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The fraudulent Coligny-Rapalje descent
(Annals of Genealogical Research, 2006)
Jerome B. Holgate, in his American Genealogy (fictitiously dated 1848), derives the Rapalje family from an alleged Gaspard Colet de Rapalje "born in France, at Châtillon, sur Loire, in 1505." We suggest that this personage ...
Portage la Prairie Social Planning Initiative: Phase One Report
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2009-08-01)
The Institute of Urban Studies (IUS), in partnership with the Portage Community Network (PCN), undertook a public engagement process to produce a social planning framework for the city of Portage la Prairie. This report ...
Guide to the Wanka Collection, University of Winnipeg
([University of Winnipeg Library], 1994-12)
The items that comprise the Wanka Collection reflect the late Wilhelm Wanka’s interest in the fate of the Germans who, after World War II, were expelled from what was known as the Sudetenland. The Sudetenland was never a ...
Reflections on a Remarkable Performance of Hamlet: A Re-examination of the Hamlet Scene in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
(Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, 1986)
The ver Veelen family in Cologne and Amsterdam
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2004)
Lenaerts and Sassenbroeck, ancestors of the Nevius Family of New Netherland
(New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 2009)
A User-Centric Case for Rights Reversions and Other Mitigations: The Cultural Capital Project Submission to ISED Consultation on Term Extension
(2021-03-09)
Term extension is unlikely to benefit any but the largest of rightsholders, and indeed, in general independent creators typically do not benefit greatly from the promised financial exploitation promised by copyrights. This ...
Tongue-Tied by Authorities: Library of Congress Vocabularies and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
(Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, 2022-09-22)
Despite the existence of a vast literature reflecting hundreds of years of scholarship questioning the authorship of the works of Shakespeare, the conventional Library of Congress Name Authority File and Library of Congress ...
The Cheapest Police
(University of Birmingham, 2024)
Current debates within librarianship around intellectual freedom echo debates in broader society around free speech, cancel culture, and "culture war". This thesis argues that, far from being a transcendental value or ...