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The Jamaica almanack for the year 1819 : being the third year after bissextile, or leap-year 1819 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:917.292

Africans in English caricature 1769-1819 : black jokes, white humour /Temi Odumosu. Between 1769 and 1819 London experienced an unprecedented growth in the proliferation of texts and images in the popular sphere, engaging learned citizens in discussion and commentary on the most pressing social and political issues of the day. From the repeal of the Stamp Act to the French revolution, the local Westminster election or the abolition of the slave trade, these prints, political pamphlets, plays, novels and periodicals collaborated (sometimes intentionally) in critique, praise and assessment of the country's changing socio-economic climate. African people were a critical aspect of this world of images, and their presence conveyed much about the implications of travel, colonialism and slavery on the collective psyche. Whether encountered on the streets of the city, in opulent stately homes, or in tracts describing the horrors of the slave trade, the British paid attention to Africans (consciously or not), and developed a means of expressing the impact of these encounters through images. Scholarship has begun to interrogate the presence of Africans in British art of this period, but very little has been written about their place in visual and literary humour created in a metropolitan context. This book fills this scholarly lacuna, exploring how and why satirical artists both mocked and utilized these characters as subversive comic weaponry. [2017] • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 741.5/6942

Chronometers and chronometry on British voyages of exploration, 1819-1836 / Emily Jane Akkermans Akkermans, Emily 2020. • FOLIO • 1 copy available.

The fatal fortress / the guns and fortifications of Singapore 1819-1856 /Bill Clements. "The Fall of Singapore in February 1942 was arguably the greatest disaster suffered by the British Empire. Between 1923 and 1938, the Singapore naval base had been upgraded with some of the largest coast guns ever installed. The guns' design and incorrect siting have since been blamed for the humiliating debacle. The Fatal Fortress traces the history of Singapore's fortifications and guns from the city's foundation in 1819 to the demise of coast artillery in the British Army in 1953. It also follows the development of artillery through the Victorian era of muzzle-loading guns to the introduction of the large breech-loading guns of the twentieth century. The author argues that it was not the siting of the guns that brought about the fall of Singapore, but an overall failure in command and control and a lack of suitable ammunition. The book is illustrated with a large number of photographs, drawings and plans, and contains a gazetteer describing all the batteries and forts, both existing and demolished. There is also an annex giving the details of the guns that were installed in Singapore."--Provided by the publisher. 2016. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.1/.3(592.3)

The history of Prince Lee Boo : a native of the Pelew Islands brought to England by Captain Wilson / 1819 1819 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:92Lee Boo

The Poynter journal : the voyage of the Williams to New South Shetland, 1819-1820 Jones, A. G. E. • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 910.4(99)

Sale catalogue of the Bullock Museum 1819 : a facsimile reprint with manuscript prices and buyers names Bullock Museum 1979 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 502:069(421)

To the Arctic by canoe 1819-1821 : the journal and paintings of Robert Hood, midshipman with Franklin Hood, Robert 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 75.042/.043(712.2)"18"

Mariner & gunner : an English seaman in the merchant marine & the Royal Navy ; 1781-1819 /William Richardson Richardson, William. 2010. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124:656.61.071.22"1781/1819"

Captain James Cook : a bibliography of literature printed in Sweden before 1819 /by Rolf Du Reitz. Du Rietz, Rolf 1960. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 016:92COOK

Policing the seas : Anglo-American relations and the Equatorial Atlantic, 1819-1865 /Mark C. Hunter. Hunter, MarK C. 2008. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 351.749.2(42:73)"1819/1865"

Singapore : portrait of a port : a pictorial history of the port and harbour of Singapore 1819-1984 Port of Singapore Authority 1984 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 627.2(595.13)

Arctic artist : the journal and paintings of George Back, midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822 "Arctic Artist is the liveliest and most complete account of Sir John Franklin's tragic first Arctic land expedition. George Back's prose captures the drama of this journey, and his superb watercolour sketches reveal the beauty and wonder of this northern land. Back's journal completes Stuart Houston's trilogy of the journals of Franklin's officers, and is particularly valuable because it is the only journal that records the entire expedition; Franklin himself relied on it for his own published account of the journey. Houston provides an introduction and extensive annotations, as well as synopses of the frank comments regarding the expedition recorded in the various journals of the Hudson's Bay fur trade posts. I.S. MacLaren's commentary on Back's paintings reveals a naval officer of exceptional talent. Conversant with the artistic conventions and aesthetic temper of his age, Back used his sketchbooks not only to depict the expedition's progress but also to capture his imaginative response to the northern wilderness. MacLaren also edits and comments on two other documents written by Back during the expedition: a candid letter to his brother and a poem dramatizing the disaster that claimed the lines of eleven of the twenty explorers in Franklin's party."--Provided by the publisher. 1994 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7.047(26:98)

Vulcan : Scotland's first iron boat built Faskine 1819, broken up 1873, replica ordered by Monklands Monklands District Council 1986 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.123Vulcan

Singapore, Chinese migration and the making of the British Empire, 1819-67 / Stan Neal. "The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all of this was the recruitment of Chinese migrant labour, which by the 1850s made up over half of the population. The transformation, however, was not limited to Singapore. As this book demonstrates, colonial administrators saw that the "model" of what had been done in Singapore, especially the use of Chinese migrant labour, could be replicated elsewhere. This book examines the establishment of the "Singapore model" and its transference - to Assam in India, Sri Lanka (then Ceylon), Mauritius, Australia and the West Indies. It examines the role of the key people who developed the model, including the Hong Kong merchant houses and their financial expertise, discusses central ideas which lay behind the model, notably free trade and the use of "industrious" Chinese rather than "lazy" natives, and assesses the varying outcomes of the different colonial experiments. The themes discussed - economic opportunities and globalisation; the need to find labour without recourse to slavery, indentured labour or convict labour; migration, ethnicity and racism - all continue to have great significance at present, as does the idea that Singapore, still, is a model to be replicated more widely."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 941-44(592.3)

Rees's clocks, watches and chronometers (1819-20) : a selection from the Cyclopaedia; or Universal dictionary Rees, Abraham 1970 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11"15/18"

Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21 and 22 / Franklin, John Franklin, John,-Sir, 1824 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(712.2)"1819/1822"

Des maitres entretenus aux ingenieurs 1819-1971 : formation professionnlle et enseignement technique Berthiau, Jean Andre 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.231.4(44)"1819/1971"

officer's sheet anchor : or a key to the leading of rigging and to practical seamanship / Lever, Darcy. 1819 Lever, Darcy 1819 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:629.12.014.2

fait par ordre du Roi, sur les corvettes de L.M. l'Uranie et la physicienne, pendant les annees 1817, 1819 Freycinet, L. 1825 • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 910.4:094

of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions in His Majesty's ships Hecla and Griper in the years 1819 Fisher, Alexander 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(987)"1819/1820"

of a voyage of discovery to the Arctic regions, in his majesty's ships Hecla and Giper, in the years 1819 Fisher, Alexander 1821 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(9):094

the maritime provinces of China from Manchao, on the south coast of Hainan, to Canton in the years 1819 R, J 1822 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(51)"1819/1820"

William Richardson from cabin boy in the merchant service to warrant officer in the Royal Navy (1780 to 1819 Richardson, William 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.124(42)"17/18"

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