BOOK REVIEWS

1938 ◽  
Vol 16 (47) ◽  
pp. 106-109
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
British History ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
British Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Select Bibliography ◽  
Courtauld Institute

Abstract Book reviewed in this article: ‘Royal Historical Society. Writings on British History, 1934. A Bibliography of books and articles on the history of Great Britain from about 450 A.D. to 1914, with an Appendix containing a select list of publications in 1934 on British history since 1914’. Compiled by Alexander Taylor Milne. ‘Courtauld Institute of Art. Annual Bibliography of the History of British Art’ ‘Proceedings and Debates of the British Parliaments respecting North America’. Ed. Leo Francis Stock ‘The Colonial Office. A history’. By Henry L. Hall ‘A Select Bibliography of English Genealogy, with brief lists for Wales, Scotland and Ireland. A manual for students’. By H. G. Harrison. Phillimore ‘Dublin Historical Record’. Published quarterly by the Old Dublin Society

scholarly journals I.—History of the Names Cambrian and Silurian in Geology

1873 ◽  
Vol 10 (111) ◽  
pp. 385-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Sterry Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
The Subject

It is proposed in the following pages to give a concise account of the progress of investigation of the lower Palæozoic rocks during the last forty years. The subject may naturally be divided into three parts: 1. The history of Silurian and Upper Cambrian in Great Britain from 1831 to 1854; 2. That of the still more ancient Palæozoic rocks in Scandinavia, Bohemia, and Great Britain up to the present time, including the recognition by Barrande of the so-called primordial Palæozoic; fauna; 3. The history of the lower Palæozoic rocks of North America.

Anglo-Irish constitutional relations in the later eighteenth century

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (53) ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
J.C. Beckett
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
British History ◽  
Irish History ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The People ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Basic Theme ◽  
History Of ◽  
George Iii

Few periods of Irish history have been more extensively written about than the later eighteenth century: a mere list of books and papers dealing with the Volunteer movement, ‘Grattan's parliament’, the insurrection of 1798 and the legislative union of 1800 would make up a moderate-sized volume. Most of these writings are concerned, directly or indirectly, with the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. Indeed, it might be said that this relationship is the basic theme in the Irish history of the period, even for social and economic historians; and the pattern is so well-established that it may well seem rash to assume that it can be substantially modified, or even made significantly clearer, except, perhaps, by the production of new and hitherto unsuspected evidence. Yet there is something to be said for looking again at the whole subject on the basis of our existing knowledge, not simply, as Irish historians are inclined to do, from the standpoint of Ireland, nor yet as if events in Ireland were a mere appendage to British history, but rather, as Professor Butterfield has done for one brief period in his George III, Lord North and the people, to consider Anglo-Irish constitutional relations during the late eighteenth century as part of the general political history of the British Isles.

scholarly journals Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Twentieth-Century Great Britain and North America

Museum Worlds ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-57
Author(s):  
Toby Burrows
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
North America ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Comprehensive Data ◽  
History Of

Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts were a significant commodity in the antiquarian sales market throughout the twentieth century, sought out by very wealthy collectors and small-scale buyers. The history of this manuscript market has not been analyzed systematically. This article is a first attempt to identify themes and trends across the century, beginning with the dominance of the great American Gilded Age collectors like Henry Huntington and the Morgans and their need to memorialize themselves. It argues that future research needs to assemble comprehensive data on prices and buyers in order to make possible more systematic analyses of trends and activities, and a more sophisticated understanding of the different reasons for which collectors collected and of the changing nature of manuscripts as objects with their own biographical trajectories and their own agency.

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