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Teaterbåten, 1954, Show Boat [origs. tit.], Teaterbåten
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A floating gallery, a drifting studio where sprawling waterscapes set off artwork on display and inspire original creation—the painting-and-calligraphy boat...
Boat-races at Athens
Boat-races at Athens
In my paper on ‘Boat-races among the Greeks’ (above, pp. 90—8) I brought together a considerable number of testimonies to prove that boat-racing was a Hellenic sport. As I was to a...
The Vikings of the Mediterranean and the Vikings of the North
The Vikings of the Mediterranean and the Vikings of the North
Properly speaking, these are only a few thoughts arising from this wonderful voyage into history and life I am anxious to put before you. Perhaps more effectively than it would hav...
From Transport's Golden Ages to an Age of Tourism: L. T. C. Rolt, Waterway Revival and Railway Preservation in Britain, 1944–54
From Transport's Golden Ages to an Age of Tourism: L. T. C. Rolt, Waterway Revival and Railway Preservation in Britain, 1944–54
This essay considers L. T. C. Rolt's writings and work about waterway revival and railway preservation in Britain between 1944 and 1954. Outlining his life up to 1954, the backgrou...
Sonar technology and underwater warfare from World War I to the launch of USS Nautilus in 1954, the first nuclear submarine
Sonar technology and underwater warfare from World War I to the launch of USS Nautilus in 1954, the first nuclear submarine
Sonar research began in the First World War to curb the U-boat menace. Radical methods had to be devised both organizationally and technically to combat this new form of warfare. C...
Michel Tremblay, dramaturge-démiurge
Michel Tremblay, dramaturge-démiurge
During the twenty years separating Gratien Gélinas's Tit-Coq in 1948, a play considered a foundation piece of Québécois (as opposed to French-Canadian) dramaturgy, and the 1968 cre...
The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology
The Carnival of the Mad: Foucault’s Window into the Origin of Psychology
Foucault’s participation in the 1954 carnival of the mad at an asylum in Switzerland marked the beginning of his critical reflections on the origins of psychology. The event reveal...
‘Push the Boat Out’: Site-Specific and Cyberspatial in Live Art
‘Push the Boat Out’: Site-Specific and Cyberspatial in Live Art
As a mutually-illuminating contrast to the academic exploration in the previous article of the potential of CD-ROM as a means both of teaching a ‘classical’ playtext and of analyzi...