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Hidden Hull : uncovering Andrew Marvell's lost city
No full textHull has been called England’s most poetic city, but what can poetry from Hull teach us about the urban landscape of the city itself? The Hull poet and MP Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is today recognized alongside Milton as one of the most important poets of the English Civil War period, but Marvell’s poetry is also important for what it can tell us about the city Marvell grew up in and later served for twenty years as one of its two members of parliament. Little remains today of Marvell’s Hull: much of the medieval fabric of the city was destroyed in the English Civil War, including the Charterhouse Hospital – Marvell’s boyhood home until 1641 – and the nearby Beverley Gate, famous as the site where the following year King Charles I was refused entry into Hull – an act of defiance that helped spark the Civil War. With a focus on these two medieval landmarks from Marvell’s boyhood, this session will draw on a range of eyewitness accounts – maps, images, and written records – to reconstruct a city now lost beneath the Hull we know today. We will assess the influence of this lost city on Marvell’s own poetry, exploring how England’s most poetic city is itself ‘hidden’ beneath the poetry of one of its most significant poets. Dr Stewart Mottram is a lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. He has published widely on the themes of empire and ruin in writing by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and he is currently working on an AHRC-funded project exploring the representation and significance of ruins in Renaissance literature. Andrew Marvell's own relationship with ruins is a key focus for the project, with an exhibition on Marvell and medieval Hull opening at the Hull History Centre in autumn 2015. You can follow the project on Twitter @RenRuins
Hidden Hull : uncovering Andrew Marvell's lost city
No full textHull has been called England’s most poetic city, but what can poetry from Hull teach us about the urban landscape of the city itself? The Hull poet and MP Andrew Marvell (1621-78) is today recognized alongside Milton as one of the most important poets of the English Civil War period, but Marvell’s poetry is also important for what it can tell us about the city Marvell grew up in and later served for twenty years as one of its two members of parliament. Little remains today of Marvell’s Hull: much of the medieval fabric of the city was destroyed in the English Civil War, including the Charterhouse Hospital – Marvell’s boyhood home until 1641 – and the nearby Beverley Gate, famous as the site where the following year King Charles I was refused entry into Hull – an act of defiance that helped spark the Civil War. With a focus on these two medieval landmarks from Marvell’s boyhood, this session will draw on a range of eyewitness accounts – maps, images, and written records – to reconstruct a city now lost beneath the Hull we know today. We will assess the influence of this lost city on Marvell’s own poetry, exploring how England’s most poetic city is itself ‘hidden’ beneath the poetry of one of its most significant poets. Dr Stewart Mottram is a lecturer in English Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. He has published widely on the themes of empire and ruin in writing by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and he is currently working on an AHRC-funded project exploring the representation and significance of ruins in Renaissance literature. Andrew Marvell's own relationship with ruins is a key focus for the project, with an exhibition on Marvell and medieval Hull opening at the Hull History Centre in autumn 2015. You can follow the project on Twitter @RenRuins
Simple drag prediction strategies for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle’s hull shape
No full textThe range of an AUV is dictated by its finite energy source and minimising the energy consumption is required to maximise its endurance. One option to extend the endurance is by obtaining the optimum hydrodynamic hull shape with balancing the trade-off between computational cost and fluid dynamic fidelity. An AUV hull form has been optimised to obtain low resistance hull. Hydrodynamic optimisation of hull form has been carried out by employing five parametric geometry models with a streamlined constraint. Three Genetic Algorithm optimisation procedures are applied by three simple drag predictions which are based on the potential flow method. The results highlight the effectiveness of considering the proposed hull shape optimisation procedure for the early stage of AUV hull desig
Case Study: Developing competence-based rubrics for an Education programme, with the use of Generative AI
No full textCase study to support the Competence-based Education framework developed at the University of Hull, a QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project
Case Study: Developing competence-based rubrics for an Education programme, with the use of Generative AI
No full textCase study to support the Competence-based Education framework developed at the University of Hull, a QAA Collaborative Enhancement Project
Political correspondence relating to Kingston-upon-Hull, 1678-1835
No full textThis study covers aspects of political life at Kingston-upon-Hull between 1678 and 1835, and is part history and part edition. The historical section is an essay on the character and course of Hull politics between these dates. The edition on which that essay is based, consists of a selection from the surviving correspondence. The resulting picture is fragmentary, but it does contribute to our understanding of Hull at that time.
The years 1678 to 1835 were marked by a political stability
at Hull established during the first ten years and challenged only during the concluding five. Until the mid 1830's local political power was held by a merchant-maritime oligarchy which in times of need called upon local magnates who served the town as High Stewards.
The Crown had some influence at Hull, as it was a garrison
town and port; but the town corporation, Trinity House, Dock Company, and a number of wealthy families, some of whom had reached gentry status, held the monopoly of political influence. The freeman electorate was large, and as elections approached, unregistered voters pressed
the Bench for their franchise. Some attempt was made by the corporation to restrict this. The paying of polling money was almost inevitable, especially in the later eighteenth century, and wise candidates also contributed to local charities, clubs and racing plates.
Members of Parliament kept the town fully informed of national political issues especially up to about 1710. From then until the late 1760's the members seem less assiduous in their correspondence, and also in their performance in the Commons. Between 1766 and 1820 the Rockingham Fitzwilliam interest returned many personal nominees, and the quality of many of the members rose. These Whig magnates did not, however, have a monopoly at Hull. Wilberforce stood as an independent and later several government, or perhaps Tory candidates, were returned. Closely contested and expensive elections were common after 1796.
Threats from Jacobites and American privateers, with the possibility of a French invasion, caused local political squabbles, but the French danger may have helped prevent the spread of revolutionary societies and Radicalism was really born in Hull in 1818 with the Political Protestants. However it played some part in turning Hull Whig/Liberal opinion against Liverpool's Tory government.
The 1830's, with the campaign for the Reform and Municipal
Corporation Acts, led to a crystallisation of local political parties which culminated in the defeat of the Tory corporation in the municipal election of 1835. The activities of the radical Acland added to the political strife, but he overplayed his hand. The stability
created by conflict in the 1680's was transformed by conflict in the 1830's. The intervening years thus have some unity
Bibliography of Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-1931)
No full textFrom Acknowledgements:This is a first large-scale bibliography of the writings of Andrew Seth (from December 1898, Seth Pringle-Pattison). As this bibliography shows, he published a huge amount, most of it extremely interesting, little of it collected. Too much of it now lost in the mists of unread journals and book and so is wrongly neglected. Hopefully, this bibliography will enable scholars to recover more of his thought and significance
Retiring to paradise? Reassessing liminality through leisure migration to Spain
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Bibliography of Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison (1856-1931)
No full textFrom Acknowledgements:This is a first large-scale bibliography of the writings of Andrew Seth (from December 1898, Seth Pringle-Pattison). As this bibliography shows, he published a huge amount, most of it extremely interesting, little of it collected. Too much of it now lost in the mists of unread journals and book and so is wrongly neglected. Hopefully, this bibliography will enable scholars to recover more of his thought and significance
Foote, Andrew Hull
No full textA carte-de-visite card of Andrew Hull Foote, 1806-1863, an American naval officer for the Union army during the American Civil War.https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/allmcdv/1184/thumbnail.jp
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