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Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain (2013)

Miskell, Louise (Author)

Ashgate Publishing
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ISBN: 9781409452386

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The four national associations studied in this book are the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS), the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (NAPSS), the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) and the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE), who held annual meetings in 62 different provincial towns and cities from 1831 to 1884. In this book it is contended that these meetings were as important as royal visits and major civic ceremonies in providing towns with an opportunity to promote their own status and identity. By deploying a wealth of primary source material, this book offers a new and genuinely Britain-wide perspective on a period when comparison and competition with neighbouring places was a constant preoccupation of town leaders.

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Review Higgitt, Rebekah (2014) Review of "Meeting Places: Scientific Congresses and Urban Identity in Victorian Britain". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 737-738). unapi

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