DOCSLIB.ORG

Layout 1 (Page 2)

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Layout 1 (Page 2) 09 THE LONDON LIBRARY AND THE LONDON LIBRARY TRUST ANNUAL REPORTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 102009-2010 Current Opening Hours Closing Dates Until 31 October 2010 Monday – Wednesday The Library will be closed on the following 9.30 am – 7.30 pm inclusive dates: Thursday – Saturday 2010 9.30 am – 5.30 pm Christmas Friday 24 December – Tuesday 28 December 2011 NEW Opening Hours New Year’s Day From 1 November 2010 Saturday 1 January – Monday 3 January Monday – Tuesday Easter 9.30 am – 9.00 pm Friday 22 April – Monday 25 April May Bank Holiday Wednesday – Saturday Saturday 30 April – Monday 2 May 9.30 am – 5.30 pm Spring Bank Holiday Saturday 28 May – Monday 30 May Summer Bank Holiday Saturday 27 August – Monday 29 August Charity Registration no. 312175 ANNUAL REPORTS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2009-2010 TABLE OF CONTENTS THE LONDON LIBRARY Trustees, senior staff and advisers 2 Trustees’ Annual Report Introduction 3 Public benefit 3 Performance in 2009-2010 4 Plans 5 How can members help? 6 Financial review 6 Structure, governance and management 8 Statement of Trustees’ Responsibilities 9 Auditors’ Report 10 Financial Statements Statement of Financial Activities 11 Balance Sheet 12 Cash Flow Statement 13 Notes 14 Donations and bequests 22 Organisational information Membership and use 24 10-year financial summaries 25 THE LONDON LIBRARY TRUST Trustees 26 Trustees’ Annual Report 26 Auditors’ Report 28 Financial Statements Statement of Financial Activities 29 Balance Sheet 30 Notes 31 TRUSTEES (Note: numbers in brackets refer to membership of committees listed at the foot of this page) Chairman Treasurer Bill Emmott (5,6) James Stitt FCA (4,5) (until 5 November 2009) Mark Storey (from 5 November 2009) Other trustees serving throughout the year: Mark Storey (4) (Treasurer from 5 November 2009) Graeme Cottam (Vice-Chair) (4, 7) Professor Anthony Grayling Belinda Harley (3) Terence Jagger CBE (2, 4, 5) Jonathan Keates (1) Janey King (1, 5) Kevin Murphy (2, 5) Jonathan Sumption QC (7) Sir Nicholas Underhill (6) Trustees serving until 5 November 2009: James Stitt FCA (4, 5) (Treasurer) Geoffrey Matthews (3) Charlotte Nassim (2) Sara Wheeler (1, 5) Trustees serving from 5 November 2009: Adam Freudenheim (2), Margarette Lincoln (2), Basil Postan (4), Alice Sherwood (6, 7) SENIOR STAFF Librarian (Chief Executive) Inez T P A Lynn BA MLitt MCLIP Deputy Librarian Alison Sproston BA MCLIP (until 18 Dec 2009) Jane Oldfield BSc MA MCLIP (from 19 Dec 2009) Bursar Paul Hamlyn MA ACA Head of Development & Communications Lottie Cole MA Accountant Tresa Stephens MA Head of Acquisitions Gill Turner MA MCLIP Head of Buildings & Facilities Management Steve Metcalfe MBIFM MIET LCIBSE Head of Current Cataloguing Claire Powell BA MCLIP Head of Retrospective Cataloguing Dunia García-Ontiveros BA MA MCLIP Head of IT Will David MA MSc MCLIP Membership Administrator Bridie Macmahon BA DipLib Head of Preservation & Stack Management Stella Worthington BA DipLib Head of Reader Services Helen O’Neill BA MSc MCLIP Bankers Auditors Barclays Bank plc Moore Stephens LLP 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP 150 Aldersgate Street, London EC1A 4AB Fund managers Legal & General Investment Management Ltd One Coleman Street, London EC2R 5AA Actuaries Fundraising Consultants BDO Investment Management Limited Jane Kaufmann Associates 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU Marley Edge, Marley Lane, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 3PU Solicitors Clyde & Co (conveyancing) Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLP (charity law) 51 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1JP 2-6 Cannon Street, London EC4M 6YH Linklaters LLP (contracts) One Silk Street, London EC2Y 8HQ Key to committees: 1 Books Committee 2 Building Project Steering Committee 3 Development Committee 4 Finance Committee 5 Nominations Committee 6 Remuneration & Appraisal Committee 7 Risk & Governance Committee TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT • 3 INTRODUCTION The Library has functioned for nearly 170 years with a simple but effective financial model based primarily on membership The London Library is dedicated to the advancement of education, subscriptions, and the Trustees believe that this remains the right learning and knowledge. Founded in 1841 by Thomas Carlyle and one given the nature of its objectives. Fees are set in the context other prominent men of letters and of affairs, the Library’s primary of the Library’s overall budget and approved by the members at purpose is to provide generations of readers and researchers with the their Annual General Meeting. riches of a national library for use in their own homes or work- places. By acquiring the most important published works in the The ordinary annual fee for individuals is currently £395, or humanities in each generation and discarding almost nothing from £32.90 per month, while corporate and charitable bodies pay its shelves, the Library has built up a collection of over one million relatively higher fees and nominate representatives who access volumes dating from the 16th century to the latest publications. the Library’s facilities on their behalf. For an institution which The Library aims to preserve and extend this extraordinary strives to be a centre of excellence in its field, the Library’s fees accumulation for future as well as present generations. are not high in relation to the value of the services it provides and a range of payment options is available. Nevertheless there are The Library seeks to provide the most direct and liberal access to people who need for their researches the range and depth of knowledge by maintaining a high proportion of the collection on available material and the generous access that are the Library’s open-access shelves in its Grade II-listed building in central London hallmark but who are unable to afford the full fees, particularly where the volumes may be freely browsed, with most available for as the financial rewards from writing are generally modest and loan. Offering facilities conducive to reading and scholarship, the often unreliable. In such cases our subsidiary charity, The London Library aims to provide a prompt, reliable and courteous service to Library Trust, can assist with top-up grants under the Carlyle meet and exceed the expectations of users, perpetuating a spirit Membership scheme, and since January 2008 the Trust’s entire of willing collaboration between users and its highly qualified and annual income has been dedicated to this purpose. The Trustees specialist staff. of The London Library Trust assess each application carefully since resources are necessarily limited, but do not decline support where PUBLIC BENEFIT there is clear evidence of need. The majority of grants paid represent a fee subsidy of between 33% and 60%. During the financial year Membership is open to all. The Library’s emphasis is on serious 77 new Carlyle memberships were awarded (2009: 220) bringing scholarship and it aims to make its collections, services and facilities the total number of members in receipt of fee subsidies at 31 March available to a broad spectrum of readers in need of them, many 2010 to 340 or 5.0% of the total membership (2009: 310 or 4.4% of whom have no right of access to other loan collections of of the total membership). The total amount of such fee subsidies comparable depth and reach, such as may be found in universities paid in the year was £50,535 (2009: £43,525), representing 2.4% or specialist institutes. Its status in the national heritage is well of the Library’s total income from annual membership fees recognised and over the years it has absorbed special collections (2009: 2.0%). Further details can be found in the Annual Report from a number of other organisations which could no longer house of The London Library Trust on pages 26 to 32. them. Daily or weekly reference tickets are available for those who do not need to borrow books and do not wish to commit to full Young Person’s membership is available to anyone under the membership. Furthermore, items from the Library’s collection are age of 25 at half the ordinary annual rate. Separate charges are made accessible to public library members via the Inter-Library made for postal loans and for extra books above the standard Loan scheme. allowance, but the annual fees due from each member are not dependent on either the nature or the amount of usage made of Many Library members are writers, and by assisting authors in the Library’s facilities by that member, which can vary considerably their researches prior to publication of original work the Library over time as well as across the Library’s membership. Whilst many contributes to the cultural enrichment of the whole nation. In of the Library’s members are active writers and researchers, there this respect it is comparable to other great institutions dedicated are many others whose usage is more occasional but who see to the arts and culture which, if they ceased to exist, would be the Library as a cause worth supporting precisely because of its missed even by many people who make little or no direct use of wider public benefits. them. Although not easy to measure, this is an important public benefit, as readers who have seen the tributes to the Library and In setting the Library’s objectives and planning its activities, the its staff in the Acknowledgements pages of countless books will Trustees have given careful consideration to the Charity Commission’s be aware. In an age when the quantity of words available is general guidance on public benefit and in particular to its superabundant, the Library helps to maintain the quality. supplementary guidance on advancing education and fee-charging. 4 • TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT PERFORMANCE IN 2009-2010 COLLECTIONS • We added 18,422 titles (comprising 25,552 volumes) from the old printed catalogue to the online catalogue (2009: Our objective – To continue developing and preserving the Library’s 26,115 titles comprising 38,804 volumes).
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Roshwald on Berger and Miller, 'Nationalizing Empires'
    H-Nationalism Roshwald on Berger and Miller, 'Nationalizing Empires' Review published on Friday, January 15, 2016 Stefan Berger, Alexei Miller, eds. Nationalizing Empires. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014. 700 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-963-386-016-8. Reviewed by Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University) Published on H-Nationalism (January, 2016) Commissioned by Cristian Cercel Until a few years ago, many of us inhabited a historical universe that seemed neatly divided among an imperial past, a national present, and a supra-national future. The decolonization of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa in the postwar decades appeared as the climax of a global paradigm shift that had begun with the American Revolution and that was to come to a successful conclusion with the 1989 collapse of the Soviet Union’s informal empire in Eastern Europe, followed two years later by the disintegration of the USSR itself into its constituent national republics. The excesses and dangers of nationalism, in turn, would be contained and offset by the general effects of economic and cultural globalization and by the development of supra-national structures, norms, and relationships such as those institutionalized in the European Union. Any hopes we might have had of a grand historical dialectic between the universal and the particular achieving final resolution in a post-Cold War, liberal-internationalist synthesis have since been thoroughly dashed. Today we live in an era in which Russia is challenging post-1991 borders in Europe, China is laying claim to the South China Sea while the United States “pivots” to Asia, jihadists are aspiring to replace the nation-state with a caliphate in the Islamic world, and the great and middle-ranking powers of the Euro-Atlantic zone are drawn into a seemingly never-ending series of military interventions in areas of the world where what once were considered nation-states have partly or utterly collapsed—in some cases under the impact of those very military interventions.
    [Show full text]
  • TRINITY COLLEGE Cambridge Trinity College Cambridge College Trinity Annual Record Annual
    2016 TRINITY COLLEGE cambridge trinity college cambridge annual record annual record 2016 Trinity College Cambridge Annual Record 2015–2016 Trinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ Telephone: 01223 338400 e-mail: [email protected] website: www.trin.cam.ac.uk Contents 5 Editorial 11 Commemoration 12 Chapel Address 15 The Health of the College 18 The Master’s Response on Behalf of the College 25 Alumni Relations & Development 26 Alumni Relations and Associations 37 Dining Privileges 38 Annual Gatherings 39 Alumni Achievements CONTENTS 44 Donations to the College Library 47 College Activities 48 First & Third Trinity Boat Club 53 Field Clubs 71 Students’ Union and Societies 80 College Choir 83 Features 84 Hermes 86 Inside a Pirate’s Cookbook 93 “… Through a Glass Darkly…” 102 Robert Smith, John Harrison, and a College Clock 109 ‘We need to talk about Erskine’ 117 My time as advisor to the BBC’s War and Peace TRINITY ANNUAL RECORD 2016 | 3 123 Fellows, Staff, and Students 124 The Master and Fellows 139 Appointments and Distinctions 141 In Memoriam 155 A Ninetieth Birthday Speech 158 An Eightieth Birthday Speech 167 College Notes 181 The Register 182 In Memoriam 186 Addresses wanted CONTENTS TRINITY ANNUAL RECORD 2016 | 4 Editorial It is with some trepidation that I step into Boyd Hilton’s shoes and take on the editorship of this journal. He managed the transition to ‘glossy’ with flair and panache. As historian of the College and sometime holder of many of its working offices, he also brought a knowledge of its past and an understanding of its mysteries that I am unable to match.
    [Show full text]
  • Penguin Press Spring 2016
    CONTENTS Allen Lane 3 Particular Books 33 Penguin Modern Classics 41 Penguin Classics 51 Penguin Paperbacks 57 Penguin Press 80 Strand London WC2R 0RL For up-to-the-minute information visit www.penguincatalogue.co.uk 3 In a Different Key The Story of Autism John Donvan and Caren Zucker The first comprehensive history of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors The first child to be diagnosed with autism, Donald Triplett, was born more than eighty years ago in Mississippi, and in the years that followed, autism remained a rare condition, limited to the eleven children mentioned in the article announcing the disorder's discovery. Today physicians, parents and politicians regularly speak of an epidemic of autism. In a Different Key is the extraordinary story of the quest to understand autism. By introducing an unforgettable cast of children, families and clinicians, award­winning journalists John Donvan and Caren Zucker unearth the humanity at the heart of the scientific effort to treat this condition. John Donvan is a multiple Emmy Award­winning Nightline correspondent with a long career in journalism. Prior to Nightline, he was the chief White House correspondent for ABC News. Caren Zucker is an award­winning veteran television news producer who has worked most extensively with ABC News. She also produced and co­wrote a six­part series on autism for PBS in 2011. January 2016 9781846145667 'Fast­paced and far­reaching... this is an important missing £20.00 piece to the conversation about autism; no one trying to make sense of the spectrum should do so without reading Royal Octavo : Hardback this book' Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree 672 pages 4 The Holy Roman Empire A Thousand Years of Europe's History Peter H.
    [Show full text]
  • Global History VOLUME 13 PART 2 ᭿ JULY 2018 ᭿ ISSN 1740-0228 Global History
    Journal of Journal of Global History VOLUME 13 PART 2 ᭿ JULY 2018 ᭿ ISSN 1740-0228 Global History VOLUME 13 PART 2 ᭿ JULY 2018 Contents 157 Editorial – the theory and practice of ecumenism: Christian global governance and the search for world order, 1900–80 Elisabeth Engel, James Kennedy and Justin Reynolds 165 In the shadow of empire: Josef Schmidlin and Protestant–Catholic ecumenism before the Second World War Journal of Albert Wu 188 ‘A Christian solution to international tension’: Nikolai Berdyaev, the American YMCA, and Russian Orthodox influence on Western Christian anti-communism, c.1905–60 Christopher Stroop Global History 209 The ecumenical origins of pan-Africanism: Africa and the ‘Southern Negro’ in the International Missionary Council’s global vision of Christian indigenization in the 1920s Elisabeth Engel 230 From Christian anti-imperialism to postcolonial Christianity: M. M. Thomas and the ecumenical theology of communism in the 1940s and 1950s Justin Reynolds 252 From religious freedom to social justice: the human rights engagement of the ecumenical movement from the 1940s to the 1970s Bastiaan Bouwman VOLUME 274 Between context and conflict: the ‘boom’ of Latin American Protestantism in the ecumenical movement (1955–75) Annegreth Schilling 13 294 REVIEWS PART 2 ᭿ JULY 2018 ® Cambridge Core MIX For further information about this journal Paper from responsible sources please go to the journal web site at: ® cambridge.org/jgh FSC C007785 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.33.19, on 26 Sep 2021 at 06:46:29, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.
    [Show full text]
  • Books Added to Benner Library from Estate of Dr. William Foote
    Books added to Benner Library from estate of Dr. William Foote # CALL NUMBER TITLE Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature / by L.D. Reynolds and N.G. 1 001.2 R335s, 1991 Wilson. 2 001.2 Se15e Emerson on the scholar / Merton M. Sealts, Jr. 3 001.3 R921f Future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo. 4 001.30711 G163a Academic instincts / Marjorie Garber. Book of the book : some works & projections about the book & writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and 5 002 B644r Steven Clay. 6 002 OL5s Smithsonian book of books / Michael Olmert. 7 002 T361g Great books and book collectors / Alan G. Thomas. 8 002.075 B29g Gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books / Nicholas A. Basbanes. 9 002.09 B29p Patience & fortitude : a roving chronicle of book people, book places, and book culture / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Books of the brave : being an account of books and of men in the Spanish Conquest and settlement of the 10 002.098 L552b sixteenth-century New World / Irving A. Leonard ; with a new introduction by Rolena Adorno. 11 020.973 R824f Foundations of library and information science / Richard E. Rubin. 12 021.009 J631h, 1976 History of libraries in the Western World / by Elmer D. Johnson and Michael H. Harris. 13 025.2832 B175d Double fold : libraries and the assault on paper / Nicholson Baker. London booksellers and American customers : transatlantic literary community and the Charleston Library 14 027.2 R196L Society, 1748-1811 / James Raven.
    [Show full text]
  • Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground
    Extending Russia Competing from Advantageous Ground James Dobbins, Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Bryan Frederick, Edward Geist, Paul DeLuca, Forrest E. Morgan, Howard J. Shatz, Brent Williams C O R P O R A T I O N For more information on this publication, visit www.rand.org/t/RR3063 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this publication. ISBN: 978-1-9774-0021-5 Published by the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, Calif. © Copyright 2019 RAND Corporation R® is a registered trademark. Cover: Pete Soriano/Adobe Stock Limited Print and Electronic Distribution Rights This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of this publication online is prohibited. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of its research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please visit www.rand.org/pubs/permissions. The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. RAND is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and committed to the public interest. RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. Support RAND Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute www.rand.org Preface This report documents research and analysis conducted as part of the RAND Corporation research project Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground, sponsored by the Army Quadrennial Defense Review Office, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8, Headquarters, Department of the Army.
    [Show full text]
  • Traces the UNC-Chapel Hill Journal of History
    traces The UNC-Chapel Hill Journal of History volume 3 spring 2014 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Published in the United States of America by the UNC-Chapel Hill History Department traces Hamilton Hall, CB #3195 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 (919) 962-2115 [email protected] Copyright 2014 by UNC-Chapel Hill All rights reserved. Except in those cases that comply with the fair use guidelines of US copyright law (U.S.C. Title 17), no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. Design by Brandon Whitesell. Printed in the United States of America by Chamblee Graphics, Raleigh, North Carolina. Traces is produced by undergraduate and graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill in order to showcase students’ historical research. Traces: The UNC-Chapel Hill Journal of History is affiliated with the Delta Pi chapter (UNC-Chapel Hill) of Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society. Unfortunately there is no Past, available for distillation, capture, manipulation, observation and description. There have been, and there are, events in complex and innumerable combinations, and no magic formula “will ever give us masterytraces over them . There are, instead, some rather humdrum operations to be performed. We suspect or surmise that an event, a set of events has taken place: where can we find the traces they must have left behind them? Or we have come across some traces: what are they worth, as traces, and to what events do they point? Later on we shall find out which events we can, from our own knowledge of their traces, safely believe to have taken place.
    [Show full text]
  • Θεσσαλονίκη 18/12/2018 Αρ. Διακ. 25/18 ΤΜΗΜΑ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΩΝ Πληροφορίες: Ηλίου Νικόλαος Τηλέφωνο: 2310 891-233 Fax: 2310 891-232
    Θεσσαλονίκη 18/12/2018 Αρ. Διακ. 25/18 ΤΜΗΜΑ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΙΩΝ Πληροφορίες: Ηλίου Νικόλαος Τηλέφωνο: 2310 891-233 Fax: 2310 891-232 Α Ν Α Κ Ο Ι Ν Ω Σ Η Σ Υ Ν Ο Π Τ Ι Κ Ο Υ Δ Ι Α Γ Ω Ν Ι Σ Μ Ο Υ Το Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας, έχοντας υπόψη: Τις διατάξεις, όπως αυτές ισχύουν: 1. Του ν. 4270/2014 (Α’143) «Αρχές δημοσιονομικής διαχείρισης και εποπτείας (ενσωμάτωση της Οδηγίας 2011/85/ΕΕ) – Δημόσιο λογιστικό και άλλες διατάξεις», 2. Του ν. 3861/2010 (Α’112) «Ενίσχυση της διαφάνειας με την υποχρεωτική ανάρτηση νόμων και πράξεων των κυβερνητικών, διοικητικών και αυτοδιοικητικών οργάνων στο Πρόγραμμα Διαύγεια και άλλες διατάξεις», 3. Του ν. 4013/2011, άρθρο 4 παρ. 3 «Σύσταση Ενιαίας Ανεξάρτητης Αρχής Δημοσίων Συμβάσεων και Κεντρικού Ηλεκτρονικού Μητρώου Δημοσίων Συμβάσεων – Αντικατάσταση του έκτου κεφαλαίου του ν. 3588/2007 (πτωχευτικός κώδικας) – Προπτωχευτική διαδικασία εξυγίανσης και άλλες διατάξεις», όπως ισχύει, 4. Του ν. 4412/2016 (Α’147) «Δημόσιες Συμβάσεις Έργων, Προμηθειών και Υπηρεσιών (προσαρμογή στις Οδηγίες 2014/24/ΕΕ και 2014/25/ΕΕ), όπως ισχύει, 5. Του Π.Δ. 80/2016 (Α’145) «Ανάληψη υποχρεώσεων από διατάκτες», 6. την υπ’ αριθμ. 418/18.12.2018 απόφαση ανάληψης υποχρέωσης και 7. την υπ’ αριθμ. 12/28.11.2018 (θέμα 5o) απόφαση του Πρυτανικού Συμβουλίου του Πανεπιστημίου σχετικά με την έγκριση του σχεδίου διακήρυξης και της διενέργειας του διαγωνισμού Π Ρ Ο Κ Η Ρ Υ Σ Σ Ο Υ Μ Ε συνοπτικό διαγωνισμό (αρ. διακ. 25/18) με κλειστές προσφορές και με κριτήριο αξιολόγησης την πλέον συμφέρουσα από οικονομική άποψη προσφορά βάσει τιμής, για την προμήθεια έντυπου υλικού (ξενόγλωσσων και ελληνικών τίτλων περιοδικών, ξενόγλωσσων και ελληνικών βιβλίων και μουσικών παρτιτούρων) για τις ανάγκες της Βιβλιοθήκης και Κέντρου Πληροφόρησης του Πανεπιστημίου, σύμφωνα με τα αναφερόμενα στις συνημμένες τεχνικές προδιαγραφές του Παραρτήματος Α′.
    [Show full text]
  • ABSTRACT Britain and Russia: a Historical Comparison of Two Great
    ABSTRACT Britain and Russia: A Historical Comparison of Two Great Empires Sarah Cook Director: Julie deGraffenried, Ph.D. This work examines key elements of the British and Russian empires in order to present a new perspective on how much these two powers hold in common. Though radically different on the surface, Britain and Russia possess similar national characters and historical experiences. This work is not an attempt at a comprehensive record of the British and Russian empires and their similarities. Rather, it focuses on specific ideas – the two nations’ beginnings, their imperial ideologies, the Great Game in Central Asia, both nations’ modern identity crises – in order to prove greater similitude between Britain and Russia than has previously been discussed as part of the historical narrative. A variety of primary sources are used, though secondary sources make up a great deal of the evidence presented. This thesis is not chiefly a reinterpretation of sources, but a re- conceptualization of the information and interpretations already part of the historical narrative. APPROVED BY DIRECTOR OF HONORS THESIS: _______________________________________________ Dr. Julie deGraffenried, Department of History APPROVED BY THE HONORS PROGRAM: _______________________________________________ Dr. Andrew Wisely, Director DATE: ________________________ BRITAIN AND RUSSIA A HISTORICAL COMPARISON OF TWO GREAT EMPIRES A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Baylor University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Honors Program By Sarah Cook
    [Show full text]
  • Topics in the History of Diplomacy: Visions of World Order
    DRAFT TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF DIPLOMACY VISIONS OF WORLD ORDER NYU Florence - La Pietra Campus Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard Fall Semester 2011 OVERVIEW This course offers an introduction to international history from the late nineteenth until the beginning of the twenty first century. It will examine how visions of world order competed, co-existed and succeeded each other. The course will study and question the development of international relations from a Europe dominated concert of imperial nation states to a Cold War world of superpowers to an era of a hyperpower faced with the rise of new powers, such as China and India, as well as illusive international networks, such as Al Qaeda. The aim of the course is to familiarise students with key events in international history as well as trace the development of diplomacy, from meetings of Western diplomats, to the New Diplomacy, the proliferation of interest groups and the rise of international organisations. The course seeks to integrate events in the United States, Europe and the Soviet Union/Russia with developments in the ‘non-Western world’. Every week a ‘gobbet’, a short excerpt from an original source, will be discussed. The aim of this exercise is to get a feeling for original sources, set them in context, understand this context and thus the importance of the gobbet for the theme. In combination with the weekly student presentation this exercise will serve to draw out the theme and start the class discussion. Anthony Best (ed.), International history of the twentieth century and beyond (London 2008) will serve as a textbook for the course.
    [Show full text]
  • Read Keith Thomas' the Wolfson History Prize 1972-2012
    THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 1972-2012 An Informal History Keith Thomas THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 1972-2012 An Informal History Keith Thomas The Wolfson Foundation, 2012 Published by The Wolfson Foundation 8 Queen Anne Street London W1G 9LD www.wolfson.org.uk Copyright © The Wolfson Foundation, 2012 All rights reserved The Wolfson Foundation is grateful to the National Portrait Gallery for allowing the use of the images from their collection Excerpts from letters of Sir Isaiah Berlin are quoted with the permission of the trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust, who own the copyright Printed in Great Britain by The Bartham Group ISBN 978-0-9572348-0-2 This account draws upon the History Prize archives of the Wolfson Foundation, to which I have been given unrestricted access. I have also made use of my own papers and recollections. I am grateful to Paul Ramsbottom and Sarah Newsom for much assistance. The Foundation bears no responsibility for the opinions expressed, which are mine alone. K.T. Lord Wolfson of Marylebone Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation from 1955 and Chairman 1972-2010 © The Wolfson Foundation FOREWORD The year 1972 was a pivotal one for the Wolfson Foundation: my father, Lord Wolfson of Marylebone, became Chairman and the Wolfson History Prize was established. No coincidence there. History was my father’s passion and primary source of intellectual stimulation. History books were his daily companions. Of all the Foundation’s many activities, none gave him greater pleasure than the History Prize. It is an immense sadness that he is not with us to celebrate the fortieth anniversary.
    [Show full text]
  • Professional Articles
    Professional Articles "Das Bild ist größer, als man denkt. Eine Antwort auf manche Kritiken an Bloodlands," Journal of Modern European History 11, no. 1, (2013): 1-22. "L'Europe centrale prise entre deux terreurs," L'Esprit, (February 2013): 48-55. "The Causes of the Holocaust," Contemporary European History 21, no. 02, (2012): 149-168. "Pra pakhozhanne natsii Uskhodniai Europi" ["On the origins of the nations of Eastern Europe"], Belaruski Histarychny Ahliad [Belarusian Historical Review] 17, nos. 1-2, (2010 [2012]). "The Problem of Commemorative Causality in the Holocaust," Modernism/Modernity, (February 2013). "Holocaust History: An Agenda for Renewal," Lessons and Legacies, (2010) "East European History: The State of the Field," East European Politics and Societies 25, no. 4, (2011): 749-762, with Norman Naimark. "Collaboration in the Bloodlands," Journal of Genocide Research, (September 2011). "Galicia (XVIII-XX Century): A Laboratory for European History?" Il Mestiere di Storico (Annale SISSCO) 1, (2009): 31-36. "The Ethical Significance of Eastern Europe, Twenty Years On" East European Politics and Societies 22, 1 (Autumn 2009). "The Incomprehensible History of Eastern Europe," (Obca i niezrozumiała historia Europy Wschodniej), Nowa Europa Wschodnia 1, no. 1, (2008): 56-64. "Forum: The Second World War as a Challenge for Ukrainian Historiography" ("Druha svitova viina iak vyklyk dlia ukrainskoi historiohrafii"), Ukraina moderna 13, no. 2, (2008): 13-14. “The Historical Reality of Eastern Europe,” East European Politics and Societies 23, 1 (Winter 2008-09): 7-13. "Leben und Sterben der Juden in Wolhynien," Osteuropa 57, no.4, (2007): 123-142. "The Elusive Civic Subject in Russian History," (synthetic review of articles), Kritika 7, no.
    [Show full text]