Norwich Textiles

Discover the people, art and technology of Norwich Textiles – then, now and tomorrow

The city of Norwich witnessed hundreds of years of thriving textile manufacture. Norwich Textiles will provide resources for the study of this enterprise, its history and contemporary practice. We aim to inform, inspire and spark off new initiatives for textiles in Norwich and beyond.

The Norwich Texiles Project

The web-site has been created as part of the Norwich Textiles project, a collaboration of Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service and Norwich School of Art and Design. The project has been devised and facilitated by Cathy Terry, Curator of Social History, NMAS and Victoria Mitchell, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader, Textile Culture, NSAD. It has been funded by HEIFF II as part of its Innovations Programme. As part of this project, local researchers have worked with curators to contribute their valuable knowledge to provide a comprehensive resource. At the same time, students and practitioners working within a modern textiles environment have created a contemporary perspective on the Norwich textiles story.

 

 

 

http://www.norwichtextiles.org.uk/

Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825

Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825

Long before the terms westernization, modernization, or globalization came into use, these forces had already exerted their pull on Russia. In the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries, this Orthodox tsardom, emerging from 500 years of near insularity, developed into a modern, global empire.

First and foremost, this process demanded direct engagement with western European countries. Russia eagerly absorbed their technology and their culture, and its elite strove to become a population of Russian Europeans, actively involved in the affairs and destiny of their continent. In the 18th century, Russia took its place as a major European power with a global agenda by successfully battling Sweden, Turkey, and Poland. At the same time, having already expanded into Asia and even touching the Pacific, Russia engaged non-European parts of the world in a variety of ways – some admirable, some deplorable, and some both – through trade, diplomatic and cultural exchange, scientific exploration, territorial conquest, exploitation of resources, and encounters with native peoples.

When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as a “window on Europe” in 1703, he intended the city to symbolize Russia’s new direction. This website, illustrated with materials from The New York Public Library’s collection of Russian and east European materials (one of the most comprehensive outside the region), explores Russia’s exposure to and interaction with the larger world, as well as the significant role the new cosmopolitan capital played in this evolution.

Russia’s engagement with the world (both eastern and western) would pose a myriad of cultural, religious, ethical, ethnic, and political questions, which are debated to this day not only by Russians, but by all who are involved in the issues and controversies surrounding empire.

This website, based on an exhibition of the same name (on view from October 3, 2003 to January 31, 2004, and in a revised configuration from February 20 to May 22, 2004, at The New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library), coincides with the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg.
http://static.nypl.org/exhibitions/russia/

GLOBALISING ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN HISTORY

Link to GLAADH home page

GLOBALISING ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN HISTORY

One of the site’s key functions is to provide a one-stop resource centre to support the integration of cultural diversity in the curriculum.

The Search Database is our recommended route to navigate the GLAADH website and to find digital resources on the wider web. As a database of web materials compiled specifically for the broad interest areas of the GLAADH community, it’s quite unique. Here you’ll see that we’ve done what many other web links pages mostly fail to do: to provide DESCRIPTIONS of useful sites and data, in view of the needs of teaching and learning and more general research.

Through GLAADH’s searchable database, you can access relevant bibliographies, locate people with expertise, and download teaching resources. Here are some of the resources that are now available through our database:

  • Bibliographies and bibliographical databases.
  • Teaching materials, including course outlines, downloadable PowerPoint presentations, reading lists, links to image banks and specialised slides providers, etc.
  • Access to useful texts, including full-text journal articles, literature reviews, book reviews and other written material.
  • Selected links to existing online resources and subject specific web gateways
  • A list of subject and teaching specialists whose range of expertise covers some of the areas GLAADH seeks to work in. These could be called upon to give guest lectures, run workshops or seminars, supervise dissertations or provide a mentor service

In addition to the searchable database, you can also find on this section of the website:

 

It’s here ==== http://www.glaadh.ac.uk/resources.htm

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