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The Architecture of Sir Ernest George and His Partners, C. 1860-1922
The Architecture of Sir Ernest George and His Partners, C. 1860-1922 Volume II Hilary Joyce Grainger Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Ph. D. The University of Leeds Department of Fine Art January 1985 TABLE OF CONTENTS Notes to Chapters 1- 10 432 Bibliography 487 Catalogue of Executed Works 513 432 Notes to the Text Preface 1 Joseph William Gleeson-White, 'Revival of English Domestic Architecture III: The Work of Mr Ernest George', The Studio, 1896 pp. 147-58; 'The Revival of English Domestic Architecture IV: The Work of Mr Ernest George', The Studio, 1896 pp. 27-33 and 'The Revival of English Domestic Architecture V: The Work of Messrs George and Peto', The Studio, 1896 pp. 204-15. 2 Immediately after the dissolution of partnership with Harold Peto on 31 October 1892, George entered partnership with Alfred Yeates, and so at the time of Gleeson-White's articles, the partnership was only four years old. 3 Gleeson-White, 'The Revival of English Architecture III', op. cit., p. 147. 4 Ibid. 5 Sir ReginaldýBlomfield, Richard Norman Shaw, RA, Architect, 1831-1912: A Study (London, 1940). 6 Andrew Saint, Richard Norman Shaw (London, 1976). 7 Harold Faulkner, 'The Creator of 'Modern Queen Anne': The Architecture of Norman Shaw', Country Life, 15 March 1941 pp. 232-35, p. 232. 8 Saint, op. cit., p. 274. 9 Hermann Muthesius, Das Englische Haus (Berlin 1904-05), 3 vols. 10 Hermann Muthesius, Die Englische Bankunst Der Gerenwart (Leipzig. 1900). 11 Hermann Muthesius, The English House, edited by Dennis Sharp, translated by Janet Seligman London, 1979) p. -
The Stones of London's War Memorials
Urban Geology in London No. 23 The Stones of London’s War Memorials ‘If I should die, think only this of me; That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England’ The Soldier, Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) Memorial at the Tower of London for the centenary of the outbreak of WWI: 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' by ceramicist Paul Cummins. The opening lines of Rupert Brooke’s famous poem (above) illustrates muCh of the sentiments assoCiated with the design of war memorials and war graves. It has beCome traditional, on the most part, for stones representing the soldiers’ Countries of origin to be used in memorials ConstruCted to Commemorate them. For example, the war memorials commemorating the British Forces killed during WWI in FranCe and Belgium, such as Thiepval and the Menin Gate, are built from briCk, with piers, vaults, Columns and the panels bearing the insCriptions of names in Portland Stone. As we will see below, stones have been imported from all over the World to Commemorate the soldiers from those Countries who fought in the European theatres of the first half of the 20th Century. Indeed there are Corners of foreign fields, or in faCt London, that are forever Australian, Canadian or Maltese. Many of the War Memorials and their stones Catalogued below have been previously desCribed in other Urban Geology in London Guides. These inClude the memorials in the viCinity of Hyde Park Corner (Siddall & Clements, 2013), on the ViCtoria Embankment (Siddall & Clements, 2014) and the Malta Memorial near the Tower of London (Siddall, 2014). -
A Demographic and Socio-Economie Profile of Ageing in Malta %Eno
A Demographic and Socio-Economie Profile of Ageing in Malta %eno CamiCCeri CICRED INIA Paris Valletta FRANCE MALTA A Demographic and Socio-Economic Profile of Ageing in Malta A Demographic and Socio-Economic Profile of Ageing in Malta %g.no CamiCCeri Reno Camilleri Ministry for Economic Services Auberge d'Aragon, Valletta Published by the International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta) © INIAICICRED 1993 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author. Reno Camilleri A Demographic and Socio-Economic Profile of Ageing in Malta ISBN 92-9103-024-4 Set by the International Institute on Ageing (United Nations — Malta) Design and Typesetting: Josanne Altard Printed in Malta by Union Print Co. Ltd., Valletta, MALTA Foreword The present series of country monographs on "the demographic and socio-economic aspects of population ageing" is the result of a long collaborative effort initiated in 1982 by the Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography (CICRED). The programme was generously supported by the United Nations Population Fund and various national institutions, in particular the "Université de Montréal", Canada and Duke University, U.S.A. Moreover, the realisation of this project has been facilitated through its co-sponsorship with the International Institute on Ageing (United Nations - Malta), popularly known as INIA/ There is no doubt that these country monographs will be useful to a large range of scholars and decision-makers in many places of the world. -
Raaf Personnel Serving on Attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave
Cover Design by: 121Creative Lower Ground Floor, Ethos House, 28-36 Ainslie Pl, Canberra ACT 2601 phone. (02) 6243 6012 email. [email protected] www.121creative.com.au Printed by: Kwik Kopy Canberra Lower Ground Floor, Ethos House, 28-36 Ainslie Pl, Canberra ACT 2601 phone. (02) 6243 6066 email. [email protected] www.canberra.kwikkopy.com.au Compilation Alan Storr 2006 The information appearing in this compilation is derived from the collections of the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia. Author : Alan Storr Alan was born in Melbourne Australia in 1921. He joined the RAAF in October 1941 and served in the Pacific theatre of war. He was an Observer and did a tour of operations with No 7 Squadron RAAF (Beauforts), and later was Flight Navigation Officer of No 201 Flight RAAF (Liberators). He was discharged Flight Lieutenant in February 1946. He has spent most of his Public Service working life in Canberra – first arriving in the National Capital in 1938. He held senior positions in the Department of Air (First Assistant Secretary) and the Department of Defence (Senior Assistant Secretary), and retired from the public service in 1975. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Melbourne University) and was a graduate of the Australian Staff College, ‘Manyung’, Mt Eliza, Victoria. He has been a volunteer at the Australian War Memorial for 21 years doing research into aircraft relics held at the AWM, and more recently research work into RAAF World War 2 fatalities. He has written and published eight books on RAAF fatalities in the eight RAAF Squadrons serving in RAF Bomber Command in WW2. -
Notes and References
Notes and References References to material in the Public Record Office are shown as 'PRO', with the class and piece number following. References to British Transport Commission papers are shown as 'BTC', with the file number following. These files are all from the former Chief Secretary's registry. The BTC's Annual Reports are indicated by 'AR', with the year and page number following. Minutes of the Executives are given their number, after the initials of the Executive concerned. Biographical notes are drawn chiefly from Who's Who and Who Was Who; from obituary notices in The Times; from the Dictionary ofNational Biography; from the transport technical journals, and from The Economist. 2 Drafting the Bill 1. Sir Norman Chester, The Nationalisation of British Industry, 1945-51 (London, 1975). 2. The Labour Party, Let Us Face the Future (London, 1945) p. 7. 3. Alfred Barnes (1887-1974) PC, MP. 'A designer by trade' (Who's Who). Educated Northampton Institute and LCC School of Arts and Crafts. MP (Labour/Co-op) for S.E. Ham, 1922-31 and 1935-55. A Lord Commissioner of the Treasury, 1929-30. Minister of War Transport and then Minister of Transport, 1945-51. Chairman of the Co-operative Party, 1924-45. Proprietor of the Eastcliffe Hotel, Walton-on-the-Naze. 'Made an important contribution to the development of the Co-operative movement as a political force ... shrewd business ability and much administrative skill ... He saw no point in needless rigidity. He was criticised by some Labour back-benchers for the measure of freedom of choice he left in the carriage of goods by road but that did not bother him .. -
Bridgwater 1914-18 Adams James Stoker Petty
Bridgwater 1914-18 Adams James Stoker Petty Officer 309198 H.M.S “Valkyrie” Royal Navy. Killed by an explosion 22nd December 1917. James Adams was the 34 year old husband of Eliza Emma Duckham (formerly Adams of 4, Halesleigh Road, Bridgwater. Born at Huntworth. Bridgwater (Wembdon Road) Cemetery Church portion Location IV. 8. 3. Adams Albert James Corporal 266852 1st/6th Battalion TF Devonshire Regiment. Died 9th February 1919. Husband of Annie Adams, of Langley Marsh, Wiveliscombe, Somereset. Bridgwater (St Johns) Cemetery. Ref 2 2572. Allen Sidney Private 7312 19th (County of London) Battalion (St Pancras) The London Regiment (141st Infantry Brigade 47th (2nd London) Territorial Division). (formerly 3049 Somerset Light Infantry). Killed in action 14th November 1916. Sydney Allen was the 29 year old son of William Charles and Emily Allen, of Pathfinder Terrace, Bridgwater. Chester Farm Cemetery, Zillebeke, West Flanders, Belgium. Plot 1. Row J Grave 9. Andrews Willaim Private 1014 West Somerset Yeomanry. Died in Malta 19th November 1915. He was the son of Walter and Mary Ann Andrews, of Stringston, Holford, Bridgwater. Pieta Military Cemetery, Malta. Plot D. Row VII. Grave 3. Anglin Denis Patrick Private 3/6773 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. (11th Infantry Brigade 4th Division). Killed in action during the attack on and around the “Quadrilateral” a heavily fortified system of enemy trenches on Redan Ridge near the village of Serre 1st July 1916 the first day of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave, being commemorated n the Thiepval Memorial to the ‘Missing’ of the Somme. Anglin Joseph A/Sergeant 9566 Mentioned in Despatches 1st Battalion Somerset Light Infantry. -
Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: the Case of Egypt During the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a globalised World: The Case of Egypt during the First Half of the Twentieth Century Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy International Business & Strategy, Henley Business School Akram Beniamin November 2019 Declaration I confirm that this is my own work and the use of all material from other sources has been properly and fully acknowledged. Akram Beniamin i Abstract Firms and entrepreneurs were key drivers of the globalisation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This thesis investigates commodity networks, foreign banking and business networks, as three manifestations of the first global economy, in Egypt. The country was integrated into the world economy by exporting cotton, importing foreign capital, and hosting a large foreign community. The thesis shows that the Egyptian cotton network was sophisticated as market participants were spatially dispersed. The network was instrumentally coordinated by foreign banks that provided the crucial functions of intermediating the flows of cotton, finance, and information. Departing from the literature that portrays foreign banks in developing countries as manifestations of imperialism and exploitation of host countries, the thesis demonstrates that the history of these banks in Egypt does not conform to this rhetoric. The case of the Ionian Bank reveals that foreign banks in Egypt were businesses that sought profits and faced many risks and challenges. Some risks were uncontrollable and negatively affected banks’ performance, which was shaped by trade-off between opportunity and risk appetite. The analysis of the interlocking directorates of the Egyptian corporate and elite networks demonstrates that these networks, predominantly controlled by local foreigners, served as a basis for coordinating and maintaining collective interests. -
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Photography and the Art of Chance
Photography and the Art of Chance Photography and the Art of Chance Robin Kelsey The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, En gland 2015 Copyright © 2015 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Kelsey, Robin, 1961– Photography and the art of chance / Robin Kelsey. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-74400-4 (alk. paper) 1. Photography, Artistic— Philosophy. 2. Chance in art. I. Title. TR642.K445 2015 770— dc23 2014040717 For Cynthia Cone Contents Introduction 1 1 William Henry Fox Talbot and His Picture Machine 12 2 Defi ning Art against the Mechanical, c. 1860 40 3 Julia Margaret Cameron Transfi gures the Glitch 66 4 Th e Fog of Beauty, c. 1890 102 5 Alfred Stieglitz Moves with the City 149 6 Stalking Chance and Making News, c. 1930 180 7 Frederick Sommer Decomposes Our Nature 214 8 Pressing Photography into a Modernist Mold, c. 1970 249 9 John Baldessari Plays the Fool 284 Conclusion 311 Notes 325 Ac know ledg ments 385 Index 389 Photography and the Art of Chance Introduction Can photographs be art? Institutionally, the answer is obviously yes. Our art museums and galleries abound in photography, and our scholarly jour- nals lavish photographs with attention once reserved for work in other media. Although many contemporary artists mix photography with other tech- nical methods, our institutions do not require this. Th e broad affi rmation that photographs can be art, which comes after more than a century of disagreement and doubt, fulfi lls an old dream of uniting creativity and industry, art and automatism, soul and machine. -
Raaf Personnel Serving on Attachment in Royal Air Force Squadrons and Support Units in World War 2 and Missing with No Known Grave
Cover Design by: 121Creative Lower Ground Floor, Ethos House, 28-36 Ainslie Pl, Canberra ACT 2601 phone. (02) 6243 6012 email. [email protected] www.121creative.com.au Printed by: Kwik Kopy Canberra Lower Ground Floor, Ethos House, 28-36 Ainslie Pl, Canberra ACT 2601 phone. (02) 6243 6066 email. [email protected] www.canberra.kwikkopy.com.au Compilation Alan Storr 2006 The information appearing in this compilation is derived from the collections of the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia. Author : Alan Storr Alan was born in Melbourne Australia in 1921. He joined the RAAF in October 1941 and served in the Pacific theatre of war. He was an Observer and did a tour of operations with No 7 Squadron RAAF (Beauforts), and later was Flight Navigation Officer of No 201 Flight RAAF (Liberators). He was discharged Flight Lieutenant in February 1946. He has spent most of his Public Service working life in Canberra – first arriving in the National Capital in 1938. He held senior positions in the Department of Air (First Assistant Secretary) and the Department of Defence (Senior Assistant Secretary), and retired from the public service in 1975. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Melbourne University) and was a graduate of the Australian Staff College, ‘Manyung’, Mt Eliza, Victoria. He has been a volunteer at the Australian War Memorial for 21 years doing research into aircraft relics held at the AWM, and more recently research work into RAAF World War 2 fatalities. He has written and published eight books on RAAF fatalities in the eight RAAF Squadrons serving in RAF Bomber Command in WW2. -
Philip De László in the Great War by Giles Macdonogh
Philip de László in the Great War By Giles MacDonogh Hungarian-born Philip de László (1869-1937) was a truly international artist who travelled widely in Europe and America and painted many of those who were the major political players in the First World War. He moved from Vienna to London in 1907 with his wife Lucy, née Guinness, and family, and quickly established his reputation there, counting the royal family, aristocracy and members of government amongst his many patrons. This essay examines de László’s situation as a naturalised alien and an artist in the context of the spy furore in Britain during the First World War. Philip Alexius de László in his Vienna studio 1903 Self-portrait with his wife Lucy and their son Henry painted while under house arrest at Ladbroke Gardens Nursing Home 1918 I The Great War was not only the ‘first’ war designated as global, it was the first to have roused an ubiquitous spy fever which placed whole sections of immigrant communities under suspicion of working for the enemy.1 Britain was not unique. In Berlin, those opening days of August were marked by lawless demonstrations against foreigners: the British Embassy was attacked, diplomats were struck, British subjects were locked up in the fortress in Spandau and a great ‘spy excitement’ resulted in rumours about poisoning wells and lakes.2 Germany had a tenth the number of aliens as Britain where most Germans, Austrians, Hungarians and Turks were modest shopkeepers or tradesmen. The grandees attached to embassies left along with the more prominent Germans and Austrians, although many of those indicted for spying for the Axis Powers were Americans of German descent. -
Michael Sandle Archive Exhibition Article 3, Inferno Vol
Michael Sandle archive exhibition Article 3, Inferno Vol. XII, 2007-8 The Monument in Conjunction with its Archive: Historical Narrative and the Dialectics of Experience in a Michael Sandle Archive Exhibition Eve Kalyva The eyes of all Britain, and indeed of the whole British Empire, are watching Malta in her struggle day by day. .1 n 4 July 2007 the exhibition The Archive of Michael Sandle’s The Malta Siege Bell Memorial (1988-1992): A Dis-Play of Politics? opened at the Henry Moore Institute in O Leeds.2 Michael Sandle donated the archive to the Institute in 2003; it consists of five boxes and charts the creative process of The Malta Siege Bell Memorial from early conception in 1988 until restoration in 1995, including its model exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1989 and the dedication ceremony by Queen Elizabeth II in 1992. This extensive set of documents comprises technical papers, photographs, and letters from former Prime Minister John Major, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Lewin, and Sir Nicholas Serota amongst other public figures. The memorial draws its historical importance from the siege of Malta between 1941 and 1943 by the Axis forces. “Operation Pedestal” was the last attempt by the Allies to relieve the besieged island, then part of the British Empire. Even though the convoy was attacked and severely damaged, a number of ships managed to enter the Valletta Harbour on 15 August, the celebration day of the Assumption of Virgin Mary. Central to the convoy was SS Ohio, owned by the Texas Oil Company and being the larger tanker in the world at that time [Pl.1].