Martinalia
Welcome to Martinalia. An academic career generates material which for one reason or another does not get into print. There are public lectures and keynote addresses. Some are never intended for publication. Others are commissioned for projects which never get off the ground. There is material prepared for teaching, which may be useful to colleagues and students involved in similar courses. Some projects seem worth sharing with interested readers even though they remain unfinished, lacking the final polish needed for conventional academic publication. Since 2014 I have used Martinalia to publish essays and research reports.
The term “Martinalia” was coined by my friend Jim Sturgis.
Magdalene College Cambridge and British Jewry
The essay examines the role of Magdalene College Cambridge, mostly through some of its prominent members, in the recognition of Britain's Jewish community, from their return to England in the sixteen-fifties, through the intermittent campaigns for the concession of civil and educational rights during the following two centuries. The careers of some of the College's Jewish members from the mid-nineteenth century and into the twentieth century are surveyed in the second half of the study, to give some flavour of individuals and, more generally, to indicate that their experiences of Magdalene seem to have been much the same as those of their non-Jewish contemporaries.
Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: Tedder, Leigh-Mallory and D-Day
On D-Day, 6 June 1944, the Allied air forces that assaulted Normandy were under the joint command of Arthur Tedder and Trafford Leigh-Mallory. By strange coincidence, the two had been contemporaries at the same small Cambridge college.
Anglican contempt for Essex Quakers: Canewdon, c. 1667
The deaths in quick succession of four active Quakers in the Essex village of Canewdon around the year 1667 were celebrated with some uncharitable verse in the parish register.
Mountstuart church, Toor, County Waterford
The Catholic church at Mountstuart is one of the hidden secrets of County Waterford.
Canadian economic history in a South African context: Pietermaritzburg, 1992
Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: the Palestine connection
In the last years of British rule, two members of Magdalene College contributed to policy-making about the future of Palestine.
Lord Bury's civilization scorecard for Canada's First Nations, 1855
In December 1855, the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs in the Province of Canada (from 1867, Ontario and Quebec), published an index of civilization among the aboriginal communities under his charge, awarding them marks on a scale from 0 to 15.
The Canadian analogy in South African Union, 1870-1910
In the nineteen-seventies, the history of the Commonwealth was still built around the theme of a widening stream of precedent, which guided regions and dependencies peacefully towards nationhood by drawing upon analogies and lessons from earlier successful experiments, among which Canada was a shining example. In the relatively small white communities of South Africa, an influential group of informed politicians could steer intellectual debate. "The Canadian analogy in South African Union, 1870-1910" examined how four of them manipulated arguments drawn from Canada in support of predetermined aims.
To Margate by steamboat in verse, 1828
In the decades following the Napoleonic Wars, Margate's tourist traffic was boosted by the introduction of steamboat services which brought visitors from London in large numbers. A jaunty piece of verse published in an Australian newspaper in 1828 captured the flavour of the excursion down the Thames.
Building Canberra in the 1970s: Beaumont Close, Chapman
Canberra was a rapidly growing city in the nineteen-seventies. The suburb of Chapman (named after an early federal politician) was the last part of the satellite town of Weston Creek to be developed. It was evidently planned as an upmarket area, for luxury homes that would benefit from its broad views over the city. These four photographs were taken between 1974 and 1977 from roughly the same vantage point in what became Beaumont Close.
More Articles …
- Lazarus Cohen: a Jewish trader in Victorian Cambridge
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: Geoffrey Blok (1933-7)
- A.C. Benson in images
- The Cambridge Arabic Prize, 1917
- How the banks wooed student customers: Cambridge, 1966
- Magdalene College Cambridge in 1964: a reminiscence in photographs
- Midlothian 1892: Gladstone loses his temper
- James Stephen on Gladstone, 1846
- Bush: the London area origins of an Australian term
- Recollections and reconstructions: accounts of the departure of Charles Stewart Parnell from Cambridge University, 1869
- Charles Stewart Parnell, Cambridge University and the fable of Daisy
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: was jugged wallaby served at High Table?
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