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David Livingstone: man, myth and legacy
No full textDavid Livingstone (1813-73) rose from being a factory boy in the west of Scotland to become an African explorer and a hero of the Victorian age. He was the first European to document Malawi in the mid 1800s and he continues to be remembered there - and in the David Livingstone Centre in his birthplace Blantyre, which holds a wide range of his personal belongings and travel aids.
The essays assembled in this book present a twenty-first view of David Livingstone - the man, the myth and the legacy.
They engage not only with matters of history - his life and work as explorer, doctor and missionary - but also with the ways in which he as been memorialised, and his contemporary significance
Nouvelles de Livingstone
No full textLivingstone David. Nouvelles de Livingstone. In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, tome 140, 2000. Cent ans d'exploration à Genève : l'Afrique au tournant des siècles. pp. 213-223
Letter from David Livingstone to Austin Layard, February 23, 1865.
Get PDFLivingstone writes to Layard regarding a mistake about the source Livingstone\u27s salary.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1279/thumbnail.jp
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death
No full textOne of the most renowned nineteenth-century British explorers of Africa, David Livingstone (1813–73) was a medical missionary who received the Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1855. His fame was established by his 1853–6 coast-to-coast exploration of the African interior, and by the best-selling Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, published upon his return to England in 1857 (also reissued in this series). Livingstone's last expedition in search of 'the true source of the Nile', undertaken in 1866, forms the core of this two-volume travel diary, published posthumously in 1874. Volume 2 describes the last two years of his life, when, after his meeting with the journalist Henry Morton Stanley in 1871, Livingstone insisted on staying in Africa despite his poor health. It includes details about his death and the journey to bring his body back to the British authorities, reported by Livingstone's attendants Chuma and Susi.</jats:p
Letter from David Livingstone to Mr. Oswell, March 2, 1858.
Get PDFLivingstone conveys travels plans.https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/1277/thumbnail.jp
The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to his Death
No full textOne of the most renowned nineteenth-century British explorers of Africa, David Livingstone (1813–73) was a medical missionary who received the Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1855. His fame was established by his 1853–6 coast-to-coast exploration of the African interior, and by the best-selling Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, published upon his return to England in 1857 (also reissued in this series). Livingstone's last expedition in search of 'the true source of the Nile', undertaken in 1866, forms the core of this two-volume travel diary, published posthumously in 1874. Volume 1 describes his illness-plagued journey from Zanzibar to Ujiji, in Western Tanzania. It also records his 1871 encounter with the New York Herald correspondent and explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had been dispatched to find him after Livingstone had been cut off from the outside world for so long that he was presumed dead.</jats:p
#5 [QUB] In Conversation with ... Professor Richard English speaks to Prof David Livingstone
No full textQueen's University Belfast in Conversation with Podcast seriesEpisode 5In this new episode, Prof Richard English speaks with Prof David Livingstone of QUB on issues raised in the book, "Geographies of knowledge science scale and spatiality in the nineteenth century'' - inspired by Prof Livingstone's academic work and contributions over his career.<br/
#5 [QUB] In Conversation with ... Professor Richard English speaks to Prof David Livingstone
No full textQueen's University Belfast in Conversation with Podcast seriesEpisode 5In this new episode, Prof Richard English speaks with Prof David Livingstone of QUB on issues raised in the book, "Geographies of knowledge science scale and spatiality in the nineteenth century'' - inspired by Prof Livingstone's academic work and contributions over his career.<br/
A “body” of evidence: the posthumous presentation of David Livingstone
No full textIt is Tuesday, 27 January 1874, and a telegram from her Majesty's Acting Consul-General at Zanzibar reaches the Foreign Office, reporting news of the death of Dr. David Livingstone. An incredulous British public struggles to disbelieve and discredit the account. Months later and, after an agonizing delay, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Malwa arrives, bearing a broken and wizened body to port in Southampton. Waiting is a public throng, in mourning for its national hero. Later he is laid to rest in a chockablock Westminster Abbey, a public symbol of the national interest vested in Livingston
The Livingstone Formulation fails to rescue Livingstone
Get PDFKen Livingstone has been suspended from the Labour Party today. He has been a significant figure as leader of the Greater London Council, a Member of Parliament, and the Mayor of London, for decades.
He is famous for the Livingstone Formulation: the insistence that Jews raise the issue of antisemitism dishonestly in order to silence criticism of Israel; that they don’t even believe it themselves. Talk of antisemitism on the left is a conspiracy to mobilize Jewish victim power against the Palestinians.
Last month Livingstone said that in his 45 years in the Labour Party he had never once seen any antisemitism. On that occasion he was jumping to the defence of Labour in the wake of accusations against Gerry Downing, a Labour Party member who wanted to ‘re-open the Jewish Question’ and Vicki Kirby, a member who tweeted about the Jews that the Brits ‘invented Israel when saving them from Hitler, who now seems to be their teacher’. He was also trying to douse the scandal at Oxford University Labour Club after its Chair resigned, saying that members seemed to have ‘some kind of a problem with Jews’. These were the students who taunted Jewish members calling them ‘Zios’ with the song: ‘Bombs over Tel Aviv‘
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