Down at the old Ship and Ball — taverns,trade and daily life in the London Borough of Southwark

SUMMARY: Archaeological excavations in Southwark over the past 50 years have proved to be a very prolific source of evidence for the material culture of people living in this part of London from the 16th century onwards. This lecture, the fourth held by SPMA in honour of the late Geoff Egan, focuses on a remarkably rich and varied assemblage of 17th- and 18th-century artefacts excavated on a site in Tanner Street in 2012. Covering a wide spectrum of activities, occupations and levels of society, these include ceramics, glass, clay tobacco pipes, pewter, copper-alloy, wood, leather, bone and ivory, with objects as diverse as cloth seals, spoons, book mounts, wine bottles and glasses, bird feeders and a mallet for playing pall mall, and sources ranging from the English Midlands to the Far East.     

美国国家经济研究局关于当代中国经济问题研究的最新进展——以中国经济研究项目组2009～2010年的工作手稿为基础

美国国家经济研究局自2003年成立了中国经济研究项目组,在2009～2010年,该项目组共发布了24篇与当代中国经济有关的工作手稿,分别涉及当代中国的经济、人力资本、对外贸易等问题。通过这些手稿,可以了解到国外机构对于当代中国经济问题研究的一些新特点以及最新的发展趋势;可以在相关问题的研究中,得到比较全面的见解和看法,从多角度审视这些重要理论,在面对国内现实问题时提出更为有效的解决办法。     

Effective Teaching of Research Design in Physical Geography: a case study

A problem-solving approach to the teaching of research design in physical geography is introduced. Focusing on the study of the effectiveness of a local river restoration scheme, students are empowered with the responsibility for and control of their learning by means of group discussions and decision making in a series of workshops. With carefully staged guidance by tutors, students devise research questions and execute their project, analysing data collected on a field day. Although students may find this approach to be challenging and demanding, they acquire research experience and develop key skills, such as visualisation of problems and capacity for logical thought, aided by critical self-appraisal of their performance. Such an approach is particularly relevant today because of subject benchmarking skills. Developing transferable skills, such as initiative and teamwork, valued by employers also promotes self-confidence. Using a case study, this paper considers the experiences of students and staff with this approach, identifying its strengths and weaknesses, and offers possible options for its development.     

Teaching Research Methodology to Geography Undergraduates: rationale and practice in a human geography programme

Recent acknowledgement that geography students should gain knowledge and experience in the research process has not been matched by accounts of how this experience should be taught. In human geography, apart from a small selection of informative textbooks, scholars have remained relatively quiet on the matter of curriculum design and teaching programmes that would provide this experience. Instead, attention has been devoted to specific, individual research skills or selected intersections between teaching and research. In contrast, this paper argues that it is important to consider how we might best teach research methodology in a comprehensive manner to human geography undergraduates. The authors identify pedagogic and pragmatic reasons for teaching this material and then address some of the difficulties and challenges associated with this endeavour. Taking one New Zealand human geography example, the aims and structure of a 200-level course that attempts to provide such an example of research methodology teaching are then sketched out. Responses to the course are noted and followed by reflections on the pragmatic and disciplinary challenges that continue to exist.     

务川、道真仡佬族民间雕刻艺术考察研究

务川、道真仡佬族民间雕刻有着广泛的存在,图案丰富,线条流畅,造型饱满,表达了仡佬族民族审美理想和民俗文化心理,承载着丰厚的民族文化内涵,具有深厚的民族文化价值。     

浅谈鹿邑太清宫碑刻的保护

本文主要介绍了鹿邑太清宫内现存碑刻的历史与艺术价值,并在对碑刻的残损现状进行详细勘察的基础上,提出了具体的保护对策.     

Structural ways to embed a research laboratory into the company: A comparison between Philips and General Electric 1900-1940

This paper compares the Philips Research Department and the Research Laboratory of the American company General Electric (GE). 1 It argues that it is, above all, the issue of the organization of industrial research, appropriate leadership and the embeddedness of a research department in the company as a whole that is important for an historical analysis of an industrial research department. The complex structures that Gilles Holst (the first Philips research director) and Willis Whitney (the GE research director during the first decades of the twentieth century) set up in their organizations enabled scientists to keep in touch with the resources provided by the universities, and made it possible for them to come up with articles, patents and devices for their respective companies. It enabled them also to strengthen their contacts inside and outside the laboratory's walls. However, more than his colleague Whitney at GE, Holst at Philips intended to integrate the research laboratory into the company as a whole. Holst's policy as a research director will be illustrated using the case of Philips' radio research. A comparative discussion of industrial research in the 1930s within both companies shows that the "successful" integration of research activities is context-dependent.     

虢城、焦城与陕城考

历史上曾有南虢、北虢两虢之称,清人王先谦认为南北虢实属一虢.若从南北虢两虢说,则必有南虢都城与北虢都城之别;若从南北虢一虢说,北虢之"下阳"则为虢之都邑,虢之真正都城应在上阳.关于上阳城的具体位置,目前考古界有李家窑址说和陕州故城东部说.本文拟就虢城、焦城与陕城的地望以及它们的关系作一讨论.     

百年全祖望研究综述

全祖望是清代著名的史学家、文学家和思想家。百年以来,有关全祖望的研究取得了显著成就。一是理清了其生平事迹和创作情况,整理出版了《全祖望集汇校集注》;二是揭示了他七校《水经注》、三笺《困学纪闻》和增补辑《宋元学案》的历史贡献,三是充分论述了全祖望史学思想的特点和成就。但是,对于全祖望经学思想和文学成就的研究,尚比较薄弱。     

唐五代别集的文献整理与研究概观

本对建国五十年来的唐五代别集的献整理与研究概观进行了述评。认为从总体上来讲,学术界对唐五代别集的整理研究成绩是显的,对促进唐代学研究有巨大的作用。但是也有一些不容忽视的问题,如底本选用不当,校勘不精,考订不严等,章以实例进行了阐述,对唐诗研究,具有参考价值。