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A history of the French in London: liberty, equality, opportunity
No full textThis book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city.
The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War. It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries
A few respectable steps behind the world? Gay and lesbian rights in contemporary Singapore
No full textDr Dingwall's Casebook, Part One: A Sceptical Enquirer; Part Two: ‘Dirty Ding’.
No full textEric John Dingwall, author, anthropologist, librarian, psychic investigator, and, to some, the ‘British Kinsey’ is less well-known than his erstwhile colleague and sometime adversary, Harry Price, but is a figure of equal interest. Part one deals with Dingwall’s long and sometimes fractious relationship with Price, and with his colleagues in the Society for Psychical Research. Part two opens with a detailed examination of a particularly impressive and perplexing case of physical mediumship that Dingwall investigated -the Mina Crandon or ‘Margery’ mediumship. It also looks at Dingwall’s post-WW2 work for the British Library, as Honorary Assistant Keeper of its ‘Private Case’ (erotica and other obscene literature), and his friendship with Alfred Kinsey
Modern Special Collections Cataloguing: A University of London Case Study
Get PDFRecent years have seen a growing emphasis on modern special collections (in themselves no new phenomenon), with a dichotomy between guidance for detailed cataloguing in Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books) (DCRM(B), 2007) and the value of clearing cataloguing backlogs expeditiously. This article describes the De la Mare Family Archive of Walter de la Mare's Printed Oeuvre at Senate House Library, University of London, as an example of a modern author collections in an institutional library. It sets out the particular cataloguing challenges faced, looking at both general and copy-specific features and discussing the relation between bibliography and catalogue when no comprehensive bibliography exists. It confirms the adequacy of AACR2 for general cataloguing purposes, while noting the benefit of DCRM(B)’s more expansive copy-specific instructions
Reflections on Textual Editing in the Time of the History of the Book
No full textThis article expresses the need for an approach to scholarly editing that is more historically rooted than has hitherto been the case in Anglo-American textual criticism. It gives a new understanding of what has happened in the field since the “sociological turn” since J. J. McGann and D. F. McKenzie and argues for a realignment between text and the material forms of the book, and for scholarly editors to pay closer attention to the granularity of the texts that have come down to us from the past
Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World (BICS Supplement 120)
Get PDFQuestions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world.
The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered by Rome has been perceived almost entirely through the lenses of Roman ethnographic writing and administrative structures.
The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these identities by Rome, was a vital part of the process of Roman imperialism. Comparisons across the empire reveal some similarities in the processes of identity formation during and after the period of Roman conquest, but they also reveal a considerable degree of diversity and localisation in interactions between Romans and others.
This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control, and how people living in particular places internalised them and developed their own senses of belonging to an ethnic community. It includes both regional studies and thematic approaches by leading scholars in the field