title: ‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination'

authors: McKim, Anne M.

abstract: This paper examines attitudes to the education of children in elite families in eighteenth-century Scotland revealed in various letters, private papers, and memoirs. It takes as its starting point Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s famous advice to her daughter, Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute (1718-1794), on the education of her granddaughters. Lady Louisa Stuart, one of those six granddaughters, went on to become a writer as well as an avid reader, and later recalled the childhood pleasures of reading books from her grandmother’s vast library. Provision for the education of her daughters and grandchildren, at home and abroad, can also be traced in some detail in the meticulous Household Book and notebooks kept by Lady Grisell Baillie (1665-1746). Her daughter Griseld, Lady Murray (1693-1759), later commemorated her famous mother’s commitment to education. Attitudes to reading, learning languages and education through travel to Europe can be traced in the private papers of these families, and in the views of the children who went on to express their appreciation in memoirs and biographies published in honour of their mothers and grandmothers.

text: ‘If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their Inclination' This paper examines attitudes to the education of children in elite families in eighteenth-century Scotland revealed in various letters, private papers, and memoirs. It takes as its starting point Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s famous advice to her daughter, Mary Stuart, Countess of Bute (1718-1794), on the education of her granddaughters. Lady Louisa Stuart, one of those six granddaughters, went on to become a writer as well as an avid reader, and later recalled the childhood pleasures of reading books from her grandmother’s vast library. Provision for the education of her daughters and grandchildren, at home and abroad, can also be traced in some detail in the meticulous Household Book and notebooks kept by Lady Grisell Baillie (1665-1746). Her daughter Griseld, Lady Murray (1693-1759), later commemorated her famous mother’s commitment to education. Attitudes to reading, learning languages and education through travel to Europe can be traced in the private papers of these families, and in the views of the children who went on to express their appreciation in memoirs and biographies published in honour of their mothers and grandmothers.

year: 2014

title: Image intensifier characterization

authors: Payne, Andrew D.

subjects: image intensifier

abstract: An image intensifier forms an integral part of a full-field image range finder under development at the University of Waikato. Operating as a high speed shutter with repetition rates up to 100 MHz, a method is described to characterise the response, both temporally and spatially, of the intensifier in order to correct for variations in the field of view and to optimise the operating conditions. A short pulse of visible light is emitted by a laser diode, uniformly illuminating the image intensifier, while a CCD camera captures the output from the intensifier. The phase of the laser pulse is continuously varied using a heterodyne configuration, automatically producing a set of samples covering the modulation cycle. The results show some anomalies in the response of our system and some simple solutions are proposed to correct for these.

text: Image intensifier characterization An image intensifier forms an integral part of a full-field image range finder under development at the University of Waikato. Operating as a high speed shutter with repetition rates up to 100 MHz, a method is described to characterise the response, both temporally and spatially, of the intensifier in order to correct for variations in the field of view and to optimise the operating conditions. A short pulse of visible light is emitted by a laser diode, uniformly illuminating the image intensifier, while a CCD camera captures the output from the intensifier. The phase of the laser pulse is continuously varied using a heterodyne configuration, automatically producing a set of samples covering the modulation cycle. The results show some anomalies in the response of our system and some simple solutions are proposed to correct for these.

year: 2006

title: Bones | Iwi

authors: Apiata, Hāwea

abstract: Poetry written at Kāwhia featured in Issue 6 of The Quick Brown Dog Journal published by Hagley Writers' Institute, Christchurch, NZ.

text: Bones | Iwi Poetry written at Kāwhia featured in Issue 6 of The Quick Brown Dog Journal published by Hagley Writers' Institute, Christchurch, NZ.

year: 2024-03-08