"Volume 1 focuses on women's literary history in Britain between 700 and 1500. It brings to the fore a wide range of women's literary activity undertaken in Latin, Welsh and Anglo-Norman alongside that of the English vernacular, demanding a rethinking of the traditions of literary history, and ultimately the concept of 'writing' itself. Rethinking the history of women's writing and literary history itself, this volume 2 examines the diversity of...

The collection primarily consists of newspaper clippings about Boy Scouts of America activities in Watertown, Massachusetts printed between 1922 and 1967. Clippings from March 2, 1922 to June 13, 1940 have been pasted in chronological order onto the pages of a single bound volume. These articles are dated in pen. There are also a handful of loose post-1940 clippings which were left between pages unpasted. Most of these are dated, but they are in no...

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach. Pieces in the book explore how DH can and must change in response to social justice movements and events like #Ferguson; how DH alters and is altered...

The news media are being transformed in the digital age. Audiences are fragmenting and regrouping, and media economic models are mutating. Older news organizations are shrinking, while new ones are starting up. And social media enable anyone to produce and transmit news. This addition to the What Everyone Needs to Know series explores the past, present, and future of news--from the earliest origins of news through the eras of newspapers, radio, television...

Carl Carlsen discusses the life of his late father, Ivar Carlo Carlsen, a former resident of Newton, Massachusetts. Ivar, born in 1919 in Sandefjord, Norway, began his career at sea at a young age, initially sailing on whaling factory ships in the South Atlantic. During World War II, Ivar joined the Norwegian Merchant Marines and then the US Army transport, hoping to gain American citizenship. In 1943, he was aboard a ship that was torpedoed and sunk...

Brings together more than 70 obituaries from the Times of John Thadeus Delane (1841-77) and his successors, and shows how some of the leading personalities of the 19th century were viewed by a paper that was itself one of the defining institutions of the age.

A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night. Titles include: The Danish Girl ; Call Me by Your Name ; Moonlight; ; 3 Generations ; Disobedience ; Boy Erased. The Danish girl (2015) (120 min.): This remarkable love story which is inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe an Gerda Wegener, follows the evolution of the couple's marriage and work as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender...