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Poulter, Emma Katherine. "Connecting histories: recontextualising the West African Collection at the Manchester Museum." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585531.
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This thesis takes a biographical approach to the West African collections at the Manchester Museum, unravelling the historical trajectories these objects have taken through time and space. At the heart of this study are the questions of how and why objects travelled from one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. I will also examine the ways they have subsequently been used (or disused), interpreted and understood. Despite a 'culture of amnesia' (Huyssen 1995) which has meant that the majority of these objects have, until now, remained under researched in the museum stores, this thesis shows how objects in the West African collections at the Manchester Museum have dynamic and pertinent stories to tell. Most of Europe's museums and galleries were established during the nineteenth century. As such the life-histories of many of the non-Western objects in these museum collections relate to histories of colonialism and its legacy. Although some museums are beginning to examine these connections in their recently curated displays, many other institutions have avoided tackling these subjects and the questions that they raise. Objects and their meanings exist on various levels, pointing to the specific as well as to the wider contexts in which they were produced, consumed and re-articulated. In addition to this, the meanings of objects are not fixed but shift and accrue over time. Through an interrogation of their materiality, museum objects enable us to unlock these complex, interconnected and often overlooked histories. Integral to these nuances of meaning are the themes of identity, status, memory and hybridity. By piecing together the fragmented archival information which exists about the West African collections at the Manchester Museum, via the use of a database compiled by the author, it is possible to consider the ways in which these themes are linked to and resonate through, objects. Crucial to this thesis is the consideration not only of the stories which objects tell, but also the possibilities for their present and future display that these shared narratives raise. Through a series of case studies this study examines how processes connected to colonialism, trade, industry and empire effected the production of, and interactions with, material culture in specific and tangible ways. As these case studies bring to light, there is much potential to utilise a biographical approach to incorporate new perspectives, shared histories and contemporary meanings relating to these objects into museum displays. Objects actively shape the interactions which take place through and around them. In the last two chapters of this thesis I use the idea of the contact zone (Pratt 1992, Clifford 1997) to demonstrate how the West African collections at the Manchester Museum can be used to facilitate ongoing relationships within the museum today. As I assess in the conclusion, the milieu of critical self-evaluation in which this thesis is located and the growing interest in the meanings of the museum objects, is gradually being reflected in museum practice through its displays as well as its rhetoric. Within this context this thesis shows how, through a biographical approach to objects and by drawing on the contact zone perspective, the museum environment can act as a dialogic arena in which complex meanings and histories can be investigated and debated. 9
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Parker, Angela. "The History and Educational Legacy of the Manchester Art Museum, 1886-1898." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/623.
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This thesis examines the history of the Manchester Art Museum (Manchester, England), which was founded by Thomas Coglan Horsfall (1841-1932) in 1886. It considers the museum’s permanent collections and its programming from 1886 to 1898 with brief notes on the later years of the institution. While, like previous work on the Manchester Art Museum, the thesis contextualizes the museum within Victorian arts and community institutions, it breaks new ground by highlighting the ways in which it diverged from these institutions. The analysis of the museum’s collections and programming emphasizes the contributions that Horsfall and the Art Museum Committee made to museum education through the museum’s circulating loan collections and school tours.
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Dransfield, A. "Applied science in a university context : metallurgy at Manchester, 1875-1906." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304110.
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Trojan, Lorenzo. "Radial transport and detachment in the University of Manchester linear system." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/radial-transport-and-detachment-in-the-university-of-manchester-linear-system(101d2bb9-d9e0-42ab-979d-1cbddf94821a).html.
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The role of cross field transport and volume recombination are of vital importance for a satisfactory understanding of the plasma edge in magnetically confined devices such as a Tokamak. Plasma fluctuations may travel cross field with significant velocities and play a central role in plasma transport. Cross field transport has been seen to be anomalous in most devices under a very broad range of experimental conditions. In recent years a clear indication of the relation between fluctuation, cross field particle transport and recombination has been reported.The University of Manchester Linear System (the ULS) has been used to observe the Balmer emission of the recombining plasma interacting with a dense neutral Hydrogen gas. The ULS is a device made of a cylindrical vacuum vessel 1.5 m long and 15 cm in radius. The plasma is formed in a separate chamber by a duoplasmatron source in the Demirkhanov configuration; the arc current was limited to 15 A and the potential drop was 100 V. The device is surrounded by a linear solenoid which was used to magnetize the plasma. The highest magnetic field was .1 T. Typical electron temperature in the device spans .1 to 10 eV, and the density 1. E+16 to 5. E+19.Diagnostic includes Langmuir probe and visible spectrometers. In addition, the DivCam imaging system originally designed and built to obtain 2D images of the MAST spherical Tokamak Scrape Off Layer, was used. The DivCam imaging system has enabled to obtain high resolution images of the plasma emission when interacting with the neutral gas. It appears evident that the Electron-Ion Recombination is strongly dependent upon radial transport of plasma particles: light emission attributed to EIR is only observed at a large cross field distance from the plasma source. Moreover, fast imaging of the plasma has also shown the presence of a plasma filament forming and propagating crossfield at the same region of the plasma where the EIR light is observed.To interpret the experimental observations obtained with DivCam, the OSM 1D fluid plasma solver and the EIRENE neutral Monte Carlo solver have been implemented in the linear geometry of the ULS linear system. Both the OSM and the EIRENE solvers were originally intended for tokamak and large magnetic confinement devices. Modelling of the EIR emissivity in the ULS device has demonstrated the importance of the inclusion of turbulent and blob transport in the model to obtain reasonable agreement between the observations and the theoretical predictions. The central density of the plasma filament has been estimated to be approximately .7 E+19 m-3 using EIRENE results.The emission attributed to hydrogenic ions (negative atomic H- and positive molecular ions H2+) and related to Molecular Assisted Recombinations can be estimated within EIRENE using the AMJUEL database. The database provides ion population estimations for three different collisional regimes: in the first regime a large population of vibrational excited hydrogen molecules are assumed to exist within the plasma volume; the second assumes strong Charge Exchange reactions and not vibrational excited molecule; the third assumes electron impact collisions with ground states molecule to be the only ion source. A reasonable agreement between the observations and the EIRENE prediction is only found when using the third estimation suggesting that molecular excitation and charge exchange processes are relatively unimportant under the experimental conditions considered.
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Everest, Sophie. "Film and the production of knowledge at the Manchester Museum : a practice-based study." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/film-and-the-production-of-knowledge-at-the-manchester-museum-a-practicebased-study(cb87e323-151a-4d5f-b98a-278d86eccd36).html.
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Non-fiction film shares a long and relatively uncharted history with the museum. Today, filmmaking is a widespread yet critically neglected area of modern museological practice. This practice-based PhD situates itself within these critical gaps to examine the knowledge producing potential of film archives and film practice at the Manchester Museum. Its primary historical sources are a group of taxidermy objects at the Manchester Museum, an archive of 16mm acetate films at the North West Film Archive and a collection of travel journals at Cheshire Archives and Local Studies. These diverse collections were generated by Maurice Egerton, the 4th Baron of Tatton in Cheshire during his travels in Africa in the first decades of the twentieth century. This thesis brings all three together for the first time since their moment of production. These collections recur throughout the thesis as I ask how film archives can complicate and enrich our understanding of collections and how filmmaking practice might continue to bring new types of knowledge into the museum and archive. Two research films are submitted with and discussed within the thesis. The first, 'Living Worlds at the Manchester Museum', adapts observational methods from visual anthropology to record objects and staff during the re-display of the mammal gallery at the Manchester Museum in 2011. The second, 'Articulating Archives' is the result of a creative collaboration in 2014 with Year 8 secondary school students and the institutions and archives named above. Within the production and analyses of these films I draw on diverse critical sources to suggest that film can illuminate properties of materiality, embodied knowledge and performed engagement that textual accounts fall short of capturing.
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Vittmann, Günther. "Der demotische Papyrus Rylands 9 /." Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37116530g.
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Isba, Rachel Elizabeth. "DREEMs, myths and realities : learning environments within the University of Manchester medical school." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509731.
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Svíbová, Tereza. "MUZEUM TEXTILNÍHO PRŮMYSLU V BRNĚ." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-377199.
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The goal of this diploma thesis was area between the city parts Malomerice and Obrany. After the construction of mill drive, an artificial island was created there. Industrial site with textile factories was established in 1912, however it does not fulfil its original purpose anymore and it is fairly damaged today. My intention was to clear the island and bring back its original form - park, unique place in nature where people acknowledge proximity of the river and cultural activities as well. I designed textile museum in the former factory building. It is accompanied by pavilion of Contemporary textile and fashion and also engineering exhibition. One of the components is an artificial canal for canoeists.
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Perry, Anthony J. "Research work submitted for the degree Doctor of Engineering of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679246.
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Amirbayat, Jafargholi. "Selected publications submitted to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the degree of Doctor of Science." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679242.
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Baker, Mona. "Selected publications submitted to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the degree of Doctor of Science." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679243.
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Launder, Brian. "Submission the to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the award of the higher Doctorate in Engineering." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679470.
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Watkins, A. Paul. "Selected publications submitted to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology for the award of the Higher Doctorate in Engineering (DEng)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679244.
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Webster, Sarah. "Protest activity in the British student movement, 1945 to 2011." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/protest-activity-in-the-british-student-movement-1945-to-2011(0111ba06-9b2d-468c-9bf0-11b938b15d37).html.
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This thesis examines the historical pattern of protest activity involving students from the University of Manchester and the London School of Economics between the academic years 1945/46 and 2010/11. Gathered through a protest event analysis of the universities’ student press, quantitative protest event data is presented that establishes a continuous pattern of protest activity at both institutions from the mid-fifties onwards. Adding to a small body of scholarship on student activism beyond the sixties epoch, the thesis challenges the assumption that student protest peaked in the late sixties, which currently dominates the student protest literature. The decade’s wave of student unrest is widely presented as exceptional and unprecedented, a golden age of student protest, casting non-sixties student generations as politically apathetic. The quantitative data refutes these claims, demonstrating an ongoing history of student protest on both campuses that sets precedent for the sixties mobilisations and undermines the idea that student apathy is pervasive on the post-sixties university campus. Between 1945/46 and 2010/11, University of Manchester students are involved in 840 protest events, while London School of Economics students participate in 505 protest events, a combined total of 1345 protest events. Using qualitative data drawn from the student press and other archival materials alongside the numeric data, the thesis argues that the British student unrest in the sixties had precedent in the fifties and early sixties, noting tactical and ideological similarities. Further, the thesis refutes the student apathy narrative using protest activity as evidence of student political participation, but also pointing to student engagement in formal and informal political activity, such as political party membership, voluntary action and campaigning for NGOs and pressure groups. Echoing studies on youth political participation, the thesis finds that students remain politically engaged across the twentieth and twenty-first century. Drawing together social movement theory with insights from the archival materials and student press, the thesis identifies factors contributing to the emergence, decline and survival of student protest activity at the University of Manchester and London School of Economics. The thesis establishes that progressive political and social values, student produced movement frames, access to resources on campus, political opportunities and campus activist networks interact to facilitate the emergence of student unrest. It also demonstrates that political factionalism and some forms of authority responses to unrest are key factors in declines in student protest activity. The thesis argues that attempts at co-option and repression by the state and the university, normally understood to prompt declines in protest, may actually provoke further activity amongst students. Applying Nella Van Dyke’s theory of ‘hotbeds of activism’ to the British context (1998), the thesis argues protest activity survives across the timeframe, because both universities have developed student activist networks and subcultures that maintain the traditions and practices of activism on campus. Activist expertise is transferred between student generations through the student unions, student societies and informal groupings, ensuring that that the campus activist networks are primed to seize opportunities for protest activity on and off campus.
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Craw, William. "An edition of the Histoire des ducs de Normandie et rois d'Angleterre contained in French MS. 56 of the John Rylands Library, Manchester University." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1999. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5126/.
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This thesis (395 pp.) is an edition of a XIVth century transcription of a chronicle in French prose compiled in the early part of the XIIIth century. This compilation is a résumé of all or part of at least five Latin chronicles which recount the history of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England, starting with their mythical origins in Troy and finishing in 1217 with the end of civil strife and foreign intervention in England during the first year of Henry III's minority, and the departure of the Fifth Crusade from all Christendom. The edition comprises an introduction dealing with the general subject area, manuscript classification, authorship, place and time of creating manuscripts and printed editions consulted, description of the base manuscript, language notes, establishment of the text, and ending with a detailed synopsis in English. This introduction contains pp.i-lxxix. There follows the edited base text (pp. 1-108) and critical apparatus (pp. 109-316): variants, rejected readings and emendations, scribal emendations, notes, bibliography, index of proper names, and glossary.
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Ugbi, Blessing Afokoghene. "Documented patients' journeys through an Emergency Department as the basis for a discrete event simulation model using data from University of Benin Teaching Hospital (Nigeria) and Manchester Royal Infirmary (United Kingdom)." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/documented-patients-journeys-through-an-emergency-department-as-the-basis-for-a-discrete-event-simulation-model-using-data-from-university-of-benin-teaching-hospital-nigeria-and-manchester-royal-infirmary-united-kingdom(6737df6a-ea4e-479c-9956-113cf0e837df).html.
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This work compares the procedures used in the Emergency Departments in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) in Nigeria and in Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) in the UK. It goes on to develop a discrete event model of the latter in Rockwell Arena®.Raw data from UBTH were obtained over a number of visits by interviewing senior administrators, clinicians and nursing staff and by tracking patients over a period of 2 months between 1 July and 29 August, 2011. Information from MRI was supplied through an approved ethical protocol to the National Research Ethics committee (REC Reference 13/NN/0175, IRAS ID 124168, dated March 4, 2013). This embraced patient journeys, locations, investigations and tests for the 98236 patients who attended the ED between April 2012 and March 2013. These (anonymised) data were obtained as spreadsheets from the original Symphony® records, which were then manipulated and analysed using the computer language, R. Anecdotal information on ED operations, patient flow and procedure duration times were also obtained from ED staff. All of this information identified similarities and differences between patient journeys in the two hospitals and were used to generate appropriate process maps. Proposals were made to improve the recoding and maintenance of patients’ records in UBTH. In the case of MRI, each patient’s journey was expressed as a journey-string, which was an ordered list of locations and milestones derived from the time-stamps recorded in the original spreadsheets. A large transition matrix (168 by 168) was generated from the set of journey strings and established the probability of a patient going from one location to any another. This reflects all the decisions which were made at each step of the patient’s journey. The number of destinations from a particular source reflects the options available at a particular instant in time, while the size of each probability reflects the preferred destination. The transition matrix together with the duration and resource requirement of the process associated with the destination is the key to the generation of a process map for each journey through the system. This methodology is original and can be applied generally. This was used as a basis for the journey-path model. In the final MRI model the 4h deadline was not included since the mechanism for its actual implementation was somewhat vague. Instead some isolated models based on patients’ priorities and resource re-allocation were described. From these it was inferred that changing the priority of a patient may not in itself be sufficient to alter the journey profile and in order to do so resources must be re-allocated. The only alternative would appear to be the fast-tracking of patients.
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Gebre-Meskel, Haddis. "A survey of representative land charters of the Ethiopian Empire (1314-1868) and related marginal notes in manuscripts in the British Library, the Royal Library and the university libraries of Cambridge and Manchester." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1992. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/28456/.
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The aim of this study is to compile and analyse information about ownership, sales and disputes of land in Ethiopia between 1314 and 1868 on the basis of documents which are preserved in the marginalia of Ethiopic manuscripts in the Collections of the British Library, the Royal Library at Windsor Castle and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Manchester. While the specifically royal charters were drawn up in some cases as far back as the early fourteenth century, numerous other documents dealing with sales and disputes of land were written between 1700 and 1868. In that year, these manuscripts were looted by members of the Napier Expedition after the citadel of Emperor Tewodros II fell into their hands and were subsequently brought to the United Kingdom. While almost all the royal charters were written in Ge'ez, the rest of the documents dealing with personal bequests or gifts, sales and disputes of land were written in Amharic and thus, apart from their historical significance, they are al.so important as they illustrate the development of modern Amharic. Out of some 2,100 documents which are preserved in the marginalia of 49 manuscripts, I have here selected 274 and it is hoped that they will serve as a representative documentation of the land tenure system and administration of land of the country for more than half a millennium. The number of documents dealt with in this thesis thus exceeds the number of those described by Conti Rossini, who translated some 100 other land charters and related notes compiled from the marginalia of Ethiopian manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. The documents reproduced in this thesis are put in chronological order and an effort has been made to find the equivalent European dating whenever the documents fail to supply a precise date. The documents are also translated and annotated and are classified into five sections, namely: Church Lands, Private Lands, Crown Lands, Land Sales and Land Disputes. Copies of the transcripts of the original Amharic and Ge'ez documents are also included together with glossaries of titles and terms. As far as the locations of the lands referred to in the documents (i.e., personal land bequests or gifts, sales and disputes of land) are concerned, the city of Gondar and the regions around it are largely covered, while additional references to land grants to the sovereigns themselves and to members of the royal family, churches and individuals are also available for other areas of the country. The main findings of this study are that income from land, or more accurately a land tax, was used as a means to compel submission and obligation. The allocation or distribution of such an income to the Church and notable individuals was finely balanced and kept in equilibrium by the members of the Solomonic dynasty who ruled Ethiopia between the years 1314 and 1769. In the subsequent years, however, the country entered into the so called Era of the Princes (1769-1855), where local nobles succeeded in fragmenting the central power, so, in the absence of absolute power, the weak sovereigns were forced to grant ever more land to influential individuals rather than to the Church.
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Seaward, Mark R. D. "Lichen herbarium at the Manchester Museum: 1. Collectors." 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/755.
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