Westfield College Research Articles

Samuel James Taylor, 1929–2020

Samuel James Taylor (known as ‘James’) was born on 13 December 1929 in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. He spent most of the first eleven years of his life in Africa, tutored by his mother. James took his first degree at Queen's University, Belfast, and went on to study for a PhD in Pure Mathematics at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, with A. S. Besicovich. He was appointed a Lecturer in Birmingham in 1955 and moved to Westfield College in 1962 as a Reader and from 1964 Professor. The years 1975–1983 were spent at the University of Liverpool, followed by the University of Virginia from 1984 until 1996, when James retired and returned to the UK to settle in Sevenoaks, Kent, remaining active in research. The main theme of his life-time research involved the fine sample path properties of stochastic processes and their Hausdorff measures properties. He is survived by his wife Maureen of 64 years, his four children Richard, Charles, Jonathan, and Helen, seventeen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Rethinking Inadequacy: Constance Maynard and Victorian Autobiography

In 1881 two women who were to become part of the history of Victorian feminism met: Constance Maynard (1849–1935), graduate of one of the first cohorts of women to enter Girton College and founder in 1882 of Westfield College for Women, and Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc (1829–1925), friend of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon and the “Langham Place” group of feminists, and former editor of the feminist English Women's Journal. In 1873 Maynard became the first woman in England to receive a degree in “moral sciences,” from Girton, and subsequently worked for six years as a headmistress and schoolmistress at two groundbreaking girls' schools, Cheltenham Ladies' College and the new St. Leonard's School in Scotland. When she met Belloc, she was living in London with her brother, taking art classes at the Slade School, and beginning discussions that would lead to the foundation of Westfield College, formed as an explicitly Evangelical-identified parallel to ecumenical Girton and also as the first college to prepare women for the examinations and degrees offered by the University of London.

Kathleen Jones' Asylums and After. A Revised History of the Mental Health Services: From the Early 18th Century to the 1990s (1993) - reflection.

Kathleen Jones, daughter of a lorry driver, was brought up on a council estate and won scholarships to North London Collegiate School and Westfield College, where she studied history. During WWII Westfield was relocated to Oxford, where Jones edited the Oxford Socialist . She married a priest and

Inspired by Constance Maynard: exploring women's sexual, emotional and religious lives through their writings

Constance Maynard (1849–1935) was the first mistress of Westfield College for women in London from 1882 to 1913. This special issue of Women's History Review is dedicated to the study of Maynard an...

Postcolonial Theory and the Traditional Castilian Lyric: The Morenita as Epidermal Stereotype

This article is the revised text of the twenty-fifth Kate Elder Lecture, delivered at Queen Mary University of London, on 27 March 2014. This lecture series com-memorates the life of Kate Elder, who died while a student at Westfield College, and is generously funded by her family.Discussions of the morenita, whose white skin turns almost black as a result of exposure to the searing heat of the sun, have traditionally been dominated by factors intrinsic to her status. This paper, which examines her legacy in the light of postcolonial theory, offers a series of fresh interpretations of the corpus of morenita lyrics, focusing on the epidermalization of identity and the complex relationship between mimicry and menace. It argues that, while the traditional Castilian lyric stands to benefit from an engagement with theory, theoretical explorations of phenotypic identity also have much to learn from an appreciation of the morenita’s peculiar ontological ambivalence.

An Exploration of Religion and Education in the Life of Constance Maynard, Mistress of Westfield College

This article provides an overview of the motivation for digitising Maynard's writings, evaluates the benefits and challenges of reproducing and publishing archives, and considers the implications of greater digitisation. Maynard's writings reveal that she drew on her evangelical belief system as a means of protection and inspiration, and never overcame the concerns of early educationalists to maintain ‘decorum’ and ‘femininity’ in the management of the college. Published and unpublished sources are considered to review Maynard's decision to enter higher education, the inspiration for a Christian college for women, impact of contemporary arguments opposing education for women on Maynard and Westfield College, and Maynard's reaction to the development of a science faculty in the early twentieth century.

Constance Maynard's Languages of Love

This article chronicles my almost twenty-year academic journey through the archives at Queen Mary University of London UK (QMUL) for the purpose of researching the life of Constance Maynard (1849–1935). Maynard helped to found Westfield College (now QMUL) as a Christian-based college providing women with new university degrees, and she was Mistress of it for thirty-one years. This article begins by reviewing the scholarly literature behind my queer-gender-sex framework for interpreting Maynard's often contradictory narratives in her diaries and autobiography. I then illustrate how these records are disclosures of her tribulations as an educational leader whose atonement theology shaped her life. This study of Maynard's records of her life experiences, especially her religious-secularist language(s) of love, contributes to reinterpretations of gender-sex-power binaries, when most Victorian women were supposed to be sexually pure, subservient, and confined to the home.

Joan Thirsk (1922-2013): An Obituary

JOAN THIRSK, THE DOYENNE OF BRITISH rural history, died on October 3, 2013. She was ninety-one. Joan’s record of research and writing lasted for more than sixty years, and she was important to British and continental European historians for several reasons. In her work on the early modern period, she demonstrated the use of a much wider range of documentation than had hitherto been employed to reveal local variations in farming and rural economies and the explanations for them. In particular, she pioneered the use of probate inventories to identify regional farming systems and trace the processes of innovation and saw her methods subsequently expanded upon and computerized. She also opened up a new area of research in the medieval origins of open-field farming when she wrote two articles on the subject in the 1960s, and the rich vein of subsequent historical and archaeological work on the subject owes a great deal to her questioning of the original orthodoxy. At virtually the same time, she also wrote one of the articles that stimulated interest in the linkages between agriculture and industry and consequently opened up the debate around the question of proto-industrialization. More recently, she introduced the concepts of alternative and mainstream agriculture to compare late twentieth-century agricultural changes with similar periods back to the fourteenth century. Her final book, written when she was in her eighties, found her branching out into food history. And all this had to be fitted into a full life of teaching, editing, postgraduate supervision, reviewing, and raising a family. Joan was the daughter of Daisy and William Watkins and was born and raised in North London. After attending the Camden School for Girls she went, in the early years of the Second World War, to Westfield College, University of London, to read French and German. Her undergraduate studies were interrupted after a year by military service and, as a result of her knowledge of German, she became a subaltern in the

Ball: One man. One ball. One hour

Brian Lobel is 27 years old. He's tall and rangy, with tousled hair and a slightly prominent nose. He's American, from Michigan, and he studies performance at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK. On stage, he has the twitchy energy of a man who's not at complete ease with his body. He's camp, honest, and prone to the occasional Tourette's-like outburst: “NUTS. NUTS. COJONES. NUTS”.

Faith, Desire, and Sexual Identity: Constance Maynard's Atonement for Passion

The unpublished writings of Constance Louisa Maynard( 18491935), first mistress of Westfield College in London, provide a significant window into the past sexual experience of a late -Victorian English educational pioneer. Maynard, who authored a considerable number of both published and unpublished writings, began what she called her in 1866 at the age of sixteen primarily to document her progress as a Christian. By 1871, however, it had become an outlet for her outpourings about love, usually analyzed within the context of faith.1 Interestingly, as Maynard's green book evolved into what she called my Friend, she began a parallel daily diary, begun in 1871, in which she recorded social and educational events of her life, usually without comment.2 She continued to add to both until her death. Maynard's autobiography, written between 1915 and 1927, represents a significantly different resource and, at first glance, seems of less value because it presents a selection of entries from her green book and diary.3 Nonetheless, it proffers more insight into her experience, since she tended to analyze her personal history within the context of contemporary discourses and her later understandings of her

Winning the Right War

Winning the Right War

Thomas R. Hart, Studies on the “Cantar de mio Cid.” (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 54.) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2006. Paper. Pp. 67. £7.

Thomas R. Hart, Studies on the “Cantar de mio Cid.” (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 54.) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2006. Paper. Pp. 67. £7.

Phaseless characterisation of compact antenna test ranges

Antenna characterisation and radar cross section measurements can be conveniently and successfully carried out by means of a compact antenna test range (CATR), whose performance is primarily assessed in terms of quiet zone size and field uniformity. CATR characterisation and diagnostics are usually performed by means of (amplitude and phase) field measurements in the quiet zone and are of timely interest either on CATR installation or on its periodic reassessments performed by manufacturers and/or users. This paper addresses CATR characterisation from amplitude-only data, an attractive topic because of the application of CATRs to the millimetre or sub-millimetre wave ranges. The approach is based on an appropriate strategy retrieving the missing quiet zone phase and facing the issue of the large electrical dimensions of the CATR. To take into account the characteristics of the collimating system as well as to keep as low as possible the number of unknowns to be sought for, it exploits the Jacobi-Bessel expansion of the aperture field. The performance of the algorithm has been tested through a wide numerical analysis against synthetic data generated by GRASP8-SE whose full version is routinely employed for CATR design. The main results related to a Gregorian dual offset reflector CATR, modelled on that proposed in the literature by Pistorius et al., and to a single offset reflector CATR, inspired by the one available at the Queen Mary & Westfield College, London (UK), are reported.

Gordon Elliott Fogg CBE. 26 April 1919 — 30 January 2005

Gordon Elliott (Tony) Fogg was a botanist who pioneered studies in cyanobacterial heterocysts, nitrogen fixation, extracellular products of algae and phytoplankton ecophysiology. He was a gifted lecturer and writer, and the author of books on algae, phytoplankton ecology and Antarctic science. After many years in Botany at University College and then Westfield College in the University of London, he completed his career in Marine Biology at the University College of North Wales. His natural diplomacy led to appointments on many scientific committees, where he was valued for his succinct observations and his ability to settle disputes behind the scenes. He made important contributions to many organizations, including the Institute of Biology, the Freshwater Biological Association, the British Antarctic Survey and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was artistic, a fine water-colourist, and he enjoyed walking in Anglesey and Snowdonia.

The Development Agenda for WIPO: Another Stillbirth? A Battle Between Access to Knowledge and Enclosure

This paper has been produced as part of the examination in order to obtain a Master degree in Law (LLM), in Intellectual Property, at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London.

Beyond the borders: American literature and post-colonial theory

Introduction ETHNIC LITERATURE AND POST-COLONIALISM 1. Indigenous Literatures and Postcolonial Theories: Reading from Comparative Frames Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University POST-COLONIALISM AT HOME 2. 'Going Into a Whole Different Country': Postcolonial 'Nation'-hood in Native American Literature Lee Schweninger and Cara Cilano, University of North Carolina, Wilmington 3. Origin Story: On Being a White Native American(ist) John Peacock, Maryland Institute College of Art 4. Counter-Discursive Strategies in Contemporary Chicana Writing Deborah L. Madsen, University of Geneva 5. 'At Least One Negro Everywhere': African American Travel Writing Alasdair Pettinger 6. Unsettling Asian-American Literature: When More than America is in the Heart Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston 7. Forging a Postcolonial Identity: Women of Chinese Ancestry Writing in English Mary Conde, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London 8. Border Crossings: Filipino American Literature in the United States Angela Noelle Williams, San Jose State University 9. Reading the Literatures of Hawai'i under an Americanist Rubric Paul Lyons, University of Hawai'i-Manoa POST-COLONIALISM IN THE BORDER REGIONS 10. Writing Migrations: The Place(s) of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature Frances R. Aparicio, University of Illinois 11. Diasporic Disconnections: Insurrection and Forgetfulness in Contemporary Haitian and Latin-Caribbean Women's Literature Myriam J. A. Chancy, Arizona State University 12. Reclaiming Maps and Metaphors: Canadian First Nations and Narratives of Place Richard J. Lane, University of Debrecen 13. Thomas King and Contemporary Indigenous Identities Laura Peters, University of Surrey, Roehampton AMERICAN POST-COLONIALISM AT HOME AND ABROAD 14. Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Literature in a Postcolonial Context Renny Christopher, California State University, Channel Islands 15. Politics, Pleasure and Intertextuality in Contemporary Southeast Asian Women's Writing Julie Shackford-Bradley, California State University, Monterey Bay 16. U.S. and US: American Literatures of Immigration and Assimilation Geraldine Stoneham, London South Bank University Notes on Contributors Index

Las Cantigas de escarnio y maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretación y crítica textual by Juan Paredes

MLR, 98.2,2003 483 differentlines taken by Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour. Mazzini is the protagonist of Ian Campbell's essay on 'Carlyle and Italy', where this political figure, together with Dante (and here Campbell pays tribute to Brand's 1985 paper on Dante and Carlyle), is shown to have moulded Carlyle's appreciation of Italy. This combination of Italy old and new is echoed in Hilary Fraser's essay on 'Ruskin, Italy, and the Past', but with differentimplications, for Ruskin was filled with nostalgia for the past, in the case of Venice for the age of Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoretto, or even for the pre-industrial Serenissima, which he had met on his early travels. He sees 'England's forthcoming ruin in terms of Venice's fall' (p. 96). The arts are also covered in David Kimbell's analysis of 'The Performance of lta? lian Opera in Early Victorian England', which as well as documenting the dominance of the ltalian repertoire over German and French, and showing how it differed in London from its counterpart in the main ltalian cities, analyses the audiences and notes the transformations of opera houses during that period. Brian Moloney's essay, 'Svevo and Joyce: "La novella del buon vecchio e della bella fanciulla"', rather than looking at the impact of Italy, considers the relevance of the Anglo-Saxon world for an ltalian, as ifpointing to a twentieth-century shiftin perspective. The collection is rounded offby Uberto Limentani' s sympathetic account of the early days of ltalian as a university discipline in Cambridge, when the firstSerena professorhip (named after the family of the Venetian patriot Leone Serena) was held by the engaging basketmaker Thomas Okey. This brief review hardly does justice to a volume that with its interlacing strands very effectivelyoffersa picture of the complex relationship between two cultures reciprocally illuminating each other in often unpredictable ways. University College London Laura Lepschy Las Cantigas de escarnioy maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretaciony critica textual. By Juan Paredes. (Papers ofthe Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 22) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College . 59 pp. ?6. ISBN 0-904188-62-0. Thirteenth-century Galician-Portuguese poetry has only recently been appreciated once again for its inherent wit. In his introductory study, Juan Paredes examines the literary aspects of a small selection of the lyrics preserved originally by the philological curiosity of the fifteenth-centuryhumanist Angelo Colocci. He has chosen a difficultand much-pondered subject: the edition and decipherment of the satirical poetry attributed to Alfonso X. However, as the subtitle of his book implies, this is a study intended to raise awareness of problems, rather than to provide answers. Fur? thermore, as Paredes's survey of scholarship shows, there are many problems lurking in these brief lyrics,ranging from the textual to the contextual. Given this, it is understandable that he insists upon the separation between profane and ostensibly sacred lyrics (p. 10), although, as Stephen Parkinson and Anthony Lappin have shown, the boundary between sacred and profane in the Galician-Portuguese lyric corpus as a whole is anything but rigid (Parkinson, 'Miragres de maldizer?: Dysphemism in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', Bulletin of the Cantigueiros de Santa Maria, 4 (1992), 4457 ; Lappin, 'A Parody in the Cantigas de Santa Maria', ibid., 9 (1997), 71-75). Paredes's care in providing a thorough overview of previous scholarship means the two poems he edits are accompanied by useful bibliographical information. However, the burden of this past editorial tradition sometimes weighs heavily upon him. In the firstpoem he edits, 'Fui eu poer a mao noutro di-' (p. 31), he follows his predecessors and transcribes line 12 as 'cuidei morrer, a dix' assi: "Senhor"'. Both manuscripts, 484 Reviews however, give a slightly different reading, as well as a different line division (abbreviations silently expanded): 'e dixassy deus | senhor'. God's disappearance here is perhaps less a result of editorial atheism than of editorial agnosticism. However, readers with a passion for palaeography can construct their own text from the legible facsimile of the poem on the cover of the book. On other issues, though, Paredes is unafraid to break with tradition. He proposes a differentposition for...

Partnership and workplace learning at BT

Explores BT’s partnership with the Communication Workers’ Union and London University’s Queen Mary and Westfield College and examines its significance for the development of a degree level programme of workplace learning. Describes the programme’s philosophy, aims, funding and effectiveness. Incorporates interviews with BT managers, trade union representatives and academics responsible for designing and delivering the course. Includes a round‐table discussion with BT employees currently taking the course.

Louise M. Haywood, ed., Cultural Contexts/Female Voices. Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 27. Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2000

Louise M. Haywood, ed., Cultural Contexts/Female Voices. Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 27. Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2000

Partnership and workplace learning at BT

A telecommunications company, trade union and university are involved in one of the most ambitious examples of workplace learning undertaken in Britain. BT plc, a company considered to be at the forefront of partnership working, has teamed up with the Communication Workers’ Union (CWU), Britain’s largest communications union, and London University’s Queen Mary and Westfield College in a BSc in computer science that will help up to 500 BT employees at a time, when fully operational.