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Ian Willis deposited A marvellous Edwardian building in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe former Foresters’ Hall occupies one of the most prominent sites in the Camden Town Centre at 147 Argyle Street on the corner of Oxley Street and Argyle Street. On its opening in 1908, the hall was considered the best in New South Wales by the Order of Royal Foresters.
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Ian Willis deposited The Enduring Face of the Camden Showgirl in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Miss Showgirl an enduring anachronism in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoOnce again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAfter the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Música de tecla en la España del siglo XVIII: Domenico Scarlatti y el padre Antonio Soler in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article focuses on Spanish music in the 18th century, which experienced one of the most brilliant periods in its history. This was undoubtedly due to the splendour achieved by keyboard music, which reached an extraordinary level of development after the arrival in Spain of the Neapolitan composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), harpsichord…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La recepción cervantina en el Romanticismo: la ópera Don Chisciotte de Manuel García (1826) [The reception of Cervantes in Romanticism: the opera Don Chisciotte by Manuel García] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe publication of Cervantes’ Don Quixote served as inspiration from the very moment of its creation for a whole series of artistic manifestations, among which those related to the art of sound stand out. Among the famous Spanish composers of Romanticism, the Sevillian composer Manuel del Pópulo García shines and stands out with his own light. H…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la Catedral de Segorbe en los siglos XVI y XVII [The chapel music at the Segorbe Cathedral in 16th and 18th centuries] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe music chapel of the Cathedral of Segorbe has historically played a primordial role in the history of Spanish music, constituting a focus of musical activity that attracted a numerous group of singers, instrumentalists, organists and chapel masters who formed part of the aforementioned chapel, whose antecedents date back to the mid-13th…[Read more]
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Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Banking was central to Camden’s prosperity in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn central Camden is an empty bank building of understated significance at the intersection of John and Argyle Streets. This building was once the premises of Westpace, formerly the Bank of New South Wales, and was the second banking chamber on that site. Constructed in the 1930s by a prominent firm of Sydney architects, the building is of much…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Pauline Viardot García (1821-1910), una compositora en la Europa del siglo XIX (1821-1910) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoArticle about the composer Pauline Viardot
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Elton Barker deposited BMCR review of Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 237. ISBN 9780198832553 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoRecent scholarship has done much to challenge the long-held antipathy towards Pausanias, even if some of the best studies appear “enamored not so much of Pausanias himself as they are of the idea of Pausanias”. As one of the leading new Pausaniacs, Greta Hawes has been at the vanguard of efforts to get the measure of this storied landscape. Her…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Jeff McGill, Rachel: Brumby hunter, medicine woman, bushrangers’ ally and troublemaker for good … the remarkable pioneering life of Rachel Kennedy, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2022, 324 pp, ISBN 9781760879983. in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis is a thoroughly researched and readable book that provides a glimpse of life in western New South Wales during the late 19th and early 20th centuries through the eyes of a woman, Rachel Kennedy (1845-1930). The book is a wonderful contribution to female biography and regional community history, and illustrates the precarity of life for women…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla de música del monasterio de las Descalzas Reales de Madrid [The chapel music at the Descalzas Monastery in Madrid] in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoJournal article about the organization of the music chapel at the royal monastery Descalzas in Madrid during the 18th century
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Elton Barker deposited Die Another Day: Sarpedon, Aristodemos, and Homeric Intertextuality in Herodotus in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe subject of this chapter is a single contested word in Herodotus’ Histories. In it I explore its semantic range and use it to think about broader questions of Herodotus’ interplay with Homer. Where many of the Homeric touches in Herodotus can be put down to, and more productively used, as examples of traditional referentiality or, at least, n…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited The Duchy of Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses: Patronage, Politics, and Power, 1453–1502 in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFocussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited A Duchy Officer and a Gentleman: The Career and Connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) in the group
Archives on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAvery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited Cultivating Kin in Lancashire: The Stansfields of Long Clough, Littleborough, c.1697–1861 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSocio-economic roles and family life from the late-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century are explored in this study of one non-gentry (yeomanry) family in eastern Lancashire: the Stansfields’ genealogy is (re-)constituted – utilising wills, inventories, parish registers, and other archives – against the broader background of their kinship rel…[Read more]
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