Meeting places : scientific congresses and urban identity in Victorian Britain

Publication Data

• Title Meeting places : scientific congresses and urban identity in Victorian Britain
• Author Louise Miskell
• Publisher Ashgate
• Publication date 2013
• Publication location Farnham, Surrey
• Language English

Contents

Movable feasts : Victorian knowledge associations and the evolution of the annual meeting
The bidding contest
Running the meeting
Experiencing the meeting
Beyond the meeting : host towns and the parliaments of science effect.

Topics

• British Association for the Advancement of Science :: History :: 19th century
• National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) :: History :: 19th century
• Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain) :: History :: 19th century
• Royal Agricultural Society of England :: History :: 19th century
• Congresses and conventions :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Associations, institutions, etc. :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Learning and scholarship :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• City promotion :: Great Britain :: History :: 19th century
• Great Britain :: Intellectual life :: 19th century
• Great Britain

Meeting places : scientific congresses and urban identity in Victorian Britain by Louise Miskell. ISBN 9781409452379. Published by Ashgate in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.