strainchamps Parisi, Susan Journal of Seventeenth-Century Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract Ferdinando Gonzaga may not have felt as disappointed by Gagliano’s decision as implied in Strainchamps’s... -
Marco da Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsMarco da Gagliano in 1608: Choices, Decisions, and Consequences Strainchamps, Edmond Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No.1 Abstract This article examines, through a series of documents drawn from archives... -
Response to Noel O’Regan
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsResponse to Noel O’Regan Holzer, Robert R. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract A response to Noel O’Regan, “Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of... -
Asprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsAsprilio Pacelli, Ludovico da Viadana and the Origins of the Roman Concerto Ecclesiastico O’ Regan, Noel Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 6, No. 1 Abstract In his Cento Concerti Ecclesiastici... -
Some Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsSome Problems of Text, Attribution, and Performance in Early Italian Baroque Keyboard Music Schulenberg, David Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1998) Abstract Manuscripts of Italian keyboard music... -
Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsPassacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity from Frescobaldi to Couperin Silbiger, Alexander Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 1, No. 1(1996) Abstract The simultaneous survival of such closely similar genres... -
A Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsA Comparison of French and Italian Singing in the Seventeenth Century Sanford, Sally A. Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1995) Abstract Although Italian and French solo vocal... -
Far il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsFar il buon concerto: Music at the Venetian Scuole Piccole in the Seventeenth Century Glixon, Jonathan Journal of Seventeenth Century Music, Vol. 1, No.1 (1995) Abstract Accounts of sacred musical... -
Plan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsPlan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland Pawson, Cecil H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 8 part 1 (1960) Abstract The title is taken from a printed document... -
Eighteenth, Century Changes in Hampshire Chalkland Farming
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsEighteenth, Century Changes in Hampshire Chalkland Farming Jones, E.L. Agricultural History Review, Volume 8 part 1 (1960) Abstract The early decades of the eighteenth century may only be taken as... -
Social Mobility in Nineteenth.Century Devon
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsSocial Mobility in Nineteenth Century Devon Mitchell, Duncan Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Devon is an area of small farms. The tradition is not a new... -
Agricultural Rent in South, East England, 1788-1825
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsAgricultural Rent in South, East England, 1788-1825 Hunt, H. G. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Most of our knowledge concerning the development of agriculture and the... -
Enclosure in Kesteven
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsEnclosure in Kesteven Mills, Dennis R. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Generally speaking, the enclosure movements of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries assumed their greatest importance... -
Controlling corruption: regulating meat consumption as a preventative to plague in seventeenth-century London
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsControlling corruption: regulating meat consumption as a preventative to plague in seventeenth-century London By Margaret Dorey Urban History, Volume 36, Issue 01, May 2009 Abstract: Seventeenth-century medical theory saw epidemic... -
Gothic Text Uncovered in Salisbury Cathedral
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsSalisbury Cathedral’s team of Conservators found more than they expected when, as part of their on-going schedule of work, they removed the Henry Hyde Monument from the cathedral’s South Aisle... -
Figures in Silk: A Novel
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsFigures in Silk: A Novel By Vanora Bennett Publisher: Harper Collins, October 20, 2009 ISBN: 9780061689840 Two sisters discover passion during the War of the Roses-one in the arms of... -
Story of the Welsh in Patagonia revealed by archives
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsSouth America may not be instantly associated with Wales, however documents at The National Archives in Kew reveal an unusual story of the Welsh in Patagonia. To tie in with... -
Plough Rituals in England and Scotland
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsPlough Rituals in England and Scotland Davidson, Thomas Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract Until late into the eighteenth century Clydesdale ploughmen chanted the following rhyme three... -
The Tithe Surveys of the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe Tithe Surveys of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Prince, H.C. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract The rural landscape of England and Wales in the 1840′s is depicted... -
Some Agricultural History Salvaged
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsSome Agricultural History Salvaged Pawson, Cecil Agricultural History Review, Volume 7, part 1 (1959) Abstract A chance remark, made almost casually by my friend the late Major J. G. G.... -
The Lost Village and the Landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe Lost Village and the Landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds Harris, Alan Agricultural History Review, Volume 6 part 2 (1958) Abstract The enquiries of the historian and the archaeologist have... -
Labour Relations in Scottish Agriculture before 1870
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsLabour Relations in Scottish Agriculture before 1870 Houston, George Agricultural History Review, Volume 6 part 1 (1958) Abstract An outstanding feature of Scottish economic development in the eighteenth and nineteenth... -
The Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster Chaloner, W.H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 5 part 1 (1957) Abstract It is not generally known that besides being a large-scale industrialist, John... -
The Consolidation of the Crofting System
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe Consolidation of the Crofting System Gray, Malcolm Agricultural History Review, Volume 5 part 1 (1957) Abstract One of the most notable results, perhaps, of local study has been to...