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Book The Journals of Sydney Race  1892 1900

Download or read book The Journals of Sydney Race 1892 1900 written by Sydney Race and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sydney Race (1875-1960) lived nearly all his life in Nottingham. From his teenage years, he was fascinated by entertainment, and was a regular visitor to the theatre, circus and the annual Goose Fair, as well as the concerts and readings at the Nottingham Mechanics' Institution ... his journals for the period 1892 to 1900 represent his early reflections on performance, from his very first visit to a theatre, to the shows at the Goose Fair, to Henry Irving, Ellen Terry and the lesser luminaries of the portable theatres" - publisher's blurb.

Book The Kinetoscope

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Brown
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-01
  • ISBN : 0861969316
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Kinetoscope written by Richard Brown and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how the motion-picture device was developed, and its role in Victorian society and early cinema. The position of the kinetoscope in film history is central and undisputed; indicative of its importance is the detailed attention American scholars have given to examining its history. However, the Kinetoscope’s development in Britain has not been well documented and much current information about it is incomplete and out of date. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the unauthorized and often colorful development of British kinetoscopes, using many previously unpublished sources. The commercial and technical backgrounds of the kinetoscope are looked at in detail; the style and content of the earliest British films analyzed; and the device’s place in the wider world of Victorian popular entertainment examined. In addition, a unique legal case is revealed and a number of previously unrecorded film pioneers are identified and discussed.

Book Victorian Comedy and Laughter

Download or read book Victorian Comedy and Laughter written by Louise Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear,George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone,Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke — both on the page and the stage — while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Book From Steam to Screen

Download or read book From Steam to Screen written by Rebecca Harrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the technological transformations wrought by modernity. Films, newspapers and literature told astonishing stories about technology, such as locomotives breaking speed records and moving images seemingly springing into life onscreen. And, whether in films about train travel, or in newspaper articles about movie theatres on trains, stories about the convergence of the railway and cinema were especially prominent. Together, the two technologies radically transformed how people interacted with the world around them, and became crucial to how British media reflected the nation's modernity and changing role within the empire. Rebecca Harrison draws on archival sources and an extensive corpus of films to trace the intertwined histories of the train and the screen for the first time. In doing so, she presents a new and illuminating material and cultural history of the period, and demonstrates the myriad ways railways and cinema coalesced to transform the population's everyday life. With examples taken from more than 240 newsreels and 40 feature-length films, From Steam to Screen is essential reading for students and researchers working on film studies and British history at the turn of the century and beyond.

Book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales  Sydney  Reference Department

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales Sydney Reference Department written by Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

    Book Details:
  • Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1142 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Free Public Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal

    Book Details:
  • Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1498 pages

Download or read book Journal written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australia s First Fabians

Download or read book Australia s First Fabians written by Race Mathews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of Australia's first Fabians are known as legislators, priests, jurists, men and women of letters, diplomats, feminists and educators, yet few are recognised as Fabians. Until this book, little attention has been given to Australian Fabian thinkers, activists and organisations, and their long-term influence on Australian political and intellectual life. This book recreates the lives of the first Fabians in Australia, their political ideas and strategies, and presents their visions for society in a lively and entertaining way. It also explores the similarities between the Fabian Society's development in Britain and Australia. The book will fill a long-standing gap in Australian intellectual history and the history of early socialist movements in Australia.

Book Black Baseball  1858 1900

Download or read book Black Baseball 1858 1900 written by James E. Brunson III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the most important baseball books to be published in a long time, taking a comprehensive look at black participation in the national pastime from 1858 through 1900. It provides team rosters and team histories, player biographies, a list of umpires and games they officiated and information on team managers and team secretaries. Well known organizations like the Washington's Mutuals, Philadelphia Pythians, Chicago Uniques, St. Louis Black Stockings, Cuban Giants and Chicago Unions are documented, as well as lesser known teams like the Wilmington Mutuals, Newton Black Stockings, San Francisco Enterprise, Dallas Black Stockings, Galveston Flyaways, Louisville Brotherhoods and Helena Pastimes. Player biographies trace their connections between teams across the country. Essays frame the biographies, discussing the social and cultural events that shaped black baseball. Waiters and barbers formed the earliest organized clubs and developed local, regional and national circuits. Some players belonged to both white and colored clubs, and some umpires officiated colored, white and interracial matches. High schools nurtured young players and transformed them into powerhouse teams, like Cincinnati's Vigilant Base Ball Club. A special essay covers visual representations of black baseball and the artists who created them, including colored artists of color who were also baseballists.

Book The Geographical Journal

Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

Book Supplement no  1  1901 1905  etc

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Supplement no 1 1901 1905 etc written by United States. Department of Agriculture. Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Occasional Papers of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

Download or read book Occasional Papers of Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fred Johns s Annual

Download or read book Fred Johns s Annual written by Fred Johns and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales  Sydney for the Years 1888  1910

Download or read book Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales Sydney for the Years 1888 1910 written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Child  nation  race and empire

Download or read book Child nation race and empire written by Margot Hillel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child, nation, race and empire is an innovative, inter-disciplinary, cross cultural study that contributes to understandings of both contemporary child welfare practices and the complex dynamics of empire. It analyses the construction and transmission of nineteenth-century British child rescue ideology. Locating the origins of contemporary practice in the publications of the prominent English Child rescuers, Dr Barnardo, Thomas Bowman Stephenson, Benjamin Waugh, Edward de Montjoie Rudolf and their colonial disciples and literature written for children, it shows how the vulnerable body of the child at risk came to be reconstituted as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. Yet, as the shocking testimony before the many official enquiries into the past treatment of children in out-of-home ‘care’ held in Britain, Ireland, Australia and Canada make clear, there was no guarantee that the rescued child would be protected from further harm.