chapter 9 Archival Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-207
Keyword(s):  
Archival Research

‘A disoriented vision of … fact’: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-336
Author(s):  
Zosia Kuczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Faith Healer ◽  
Brian Friel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Composition Process

The Brian Friel Papers at the NLI reveal a long and relatively unexplored history of major and minor influences on Friel's plays. As the archive attests, these influences manifest themselves in ways that range from the superficial to the deeply structural. In this article, I draw on original archival research into the composition process of Friel's genre-defining play Faith Healer (1979) to bring to light a model of influence that operates at the level of artistic practice. Specifically, I examine the extent to which Friel's officially unacknowledged encounter with a book of interviews with painter Francis Bacon influenced the play in terms of character, language, and form. I suggest that Bacon's creative process – incorporating his ideas on the role of the artist, the workings of chance, and the extent to which art does violence to fact – may have had a major influence on both the play's development and on Friel's development as an artist.

The Anatomy of Moments

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finn Fordham
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Suspended Animation ◽  
Multiple Responses ◽  
The Moment

Aesthetic moments of revelation – intense, sensual, internal, and individual –are so key to modernist culture that the idea of them in criticism has become commonplace. Here I seek to breath life into this humdrum formula of modernist criticism by exploring multiple responses to an alternative moment amongst British cultural figures: the declaration of War against Germany at 11.15 on September 3rd, 1939. This was also an intense moment, but it was social, political, communal, mediated and disseminated publicly by new technologies. As my archival research here reveals, a wide spectrum of responses were recorded, so we can think of such a moment as ‘prismatic’. I will also show how this moment was a shock to culture, which went into a state of suspended animation. As well as offering critiques of the moment as a fetishised form, I argue that modernist culture and the idea of the moment would never be the same again.

DINAMIKA KRITERIA PENENTUAN AWAL BULAN QAMARIAH DALAM PENANGGALAN UMM AL-QURA' SAUDI ARABIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Aris
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Universal Time ◽  
Archival Research

Paper ini adalah archival research dengan content analysis sebagai metodenya yang bertujuan untuk menjelaskan dinamika yang terjadi pada kriteria penentuan awal bulan qamariah penanggalan Umm al-Qura Saudi Arabia. Berdasarkan data-data baik yang berupa dokumen atau tulisan anggota komisi supervisor penanggalan Umm al-Qura' dan korespondensi yang dilakukan dengan informan kunci, ditemukan bahwa: Pertama, dinamika kriteria penentuan awal bulan qamariah dalam penanggalan Umm al-Qura' merupakan produk dialog antar tiga kepentingan, yaitu: 1) kepentingan modernisasi birokrasi pemerintahan yang diwakili oleh kerajaan, 2) kepentingan syariat yang diwakili oleh ulama yang berbasis rukyat murni, dan 3) kepentingan ilmiah-astronomis yang diwakili oleh ilmuan di KACST. Dialog antar tiga kepentingan tersebut tidak terjadi sebelum 1393 H karena penanggalan Umm al-Qura' sebelum tahun tersebut merupakan penanggalan bulanan dengan kriteria rukyat. Pasca oil booming dan modernisasi birokrasi pemerintahan, penanggalan berbasis rukyat tidak lagi memadahi. Pemerintah Saudi Arabia membutuhkan sistem organisasi waktu jangka panjang berbasis tahunan. Persoalan ini membawa penanggalan Umm al-Qura' harus merubah kriterianya dari rukyat kepada kriteria hisab astronomis. Dialog antar tiga kepentingan di atas mulai muncul pada 1393 H, ketika Fad}l Ahmad diminta oleh pemerintah Saudi Arabia mengkompilasi penanggalan Umm al-Qura' untuk beberapa tahun ke depan. Fadl Ahmad sebagai seorang astronom menawarkan konjungsi sebelum pukul 00:00 GMT berbasis Universal Time (UT). Pada saat itu, kriteria tawaran Fadl Ahmad bisa diterima oleh para ulama, namun hanya sementara, karena pada tahun 1422 H kriteria penanggalan Umm al-Qura' diganti dengan Moonset after Sunset di Mekah. Ulama menolak dengan tegas penggunaan waktu UT (00:00 GMT) yang mereka anggap sebagai sistem waktu orang kafir, mereka menginginkan waktu Islam, maka waktu Mekah (zona +3) dijadikan sebagai referensinya. Kriteria konjungsi juga diganti karena seringkali hilal baru terlihat satu atau dua hari setelah tanggal yang ditentukan pada penanggalan Umm al-Qura'. Ketidaksinkronan antara penanggalan Umm al-Qura' pada periode kedua ini dengan praktek rukyat di Saudi juga menjadi dasar perubahan tersebut. Pada tahun 1423 H, kriteria penanggalan Umm al-Qura' mengalami perubahan lagi. Konjungsi yang pada periode ketiga (1420 H-1422H) dihilangkan, digunakan lagi. Kriteria penanggalan Umm al-Qura' pada periode ini terdiri dari dua parameter astronomis yaitu konjungsi sebelum Magrib dan Moonset after Sunset di Mekah. Kriteria ini sering disebut dengan wila>dah al-hilal syar’iyyan. Kedua, astronom dalam keanggotaan komisioner memegang peran penting dalam rumusan kriteria penentuan awal bulan dalam penanggalan Umm al-Qura' dalam setiap periode perkembangannya.

THE ROOTS OF MODERN CAPITALISM: A MARXIST ACCOUNTING HISTORY OF THE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF CAPITALIST LANDLORDS IN ENGLAND

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Bryer
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
Agricultural Revolution ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
Modern Capitalism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. The paper uses accounting evidence from the historical literature to test Marx's theory that, from around 1750, England's landlords played a pivotal role by adopting and then spreading the capitalist mentality and social relations by enclosures and changes in the management of their estates and tenants. It gives an accounting interpretation of Marx's theory of rent and argues that the available evidence supports his view that the conversion of English landlords to capitalism underlay the later stages of the agricultural revolution. The conclusion explains the linkages in Marx's theory between the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and calls on accounting historians to conduct archival research into the agricultural roots of modern capitalism.

Meddling in the Ballot Box

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dov H. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Level Analysis ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This book examines why partisan electoral interventions occur as well as their effects on the election results in countries in which the great powers intervened. A new dataset shows that the U.S. and the USSR/Russia have intervened in one out of every nine elections between 1946 and 2000 in other countries in order to help or hinder one of the candidates or parties; the Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections is just the latest example. Nevertheless, electoral interventions receive scant scholarly attention. This book develops a new theoretical model to answer both questions. It argues that electoral interventions are usually “inside jobs,” occurring only if a significant domestic actor within the target wants it. Likewise, electoral interventions won’t happen unless the intervening country fears its interests are endangered by another significant party or candidate with very different and inflexible preferences. As for the effects it argues that such meddling usually gives a significant boost to the preferred side, with overt interventions being more effective than covert ones in this regard. However, unlike in later elections, electoral interventions in founding elections usually harm the aided side. A multi-method framework is used in order to study these questions, including in-depth archival research into six cases in which the U.S. seriously considered intervening, the statistical analysis of the aforementioned dataset (PEIG), and a micro-level analysis of election surveys from three intervention cases. It also includes a preliminary analysis of the Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections and the cyber-future of such meddling in general.

The Imperial Army Project

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
High Point ◽  
The Military ◽  
Second World

How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? This is the primary line of inquiry for this study, which begs a couple of supporting questions. What did the British want from the dominion and Indian armies and how did they go about trying to get it? How successful were they in the end? Answering these questions requires a long-term perspective—one that begins with efforts to fix the armies of the British Empire in the aftermath of their desultory performance in South Africa (1899–1903) and follows through to the high point of imperial military cooperation during the Second World War. Based on multi-archival research conducted in six different countries on four continents, Douglas E. Delaney argues that the military compatibility of the British Empire armies was the product of a deliberate and enduring imperial army project, one that aimed at ‘Lego-piecing’ the armies of the empire, while, at the same time, accommodating the burgeoning autonomy of the dominions and even India. At its core, this book is really about how a military coalition worked.

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625-1642

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Modern Culture ◽  
Charles I ◽  
King Charles I

The Progresses, Processions, and Royal Entries of King Charles I, 1625–1642 is the first book-length study of the history, and the political and cultural significance, of the progresses, public processions, and royal entries of Charles I. As well as offering a much fuller account of the king’s progresses and progress entertainments than currently exists, this study throws new light on one of the most vexed topics in early Stuart historiography—the question of Charles I’s accessibility to his subjects and their concerns, and the part that this may, or may not, have played in the conflicts which culminated in the English civil wars and Charles’s overthrow. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book opens with an introduction to the early modern culture of royal progresses and public ceremonial as inherited and practised by Charles I. Part I explores the question of the king’s accessibility and engagement with his subjects further through case studies of Charles’s ‘great’ progresses in 1633, 1634, and 1636. Part II turns attention to royal public ceremonial culture in Caroline London, focusing on Charles’s royal entry on 25 November 1641. More widely travelled than his ancestors, Progresses reveals a monarch who was only too well aware of the value of public ceremonial and who did not eschew it, even if he was not always willing to engage in ceremonial dialogue with his people or able to deploy the power of public display to curry support for his policies as successfully as his Tudor and Stuart predecessors.

‘An Elegant Legacy?’

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-203
Author(s):  
Danielle Birkett
Keyword(s):  
Archival Research ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Political Message ◽  
Broadway Musicals ◽  
Frank Sinatra

Different issues challenged the screen adaptation of Finian’s Rainbow, which was one of the most successful Broadway musicals of the 1940s but took more than twenty years to be released as a film. Using archival research, this chapter reveals the frustrated early attempts to make Finian’s into an animated film musical, partly blighted by the blacklisting of lyricist E. Y. Harburg in 1951. Ex-Disney animator John Hubley was hired to work on the film and created more than 400 storyboard sketches, designs, and character drafts for the movie. By 1954, ten key songs had been recorded by leading artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong; indeed, in an attempt to make the project as commercial as possible, Sinatra was assigned a part in nearly all the songs. A new prologue was added and changes were made to the story to soften its vigorous political message, but for a mixture of political and financial reasons the production was abruptly closed down; Finian’s Rainbow would not reach the screen until late the following decade.

The Environs of Tres Zapotes as the Find-Spot of the Tuxtla Statuette

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 747-764
Author(s):  
John Justeson ◽  
Christopher A. Pool ◽  
Ponciano Ortiz Ceballos ◽  
María del Carmen Rodríguez Martínez ◽  
Jane MacLaren Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
San Andres

The famous greenstone figure known as the Tuxtla Statuette is one of only 12 objects known to bear an epi-Olmec inscription and was the first to become known to scholarship. For more than a century its original find-spot was imprecisely and erroneously identified as lying in the township of San Andrés Tuxtla or, more generally, in the Tuxtla Mountains. Correspondence in the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution documents that the figure was found on the Hacienda de Hueyapan de Mimendi, near the colossal head of Tres Zapotes. Archival research in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology and the Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, as well as interviews with descendants of owners of the Hacienda de Hueyapan and the statuette, allow us to confirm several features of the Smithsonian correspondence. The data indicate that the statuette was found within or very near the epi-Olmec regional center of Tres Zapotes and within the township of Santiago Tuxtla.

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