911 research outputs found
Book review: archaeologists in print: publishing for the people by Amara Thornton
No full textIn Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People, Amara Thornton explores the relationship between archaeologists, publishing houses and the British public's understandings of antiquity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nicholas Barron recommends the book – available to download from UCL Press here – as a highly readable and detailed exploration of the institutional networks of archaeological knowledge production that will appeal to readers interested in the links between empire, tourism, science and publishing at the turn of the twentieth century
Scholarly articles written by women extracted from Indexes of Archaeological Papers (1891-1907) and Gomme's Index of Archaeological Papers 1665-1890
No full textThe dataset `List-of-Women-in-Archaeological-Indexes_cleaned.tsv` contains scholarly articles written by women extracted from annual Indexes of Archaeological Papers published between 1891 and 1907 inclusive and George Laurence Gomme's Index of Archaeological Papers 1665-1890, referred to hereafter as the source datasets. These Indexes were published in London, initially by the Congress of Archaeological Societies directly, and from 1898 by Archibald Constable &amp; Co. The Indexes were sent to Societies subscribing to the Congress, but could also be acquired separately. A list of indexes consulted in available on our Zotero library. The dataset is published in .tsv and .xslx formats. This is v2 of the dataset, including some cleaned publication titles and the addition of the socities that published each journal (v2.1 fixes a faulty dataset export in v2).</span
Strange Relics:Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1954
No full textStrange Relics is an anthology of classic short stories in which the supernatural and archaeology are combined, originally published from 1895 to 1954. Never before have so many relics from the past caused such delicious and intriguing shivers down the spine.Archaeological historian Amara Thornton of the University of London, and Classical archaeologist Katy Soar from the University of Winchester have curated a selection of twelve outstanding short stories encompassing horror, ghosts, hauntings, and possession, all from archaeological excavation. From a Neolithic rite to Egyptian religion to Roman remains to medieval masonry to some uncanny ceramic tiles in a perfectly ordinary American sun lounge, the relics in these stories are, frankly, horrible
Exhibition Season: Annual Archaeological Exhibitions in London, 1880s-1930s
No full textAnnual archaeological exhibitions were a visible symbol of archaeological research. Held mainly in London, the displays encapsulated a network of archaeologists, artists, architects and curators, and showcased the work of the first generations of trained archaeologists. The exhibition catalogues and published reviews of the displays provide a unique method for exploring the reception and sponsorship of archaeological work overseas and its promotion to a fascinated, well connected and well moneyed public. The exhibitions were a space in which conversation and networking were as important as educational enrichment. This paper analyses the social history of the “annual exhibition” in archaeology, highlighting the development and maintenance of the networks behind archaeological research, the geography of London as a way to examine influence in archaeology, and the utility of exhibitions for archaeological publicity during this period of exploration
Women and History Now: A Conversation
No full textAs part of this special issue of History, we invited four scholars working across academia and public history roles in the UK and US to respond to a series of questions relating to their work as historians today: Alana Harris, Takkara Brunson, Amara Thornton and Helen Carr. In foregrounding diverse textual, material and digital modes of historical work being undertaken by women in our own moment, the following conversation is intended as an expansion of many of the themes raised across this issue. It looks to some of the difficulties faced by practitioners of history today and the innovative mechanisms being developed in order to meet those challenges.</p
Expectations
No full text“Expectations” is the Twenty-Second Henry Thornton Lecture, given by the author at the Department of Banking and Finance, City University Business School, London, England, on November 28, 2000.Monetary policy - United States ; Inflation (Finance) ; Rational expectations (Economic theory) ; Financial markets
A draught of the coast of New Holland, and parts adjacent [cartographic material] /
No full textMap of the western coast of New Holland [i.e. Western Australia] showing Dutch discoveries such as Hartog (1616), Houtman (1619), Van Leeuwin (1620) and De Witt (1628) along the coast of Western Australia. Also included is mapping of the southern part of the East Indies [i.e. Indonesia] in particular Java, Sumatra and some adjacent islands. The map features the survey by English explorer William Dampier in 1699 commanding the HMS Roebuck. He landed at Dirk Hartog Island at the mouth of Shark Bay in July 1699. In search of fresh water he followed the Australian coastline northeast, reaching the Dampier Archipelago and then Roebuck Bay, the map showing the soundings he took of the western Australian coastline.; Finding no water, he was forced up to Timor. Then he sailed east and on 1 January 1700 he sighted and explored New Guinea and its adjacent islands such as New Britain. On their return voyage to England, the Roebuck foundered near Ascension Island (in the Atlantic) on 21 February 1701 marooning the crew there for five weeks before being picked up on 3 April by a passing ship and returned home in August 1701. The map also shows Australia's first European shipwreck off the coast of Western Australia on a coral reef (Tryal Rocks) in 1622 by the Tryall, an East India Company ship skippered by Englishman John Brookes. Decorative features include a compass rose and rhumb lines with a cartouche title. Relief is shown by bathymetric soundings.; Cartouche title.; Decorative compass rose.; Imprint on map: London : [J. Thornton] at the England, Scotland, Ireld. in ye Minories.; Plate 34 from: The English pilot. The third book : describing the sea-coasts, capes, headlands, straits, soundings, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers : the islands, bays, roads, harbours and ports in the oriental navigation ... / John Thornton. London : Printed by John How, for the Author, and are to be sold in his shop at the sign of England, Scotland and Ireland in the Minories, MDCCIII.; Accompanied by text: June Anno 1681. A description of dangerous rocks and shoalds on the coast of New-Holland from Cape Falso towards Bantam in the ship the London, Captain Daniel Commander.; Shirley, R. Maps in the atlases of the British Library, M.THOR-3a; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm3903; Exhibited: "Mapping our World : Terra incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, Canberra, 7 November 2013 to 10 March 2014. ANL. Inset: A draught of Sharks Bay on the coast of New Holland in the lattd. of 25 05 So. / by Capt. Dampier, anno 1701. Scale [1:2,764,800].A draught of Sharks Bay on the coast of New Holland in the lattd. of 25 05 So. by Capt. Dampier, anno 170
Open market operations and the federal funds rate
No full textIt is commonly believed that the Fed's ability to control the federal funds rate stems from its ability to alter the supply of liquidity in the overnight market through open market operations. This paper uses daily data compiled by the author from the records of the Trading Desk of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the period March 1, 1984, through December 31, 1996: He analyzes the Desk's use of its operating procedure in implementing monetary policy and the extent to which open market operations affect the federal funds rate-the liquidity effect. The author finds that the operating procedure was used to guide daily open market operations; however, there is little evidence of a liquidity effect at the daily frequency and even less evidence at lower frequencies. Consistent with the absence of a liquidity effect, open market operations appear to be a relatively unimportant source of liquidity to the federal funds market.Federal funds rate ; Open market operations
Henri Temianka Correspondence; (thornton)
No full textThis collection contains material pertaining to the life, career, and activities of Henri Temianka, violin virtuoso, conductor, music teacher, and author. Materials include correspondence, concert programs and flyers, music scores, photographs, and books.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/temianka_correspondence/4210/thumbnail.jp
Il territorio di Veio, i disertori premiati e la plebe romana
No full textThe author discusses a new hypothesis on the employment
of the land confiscated after Veii was defeated in 396 bc and reasserts the
importance of the revendications of the plebs in the first centuries of the
Republic
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