Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 1741-1907

2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Whelan
Keyword(s):  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Baptist History ◽  
Early Leader ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The University

Within the holdings of The University of Manchesters John Rylands Library is a remarkable collection of 337 letters to and from Baptist ministers and laypersons written between 1741 and 1907. Nearly half (165) can be found among the autograph collections of Thomas Raffles (1788-1863), Liverpool Congregationalist minister and educator, with another 103 letters belonging to the collections of the Methodist Archives. John Sutcliff (1752-1814), Baptist minister at Olney and an early leader within the Baptist Missionary Society, was the recipient of more than seventy of these,letters. Among the correspondents are the leading Baptist and Congregationalist ministers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although largely unknown today, these letters provide important insights into British Baptist history between 1740 and 1900, establishing the John Rylands Library,as a valuable resource for Baptist historians.

scholarly journals “Weary for the Heather and the Deer”: R. L. Stevenson Depicts the Scottish Diasporic Experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christy Danelle Di Frances
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Scale Network ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The University

Robert Louis Stevenson is well known as a writer of popular Victorian adventures, yet much of his fiction is steeped in the cultural and historical preoccupations of Scotland. Texts such as Kidnapped (1886), The Master of Ballantrae (1889), and Catriona (1893) hinge upon culturally significant events such as the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the Appin Murder. These works also allude to the Highland Clearances of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Battle of Culloden with its ensuing disarming acts—all occurrences which contributed to or comprised significant catalysts for the large-scale expulsion of Scots from their homeland. Certainly, themes of exile pervade Stevenson’s Scottish work and maintain a more liminal presence in his later South Seas fiction, and many of the author’s finest characters can be read as enactments of temporary or permanent expatriates whose real-life counterparts form a fascinating cross-section of the diasporic movement. This paper focuses on several of these characters, whose adventures are encoded into their corresponding texts as fictional re-constructions of a broader experience common to displaced Scots in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Some are driven from Scotland as a direct result of economic hardship or domestic conflict, while others leave (at least temporarily) as a means of avoiding the political corruption and intrigue characteristic of the historical struggle for Scottish independence. Through characters like David Balfour, Alan Breck Stewart, James Durie, and Archie Weir, Stevenson explores the psychological ramifications of politically enforced and self-imposed exile, thus providing fictional extrapolations of the Scottish diasporic experience. These portrayals, infused with a the author’s own experiences abroad, offer fascinating microcosms which gesture towards the collective experience of a wide-scale network of displaced Scots in the Victorian world. An early version of this paper was presented at the NAVSA 2012 “Victorian Networks” conference hosted by the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

scholarly journals Encouraging users to pop in: Popcorn Day in the medical library

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (7) ◽  
pp. 383
Author(s):  
Natasha Williams ◽  
Shalu Gillum
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
University Of Central Florida ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
Central Florida ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Print Materials ◽  
The University

New libraries are constantly challenged to adapt how their spaces are used. This is the case even more so for libraries with primarily digital collections. As a brand new 21st-century library with only a few print materials and a 98% digital collection, it was important for the University of Central Florida Harriet Ginsburg Health Sciences Library to promote use of our space to existing users, and to establish the library space itself as a valuable resource to its faculty, staff, and students. This would be accomplished through the development of novel outreach activities, including one of our more unique and successful experiences—Popcorn Day.

The Manchester Medical Students Gazette

2020 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Peter D. Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Manchester Royal Infirmary ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

The Manchester Royal Infirmary Students Gazette (1898–99) and its subsequent titles, the Manchester Medical Students Gazette (1901–13), the Manchester University Medical School Gazette (1921–59), the Manchester Medical Gazette (1960–78) and Mediscope (1979–98), are a valuable resource for the history of the social and academic life of the medical students and the work of the Medical School at the University of Manchester. The volumes provide a record of advances in medical practice, historical articles and biographical details of staff. A recently completed database of the main articles and authors is a new resource to research these journals. This article sketches the history of the Gazette and outlines its value as a source for medical historians.

Feasibility of a Cold Seawater Facility

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Rojas ◽  
Todd Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
High Potential ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Preliminary Design ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Tropical Island ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
The University ◽  
Design Experience

The students who participated in the Fall 2000 “design class” offered by the Department of Ocean and Resource Engineering at the University of Hawaii performed a preliminary design of a cold seawater facility at Kekaha, Hawaii. The course imparted a great deal of design experience, but more importantly it introduced the classmates to cold seawater as a developing resource with high potential. As the two students who participated in the design class, we were particularly impressed with this resource and convinced that cold seawater can feasibly be developed as a valuable resource for island communities. We collaborated to combine, condense and generalize the reports in an effort to familiarize other ocean engineers and island planners to this technology and its potential. This paper discusses several uses for cold seawater in tropical island settings and the site characteristics required to feasibly develop a land-based cold seawater facility. The preliminary design of a cold seawater facility at Kekaha is presented along with an economic analysis of its capital and operating costs.

scholarly journals Special issue: selected papers from the fourth International Conference on Late Modern English

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOAN C. BEAL ◽  
SUSAN FITZMAURICE ◽  
JANE HODSON
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Vowel Shift ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The University ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Selection Of

This issue ofEnglish Language and Linguisticscontains a selection of papers from the fourth conference on Late Modern English, held at the University of Sheffield in May 2010. Twenty-one years previously, when Charles Jones referred to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as the ‘Cinderellas of English historical linguistic study’ (1989: 279), such a conference, let alone the fourth in a series of such conferences, would have seemed highly unlikely. Jones was alluding to the comparative neglect of the more recent past in historical studies of English. Up to this point, linguistic scholars had tended to regard the Late Modern period as unworthy of their attention. Morton W. Bloomfield & Leonard Newmark reflect this view in their assertion that ‘after the period of the Great Vowel Shift was over, the changes that were to take place in English phonology were few indeed’ (1963: 293). They also argue that any changes in the language that had occurred between the eighteenth and the mid twentieth centuries were ‘due to matters of style and rhetoric . . . rather than to differences in phonology, grammar or vocabulary’, going on to claim that ‘historical or diachronic linguistics, as such, is traditionally less concerned with such stylistic and rhetorical changes of fashion than with phonological, grammatical and lexical changes’ (1963: 288). This tendency to disregard anything not viewed as structural is very much of its time, but almost thirty years later, Dennis Freeborn was still claiming that ‘the linguistic changes that have taken place from the eighteenth century to the present day are relatively few’ (1992: 180).

scholarly journals Postgraduate students as OER capacitators

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas William King
Keyword(s):  
Academic Community ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Advocacy Groups ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

A comprehensive theoretical, legal and practical basis for OER has been developed over the past fifteen years, supported by the expansion of open source curation platforms and the work of advocacy groups and international bodies. OER’s potential has been sufficiently documented; the question remains how best to support, integrate and normalise OER activity within the academic community in a sustainable fashion. This paper draws on the experiences of the Vice Chancellor’s Open Educational Resources Adaptation project in the University of Cape Town, which explored whether postgraduate students, with their blend of developing subject knowledge, greater time resources, and experience of teaching artefacts from both a learner’s and educator’s perspective, may be a valuable resource for lecturers or institutions eager to engage in OER but lacking the requisite support structures. It was found that postgraduates were best employed as capacitating agents, focusing on the non-pedagogical elements of OER adaptation.

Recent Tunisian Historical Writing on State and Society in Modern Tunisia

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Robert Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Active Group ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Research Project ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The University ◽  
Local Research

One problem faced by many Western historians of the Middle East and North Africa is a relative ignorance of what is being produced by the local scholars themselves. In the case of the Maghreb, for example, without regular visits to the area, an American researcher may have to wait several years to learn about the publication of a new book or a local research project relevant to his own interests. This observation is certainly true for Tunisia, where a small, active group of historians at the University of Tunis has been examining aspects of Tunisia's political and social evolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but whose works, with few exceptions, are not well known to scholars in America.

Collections VIII: Library and Archive Resources in the History of Science and Medicine at the University of Leeds

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. B. Wood ◽  
J. V. Golinski
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Library Resources ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Although the University of Leeds has attained something of a reputation for the quality of its scholarship in the history of science, few historians are aware of the impressive collection of early scientific and medical books and manuscripts to be found in the University libraries. In order to make the library resources more widely known, we embarked on a systematic survey of the contents of the main historical collections. We wanted not only to give a general impression of the particular strengths and distinctive features of each collection, but also to mention the interesting or rare copies of individual works to be found in them. We have, therefore, examined every book related to the history of science and medicine in the relevant collections, and in doing so we have uncovered a number of important items. For example, we have identified a book which was once in Newton's library, and a previously unrecorded copy of Joseph Black's chemical lectures. More generally, we had not suspected the true size and range of the Chaston Chapman Collection, which makes it a valuable resource for the history of alchemy and early chemistry; nor were we initially aware of the strength of the Historical Collection of the Medical and Dental Library. The wealth of the legacies to (and the discrimination shown in recent purchases for) the Brotherton and Special Collections also impressed us.

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