Loosening soon became a significant problem, and it became apparent that it would not be possible to continue using this device. Over the next four years, between 300 and 350 McKee-Farrar hips were implanted at the Princess Elizabeth. "The first total hip arthroplasty to be performed at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, Exeter, was carried out in April 1965 and was of the McKee-Farrar design. To find out more about the Exeter history and development story, click here. Below is an abstract from The History & Development of the Exeter Hip (Ling 2006). According to the Globe & Mail, The Conservative Harper government has now been warned by bureaucrats that its planned 110th anniversary commemoration of the Boer War should be peripheral at most.With over 40 years of proven clinical history, Exeter has demonstrated successful clinical performance 1 in peer-reviewed medical journals and national joint registries 7,8. *The Great War isn’t the only conflict stirring up controversy this year. Could it be the war’s angst-ridden poetry? *Historians are busy exploring why the First World War remains so fascinating to school children. Here are some of the Centre’s top reads for over the weekend: Image available via Academy of Natural Sciences. The skeleton-on-body-silhouette renderings recall those in Hawkins’s Comparative view of the Human and Animal Frame” - Baird. If the figures had been intended as book illustrations BWH would have drawn them directly on the lithographic stone. But for what purpose? The decorative margin and minute detail suggest lanternslide copy.
Original artwork displaying a miniaturist’s skill. “An ingenious and labored anti-Darwinian exercise inspired by The Descent of Man of the same date (1871) also a bit of a temperance tract. This edition also features several articles unrelated to the First World War, as The Historian remains a journal to which any student can contribute on any topic of historical interest.Ĭontinue reading “Exeter History Society’s The Historian on the First World War” → This is the first time that The Historian runs with a specific theme something we hope will continue in the future. As you may have judged from the cover, this edition largely focuses on the First World War and its centenary, which has dominated the news over the past months. We are very pleased to welcome you to the third issue of the third volume of The Historian, the University of Exeter’s History Society Journal. The Imperial & Global Forum is delighted to draw your attention to the most recent volume of the University of Exeter’s excellent student History Society journal The Historian, this one focusing largely upon the First World War. What is the use and influence of (colonial) photography on the practice of history? What is the relationship between its formal and historical aspects? How are the photographs themselves involved in the processes of cultural contact that they record and how do they negotiate structures of power? Continue reading “Call For Papers – Colonialism, War & Photography” → Using the First World War as a focal point, this interdisciplinary one-day workshop aims to examine the complex intersections between war, colonialism and photography. But how do we ‘read’ these photographs? Second-Lieutenant Frank Bassill, British official cameraman, with a Moy & Bastie camera and members of the Chinese Labour Corps (IWM Q 10260). In the absence of written records, these photographs are some of our most important – and hitherto largely neglected – sources of the lives of these men: in trenches, fields, billets, hospitals, towns, markets, POW camps. The war was also a turning point in the history of photographic documentation as such moments and processes were recorded in hundreds of thousands of photographs by fellow soldiers, official photographers, amateurs, civilians and the press. Between 19, more than four million non-white men were drafted mostly as soldiers or labourers into the Allied armies: they served in different parts of the world – from Europe and Africa to Mesopotamia, the Middle East and China – resulting in an unprecedented range of cultural encounters. If the First World War is usually defined as the military clash of empires, it can also be reconceptualised as a turning point in the history of cultural encounters. Call for Papers for an Interdisciplinary Workshop as part of the research projectĬultural Exchange in Times of Global Conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War Colonialism, War & Photography