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Nineteenth century English oratorio festivals

, 2016
Oratorio festivals were an important cultural feature of nineteenth-century English society. These massive musical events lasted for three or four days and some involved up to 4,000 musicians and 83,000 in the audience. This dissertation advances the hypothesis that the oratorio festivals, and the grand new buildings in which they were staged ...
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City and Countryside Revisited. Comparative rent movements in London and the South-East, 1580-1914 [PDF]

, 2011
Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution.
Gibson, James M., Lyne, Owen D., Ormrod, David J.   +2 more
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Making geography move: The Royal Geographical Society and the exchange of periodical knowledge, 1830–1900

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Short Abstract This paper examines how the Royal Geographical Society's (RGS's) Library and Map Committee disciplined the exchange of the first English‐language geographical journal in the nineteenth century. The periodical's archive reveals the institutional mechanisms that shaped the journal's networks of gifting and exchange but also the deliberate ...
Benjamin Newman
wiley   +1 more source

'Bats, Rats and Barristers': The Lancet, libel and the radical stylistics of early nineteenth-century English medicine. [PDF]

Soc Hist, 2014
Brown M.
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial Phraseology in Nineteenth Century English Textbooks for Italians

, 2007
In the nineteenth century the development of international and maritime trade led to a considerable increase in the production and consumption of English textbooks for both native and foreign novices in the business world. Correspondence has been a privileged way to conduct business transactions since the Middle Ages.
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More Than a Course, More Than a Method: Study Circles as a Pedagogical and Research Method Working With Asylum Seekers Across Language Barriers and Differences

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Acknowledging the limits of participatory action research, this paper explores how to include participants in the asylum process despite facing practical and ethical challenges. Concretely, the paper argues for research to align with participating organisations' knowledge, methods and resources.
Zinaïda Sluijs
wiley   +1 more source

William Godwin and Catholicism [PDF]

, 2012
This essay traces Godwin‘s changing attitude to Catholicism by exploring a variety of texts generally considered marginal to his oeuvre and a hitherto unexamined selection of his unpublished ...
Weston, Rowland
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Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786–1811

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
wiley   +1 more source

Catégorisation et stigmatisation policières á Sheffield au milieu du XIXe siècle [Numbering crimes and measuring space: policing Sheffield in the mid-nineteenth century]

, 2003
The city in the nineteenth century was often defined as a place of crime: yet from within, the its authorities sought to represent crime as something external to it.
Williams, Chris A.
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