Letter to Samuel D. Woodruff from Thomas Steers and W.M. Kelly

Letter to Samuel D. Woodruff from Thomas Steers and W.M. Kelly stating that they have been successful in getting the patent through for Mrs. Clement for Lot no.30, Concession 2 in Enniskillen. James Clement is not of age and he cannot transfer his right to his brother Joseph. There is no obstacle of the patent being issued in Richard’s name. There are some notes in pencil on this document. The document is torn, and stained, but text is not affected. The postmark on the outside is Montreal, June 26, 1847, June 25, 1847.

Father Mathew: a biography

UANL

The Revd. Bartlett (1788 – 1841), Rector of Swanage - biography and autograph manuscript

from Thos. Bartlett's anthology

William Tilney, Walsingham biography and manuscript extract

from William Tilney's anthology

Teoría de los constructos personales de G.A. Kelly aplicada al rendimiento académico.

Conocer la teoría de los constructos personales de Kelly, como posible aplicación al área de Educación. 99 sujetos, 53 hombres y 46 mujeres, de edades comprendidas entre los 13 y 19 años, todos ellos estudiantes de BUP becados, por lo que pueden clasificarse de clase baja. Los sujetos formaron tres grupos: primero A, primero B, y tercero. El diseño se dividio en 4 partes: a. En base a las puntuaciones obtenidas en el test de inteligencia, cada grupo se dividió en dos partes: el 25 por ciento con CI más alto forman un subgrupo y el 25 con CI más bajo forman otro subgrupo. b. En base a las calificaciones obtenidas: 25 por ciento de calificaciones altas y 25 de calificaciones bajas tanto en el apartado 'A' como en el 'B', el diseño es el del tipo de grupos apareados. c. En base al criterio de asignaturas fáciles y difíciles se forma un diseño 2x2x3, este apartado es una ampliación del apartado a. d. En este apartado, similar al anterior, se emplean los grupos divididos en base a las calificaciones, y se agrupan las asignaturas en fáciles y difíciles. De acuerdo con el formato del REP-test de Kelly, la estructura de esta técnica se divide en tres partes: elementos: asignaturas del plan de estudios de cada grupo; constructos: lo semajante forma el polo de la izquierda y lo diferente en el polo de la derecha; rejilla: cada sujeto debe puntuar en cada casilla, utilizando una escala del 1 al 5. Test de inteligencia general, TEA, SA, 1974. Calificaciones: de las actas correspondientes a la cuarta evaluación. Moda. Análisis de Cluster, programas de BMDP1M y BMDP2M, Dixon, 1982. Análisis de varianza, programa Reliability de SPSS, Nie y Hull, 1981. Frecuencia. Prueba Chi cuadrado. No se confirma que las personas más inteligentes tengan mayor complejidad cognitiva que las personas menos inteligentes. No se confirma la hipótesis de que las personas que obtienen mayor rendimiento académico tengan mayor complejidad cognitiva que aquéllos de bajo rendimiento. Hay un cierto apoyo para la hipótesis de que al evaluar asignaturas difíciles ocurre mayor complejidad cognitiva que cuando se evalúan asignaturas fáciles. Los sujetos consideran a una asignatura fácil o difícil según las buenas o malas calificaciones que hayan obtenido. Esto concuerda con los planteamientos de Kelly, 1955, de que las personas validan los constructos subjetivamente. En cuanto al grado de relevancia de los constructos, los sujetos atribuyen central importancia a la comprensión de la asignatura y del profesor y, en menor grado, da importancia a que la asignatura sea agradable.

Temporality, cultural biography and seasonality: rethinking time in wetland archaeology

Wetland archaeology is uniquely well placed to investigate questions of chronology, temporality, life-cycles and seasonality. Beyond the usual archaeological approaches to time (eg seriation, typology and stratigraphy), most wetland archaeological investigations have access to a ready supply of samples (ie wood, peat and organic deposits) for absolute scientific dating, particularly radiocarbon and dendrochronology. Indeed, the success of dendrochronology in revealing dynamic sequences of site and regional occupation, use and abandonment are well known. Investigating wetland archaeological sites, environmental archaeologists have used the evidence of insects' plant remains, seeds and even testate amoeba to establish the season, or months, of a site's occupation. Soil micromorphologists have carried out innovative studies of settlement deposits to reconstruct the chronological sequences of processes and events leading to their formation. In brief, wetland archaeology has become adept at calibrating past times.

North Sea archaeologies: a maritime biography, 10,000 BC - AD 1500

North Sea Archaeologies traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500, drawing upon archaeological research from many countries, including the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and France. It addresses topics which include the first interactions of people with the emerging North Sea, the origin and development of fishing, the creation of coastal landscapes, the importance of islands and archipelagos, the development of seafaring ships and their use by early seafarers and pirates, and the treatment of boats and ships at the end of their useful lives. The study offers a ‘maritime turn’ in Archaeology through the investigation of aspects of human behaviour that have been, to various extents, disregarded, overlooked, or ignored in archaeological studies of the land. The study concludes that the relationship between humans and the sea challenges the frequently invoked dichotomy between pre-modernity and modernity, since many ancient beliefs, superstitions, and practices linked to seafaring and engagement with the sea are still widespread in the modern era.

Life before ‘The New Biography’: Modernist biographical methods in the Hogarth Press ‘Books on Tolstoi’ 1920-24

In the early 1920s, before Virginia Woolf wrote her now well-known essays “The New Biography” and “The Art of Biography,” the Hogarth Press published four biographies of Tolstoy. Each of these English translations of Russian works takes a different approach to biographical composition, and as a group they offer multiple and contradictory perspectives on Tolstoy’s character and on the genre of biography in the early twentieth century. These works show that Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press took a multi-perspectival, modernist approach to publishing literary lives.

Technology, ritual and Anglo-Saxon agrarian production: the biography of a seventh-century century plough coulter from Lyminge, Kent

The discovery of an unusual early medieval plough coulter in a well-dated Anglo-Saxon settlement context in Kent suggests that continentally derived technology was in use in this powerful kingdom centuries before heavy ploughs were first depicted in Late Saxon manuscripts. The substantial investment required to manufacture the coulter, the significant damage and wear that it sustained during use and the circumstances of its ultimate ritual deposition are explored. Investigative conservation, high-resolution recording and metallographic analysis illuminate the form, function and use-life of the coulter. An examination of the deposition contexts of plough-irons in early medieval northern Europe sheds important new light on the ritual actions of plough symbolism in an age of religious hybridity and transformation.