Author: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Journal / Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Author: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Journal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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Arts and Minds
Author: Anton Howes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207615
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"For almost 300 years, an organisation has quietly tried to change almost every aspect of life in Britain. That organisation is the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, often known simply as the Royal Society of Arts. It has acted as Britain's private national improvement agency, in every way imaginable - essentially, a society for the improvement of everything and anything. This book is its history. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Society has tried to change Britain's art, industry, laws, music, environment, education, and even culture. It has sometimes even succeeded. It has been a prize-fund for innovations, a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, a convenor of disparate interest groups, and the focal point for social movements. There has never been an organisation quite like it, constantly having to reinvent itself to find something new to improve. The book rewrites many of the old official histories of the Society and updates them to the present day, incorporating over half a century of further research into the periods they covered, along with new insights into the organisation's evolution. The book reveals the hidden and often surprising history of how a few public-spirited people tried to make their country better, offering lessons from their triumphs and their failures for all would-be reformers today"--
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691207615
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"For almost 300 years, an organisation has quietly tried to change almost every aspect of life in Britain. That organisation is the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, often known simply as the Royal Society of Arts. It has acted as Britain's private national improvement agency, in every way imaginable - essentially, a society for the improvement of everything and anything. This book is its history. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Society has tried to change Britain's art, industry, laws, music, environment, education, and even culture. It has sometimes even succeeded. It has been a prize-fund for innovations, a platform for Victorian utilitarian reformers, a convenor of disparate interest groups, and the focal point for social movements. There has never been an organisation quite like it, constantly having to reinvent itself to find something new to improve. The book rewrites many of the old official histories of the Society and updates them to the present day, incorporating over half a century of further research into the periods they covered, along with new insights into the organisation's evolution. The book reveals the hidden and often surprising history of how a few public-spirited people tried to make their country better, offering lessons from their triumphs and their failures for all would-be reformers today"--
A Guide to Serial Publications Founded Prior to 1918 and Now Or Recently Current in Boston, Cambridge, and Vicinity
Author: Thomas Johnston Homer
Publisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Journal
Author: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Publisher:
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, a Keyword Index
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce
Author: Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology
Author: E.C.L. During Caspers
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400978227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When in 1925 the initiative was taken by the Kern Institute Leiden to start the publica tion of an Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology, the Board of the Institute could do so with confidence, as it was sure of the assistance of scholars all over the world as to the supply of publications as well as of information. With the help of this material a bibliography could be compiled by a small team of highly skilled archaeologists who could devote part of their time and attention to such a task for the benefit of their colleagues in all parts of the world. Times since then have changed, and circumstances have become less and less favourable. To find classified labour for the compilation and editing of such a bibliography has become extremely difficult, and this the more so as this work cannot be paid in accordance with the standards for this branch of classified documentation. The work has to be done as a part of the daily routine work even a scholar in today's time is expected to perform, and which he cannot but consider as being detrimental to the performing of those parts of his work, that demand the use of those qualifications that actually make him the expert.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400978227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When in 1925 the initiative was taken by the Kern Institute Leiden to start the publica tion of an Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology, the Board of the Institute could do so with confidence, as it was sure of the assistance of scholars all over the world as to the supply of publications as well as of information. With the help of this material a bibliography could be compiled by a small team of highly skilled archaeologists who could devote part of their time and attention to such a task for the benefit of their colleagues in all parts of the world. Times since then have changed, and circumstances have become less and less favourable. To find classified labour for the compilation and editing of such a bibliography has become extremely difficult, and this the more so as this work cannot be paid in accordance with the standards for this branch of classified documentation. The work has to be done as a part of the daily routine work even a scholar in today's time is expected to perform, and which he cannot but consider as being detrimental to the performing of those parts of his work, that demand the use of those qualifications that actually make him the expert.
Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 936
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