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Sir Winston Churchill's paternal grandmother and the mother of
Randolph Churchill, the 7th Duchess of Marlborough, has been a
slight figure in many other people's biographies yet her own story
as a member of a remarkable family has never been fully told, until
now. Frances Anne Emily Vane-Tempest-Stewart's family background,
as well as her own life, is steeped in great historical names and
occasions. She was the eldest daughter of the 3rd Marquess and
Marchioness of Londonderry, two well-known, glamorous individuals:
her father was a military hero, second in command to Wellington in
the Napoleonic wars, and her mother one of the wealthiest women in
England. Her godfather was the Duke of Wellington, her uncle Lord
Castlereagh, British Foreign Secretary, Queen Victoria was a
lifelong personal friend and contemporary and her political circle
included both Disraeli and Gladstone. Tsar Alexander I of Russia
was a mysterious, romantic figure among the shadows of her
childhood. Frances' arrival at Blenheim Palace in 1843 as the bride
of John Winston, 7th Marquess of Blandford resulted in the great
ancestral seat's regeneration as a family home, as a social and
political focus for the life of the nation and for the
neighbourhood of Woodstock in Oxfordshire. Frances the Duchess gave
loyal support not only to her husband but also her younger son,
Randolph, in his political career, and became a stable and abiding
influence on her famous grandson, Winston Churchill, shaping his
character, ambitions and later achievements. Her own crowning
achievement, fully and dramatically told in this book, is her
humanity, leadership and skill, through her Famine Relief
Committtee, in averting the effects of the Irish potato famine of
1879, which threatened to repeat the wholesale loss of life of the
famine of the 1840s, when she was Vicereine of Ireland. Margaret
Elizabeth Forster has found new, original material and unpublished
family photographs from the Marlborough personal archives to
recount this absorbing, remarkable biography and to restore a most
gracious woman to her proper place at Blenheim.
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While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking and
its relationship to information literacy, the literature does not
contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore, this works
provides a current and timely perspective on the possible roles of
critical thinking within the library program. The work contains a
variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing librarian.
It begins with a review of the literature, followed by theoretical
approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic method.
Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical thinking
into the first-year experience and course-specific case studies, as
well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking project. In
each of the pieces, librarians are exploring new ways to meet their
instructional goals, including the goal of teaching critical
thinking skills to students across the curriculum. This book was
originally published as a special issue of College &
Undergraduate Libraries.
Eye on the World is the biography of diplomat Anthony C. E.
Quainton, and his stories from a long and varied life lived in
eleven countries on six continents. Rather than a formal history,
this is Quainton's reflection on his interactions with the events
of those times, beginning with George VI's historic visit to North
America in 1939, through the years of the Cold War, the efforts to
contain and then defeat the Soviet Union, and finally the two
decades of uneasy peace that came after the fall of the Berlin
Wall. To some of these events Quainton was merely a spectator, but
in other areas - India, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru - he was
actively involved either as a participant in the policy process in
Washington or as the senior representative of the United States in
those countries. Spanning his upbringing and education through two
decades after his retirement, Quainton describes the expanding
horizons of a middle-class boy from the northwest corner of North
America as he encountered the complexity of the world in which he
spent his professional life. Quainton served in seven different
presidential appointments under presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy
Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. These
included four ambassadorships in distinct parts of the world and
three assistant secretary-level posts in Washington. This range of
geographic and functional assignments was unique in his generation
of Foreign Service officers.
While academic librarians frequently discuss critical thinking
and its relationship to information literacy, the literature does
not contain an abundance of sources on the topic. Therefore, this
works provides a current and timely perspective on the possible
roles of critical thinking within the library program. The work
contains a variety of approaches likely to benefit the practicing
librarian. It begins with a review of the literature, followed by
theoretical approaches involving constructivism and the Socratic
method. Readers will find pieces on the integration of critical
thinking into the first-year experience and course-specific case
studies, as well as a selection on a campus-wide critical thinking
project. In each of the pieces, librarians are exploring new ways
to meet their instructional goals, including the goal of teaching
critical thinking skills to students across the curriculum.
This book was originally published as a special issue of College
& Undergraduate Libraries.
John Gilks embarked on this project almost 20 years ago, initially
in East Anglia but eventually travelling the length and breadth of
the country. The result was hundreds of pictures of Post Offices,
pillar boxes, post buses and railway travelling post offices, which
are supplemented here by period photographs from the Post office's
own archives.
John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted
into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle.
During that combat tour, he learned how important unit cohesion was
to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that
this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of
combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing
their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years
later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his
lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable.
Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now
spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with
family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to
unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed,
the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily
basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about
effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the
distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the
benefits gained from connections to family.
Today, just as he was a century ago, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
is an archetypal 'love him or hate him' character. An agile mind, a
sharp, witty and sometimes wicked tongue, and the author of diaries
full of the kind of coruscating remarks that a modern tabloid
newspaper editor only dreams of. Wilson enjoyed hobnobbing with
politicians as much as with his fellow soldiers, often to the
chagrin of both 'frocks' and 'brasshats'. The former, so the
accepted narrative goes, found him pliable, naive and ready to do
their bidding. The latter, we are told, found him untrustworthy,
mendacious and shallow. Yet in his lifetime Henry Wilson's many
genuine admirers included leading figures in both the political and
military establishments. Unlike many of his peers, Wilson was
unable to present evidence in his own defence in the Battle of the
Memoirs which followed the Great War. Soon after his death at the
hands of Irish republican assassins his reputation was ruined by
the publication of a biography based on his outspoken diaries.
Wilson's enemies had their suspicions confirmed, his friends too
often found themselves criticised in his late-night scribblings.
More recent scholarship has examined Wilson's interventions in the
cause of Irish Unionism and revealed a 'political soldier' willing
and able to fight for this in the corridors of power. This study
concentrates instead on Wilson's impact on the development and
execution of British military policy during the Great War. Wilson's
contribution to the British Army's preparations for war is familiar
to military historians, his role in shaping policy in the final 18
months of the conflict deserve greater attention. In 1917 Wilson
disagreed with the costly attritional strategy of both Sir Douglas
Haig, the commander of the British forces in France, and Sir
William Robertson, the government's principle military adviser at
the War Office. It was a scepticism shared by British Prime
Minister David Lloyd George who found Wilson's views refreshingly
different. As a result, Wilson effectively put paid to a new
British offensive in early 1918 and was instrumental in setting up
the Supreme War Council, designed to better co-ordinate Allied
military strategy. He then dominated the work of this body, setting
its strategic priorities and putting in place structures which
eased the adoption of unity of command on the Western Front. As
this study shows, Wilson was neither the dupe of politicians, nor
the hapless hand-maiden to greater military minds than his.
Instead, his diplomatic skills helped preserve the brittle
Anglo-French alliance, both in the early stages of the war and
towards its end. His period as Chief of the Imperial General Staff
from February 1918 saw him successfully walk the tightrope between
politicians and military leaders and maintain fragile
civil-military relations. In the aftermath of the conflict, Wilson
helped shape Britain's imperial future, for better and for worse.
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