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The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

Allan William Martin

1862; Menie Parkes to H. Parkes, 19 March 1862,PCA933. 65 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 20 April 1862, PC A1044. 66 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 April 1862, ibid. Emphasis in original. 67 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 May 1862, ibid. 68 Fitzpatrick  ...
Cultural Studies V2

Cultural Studies V2

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(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes's companion and counsellor,  ...
Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Ping-hui Liao

(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes' s companion and counsellor,  ...
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins. THE HENRY PARKES FAMILY TREE Henry PARKES ( 1815–1896) ... 1878 Robert Moser HISCOX (c.1843–1919) Varney PARKES ( 1859-1935) m. 1883 Mary Cameron MURRAY (1864–1883) m. 1884 Isabella ...
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Fanny Parkes Parlby

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

Clem J. Lloyd

When it returned, Menie Parkes, the daughter of Sir Henry Parkes who had stoutly opposed the commitment, asked tartly: 'What are they going to do with the contingent now? Embalm them?'21 According to the Bulletin, another opponent of ...
Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Susan Hamilton

Joseph Parkes to Bessie Rayner Parkes, 2 August 1864, Girton College, Cambridge. Qtd in M. Vicinus, 81. Vicinus traces the resilience of Faithfull's reputation for mannish appearance. In 1898, three years after 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ...
Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

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1/10; Joseph Parkes to BRP, n.dv PPG, vol. 11/85. 6 William Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals; Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-41, Oxford, OUP, 1979, ch. 6; there is alsoJessie Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham, London, ...
Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Peter Robertson

Beyond Southern Skies tells the story of the planning and construction of the Parkes Telescope in rural New South Wales, Australia and surveys its achievements over the past thirty years.
The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

Frédéric Moret

42 Philip J. Salmon, 'Parkes, Joseph (1796–1865)', Jessie Kathleen Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham and the Part which he played in Radical Reform Movements from 1825 to 1845, Etc. (London, Methuen & Co., 1926), xiv p. 207.
The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

Clara Parkes

And another, and another.” Praise for The Yarn Whisperer: “Clara Parkes: The Yarn Seer.” —Interweave Knits magazine “If you are a knitter, or even if you are not, read this book for the sheer joy of her writing, for the way she ...
The Oxford Book of Australian Letters

The Oxford Book of Australian Letters

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Menie Parkes "Now what excuse can you make for him? If you should see or hear from him Just you ask him how he would like to see poor Polly wasted sulky & pale fretting about but he must expect it & to see the looks when any one comes ...
Crimes and Trials

Crimes and Trials

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I have yet to find reactions to Mount Rennie in private female diaries or letters of the period, although Menie Parkes was transfixed by another widely debated rape upon a young girl, the case of Medcalf and Wilkinson, 1879. In preference to  ...
Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, K. C. B. With Correspondence ...

Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, K. C. B. With Correspondence ...

Joseph Parkes

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Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, ...

Medieval and Renaissance Lactations: Images, Rhetorics, ...

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While scholars such as Avner Giladi have suggested that the Islamic tradition is distinctive in the attention it devotes to the creation of kinship ties through wet nurses, Parkes (in a series of articles) has demonstrated how “equivalent infant ...
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy ...

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy ...

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Often, some of the best known contemporary Continental philosophers such as John Sallis, David Farrell Krell, Walter Brogan, Graham Parkes, and James Risser have been drawn into comparative philosophy at various stages along their ...
Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes: The ...

Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes: The ...

M.B. Parkes

1553–58; H. Jenkinson, The Later Court Hands in England (Cambridge, 1927), pl . ... For its appearance in other copy books see H. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558–1640 (Oxford, 1996), pl. I (Peter Bales ...
Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, public ...

Climate Change and Gender in Rich Countries: Work, public ...

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... children and Aboriginal peoples: Towards contextuallyinformed approaches to climate change and health Maya K. Gislason, Chris Buse, Shayna Dolan, Margot W. Parkes, Jemma Tosh and Bob Woollard PART V Public policy and activism ...
Life and correspondence of Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S., &c

Life and correspondence of Joseph Priestley, LL.D., F.R.S., &c

John Towill Rutt

Mr. Parkes was also " informed" by Dr. Priestley's nephew, who attended him, " that theirs was one of the largest and most extended families in Yorkshire."* From this scanty information respecting the ancestry of Joseph Priestley, I hasten to ...

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