823 research outputs found
Letter from Richard A. Alcock, December 4, 1967
No full textLetter from Richard A. Alcock of Rutgers University, to Fayez Sayegh, December 4, 1967, regarding his appearance on the David Susskind show and the Arab-Israeli conflict
Dataset supporting the thesis: Russian Musicians in Exile: the United Kingdom, 1900-1950
No full textData was extracted from newspaper articles (British Museum Newspaper Archive), BBC Radio Times listings, programmes, posters, correspondence, performance contracts and other ephemera. Target dates 1900-1950.</span
Calliotropis metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock 1891
No full textCalliotropis metallica (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) * Solariella metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891: 444, fig. 12 a, b. Type loc.: Investigator St’n 109, Gulf of Manaar, 728 fathoms [1331 m]; one syntype in NHM (NHMUK 1894.12.12.2), Salvador pers. comm. (iii/ 2015). Calliotropis metallica — Barnard, 1963 a: 261. Kensley, 1973: 36, fig. 66. B.A. Marshall, 1979: 526. Vilvens, 2006: 62, figs 18, 19. Distribution. Indonesia, Madagascar and East Africa south to W. Cape (off Cape Point); local material 1024–2743 m, living (Barnard 1963 a; Vilvens 2006).Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24536
Opportunity and influence: the third sector and the 2010 general election
No full textThis paper explores how the different voices and interests of the third sector, political parties and media have shaped and reflected the policy agenda over the course of the 2010 general election campaign and into the early post-election period. Using research methods which combined documentary analysis with qualitative interviews with key policy actors in the third sector, we examined the relative success of different campaigning methods in an election that was unique both in its uncertain electoral outcome and in terms of the relative consensus that political parties expressed at the outset towards the third sector. A range of third sector and political manifestos are considered highlighting the ideological significance of the language employed, and assessing the impact of one against the other. Attention is drawn to the raised profile achieved by the third sector early in the election campaign and reflected in its coverage in the three main parties' manifestos. This was followed by a relative lack of substantive sectoral discussion during the unusual period of the election and purdah, when the sector concentrated upon a consolidation and commentary role. The Conservative's Big Society agenda lost momentum during the election, and the Citizens UK 'fourth debate' prompted an unexpected late surge of media interest in the sector. The new political realities of the post-election period have seen refocus on policy development and rebranding, return to third sector campaigning, and realignment in sectoral-state relations in the context of a (revived) Big Society politic
Calliotropis metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock 1891
No full textCalliotropis metallica (Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891) * Solariella metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891: 444, fig. 12 a, b. Type loc.: Investigator St’n 109, Gulf of Manaar, 728 fathoms [1331 m]; one syntype in NHM (NHMUK 1894.12.12.2), Salvador pers. comm. (iii/ 2015). Calliotropis metallica — Barnard, 1963 a: 261. Kensley, 1973: 36, fig. 66. B.A. Marshall, 1979: 526. Vilvens, 2006: 62, figs 18, 19. Distribution. Indonesia, Madagascar and East Africa south to W. Cape (off Cape Point); local material 1024–2743 m, living (Barnard 1963 a; Vilvens 2006).Published as part of Herbert, David G., 2015, An annotated catalogue and bibliography of the taxonomy, synonymy and distribution of the Recent Vetigastropoda of South Africa (Mollusca), pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 4049 (1) on page 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4049.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/24536
Nettenchelys taylori Alcock 1898
No full textNettenchelys taylori Alcock 1898 (Figs. 1, 8) Nettenchelys taylori Alcock 1898: 150 (Indian Ocean, India, off Travancore Coast, 7 ° 17 ' 30 ”N, 76 ° 54 ' 30 "E, depth 786 m). Holotype ZSI F 317 l/ 1 (female, 533 mm, incomplete). Alcock 1899: pl. 25, Fig. 5; Smith et al. 1981: 557. Material. Known only from the holotype. Diagnosis. Anterior vomerine teeth not uniserial; posterior nostril far behind head, midway between dorsal-fin origin and anus. See Table 1 for additional characters. Distribution. Off the southwestern tip of India. Remarks. This was the first species of Nettenchelys to be described, and it has not been collected since. It is distinguished by the extreme posterior displacement of the posterior nostril.Published as part of Smith, David G., Lin, James, Chen, Hong-Ming & Pogonoski, John J., 2015, The eels of the genus Nettenchelys, with description of a new species from Taiwan (Teleostei: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae), pp. 105-120 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 118, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/23816
Russian musicians in exile: the United Kingdom, 1900-1950
No full textThe dissertation examines the contributions of Russian exiled/refugee musicians to the British Light Music industry between 1900 and 1950 and seeks to assess how displacement affected their musical activities. Focus rests on their engagement with social, political and artistic institutions within the country; their involvement with the formation of English balalaika/domra ensembles; their participation in Variety Theatre entertainment, opera performance and concerts; music-making within provincial communities; their encounters with the Musicians’ Union and Variety Artistes’ Federation; and their employment within institutions such as the BBC and ENSA. The first-wave Russian diaspora in Britain is considered as a small but distinctive community which presented challenges not encountered in other Russian diasporas but which contributed significantly to the cultural life of Britain.Research engages with music and displacement, music and social/political developments in Wales, music and gender (ladies’ orchestras), music and nationalism, Russian folk music, exoticism, nostalgia, and longing in music, theatre studies (Variety Theatre), and formal and informal concert performance. Research aims to retrieve a number of ‘lost histories’, case studies of a selected number of musicians in the Light Music industry; Edward Soermus, Vasily Andreeff, Alice Gardiner, Nikolai Medvedeff, the Wolkowsky family troupe and Vladimir Rosing. The reception of Russian performers, balalaika/domra ensembles and their repertoire (predominantly Russian folk music) in British press reporting provides perspectives on British perceptions of Russian folk music, its musicians and their instruments.Newspaper reviews and reporting; advertising and programmes; contemporary journals and reports; Hansard and government policy documents; accounts of immigrant life; BBC correspondence, contracts and listings; private letters (unpublished); memoirs; scores and music manuscripts; personal interviews; rare film footage and sound recordings provide the principal primary sources.Research findings are interpreted within the theoretical discourse of Nostalgia, Memory, Longing, Displacement and the Exotic. The outcome of the research is to affirm the positive interventions made by Russian exile musicians in British cultural life, to reach for a better understanding of how displacement affected their professional lives, to understand how nostalgia, longing and affirmations of cultural identity operated in their musical choices, and to restore these musicians to British music historiography
Ag. Roumeli Turkish fort (1.27) exterior; snack in shade. Morag Kersel; Douglas Alcock; Julie Clarke; David Marko; Lynn Chang; Vincent Brown. Looking NE. July 1989.
No full textAg. Roumeli Turkish fort (1.27) exterior; snack in shade. Morag Kersel; Douglas Alcock; Julie Clarke; David Marko; Lynn Chang; Vincent Brown. Looking NE. July 1989
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