Martinalia
Welcome to Martinalia. An academic career generates material which for one reason or another does not get into print. There are public lectures and keynote addresses. Some are never intended for publication. Others are commissioned for projects which never get off the ground. There is material prepared for teaching, which may be useful to colleagues and students involved in similar courses. Some projects seem worth sharing with interested readers even though they remain unfinished, lacking the final polish needed for conventional academic publication. Since 2014 I have used Martinalia to publish essays and research reports.
The term “Martinalia” was coined by my friend Jim Sturgis.
Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: the visit of the Duke of Wellington, 1842
The 250th anniversary of the birth of the Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769) seems a good moment to remember his visit to Magdalene College Cambridge on Monday 4 July 1842.
Carnarvon Diaries: Camden Series, volume 35. Comments and Corrections
Peter Gordon, ed., The Political Diaries of the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon, 1857-1890: Colonial Secretary and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Camden Fifth Series, volume 35 (Cambridge University Press, for the Royal Historical Society, London, 2009)[1]
In 2009, the Royal Historical Society published, as Volume 35 of its Camden Fifth Series, an edition comprising extensive extracts from the diaries of the fourth Earl of Carnarvon (1831-1890), the selections particularly emphasising his interest in Canada, South Africa and Ireland.
Pissingford: an embarrassing Essex place-name
Pissingford was a notable place-name on the Essex highway system for at least six hundred years. Excised from the collective memory for the past two centuries, it is now known by the tactfully laundered form of Passingford Bridge.
Explorations in the history of Tramore, County Waterford: a list
The farmer landlord and the labourer tenant: a County Waterford sidelight on Ireland's Land War, 1882
The dispute between John Kirwan and William Power created a little light relief in the courtroom at Tramore, County Waterford, on a November day in 1882.
Surname Issues and British Prime Ministers, 1828-2007
Roughly half the politicians who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom between 1828 and 2007 had some form of surname "issue": the name by which they were known was not the birth surname of their linear male forebears.
Explorations in the history of Cambridge by Ged Martin
The history of Cambridge is one of my interests. Over the decades, I have written about University life in the nineteenth century, the debates of the Cambridge Union, and episodes relating to Hughes Hall, King's and (especially) Magdalene. In addition, I have tried to understand some of the people connected with those institutions.
Passingford Bridge sketch map
Tramore, Sierra Leone and Johnny McGurk
In 1920, the British government decided to hold a major exhibition, on a world's-fair scale, to showcase the Empire.
Curing toothache by magic at Tramore, County Waterford in 1888
To the local magistrates at Tramore, County Waterford, the arrest of Tim and Bridget Dooley on licensed premises after hours must have seemed an open-and-shut case.
More Articles …
- "A man among millions": Martin Joseph Murphy and the development of Tramore 1888-1919
- Holidays at Tramore in Verse (1894) and Prose (1910)
- Tramore Sketch Map
- Havering History Cameos: Third Series (2016-2017)
- A.C. Benson and Cambridge: II, 1885-1925
- A.C. Benson and Cambridge: I, 1862-1884
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: From a College Window: Glimpses of Magdalene (1906)
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: Robert Edgar Hughes, the Yachting Don, and the Baltic Campaigns (1854-55)
- The Reverend William Palin (1803-1882), the Essex village of Stifford and the Grays Steamboats
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: Walter John Whiting and the Battle of Chillianwala (1849)
- Sootigine: Marketing a Failed Victorian Fertiliser
- Magdalene College Cambridge Notes: S.S.Nehru (1905-8)
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