Appendices to various nautical almanacs between the years 1834 and 1854.

Mode of access: Internet.

[Collection of English Almanacs for the years 1702-1835.

Multiple titles included (Imprint varies): "Court and City Register, or, Gentleman's complete annual Kalendar"; "Free-Masons' Calendar..."; "Poor Robin, an Almanack"; "Gentleman's Diary, or the mathematical repository"; "Merlinus Liberatus"; Ladies Diary: or, Woman's almanack"; "Speculum anni: or, Season on the season"; "Coelestial atlas, containing a new Ephemeris of the planetary motions..."; "Parker's ephemeris"; "Remarkable news from the stars, or, an Ephemeris"; "Diary Companion being a Supplement to the Ladies' diary"; "Vox stellarum: or, a loyal almanack..."; etc...

A tale of two childhoods : the virtual child and the real child in Romania, 1970s and 1980s

This thesis deals with the everyday use of propaganda in Romania, between 1971 and 1989. It explores the way in which the propaganda discourse of the Romanian Communist Party was disseminated through popular culture artifacts targeting children: Pioneers' magazines, textbooks, Almanacs and moralizing stories. These artifacts configured the image of a model child, whose preoccupations complied with the requirements of the Romanian Communist Party and communicated a set of recommended practices, to be followed by Romanian children. At the same time, the thesis incorporates the response of the actual children to these desirable practices, and implicitly, their response to state propaganda.

Women and writing c1340-c1650; the domestication of print culture

The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a mmajor topic of academic interest, but has received little attention in relation to women's involvement. The essays in this volume both add female names to the list of those authors who created English Literature, and examine women's responses to older texts. Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence. These reveal women's participation in the making of books, and also the traces they left behind when handling individual volumes. Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres and between manuscript and print.

Domesticating the calendar: the hours and the almanac in Tudor England

This article examines two genres of text which were extremely popular in the late-medieval and early modern periods, and it pays particular attention to women users. The printed almanacs of sixteenth-century England were enormously influential; yet their contents are so formulaic and repetitive as to appear almost empty of valuable information. Their most striking feature is their astrological guidance for the reader, and this has led to them being considered 'merely' the repository of popular superstition. Only in the last decade have themes of gender and medicine been given serious consideration in relation to almanacs; but this work has focused on the seventeenth century. This chapter centres on a detailed analysis of sixteenth-century English almanacs, and the various kinds of scientific and household guidance they offered to women readers. Both compilers and users needed to chart a safe course through the religious and scientific battles of the time; and the complexities involved are demonstrated by considering the almanacs in relation to competing sources of guidance. These latter are Books of Hours and 'scientific' works such as medical calendars compiled by Oxford scholars in the late middle ages. A key feature of this chapter is that it gives practical interpretations of this complex information, for the guidance of modern readers unfamiliar with astrology.

Para ler nos caminhos de ferro: o Almanach Litterario de São Paulo (1876-1885)

Analiso, neste artigo, a circulação do Almanach Litterário de São Paulo, periódico editado anualmente de 1876 a 1885, com a exceção de 1882 e 1883. A abordagem inclui o quadro de autores, os gêneros de textos publicados e suas principais temáticas. O trabalho com a fonte permite compreender a formação da sociedade letrada paulista nas últimas décadas do século XIX.

O hibridismo textual em como agua para chocolate (1989), de Laura Esquivel: folhetim, almanaque, caderno de receitas e diário íntimo

Este artigo pretende discutir como se articulam, na estrutura híbrida do romance Como agua para chocolate, alguns gêneros textuais discursivos comumente dedicados à leitura de mulheres – folhetim, almanaque, caderno de receitas e diário íntimo –, cuja presença fica sugerida desde o subtítulo “novela de entregas mensuales, con recetas, amores y remedios caseros”. Esses gêneros se misturam na construção da narrativa, possibilitando, no âmbito da pós-modernidade, uma leitura crítica do papel da mulher na sociedade patriarcal da primeira metade do século XX.

Por dentro da história: mulheres operosas no mundo do comércio em Parnaíba (1930 a 1950)

Pós-graduação em História - FCLAS

Annotated almanac, 1739

Almanac with sporadic annotations on the calendar pages (such as "1L" written next to the April 18, 1739 entry and "2L" written next to the April 25th entry). The only handwritten entry is on the October page: "22d day, tides higher yr for 16 years past."