96 research outputs found
G. M. Trevelyan
No full text“Billy Pitt, damn his eyes! ” exclaimed G. M. Trevelyan when he discussed Pitt the Younger’s legislation aimed at suppressing the Corresponding Societies in England in the era of the French Revolution.1 That Trevelyan was born more than three-quarters of a century after the events in question took place, did nothing to dampen the ardor of his convictions. One would expect no less from the grand-nephew of Thomas Babbington, Lord Macaulay and the son of George Otto Trevelyan, the author of a famous biography of Whig Prime Minister Charles James Fox. The English historian George Macaulay Trevelyan brought a great literary talent to the writing of history. Planted firmly in the tradition of Whig and Liberal principles articulated by Macaulay2 in the mid nineteenth century, Trevelyan's work described the history of religious freedom and personal liberty in England. An abiding faith in the unbreakable bonds between history and literature form another major theme of his life, and directed him toward a complete reliance on narrative history. Unfortunately for Trevelyan this focus on the narrative, especially when wedded to his Whig ideology, limited his objectivity and his skills as a critical historian. An awareness of these limitations did not elude Trevelyan. Writing a brief autobiographical sketch, Trevelyan reflected on his career: I have been not an original but a traditional kind of historian. The best that can be said of me is that I tried to keep up to date a family tradition as to the relation of history to literature, in a period when the current was running strongly in the other direction towards history exclusively ‘scientific’, a period therefore when my old fashioned ideas and practice have had, perhaps, a certain value as counterpoise.
'The Most Civilized Book': Luigi Meneghello e Raleigh Trevelyan
No full textThis study explores the backroom issues surrounding the English translation of Luigi Meneghello’s 1964 volume I piccoli maestri, published with the title The Outlaws by the London-based firm Michael Joseph in 1967. The contribution focuses on the relationship between the author and the translator, writer and editor Raleigh Trevelyan (1923-2014). By examining the publishing correspondence surrounding the translation, preserved at the Biblioteca civica Bertoliana in Vicenza, this study puts forward an hypothesis regarding the reasons why Meneghello decided not to mention this translation in his writings about I piccoli maestri
'Disrobing Suky': One Mistress but Two Masters? The examination of a portrait of Susanna Trevelyan
No full textThe article discusses an 18th-century family portrait of Susanna Trevelyan, known as Suky, located at Wallington Hall in England. The portrait has often been attributed to painter Thomas Gainsborough, with over-painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds completed in the 1770s. The portrait underwent conservation at the University of Northumberland, where infrared reflectography (IR) and X-radiography (X-ray) showed changes made to the painting. The author analyzes the portrait's connections to Reynolds
Reflections upon having been elected a fellow of APA
No full textIn this article, the author offers his reflections on being elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association as an historian of psychology. The author didn't start out as an historian. His bachelor and doctorate are both in psychology. But he did also certainly choose to leave psychology, then to return with a different perspective. So this election feels like an affirmation of that decision, and an endorsement of the scholarship that resulted: his service to science by other means, after he was himself "revised and resubmitted." Nearly two decades after his original departure from experimental psychology, the author has decided that "science" is the set of tested- and defended boundaries of what we think we know, which move as they're renegotiated. In other words, science is the shared collection and discussion of what has been accepted to be the case (as well as the process of careful revision). But it's also then the history of science that provides evidence to answer the philosophical "demarcation problem," not science itself. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
'A Thoroughly Domestic People': Family Migration from North Western Scotland in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
No full text"Five hundred years hence a few of the most aristocratic families of the great Australian Republic will boast of the distinction of being able to trace their Ancestors in the Highland Emigration Book of 1852-3." The author of those words was an English civil-servant, Sir Charles Trevelyan, and they were addressed to Sir John McNeill who was Chairman of the Board of Supervision for the Poor Law in Scotland. Trevelyan was waxing enthusiastic about the operation of the Highland and Island Emigration Society of which he was a founder and permanent chairman. With the willing co-operation of McNeill and the support of the Chairman of the Emigration Commissioners, Sir Thomas Murdoch, he had launched in 1852 a scheme for assisting emigration from the north-western parts of Scotland which, he imagined, would relieve both the overpopulation of the Highlands and Islands and the underpopulation of the Australian colonies
Intramural hemotoma presenting as acute coronary syndrome: The importance of intravascular ultrasound
No full textIntramural hematoma in major coronary epicardial vessels is a rare cause of chest pain. Afflicted
individuals may present with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or even sudden cardiac
death. Spontaneous, isolated intramural hematoma may occur in the absence of associated
intimal dissection. In this situation, lesions may be angiographically indistinguishable from
ruptured atherosclerotic plaque. Intravascular ultrasound is important in the accurate diagnosis
of isolated intramural hematoma. Although coronary stenting may be required in the presence of
ongoing ischemia, intramural hematoma may be successfully managed medically. We describe
the case of a middle-aged woman who presented with ACS due to an intramural hematoma and
discuss the diagnosis and management of this rare illness
Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Action in New Venture Development
No full text How do entrepreneurs think about themselves? This is the key question addressed in this paper. The author considers how motivational cognitions influence action to establish ventures and explores the relationships between entrepreneurial attitudes (self-efficacy, confidence and commitment) and entrepreneurial actions once the decision to start a venture has been taken. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, support is found for the proposition that positive attitudes enable entrepreneurs to persist with effective and appropriate search and organizing activities amid the uncertainty and instability of the new venture environment. Some support is also found for a direct association between entrepreneurial attitudes and venture performance. </jats:p
Through the looking-glass: PsycINFO as an historical archive of trends in psychology
No full textThose interested in tracking trends in the history of psychology cannot simply trust the numbers produced by inputting terms into search engines like PsycINFO and then constraining by date. This essay is therefore a critical engagement with that long-standing interest in order to show what it is possible to do, over what period, and why. It concludes that certain projects simply cannot be undertaken without further investment by the APA. This is because forgotten changes in the assumptions informing the database make its index terms untrustworthy for use in trend-tracking before 1967. But they can indeed be used, with care, to track more recent trends. The result is then a distant reading of Psychology, with Digital History presented as enabling a kind of Science Studies that psychologists will find appealing. The present-state of the discipline can thus be sketched in outline as "the contemporary scientific study of rats, drug therapy, and major depression" (as well as of brains, mice, and myriad other topics). To extend the investigation back further in time, however, the 1967 boundary is also investigated. The author then delves more deeply into the pre-history of the database's creation, and shows in a précis of a further project that the origins of PsycINFO can be traced to interests related to American national security during the Cold War. Briefly put: PsycINFO cannot be treated as a simple bibliographic description of the discipline. It is embedded in its history, and reflects it
The Concept of Bad Faith as Defined in L'Etre et le Néant and Illustrated in Sartre's Early Plays.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to define Sartre's concept of bad faith in L'Etre et le Néant and to apply this definition to Sartre's early plays. It is also hoped that the study will show the relevance of the theory of bad faith to our daily practice. Les Séquestrés d'Altona has been omitted both because of its complexity and because it would entail an examination of the Critique de la Raison Dialectique which is not possible in the scope of this thesis. The point of view in this thesis is considered by some to be biased but it is the opinion of the author that objectivity is not possible and that Marxism, which is the outlook of Sartre himself, is the correct one.Master of Arts (MA
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