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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Guildhall"”.
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Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities.
… to London on 31 October, Chopin performed in Guildhall, the last concert of his life. On 23 November he left London for Paris, dying there on 17 October the next year. His funeral in the Madeleine was partly financed by Jane Stirling, who later published a seven-volume edition of his music, …
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CHOPIN IN BRITAIN Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 People, places, and activities
… to London on 31 October, Chopin performed in Guildhall, the last concert of his life. On 23 November he left London for Paris, dying there on 17 October the next year. His funeral in the Madeleine was partly financed by Jane Stirling, who later published a seven-volume edition of his music, …
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Arnold Trowell - Violoncellist, Composer and Pedagogue
… and piano. Trowell was Professor of Cello at the Guildhall School of Music and the Royal College of Music and a cellist who was described by Edmund van der Straeten as “in a line with the greatest virtuosos of the present time.” He gave hundreds of concerts throughout Great Britain and Northern …
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THE LIFE AND WORKS OF SIR HORACE JONES PRIBA (1819-1887)
… archival material, most notably for the Guildhall Library and Museum (1870-73) and the New Council Chamber (1882-85). His involvement with the Freemasonry is discussed and particularly his work for the restoration of the Freemasons’ Hall. Jones’s personal life in this latter part of his …
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Women in management: barriers to career progress
This study of women in management was initiated to explore, through women managers themselves, the barriers they thought were hindering their progress up the management hierarchies in BT. To facilitate this study the first former utility organisation to be privatised was approached to be the case …
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The decline of UK merchant shipping, 1975-90: beyond the market view
This dissertation will provide explanation for the decline of UK merchant shipping, 1975-1990. This involves identifying and analysing a broad range of factors which have simultaneously affected the merchant fleet. In attaining this objective it has become apparent that prominent amongst the …
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Constitutional change in the United Kingdom: an institutional analysis
This thesis seeks to explain the lack of significant constitutional change in the UK between 1945 and 1980 and has two main findings. First, and principally, the thesis rejects conventional understandings of the UK constitution based upon Dicey's analysis and the Westminster model of British …
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The British film industry and the market for feature films in Britain 1932-37
The regeneration of the British Film Industry after the Cinematograph Act of 1927 was remarkable. On the production side, the industry was transformed from a very low base in the mid-twenties to one which seriously challenged the domestic market share of the Hollywood product a decade later: a …
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Social structural and cultural determinants in the formation and operation of small enterprise in the UK, with particular reference to the economy of East London and its Asian communities
Over the last twenty years, small enterprises have become an important source of employment in the UK economy. Trends identified indicate that such firms are likely to play a continuing and increasingly important role in the future. A feature of the sector is the growing involvement of ethnic …
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The manufacture of tuned percussion instruments in Indonesia and Africa: a selective study
This dissertation is divided into three parts. The first examines the manufacture of Javanese gamelan percussion instruments, the second examines the manufacture of xylophones in Central African Republic, Ghana and Zambia, and the third examines the acoustics of xylophones. Part I: Gamelan is a …
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The enterprise culture: an acquired taste?
This thesis critically assesses the psychological and economic underpinnings and consequences Of enterprise culture policies - public exhortations for individuals to start their own businesses, enterprise training (basic management skills training), relaxation of industrial relations legislation, …
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The determinants of direct overseas investment from Singapore
The focus of this thesis is the determinants of inward and outward direct investment in Singapore's economy. The primary aims are to examine what motivates Singapore firms to venture overseas; investigate the geographical composition of Singapore's investment abroad; identify Singapore's investment …
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Pauper education in Victorian England: organisation and administration within the new poor law 1834-1880
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act led to the first national system of education for approximately 50,000 indoor pauper children each year in a decade of early initiatives on working class education to combat social unrest and political protest. Pauper schooling involved central supervision, …
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s
The following thesis explores the relationship between generic innovation and social change. It identifies a number of approaches to genre whose common feature is a theory of genre according to which the generic text is a relatively stable entity whose main internal features are empirically …
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Critical rationalism: a critical essay
The aim of this essay is to establish that critical rationalism currently exists in an incoherent state. This is demonstrated through an analysis of the discourse's key fields (its metaphysics, metascience and politics), their constituents and conditions of co-existence. Looking at each field, the …
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Child sexual abuse: making sense of the abuse of power and control
Child sexual abuse (CSA) poses many difficulties, ranging from definition to explanation. Despite, or because of, this complexity few studies have investigated the relationship between a professional's knowledge base, the conceptualisation of problems and the delivery of therapeutic skills. The …
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"Not an encounter group": democracy and women's committees
The following thesis describes the membership, goals and activities of five women's committees which were studied between 1992 and 1995. The committees were located in local authorities in different parts of England, selected to provide a degree of diversity. One goal of this thesis is to add to …
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An evaluation of the motivational factors of network marketing independent distributors using Vroom's work motivation theory
During the 1970s and '80s, many research papers on motivation were published. Since then, there has been a decline in such empirical research. This is partly because most motivational theories provide models that are highly generalised and do not show a clear framework whereby research can be …
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Regulation theory/Global Fordism and Peripheral Fordism: the case of Ireland
The general aim of the thesis is concerned with the development of industrialisation in the Irish Republic from the opening up of the economy in the late-1950s to the present. 1982 has been chosen as a watershed as it was then that the Irish government commissioned the Telesis Consultancy Group to …
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The strategic dimension of the concept of community in cultural projects within urban regeneration schemes
This research investigates the strategies at work around the notion of community in the framework of cultural projects developed in regeneration schemes. The concept of community has taken a prominent position in political discourse and ideology in recent years. This is most striking under New …
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