Author: George Valentine Cox
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Recollections of Oxford
Author: George Valentine Cox
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Reminiscences of Oxford
Author: Lilian M. Quiller-Couch
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Recollection in the Republics
Author: Imogen Peck
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Following the execution of Charles I in January 1649, England's fledgling republic was faced with a dilemma: which parts of the nation's bloody recent past should be remembered, and how, and which were best consigned to oblivion? Across the country, the state's opponents, local communities, and individual citizens were grappling with many of the same questions, as calls for remembrance vied with the competing goals of reconciliation, security, and the peaceful settlement of the state. Recollection in the Republics provides the first comprehensive study of the ways Britain's Civil Wars were remembered in the decade between the regicide and the restoration. Drawing on a wide-ranging and innovative source base, it places the national authorities' attempts to shape the meaning of the recent past alongside evidence of what the English people - lords and labourers, men and women, veterans and civilians - actually were remembering. Recollection in the Replublics demonstrates that memories of the domestic conflicts were central to the politics and society of England's republican interval, inflecting national and local discourses, complicating and transforming inter-personal relationships, and infusing and forging individual and collective identities. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of the nature of early modern memory and the experience of post-civil war states more broadly. Memory was a multifaceted, dynamic resource, and this book emphasises its fecundity, the manifold meanings it possessed, and the creativity of those who deployed it. Further, by situating 1650s England in relation to other post-conflict societies, both within and beyond early modernity, it points to a consistency in some of the challenges that have confronted post-civil war states across time and space.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192584367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Following the execution of Charles I in January 1649, England's fledgling republic was faced with a dilemma: which parts of the nation's bloody recent past should be remembered, and how, and which were best consigned to oblivion? Across the country, the state's opponents, local communities, and individual citizens were grappling with many of the same questions, as calls for remembrance vied with the competing goals of reconciliation, security, and the peaceful settlement of the state. Recollection in the Republics provides the first comprehensive study of the ways Britain's Civil Wars were remembered in the decade between the regicide and the restoration. Drawing on a wide-ranging and innovative source base, it places the national authorities' attempts to shape the meaning of the recent past alongside evidence of what the English people - lords and labourers, men and women, veterans and civilians - actually were remembering. Recollection in the Replublics demonstrates that memories of the domestic conflicts were central to the politics and society of England's republican interval, inflecting national and local discourses, complicating and transforming inter-personal relationships, and infusing and forging individual and collective identities. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of the nature of early modern memory and the experience of post-civil war states more broadly. Memory was a multifaceted, dynamic resource, and this book emphasises its fecundity, the manifold meanings it possessed, and the creativity of those who deployed it. Further, by situating 1650s England in relation to other post-conflict societies, both within and beyond early modernity, it points to a consistency in some of the challenges that have confronted post-civil war states across time and space.
Recollections of France
Author: Sarah Blowen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France.
Recollections of George Butler
Author: Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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John Viriamu Jones and Other Oxford Memories
Author: Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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A Writer's Recollections
Author: Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the Victorian novelists autobiography.
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the Victorian novelists autobiography.
Time
Author: Edmund Hodgson Yates
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes
Author: Gyles Brandreth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191066524
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191066524
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, prompters, producers—they all feature. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes provides a comprehensive, revealing, and hugely entertaining portrait of the world of theatre across four hundred years. Many of the anecdotes are humorous: all have something pertinent and illuminating to say about an aspect of theatrical life—whether it is the art of playwriting, the craft of covering up missed cues, the drama of the First Night, the nightmare of touring, or the secret ingredients of star quality. Edmund Kean, Henry Irving, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren—the great 'names' are all here, of course, but there are tales of the unexpected, too—and the unknown. This is a book—presented in five acts, with a suitably anecdotal and personal prologue from Gyles Brandreth—where, once in a while, the understudy takes centre-stage and Gyles Brandreth treats triumph and disaster just the same, including stories from the tattiest touring companies as well as from Broadway, the West End and theatres, large and small, in Australia, India, and across Europe.
A Book of Recollections
Author: John Cordy Jeaffreson
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description