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Elizabeth Edwards - Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer
No full textElizabeth Edwards, Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer (London, New York, Dublin: Bloomsbury, 2021), 176 pp., ISBN 9781350120658.
Upon receipt of your copy of Photographs and the Practice of History, I encourage you to first read the bibliographic afterword and peruse through the section titled \u27Selected Reading\u27 of the book before delving into its substantive chapters. This is because while Elizabeth Edwards refers to her publication as a short a primer, scholars of photography, visual history and visual culture will recognise it as a culmination of not only her oeuvre at a theoretical level, but also a filtering, a synthesis and meditation on key debates that have characterised critical literature on photography and the philosophy of history in the recent past, presented in a most succinct fashion that is characteristic of the author\u27s deceptive ease. Both the bibliographic afterword and the subsequent selected reading list at the end are a testament to this effort to coalesce and think through this past scholarship. In the preface, Edwards notes that while she hopes historians of photography and visual historians will find it interesting, the book \u27is for students, the discipline\u27s new generations, who are starting to think with photographs within historical studies\u27 (p. x). Photographs and the Practice of History combines pertinent engagement with ease of access thus making it an excellent resource for such reader
‘Putting Life in Years’ (PLINY) telephone friendship groups research study: pilot randomised controlled trial
Get PDFBackground - Loneliness in older people is associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We undertook a parallel-group randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of telephone befriending for the maintenance of HRQoL in older people. An internal pilot tested the feasibility of the trial and intervention.
Methods - Participants aged >74 years, with good cognitive function, living independently in one UK city were recruited through general practices and other sources, then randomised to: (1) 6 weeks of short one to one telephone calls, followed by 12 weeks of group telephone calls with up to six participants, led by a trained volunteer facilitator; or (2) a control group. The main trial required the recruitment of 248 participants in a 1-year accrual window, of whom 124 were to receive telephone befriending. The pilot specified three success criteria which had to be met in order to progress the main trial to completion: recruitment of 68 participants in 95 days; retention of 80% participants at 6 months; successful delivery of telephone befriending by local franchise of national charity. The primary clinical outcome was the Short Form (36) Health Instrument (SF-36) Mental Health (MH) dimension score collected by telephone 6 months following randomisation.
Results - We informed 9,579 older people about the study. Seventy consenting participants were randomised to the pilot in 95 days, with 56 (80%) providing valid primary outcome data (26 intervention, 30 control). Twenty-four participants randomly allocated to the research arm actually received telephone befriending due to poor recruitment and retention of volunteer facilitators. The trial was closed early as a result. The mean 6-month SF-36 MH scores were 78 (SD 18) and 71 (SD 21) for the intervention and control groups, respectively (mean difference, 7; 95% CI, -3 to 16).
Conclusions - Recruitment and retention of participants to a definitive trial with a recruitment window of 1 year is feasible. For the voluntary sector to recruit sufficient volunteers to match demand for telephone befriending created by trial recruitment would require the study to be run in more than one major population centre, and/or involve dedicated management of volunteers
Jonathan Edwards\u27 Life: More Than a Sermon
Get PDFJonathan Edwards, born, (1703-1758), was a great man. He is often known only for a sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. This is unfortunate because followers of Christ should know this man\u27s life. This paper focuses on Jonathan Edwards as a godly family man and on his missiological work.
An emphasis is not carefully analyzed by many. The research for this essay originated from the author\u27s desire to know more about Mr. Edwards. The texts studied are The works of Jonathan Edwards, along with many scholarly books and essays. The main modern books used are from Perry Miller and Elizabeth Dodds. All in all, the following research adds clarity and context to Edwards\u27 legacy and to its enduring value to Christians
Evaluating parent-child group music therapy programmes: Challenges and successes for Sing and Grow
No full textSing & Grow, established in 2001, is an early intervention music therapy programme for families with children from birth to three years of age, who are socially, economically, or physically disadvantaged. It aims to improve parenting skills and confidence, promote positive parent-child interactions, stimulate child development, and provide social networking opportunities. Since the early years of the programme, a number of evaluation approaches have been trialled and successes have been critical for obtaining significant funding for the expansion of the programme nationally in Australia. This chapter discusses some of the common challenges in programme evaluation and the lessons learned from undertaking evaluation regularly. The chapter includes three music therapists in Sing & Grow project management roles, and two academic researchers
Elizabeth Cleaver, William Toye, and Oxford University Press: Creating the Canadian picturebook
Get PDFIn a series of four Aboriginal stories published in the late I960s and early 1970s by Oxford University Press Canada, William Toye, the influential editor at the Press, and Elizabeth Cleaver, artist and illustrator, worked together to create the first full-colour
picturebooks with identifiable Canadian themes and images. This fruitful collaboration between Toye and Cleaver, and its role in nurturing Cleaver's career as an innovative children's book illustrator, is an important part of the history of the development of Canadian children's book publishing.Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
A study in sixteenth-century performance and artistic networks: British Library, Additional Manuscript 15233
No full textThis thesis is a modern spelling edition of unedited poems and song lyrics from British Library, Additional Manuscript 15233, and a cultural and sociological study of the collection.The manuscript contains music, poetry and fragments of drama attributed to John Redford, Organist, Almoner and Master of the Choristers at St. Paul's Cathedral c.1534–1547, as well as work by at least six other mid Tudor poets. The manuscript has systematically been cited as a ‘St. Paul’s miscellany’(because the main body of work within it is attributed to Redford), and despite its varied content, has been considered almost solely from the perspective of Early Modern drama. This thesis considers the manuscript anew: as a whole, rather than in parts divided along disciplinary lines, as an example of material culture, and separately from the well-researched centres of St. Paul’s and John Redford.Chapters one and two comprise a study of the physical makeup of the manuscript, demonstrating new evidence for its date, and suggesting that it is the product of an artistic network centred on the London parish church of St. Mary-at-Hill.Chapters three and four comprise new studies of the content of the manuscript. Chapter three examines The Play of Wit and Science, with particular attention to its bibliographical status, and its engagement with contemporary artistic debate in performance. It also demonstrates its importance as a source for two later sixteenth-century plays. Chapter four is a case study of a single poem from the manuscript. This demonstrates the overall significance of MS 15233 as a source for verse and song, uncovers a network of printers involved in the transmission of its contents, and calls into question the long-standing theory that the Elizabethan poet George Gascoigne was a contributor to the manuscript.The final chapter of the thesis comprises a modern spelling edition of the poems and song lyrics from MS 15233 with individual commentaries and textual apparatus. This thesis demonstrates that to examine MS 15233 purely in relation to St. Paul’s Cathedral and John Redford, and from any one perspective, is reductive, and that these approaches have caused evidence to be skewed, and scholars to miss more complex possibilities regarding its compilation and provenance
The retrieved object .
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at the Linden Gallery, St Kilda, 25th August - 17 September 2000Artists: Lauren Berkowitz, Ian Burn, Jon Campbell, Kate Daw, Janenne Eaton, Phil Edwards, Carolyn Eskdale, Susan Fereday, Elizabeth Gower, Michael Graeve, Maria Griffin, Linda Judge, Geoff Lowe, Vito Manfredi, Donna Marcus, Vera Moller, Callum Morton, Jan Nelson, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Ricky Swallow, Neil Taylo, Lyndal Walker, Louise Weaver
In Situ Investigation of Fluid-Limestone Interactions at Ångstrom Resolution
No full textVideo demonstrating the adsorption of water to a micropore in an Edwards limestone sample. Adsorption-induced strain is observed as changes to the size and shape of the pore during water injection. Video was obtained from a Titan G2 Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope.
The vacuum gauges labeled PP/0 and BC/0 readout the pressure of the atmosphere immediately surrounding the sample.Additional information regarding this data set can be obtained by directly contacting the Corresponding Author: Elizabeth Barsotti; [email protected]
The search for disarmament: 1946-1961, 1961
Get PDFThe necessities of survival in an atomic age have com-manded a desperate urgency to the quest for security. However, by their very nature, they have largely depleted that quest of meaning and content. Men often have been prompted by fear to negotiate and the same fear has prevented agreement. It is evident, however, that there can be no trust without disarmament and no disarmament without trust. Meanwhile, the potential of extermination develops to a stage where mere mis-calculation or accident could unleash destruction. To make the situation even more explosive, it is probable that states, which are now less skilled in the techniques of self-discipline, may acquire that power in the near future.The unsuccessful endeavor of the past sixteen years to institute a system for the regulation of armaments has been the topic of probing research and heated controversy. Each analyst makes his own interpretation of the facts and holds stubbornly to his own argument. This writer also has a point of view, and there will doubtless be those who vehemently contend differently. However, the hope is that this attempt to analyze The Search For Disarmament: 1946-1961 will assist in pointing out the problems and will contribute something to the perception of the tremendous job of preventing mass human destruction
A follow-up study of Negro children dismissed from Grady Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, with rheumatic fever during the period 1943 through 1945, 1946
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