Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City councils
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Proceedings of the Town Council of the Borough of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City councils
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This Sporting Life
Author: Robert CollsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198208332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
This Sporting Life offers an important view of England's cultural history through its sporting pursuits, carrying the reader to a match or a hunt or a fight, viscerally drawing a portrait of the sounds and smells, and showing that sport has been as important in defining British culture as gender, politics, education, class, and religion.
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Newcastle Council Reports
Author: Newcastle upon Tyne (England). Town CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Reports from Committees
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead
Author: A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Reports from Select Committees of the House of Lords and Evidence
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain
Author: Louise MiskellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317097998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The promotion of knowledge was a major preoccupation of the Victorian era and, beginning in 1831 with the establishment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a number of national bodies were founded which used annual, week-long meetings held each year in a different town or city as their main tool of knowledge dissemination. Historians have long recognised the power of 'cultural capital' in the competitive climate of the mid-Victorian years, as towns raced to equip themselves with libraries, newspapers, 'Lit. and Phil.' societies and reading rooms, but the staging of the great annual knowledge festivals of the period have not previously been considered in this context. The four national associations studied are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) and the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), who held annual meetings in 62 different provincial towns and cities from 1831 to 1884. In this book it is contended that these meetings were as important as royal visits and major civic ceremonies in providing towns with an opportunity to promote their own status and identity. By deploying a wealth of primary source material, much of which has not been previously utilised by urban historians, this book offers a new and genuinely Britain-wide perspective on a period when comparison and competition with neighbouring places was a constant preoccupation of town leaders.