Robert Duguid Forrest Pring-Mill 1924–2005

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
Hispanic Studies ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Second World ◽  
Calderón De La Barca

Robert Pring-Mill was one of a generation of young men whose education was interrupted by the Second World War and who went to university as mature students after demobilisation. In Hispanic Studies, as in other subject areas, it was academics of that generation who laid the foundations of the modern discipline, and Pring-Mill, an all-rounder who firmly believed that his various research activities were mutually enriching, had the distinction of making a significant contribution to several of its branches. In the course of his career, but primarily in the early stages, he produced a body of studies that earned him recognition as one of the world's foremost authorities on the work of medieval poet, mystic, philosopher, and theologian Ramon Lhull. Pring-Mill's most substantial and most important work in the area of Golden Age literature was his writings on Spain's greatest dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Perinatal Mortality

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
STUART H. CLIFFORD
Keyword(s):  
Perinatal Mortality ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prenatal Period ◽  
Trust Fund ◽  
World War ◽  
Neonatal Deaths ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Second World

Following the second world war, the research activities of the National Birthday Trust Fund were directed to the investigations of factors in the prenatal period and during labor which might have a bearing on the early death or abnormality of the baby. A Perinatal Survey of England, Scotland, and Wales was carried out in 1958 involving some 25,000 babies at delivery or death, with the collection of all available information about the mother's background, her pregnancy and labor, and with detailed necropsy inquiry on the stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

scholarly journals Las aportaciones de Gropius y Wachsmann a la industria de las casas de madera

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Bartolomé Serra Soriano ◽  
Alfonso Díaz Segura ◽  
Ricardo Merí de la Maza
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Continuous Review ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Prefabricated Houses ◽  
Walter Gropius ◽  
Second World

<div><p>Walter Gropius and Konrad Wachsmann made a significant contribution to the housing prefabrication industry. After the Second World War, they set principles that have served as a basis for continuous revisions in the interests of optimising the industry. The Packaged Houses are a research that shows a continuous review of the processes and constructive systems of prefabricated houses. This article tries to study (following a chronological criterion and focused on the context of this type of construction) the experience of Gropius and Wachsmann and their contributions as a basis for other investigations that, even today, continue their course.</p></div>

The War in the Historical Memory of Nations

2015 ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
N. V. Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Gene Level ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Second World

There is no doubt that the most important event of the 20th century was a joint victory of the united front of peoples and states over German fascism. For some that was the victory in the Second World War. For the Russians - the victory in the Great Patriotic War which cost the Soviet Union incredible efforts, enormous sacrifices and material losses. Now when we celebrate the 70thyear since that epoch-making date we turn our attention once more to the lessons of history because the memory of the war has been imprinted deeply on our gene level of Russians and Germans. This is because every family from both sides sustained heavy losses. This memory is alive in literature, in movies and plays, songs, in memorials, biographies and historical dates. The Russian and German descendants of those who fought against each other are doing an important work searching for the killed, looking after the burial places, compensating the damage to the victims of this inhuman massacre, trying to understand critically our common and controversial past. What was the 9th of May for the Germans and the Russians in the perception of Germans and Russians? Was it a victory, a defeat or liberation? This is what the author of the article reflects on, convinced that we are anyway dealing with the greatest event of the 20th century, at least because it prevented the end of civilization.

scholarly journals Either with Us or Against Us: British Perceptions of the Irish in World War Two

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Katherine Kimber-Alldridge
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Irish People ◽  
Second World ◽  
Key Questions

Literature on Anglo-Irish relations in the Second World War has suggested that in British popular and political discourse the neutral Irish were felt complacent, shortsighted, stubborn, stupid, and cowardly. Extreme opinion held them treacherous. However, there was significant Anglo-Irish intelligence collaboration, many Irish served in the British Forces and a significant contribution was made by Irish immigrant labour during the war. Yet ambivalent and dismissive perceptions of the Irish continued and grew during World War Two. This thesis will examine the ways in which contemporarypopular perceptions of “Irishness” were affected by cultural antipathy, the actions of the Irish state, the influx of immigrant Irish workers and the recruitment of Irish volunteers into the British Armed Forces, during the years of 1939-1945. Key questions that appear here are whether the shifting circumstances of war changed attitudes to the Irish, and further if, at time of extreme threat to Britain and her Empire, was Ireland, though neutral, considered an enemy.Concentrating on the public discourse on the Irish states conduct during the war, attitudes towards Irish people and British experiences of Irish immigrant workers and Irish people in the British Forces, this survey will illuminate the depth and breadth of ambivalence towards Eire and its people. It is found that the key to British understanding was acquiescence to British influence, even if this was against the wishes of the Irish people. It is the main contention of this thesis that, because of non-acquiescence, the Second World War was the point when Britain psychically ejected ‘Irishness’ from its national identity, casting the Irish as irredeemably ‘other’, even before Ireland seceded from the Commonwealth. It is also concluded that due to influence of this ejection, for many Eire, though neutral, was perceived as if she were an enemy to Britain.

A century of Turing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wolfram
Keyword(s):  
Computer Science ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Latin Text ◽  
World War ◽  
Important Work ◽  
World War One ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Wolfram Mathematica ◽  
Second World

I never met Alan Turing; he died five years before I was born. But somehow I feel I know him well, not least because many of my own intellectual interests have had an almost eerie parallel with his. And by a strange coincidence, the ‘birthday’ of Wolfram Mathematica, 23 June 1988, is aligned with Turing’s own. I think I first heard of Alan Turing when I was about 11 years old, right around the time I saw my first computer. Through a friend of my parents, I had got to know a rather eccentric old classics professor, who, knowing my interest in science, mentioned to me this ‘bright young chap named Turing’ whom he had known during the Second World War. One of this professor’s eccentricities was that, whenever the word ‘ultra’ came up in a Latin text, he would repeat it over and over again and make comments about remembering it. At the time, I didn’t think much of it, although I did remember it. Only years later did I realize that ‘Ultra’ was the codename for the British cryptanalysis effort at Bletchley Park during the war. In a very British way, the classics professor wanted to tell me something about it, without breaking any secrets—and presumably it was at Bletchley Park that he had met Alan Turing. A few years later I heard scattered mentions of Alan Turing in various British academic circles. I heard that he had done mysterious but important work in breaking German codes during the war, and I heard it claimed that after the war he had been killed by British Intelligence. At that time some of the British wartime cryptography effort was still secret, including Turing’s role in it. I wondered why. So I asked around, and started hearing that perhaps Turing had invented codes that were still being used. In reality, though, the continued secrecy seems to have been intended to prevent its being known that certain codes had been broken, so that other countries would continue to use them. I am not sure where I next encountered Alan Turing. Probably it was when I decided to learn all I could about computer science, and saw all sorts of mentions of ‘Turing machines’. But I have a distinct memory from around 1979 of going to the library and finding a little book about Alan Turing written by his mother, Sara Turing.

scholarly journals Practice, Discourse and Experience: The Relationship Between Design History and Architectural History

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jessica Kelly ◽  
Claire Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Architectural History ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Design History ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
World War ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

Abstract This Special Issue explores the relationship between architectural history and design history; two disciplines with close subject areas and methodological links, but which have developed distinct institutional and academic identities that often separate them. This introduction frames the articles contained in the issue—which in different ways demonstrate the compelling nature of research that straddles these disciplines—through an examination of the roots such research approaches have within the recent past of each field. Through a re-reading of key moments within the historiography of each discipline in the UK and USA since the Second World War, it is possible to understand how architectural and design history have evolved in relation to each other, and how the expansion of each into the territory of the other has emerged.

Hadassah, 1933–1947: Responding to Crisis

Hadassah ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 34-53
Author(s):  
Mira Katzburg-Yungman
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
World War ◽  
Gradual Shift ◽  
Jewish Refugees ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Second World

This chapter discusses organizational developments during the Second World War. From 1937 a gradual shift took place in Hadassah's policy that saw it beginning to engage in political activity. A significant contribution was made to this change by David Ben-Gurion, the Zionist workers' leader who would later be considered the architect of the Jewish state. In addition, the rise of Hitler to power in 1933, and the consequent challenge of coping with the problem of the Jewish refugees from Germany, led to an expansion both of Hadassah's activity and of the organization itself. Furthermore, the chapter reveals that Hadassah's political activity in the three years between the end of the Second World War and the establishment of the State of Israel was only part of its overall programme. Another part, which the organization saw as one of its central roles, was the education of its members along Jewish and Zionist lines.

Krigsseilere i fred: De som ble glemt og det som ble husket

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Author(s):  
Bjørn Tore Rosendahl
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Search Results ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Post War ◽  
Second World

During the Second World War, the merchant fleet and its seafarers represented Norway’s most significant contribution to the Allied war effort. However, lack of recognition has in many ways defined the post-war era of the “war sailors”, as the wartime seafarers are called in Scandinavia. Publicity is a part of recognition, and this article studies in what degree the “war sailors” have received publicity from 1945 to 2019. Using search results from a database of digitized Norwegian newspapers, some clear patterns emerge. The war efforts of the merchant seafarers were not forgotten immediately after the war, but they were not in the limelight. Not long after, the “war sailors” disappeared from the newspaper columns. In connection with the three milestones in the battle of “the secret fund of Nortraship”, they received a short-term increase of publicity. The last decade’s increased publicity seems to be more long-lasting, and it has become honourable to be called a “war sailor”. Gradually, several groups of seafarers have been included in the term and are now remembered as “war sailors”. This is partly a result of the need for visibility and recognition for forgotten groups of wartime seafarers.

scholarly journals Profesor Tadeusz Skulina – historyk języka i onomasta

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
Alicja Pihan-Kijasowa
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Slavic Languages ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Habilitation Thesis ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Second World

Professor Tadeusz Skulina (1929–1992) was born in Katowice but from the Second World War he was connected with Great Poland. Also in Poznań, he studied Polish Studies and following his graduation became employed at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań where he completed the consecutive stages of his scholarly career. As a disciple of Professor Władysław Kuraszkiewicz he conducted research on the Polish language of the Old-Polish era and of the 16th century. His doctoral thesis (1964) was devoted to historical phonetics and historical dialectology but soon he changed his scholarly interests and entered the field of Slavic studies, especially East-Slavic languages. In his habilitation thesis he discussed the question of the Old-Ruthenian anthroponymy. This thesis, published in 1973, was the first original, so extensive and detailed thesis about the Old-Ruthenian names. As we know, in the period following the receipt of his habilitation degree Professor Tadeusz Skulina had plans to prepare a monograph about Polish feminine onomastics. He had pursued this for years, however, unfortunately, never managed to prepare a synthesis. He only left an unfinished editorial draft of this book. Apart from research activities, Professor Skulina was involved in didactics and also performed responsible administrative functions at the Institute of Polish Philology, was a member of numerous scholarly societies. For his achievements, he received many awards and honours. Professor Tadeusz Skulina died in 1992 after a long and emaciating illness. The scholarly achievements he has left inspire the successive generations of researchers. He also left unfinished written works and ideas which he never managed to realize.

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